bookcraft

[ book-kraft, -krahft ]

noun

, Archaic.

1. literary skill; authorship.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bookcraft¹

before 900; Old English bōccræft (not recorded in ME). See book, craft

Example Sentences

“It takes anything from three to five years to sell off a print run of about two thousand to three thousand books,” Bankole Olayebi, the C.E.O. of the publisher Bookcraft, which counts the Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka among its authors, told me.

From The New Yorker

“It takes anything from three to five years to sell off a print run of about two thousand to three thousand books,” Bankole Olayebi, the C.E.O. of the publisher Bookcraft, which counts the Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka among its authors, told me.

From The New Yorker

Mr. Frederic Saunders is publishing in the New-York Recorder a series of papers under the title of Bookcraft which will make a volume not unworthy of D'Israeli.

From Project Gutenberg

In a Lecture on the History of Bookcraft, an account was given “Of the plenty of books, and dearth of sense; the advantages of the Oratory to the booksellers, in advertising for them; and to their customers, in making books useless; with all the learning, reason, and wit more than are proper for one advertisement.”

From Project Gutenberg

And I had told a tale or two—a poor art enough, I'll allow, spoiled by bookcraft It was a cheery company as you may guess, and at last I was at a display of our Highland dancing.

From Project Gutenberg