A person who practices the art of binding books or who is skilled in the craft of bookbinding.
From Greek biblio- (book) and -pegy (binding) plus the agent suffix -ist. This specialized term emerged in English bookbinding circles during the 18th and 19th centuries to distinguish professional binders from mere book owners.
Bibliopegists were the unsung artisans of the library world—imagine spending weeks hand-stitching signatures of paper together and tooling intricate gold designs into leather covers. Some became so famous that collectors would buy books just because of which bibliopegist had bound them.
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