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OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) iii. iii. 162 Þæt we willað þæt se sceawre wite mid fullum gerade þe þis gewrit aspyrað þæt on þam boccræfte fela hiw synd amearcode, þa synd on Lyden figure geciged.

lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. i. 243 Þa wæs sum consul..Boetius wæs gehaten, se wæs in boccræftum and on woruldþeawum se rihtwisesta.

a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 59 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) Some book-craft you have, & are pretty wel spoken.

1718 J. Toland Nazarenus (ed. 2) Pref. p. v The most exact observation of externals, may be without one grain of religion. All this is mechanically done by the help of a little book-craft.

1831 W. Scott Count Robert Introd. p. xvii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I The technical language of bookcraft.

1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth II. vi. 74 Do ye not blush to play with your book-craft on your unlettered friend..?

1922 Catholic World Aug. 630 Of the non-Catholic masters in bookcraft, few, indeed, have written and spoken in so Catholic a manner as he.

1966 G. H. Hartmann in W. K. Wimsatt Literary Crit.: Idea & Act (1974) i. xii. 227 Systems are the inkhorn children of bookcraft and erudition.

1993 M. Z. Bradley Forest House (1995) x. 131 Perhaps they are afraid that if women learned bookcraft there would not be enough work for scribes and the letter-writers of the marketplace.

1840 N.-Y. Spectator 29 Sept. It is in octodecimo, with engravings, gilt edges, handsomely bound in morocco, and has the rubrics printed in red... As a specimen of book-craft it will bear comparison with any other edition published.

1886 Dial Dec. 192/2 The printing and binding of the volume are a credit to the publishers (Harper) and to American book-craft.

1926 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 30 482 This sumptuous volume, published..with all the glories of type and illustration that a lover of fine bookcraft could desire, admirably fills a long-felt want.

1981 Washington Post 15 Feb. e3/5 The Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington offers a three-week bookcraft workshop beginning Wednesday... Participants will learn basic book-binding techniques.

2006 Gesta 45 43/2 Its folios are the largest of any manuscript of the Roman d'Alexandre, it contains more text illustrations than any other copy of this work, and it has nine full-page miniatures... Bodley 264 is a monument of medieval bookcraft.