Fights over pots were as frequent and as truculent as those over the children Of our room-mates I best recall a bookbinder and a retired old soldier who mended old sheepskin coats for a living.
Books reach the bookbinder either in the sheets just as they left the printing press or folded and stitched.
The most necessary iron ally of the bookbinder is the cutting machine, either with lever or wheel action, the former for light, the latter for heavy work.
The bookbinder himself prepares his paste from wheaten flour and boiling water.
Of the kinds on the market the bookbinder uses grey-board, which is made from waste paper and rags.
Great care must be used in removing these and in separating the sheets, so that the bookbinder may at least try to undo the harm caused by barbarous methods practised either in thoughtlessness or ignorance.
The practical bookbinder who has to deal with turned-in covers frequently gets over the difficulty by making two incisions about 2 cm.
The bookbinder requires very many small tools, even if we take into account only those necessary for ordinary shop-work.
The school book, perhaps the most despised branch of work in the bindery, has unjustly come to be treated as a sort of step-child by bookbinder and bookseller.
Dextrine and gum are used by the bookbinder almost exclusively for pasting larger surfaces, and for laying on these substances a broad thin brush fastened with a metal strip is used.
An old trick of the bookbinder is to heat the hammer for this work.
To whatever height of perfection the latter may still reach, it only begins where the practical bookbinder has completed his work faultless in every detail.
Our bookbinder had a reverential admiration for all scholars, poets, or artists, irrespective of race or creed.
In addition to his trade, our bookbinder carried on another pursuit which was quite lucrative in its way, and one universally well established among all Jewish communities of Eastern Europe.
So saying she gave the happy bookbinder a hearty kiss.
The bookbinder himself scratched his head and muttered: "This Saul is a man of letters; his style is vigorous!
Gutel now gave the bookbinder a general idea of the letter she wished written, and inquired the price.
At one end of the table, in the seat of honor next to the rabbi, sat the bookbinder of Hort.
The learned bookbinder would, as a rule, sigh and silently abandon the argument when it had reached this stage, but at times his composure would break down under the strain imposed on it.
Peregrine now recollected, with vexation, that, in the tumult of the last few weeks, he had forgotten to pay the bookbinder for several jobs that he had executed for him; he resolved to go and settle all the very next morning.
The bookbinder opened the door in alarm, and it was not till after some consideration that he recognised Peregrine, who was quite covered with snow.
The bookbinder thought he was in a dream, but the wife laughed roguishly, fancying that there must be some particular acquaintance between Peregrine and the stranger.
With difficulty Peregrine stammered out, "Pray, does the bookbinder Lemmerhirt live here?
Has a husband, a bookbinder in good work, but they are extravagant.
A well-known bookbinder said: "If women would take a fair price for work done it would not be necessary to employ machinery.
In no instance in London was a non-Union woman bookbinder discovered who knew of the existence of both the Unions, though the majority of the women knew of the existence of one or the other.
It might have been taken for the house of a dwarf, or of a bookbinder of Lilliput.
A poor little bookbinder and worker in cardboard, living on his work and his bit of a garden, but very intelligent and learned, with a marvellous memory.
And sure enough at any other moment Madame Astier would not have failed to say, 'Oh, Fage the bookbinder here again!
I borrowed from my friend the bookbinder a German novel, which had for me a message of lasting cheer.
But I cared very little for accent; my wish was to get at Heine with as little delay as possible; and I began to cultivate the friendship of that bookbinder in every way.
Then my bookbinder and I met in my father's editorial room, and with a couple of candles on the table between us, and our Heine and the dictionary before us, we read till we were both tired out.
The Bookbinder is deſired to place the Index after [Tatler, No.
Then thebookbinder collated the leaves and bound them in wooden covers.
Half a century later a bookbinder is mentioned in a deed as a former owner of property in the parish of St. Peter's in the East; another bookbinder is witness to the deed (c.
Tis directed to Mr. Brindley, a Bookbinder at London, in that which is call'd New Bondstreet.
I gave you an Instance in one of my Letters from Paris, of a certain Bookbinder and his Wife, who hang'd themselves at London, for fear of that Misery in Life which they thought unavoidable.
It would be best when the library is large enough to warrant it, to employ a working bookbinder to do this work; such a man would be useful in many ways.
