Sentence examples for binding books from inspiring English sources

The disturbing history of the practice of binding books in human skin.

The chance to spend her days binding books and acting out stories with wonderful wooden animals made in Germany.

Along with his older brother, he moved to Paris in the 1930's and continued binding books until after World War II began.

In New York, she had to settle for whatever type of work came her way: folding paper to make envelopes, making windows, baking bread, binding books.

There certainly weren't many who shared his interests: collecting weird fiction, playing piano, sculpting in clay, painting, and shooting snakes and binding books with their skin.

Some of his most striking photographs, in stark black and white, depict an array of artisans and ordinary people around the world plying their trades: women weaving and churning butter, men binding books and making harps and pipe organs and even waxwork heads.

The object of literary bibliography is to discover and provide all useful information about a writer's publications, including size, binding, book jacket, date, price, print run, contents and so forth.

Hand bindery work includes the making of fine-tooled bindings, binding reference books and books of special economic or personal value, and the repair of rare manuscripts, early printed books, and historical documents.

Plainer very early bindings in leather are almost as rare as treasure bindings, as the bindings of books in libraries usually wore out and needed to be renewed, and earlier collectors did not consider most historical bindings worth retaining.

This was largely due to the up-front expenses in traditional book publishing: typesetting, and then printing and binding a book in long press runs; warehousing the books and having to distribute them to innumerable book stores around the country; marketing and publicity...

Tape the binding so books appear older and well-worn.