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ˈbookbinder|ˈbʊkbaɪndə(r)| One who binds books.
1389in Eng. Gilds (1870) 12 Noveritis nos..hoc presenti scripto nostro confirmasse Stephano Vant Bookbynder..totum predictum tenementum. c1400Destr. Troy 1589 Belmakers bokebynders, brasiers fyn. 1544R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 83 On whom I loked on by chaunce in the booke bynders shope. 1666Pepys Diary 13 Aug., To treat with a bookbinder to come and gild the backs of all my books. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 361 Petitions..from booksellers, bookbinders and printers. So ˈbookbindery (U.S.), a bookbinding establishment [cf. bindery]; bookbinding vbl. n.
1771B. Franklin Autobiogr. in Life & Writings (1905) I. 290 Meredith was to work at press, Potts at book-binding. 1787Europ. Mag. XII. 78 He tanned goat-skins..for bookbinding. 1815Niles' Reg. VIII. 141/2 There are [sc. in Pittsburgh]..4 book binderies. 1842[see bakery 2]. 1854C. Thomas Formingdale 258 There was but one book-bindery in the town. 1864Knight Pass. Working Life II. 162 Bookbinding is now one of the large manufactures of London. 1884Manch. Exam. 29 Dec. 6/4 A large bookbindery in New York. |