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Working in London as an apprentice book-binder in the early 1800s, Faraday started to read the books he was binding and to attend popular lectures on science delivered by Humphry Davy, the celebrated chemist.
Keeper of the Flame Peter Pesic 2012
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The retired book-binder notes that VSE provides many engineering and technical services to the U.S. government.
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Meggie lives a quiet life alone with her father, a book-binder.
oldcharliebrown's Journal oldcharliebrown 2004
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Book amateurs of expensive tastes are by no means rare, especially in England, France, and America, and the great commercial value placed upon uncut and rarely beautiful books, on which the highest arts of the printer and book-binder have been lavished, evinces the fact.
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford
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These may be had from any book-binder, being the rejected covers in which books sent for re-binding were originally bound.
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford
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[- >] These covers can only be attached properly by a practical book-binder.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 Various
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The once great printing house of Plantin-Moretus was founded by the Frenchman, Christopher Plantin, who was born at St. Aventin, near Tours, in 1514, and began his business life as a book-binder at Rouen.
Beautiful Europe: Belgium Joseph Ernest Morris
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Bibliopegist, a book-binder: Bibliolater, a worshipper of books:
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford
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One Smith, a book-binder, and his wife, being reduced to extreme poverty, hanged themselves at the same time, and by common consent, after having made away with their only child.
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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The rich book-binder listened with interest, and tapped meditatively upon his desk when Jerry had finished.
The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview Ralph Bonehill
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