The growing use of this paper in important books is one of the greatest troubles the bookbinder has to face.
In the old days, when the manufacture of leather was comparatively simple, a bookbinder might reasonably be expected to know enough of the processes employed to be able to select his leather.
A bookbinder could be kept fully employed, binding and repairing the books of a comparatively small library under the direction of the librarian.
Should defects only be discovered after the book has been taken to pieces, the bookbinder is liable to be blamed for the loss of any missing leaves.
In that same world the bookbinder passed much of his time, and it was neither in pride nor in presumption that he desired to share it with Barbara.
Yesterday, I found her talking to the bookbinder as familiarly as if he had been Arthur!
To think of the two together would have been to insult both Barbara and himself; to think of himself and the bookbinder for one briefest moment of comparison, would have been to insult all the Lestranges that ever lived.
As the brewer looks down on the baker, so the bookbinder looked down on the blacksmith.
Yet half the attention she gave the bookbinder would be paradise to him!
Their talk the rest of the way was lighter and more general; and to her great joy Barbara discovered that the clergyman loved books the same way the bookbinder loved them.
She had learned from the parson that the bookbinder was gone, but was at the time too busy and too anxious to question him as to the cause of his going.
He went to it, but by the time he reached it, the bookbinder had turned a corner of the house, to go by a back-way to the spot where his grandfather was waiting for him.
She remembered to have heard, though at the time it had no interest for her, that the bookbinder had relatives in the neighbourhood.
This was hardly correct, for Barbara talked to the bookbinder with a deference she never showed Lestrange.
His mother, indignant for her deceased sister, stood out the stiffest; the bookbinder could not fail to see that the youth was but putting in practice the socialistic theories he had himself sought to teach him.
The only comfort in the house occupied the soul of lady Ann: it was that she heard nothing of the bookbinder fellow!
I wouldn't undertake to make a bookbinder of you, grandfather, in the time!
Soon after his visit to Mortgrange, the young bookbinder went home, recalled at last by his parents.
So I away thence to my new bookbinder to see my books gilding in the backs, and then to White Hall to the House, and spoke to Sir W.
So up, and by and by the glazier comes to finish the windows of my house, which pleases me, and the bookbinder to gild the backs of my books.
Hewer carried me to Nott's, the famous bookbinder that bound for my Lord Chancellor's library: and here I did take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound, only that I might have one of his binding.
Comes the bookbinder to gild the backs of my books.
This bookbinder added his attestation to the truth (or to the generally reputed truth) of a story which I had heard from other authority, viz.
One of my informants was a German bookbinder of great respectability, settled in London, and for many years employed by the Admiralty as a confidential binder of records or journals containing secrets of office, &c.
Recommend the bookbinder to use glue mixed with alum in place of paste.
The bookbinder is not to use any woollen cloth, and to wax the thread.
The first English bookbinder of any repute was John Reynes, a printer, who lived in the reigns of Henry VII.
In 1580 he started as a bookbinder and bookseller at the University city of Leyden, and at first confined his attention entirely to retailing such works as fell into his hands.
FLAMM The bookbinder is known to be a very peaceable man.
FLAMM Well, marriage is a risky business,--You're the bookbinder August Keil.
He was an economical, self-made bookbinder and bookseller, who became the "greatest philanthropist of his day.
The eldest probably went to the free grammar school of Tamworth, and when fifteen or sixteen years of age was apprenticed for eight years to John Clarke the younger, bookseller and bookbinder in Cheapside, London.
But the school of Edwards of Halifax probably borrowed the idea from earlier men, who had occasionally decorated the edges of books in this way, and we may instance Samuel Mearne, bookbinder to Charles II.
Koning has discovered that Cornelius the bookbinder died in 1522, aged at least ninety years.
Michael Faraday was a poor boy, son of a blacksmith, who apprenticed him at the age of thirteen to a bookbinder in London.
He was apprenticed for seven years to a bookbinder and bookseller.
That a bookbinder would now undertake such a task, I myself feel it is somewhat venturesome to hope.
The chief point to be kept in view is that you arrange with the bookbinder so as to have the work finished in time to enable me to present it here on Christmas Eve.
Vantrasson's sister was the wife of a man named Greloux, who had once been a bookbinder in the Rue Saint-Denis, but who had now retired from business with a competency.
