Crossword clues for bookbinder
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bookbinder \Book"bind`er\, n. One whose occupation is to bind books.
Wiktionary
n. a person whose profession is binding pages together to form a book
WordNet
n. a worker whose trade is binding books
Wikipedia
Bookbinder is someone who binds books.
Bookbinder may also refer to:
- Elaine Bookbinder, singer better known as Elkie Brooks
- Roy Bookbinder, singer
- Hyman Bookbinder
Usage examples of "bookbinder".
Philippe Liotard had started collecting testimonials from bibliophiles, and it had turned out that Steuvels was one of the best bookbinders in Paris, possibly the best, and that collectors entrusted their delicate work to him, especially the restoration of antique bindings.
They had intended to have an air-conditioned trailer brought up here for the visit by Florian Backhouse and his merry men, but Bookbinder decided that it would be regarded as a foolish extravagance.
Philadelphia that July 4 of 1788, in which many hundreds of tradesmen marched, grouped by guilds: shipbuilders, rope-makers, instrument-makers, blacksmiths, tin-plate workers, cabinetmakers, printers, bookbinders, coppersmiths, gunsmiths, saddlers, and stonecutters, some fifty different groups carrying banners and the tools of their trade.
His father was a clothworker - a member of one of the educated, urban trades which, along with printers, bookbinders and booksellers, upholsterers, pewterers, barbers and cooks, provided the seed-bed in which early Protestantism grew in England, as in the rest of Europe.
In the superstitious countryside, where peasants imagined witches and ogres and werewolves behind every tree, cardsmiths passed themselves off as bookbinders, often carried leaves of pages to sew or illustrate at odd moments.
But as striking as any sign of the country's burgeoning energy and productivity was the “Grand Federal Procession” held in Philadelphia that July 4 of 1788, in which many hundreds of tradesmen marched, grouped by guilds: shipbuilders, rope-makers, instrument-makers, blacksmiths, tin-plate workers, cabinetmakers, printers, bookbinders, coppersmiths, gunsmiths, saddlers, and stonecutters, some fifty different groups carrying banners and the tools of their trade.
But as striking as any sign of the country's burgeoning energy and productivity was the "Grand Federal Procession" held in Philadelphia that July 4 of 1788, in which many hundreds of tradesmen marched, grouped by guilds: shipbuilders, rope-makers, instrument-makers, blacksmiths, tin-plate workers, cabinetmakers, printers, bookbinders, coppersmiths, gunsmiths, saddlers, and stonecutters, some fifty different groups carrying banners and the tools of their trade.
The aunt's husband, a bookbinder, had once been comfortably off, but had lost all his customers, and had taken to drink, and spent all he could lay hands on at the public-house.