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book-making|ˈbʊkˌmeɪkɪŋ|
†1. The manufacture of books (as material articles). Obs.
1487Ch.-warden's Acc. St. Dunstan's, Canterb., John Casse hathe delyueryd..to the booke makyng iijs. iiijd. 1899T. Veblen Theory of Leisure Class vi. 162 Artistic book-making. 1930Publishers' Weekly 5 Apr. 1892/1 The increasing attention that the book-trade is giving to the art of book-making.
2. The compilation of books. (Now usually contemptuous: see prec. word.) Also attrib.
1589Marprel. Epit. (1843) 8 Note here a new founde manner of bookemaking. 1615Latham Falconry Ded., I am not so well experienced in the art of bookemaking. 1794Mathias Pursuits Lit. (1798) 384 It is mere book-making, beneath the character of so learned a gentleman as Dr. Warton. 1807Cabinet I. 113 This is a fine book-making age. a1856in K. H. Digby Lover's Seat (1856) II. xviii. 222 Of all the books in this book-making world the philosophical books are the least intelligible. 1865Englishm. Mag. 220 Bookmaking now has got a bad name, or at any rate the term is used in a bad sense.
3. The making of a betting-book.
1824Sporting Mag. XV. n.s. 51/2 Betting at present proceeds but slowly..what is done consists merely in book-making and speculation. 1836R. S. Surtees in Mrs. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1839) IV. ix. 184 He entered into the spirit and excitement of the thing with the true ardour of a turfite, without any knowledge however of the science of book-making. 1886Boston (Mass.) Herald 16 July, In England, book-making is rigidly prohibited elsewhere, but on the race tracks it is allowed.
Hence (as a back-formation) ˈbook-make v. intr. (rare).
1819Byron Let. 6 Apr. (1900) IV. xvii. 284, I could have spun the thoughts of the four cantos of that poem into twenty, had I wanted to book-make. 1845R. Browning Let. 16 Apr. (1899) 48 Mrs Norton has gone and book-made at a great rate about the Prince of Wales. |