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n. - A workshop where pages are stuck together to create a volume.

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  • They added a bookbindery, and in addition to the Gazette, they printed almanacs, pamphlets, and occasionally books.
  • The library and reading room committee amassed a library of over two thousand books, and established a bookbindery to keep the books in circulation.
  • There is an air of antiquity about everything connected with this bookbindery which suggests the thought that its tools and usages are much older than those of printing.
  • A few weeks ago I ran into him, and he told me that he was part of a collective exhibit at this new bookbindery in Malasaña, where he often pitches in in the afternoons.
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