One who binds books.
1389. in Eng. Gilds (1870), 12. Noveritis nos … hoc presenti scripto nostro confirmasse Stephano Vant Bookbynder … totum predictum tenementum.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 1589. Belmakers, bokebynders, brasiers fyn.
1544. Ascham, Toxoph. (Arb.), 83. On whom I loked on by chance in the booke bynders shope.
1666. Pepys, Diary, 13 Aug. To treat with a bookbinder to come and gild the backs of all my books.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 362. The only petitions … against the censorship came from booksellers, bookbinders, and printers.
So Bookbindery (U.S.), a bookbinding establishment [cf. BINDERY]; Bookbinding vbl. sb.
1787. Europ. Mag., XII. 78. He tanned goat-skins … for bookbinding.
1854. Caroline Thomas, Formingdale, 258. There was but one book-bindery in the town, and there she could find no morocco of suitable color and quality.
1864. Knight, Pass. Working Life, II. 162. Bookbinding is now one of the large manufactures of London.
1884. Manch. Exam., 29 Dec., 6/4. A large bookbindery in New York.
