Bookbindery
bindery.
Historical Examples
The Man in Lower Ten Mary Roberts Rinehart
Practical Bookbinding Paul Adam
Travels Through North America, v. 1-2 Berhard Saxe-Weimar Eisenach
The U-boat hunters James B. Connolly
noun (pl) -eries
a place in which books are bound Often shortened to bindery
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