bibliopegist
English
Etymology
From bibliopegy + -ist.
Noun
bibliopegist (plural bibliopegists)
- A bookbinder.
- 1903, The Bookman, volumes 15-16, page 175:
- The annual exhibitions of fine bookbindings held at our principal bookstores, to which I have already drawn attention, embrace examples of the best work of all the prominent American, as well as European, bibliopegists, […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bibliopegist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)