Examples of bookbinder

• The subscriber could have the fortnightly magazines bound into volumes at a bookbinder's shop.

• The most famous craftsman and artisans were gunsmiths, silversmiths, tinsmiths, copper dishes producers, tailors (terezis), tanners (tabaks), embroiderers, bookbinders, musical instruments producers, pipe-makers, carpenters.

• Doublures are protected from wear, compared to the outside of a book, and thus offer bookbinders scope for elaborate decoration.

• As well as newspaper proprietors, they were stationers, bookbinders, printers and publishers, ran a circulating library, and sold patent medicines.

• The book includes chapters on the following enemies of books: fire, water, gas and heat, dust and neglect, ignorance and bigotry, the bookworm, bookbinders, book collectors, servants, and children.

• They comprise such people as the bookbinder, the draper, the ironmonger, the leather goods man and the garage proprietor.

• I know of a self-employed bookbinder who uses his exceptional gifts not only to repair and bind books for customers, but to do some remarkable original research.

• Human factors also influence swell, especially the force with which the bookbinder bones down, or flattens, each section after sewing.