bookbinder

[ boo k-bahyn-der ]

/ ˈbʊkˌbaɪn dər /

a person or company whose business or work is the binding of books.

Origin of bookbinder

1300–50; Middle English bok-bindere; see book, binder

We know that she was 19 and working as either a model or a bookbinder when, in 1869, she met Cézanne in Paris.

Sight Unseen: Cézanne’s Mysterious Wife |Lizzie Crocker |November 19, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
In the 19th century I might have been a bookbinder and would have gone mad from glue fumes.

Charles Baxter: How I Write |Noah Charney |August 7, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
One of the most insidious, because he cometh at first in friendly, helpful guise, is the bookbinder.

Pagan Papers |Kenneth Grahame
The so-called English darning-needle—a long needle with a long eye—is used by the bookbinder.

Practical Bookbinding |Paul Adam

He rang the library bell furiously, and sent a groom after the bookbinder.

There and Back |George MacDonald
Not far away there lived a bookbinder, who employed as many as ten workmen.

Yiddish Tales |Various
It is time, therefore, that it went into hospital, and at the bookbinder's hospital very clever operations are performed.

The Private Library |Arthur L. Humphreys

bookbinder

/ (ˈbʊkˌbaɪndə) /

a person whose business or craft is binding books

bookbinding, noun