bindery
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binderies
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Origin of bindery
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Once a 19th-century book bindery, the building was converted into luxe residences with unique character.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
The original building included a front office, print shop, bindery and library that housed thousands of books and manuscripts — some donated, some collected by Hall on his travels across the globe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
“Gotham” ended in 1898 if for no other reason than because we had surpassed the limits of bindery technology.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2017
She said it’s a five-minute drive to her printing and bindery business.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2016
Sheets so gathered must be afterwards opened out for folding in the bindery.
From Practical Bookbinding by Paul Adam
He arrived in Washington 30 years ago, became a U.S. citizen, and in 2000 was well into a career at local binderies when a forwarding job opened at the Government Printing Office.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2010
But the big snag is the shortage of men in binderies and shipping rooms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every day, the Sisters hauled paper by the armload out of the cell to be shredded and soaked and re-pulped into new sheets in the binderies in the basement.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
"Oh, everything: waitress in a summer boarding-house, novelty goods, binderies, shirt-waists, stores, anything we can get."
From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson
The terms end papers, fly leaves and waste papers are used in different binderies with much the same meaning.
From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey
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