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Example sentences for "bookbinders"

Lexicographically close words:
booed; booful; booing; book; bookbinder; bookbindery; bookbinding; bookbindings; bookcase; bookcases
  1. Owing to this, most bookbinders use the machine-made head-band.

  2. After being carefully smoothed out, it was sold to bookbinders at a very high price, who used it upon their extra bindings, and if the paper was not large enough they were compelled to join it.

  3. A small saw used by bookbinders for sawing the books for sewing.

  4. Bookbinders have more constant employment than those in most other trades.

  5. Some bookbinders employ those who will do their work at a very cheap rate, often thus exposing them to influences that are pernicious.

  6. The work of bookbinders is not more unhealthy than any other indoor work.

  7. Some bookbinders in New York impose on girls by taking them to learn the business, requiring that they stay from six weeks to six months to do so, and paying nothing during that time.

  8. We first introduced this material to the notice of Bookbinders some 25 years ago.

  9. It broke out as early as 1825 when the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge reduced its prices and the master bookbinders working for it reduced wages.

  10. The secretary of the Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers gave the information that women had been first employed as machine rulers about twenty years ago.

  11. Among other English bookbinders of the present day I would name Tout, whose simple, Quaker-like work, with Grolier tooling, is worth seeing.

  12. As head of the Technical School for Bookbinders in Berlin he is in a position to exercise an educative influence in the best sense.

  13. On James's advent to England John and Roger Norton and Robert and Christopher Barker were made Royal binders and printers, and in 1604 John and Abraham Bateman were made "Bookbinders to the King.

  14. Mearne was one of the greatest bookbinders of any time, and apart from the splendid work he did for Charles II.

  15. As it is inconvenient to be obliged to be continually beginning a new thread or knotting, most bookbinders use a reel of thread.

  16. This continual loss of work originally ours--not marked by decades now but by still shorter intervals--should make all bookbinders reflect.

  17. It should not be forgotten that the latter has a grain, though very few bookbinders pay any heed to this.

  18. An excellent pamphlet on bookbinders and the history of their craft, by Mr. W.

  19. Possibly other bookbinders use it, though I do not remember to have seen it used by any other firm.

  20. It has been said that there are only four bookbinders in London who may be trusted not to mutilate a book, and that there are only two who have any sense of design and harmony of colour.

  21. The English Provincial Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders to 1557.

  22. That two of these were bookbinders and churchwardens, that one owned a brewery, and that one took holy orders we have evidence, but of printing there is no trace.

  23. Chevillier says that seventeen professional bookbinders found regular employment in making up books for the University of Paris, as early as 1292.

  24. Some of the light French spirit varnishes prepared for bookbinders answer well.

  25. The report shows that bookbinders and librarians are not, as a general rule, qualified to select leather for bookbinding.

  26. There is much useful information in the report that all bookbinders and librarians should read.

  27. Bookbinders should refuse to have anything to do with any leather that has been artificially grained, as the process is apt to be highly injurious to the skin.

  28. This would enable bookbinders and librarians, in ordering leather, to be sure that it had not been injured in its manufacture.

  29. GLUE It is important for bookbinders that the glue used should be of good quality, and the best hide glue will be found to answer well.

  30. For this purpose it is the custom for bookbinders to collect quantities of old paper.

  31. The Society of Arts Committee report that the bookbinders must share with the leather manufacturers and librarians the blame for the premature decay of modern bindings, because-- "1.

  32. Bookbinders have selected leather almost entirely by its appearance.

  33. There are eleven thousand bookbinders now employed, of which one-third are females.

  34. In 1830, the journeymen bookbinders of London opposed the introduction of the rolling-machine.

  35. Books of equal beauty were also made in Italy, but there was no part of Europe where calligraphers, miniaturists and ornamental bookbinders found a higher appreciation of their skill than in Burgundy and the Netherlands.

  36. Chevillier says that seventeen professional bookbinders found regular employment in making up books for the University of Paris, as early as 1272.

  37. Bookbinders generally employ copperas water as a black stain or sprinkle; a solution of indigo as a blue one; and a solution of salt of tartar or common soda, as a brown one.

  38. The 'vinegar black' of the bookbinders is merely a solution of acetate of iron, made by steeping a few rusty nails or some iron filings in vinegar.

  39. After this bookbinders and others of the craft are frequently mentioned.

  40. The English Provincial Printers, Stationers, and Bookbinders to 1557.

  41. It is proper to state, however, that she gives perfect satisfaction, that her employer would not replace her for a man, and that he believes other bookbinders will eventually see the advisability of having a female instead of a male overseer.

  42. Some of her books she brought to France as part of her dowry, others she acquired by fair means or foul as was most convenient, and to their bindings she paid particular attention and kept a staff of bookbinders in her employ.

  43. One of the earliest bookbinders or book-cover decorators whose name has come down to us was Dagæus, an Irish monk, and a clever worker in metals.

  44. One of the earliest bookbinders in this country was a bishop, Ethilwold of Lindisfarne, who bound the great Book of the Gospels that his predecessor Eadfrid had written.

  45. Some of the famous bindings which distinguish Grolier's books were executed in Italy, others in France, where Italian bookbinders were then teaching their art to the native workmen.

  46. Bookbinders and librarians will find much to interest them in this lucid, well-illustrated, and valuable little treatise.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bookbinders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.