Bookbinder
(noun)
- A person who specializes in the craft of binding books, including sewn, glued, and case bindings.
- A person or company that binds books, journals, and other printed materials for commercial or personal use.
Origin:
From the occupation of binding books, which involves the process of physically assembling a book from an ordered stack of paper sheets that are folded together into sections or sometimes left as a stack of individual sheets.
Examples:
- The bookbinder used traditional techniques to restore the old book.
- The bookbinder's job is to take the printed pages of a book and bind them together to make a finished book.
- He was an expert bookbinder and had a collection of rare and ancient books.
- Bookbinding is an ancient craft that involves sewing, gluing, or otherwise binding pages together.
- The bookbinder's workshop is where printed pages are transformed into finished books.