Definition of Bookbinding

1. Noun. The craft of binding books.

Generic synonyms: Handicraft

Definition of Bookbinding

1. n. The art, process, or business of binding books.

Definition of Bookbinding

1. Noun. The art, craft or process of binding books ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bookbinding

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bookbinding

book up
book value
book worm
book worms
bookable
bookaholic
bookaholics
bookazine
bookazines
bookbag
bookbags
bookbinder
bookbinderies
bookbinders
bookbindery
bookbinding (current term)
bookbindings
bookbuild
bookbuilds
bookbus
bookbuses
bookcase
bookcases
bookclub
bookclubs
bookcraft
bookcross
bookcrossed
bookcrosses
bookcrossing

Literary usage of Bookbinding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1908)
"THE OTHER SIDE OF THE bookbinding CONTROVERSY THE other side of the bookbinding controversy is represented in the following statement by Mr. Chivers : My ..."

2. The Arts in the Middle Ages, and at the Period of the Renaissance by P. L. Jacob, James Dafforne (1870)
"Sources of Modern bookbinding.—John Grollier.—President Do Thou. ... Superiority of bookbinding in France. S soon as the ancients had mude square books, ..."

3. Readings in Vocational Guidance by Meyer Bloomfield (1915)
"Information was obtained from 100 firms engaged in bookbinding or ... Two or three large bookbinding works were visited by the investigators for the ..."

4. A Register of National Bibliography: With a Selection of the Chief by William Prideaux Courtney (1905)
"Bras- sington, hist. of bookbinding, 1894, is based on this) — bookbinders' school of ... hist. sketch of bookbinding, 1893; bibliog. pp. 251-94. — catal. ..."

5. Memoirs of Libraries: Including a Handbook of Library Economy by Edward Edwards (1859)
"This rapid conversion bookbinding, of an art into a manufacture has been well ... "bookbinding" says the Jury, "may be said to have Ka°ct»°f become a ..."

6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1895)
"CRANE, WJE bookbinding for amateurs : being descriptions of the various tools and appliances required, and minute instructions for their effective use. ..."

7. Manual of Library Economy by James Duff Brown (1903)
"For public library work it ia absolutely necessary to employ only good binders who are experienced in this particular class of bookbinding. ..."

8. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"bookbinding IM ANCIENT AND IN TIMES (2n* S. xi. 169. 194.) — It is rather late to reply to MB. WAV'S Query, but as Gabriel Peig- not's brochure seems ..."

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