Oh yes. There are many professional bookbinding around. One either as to work for a bindery or establish their own business which takes time and experience.
Another name for bookbinding is bookbinding or book making.
No. Bookbinding is a skill and an artform.
Philip Smith has written: 'New directions in bookbinding' -- subject(s): Bookbinding, Handbooks, manuals 'The book, art & object' -- subject(s): Bookbinding
Guy A. Pratt has written: 'Instruction sheets in bookbinding' -- subject(s): Bookbinding
Gulnar K. Bosch has written: 'Islamic bookbindings' -- subject(s): Persian Bookbinding, Islamic art, Islamic bookbinding, Bookbinding 'Islamic bindings & bookmaking'
Shereen LaPlantz has written: 'Buchbinden. Traditionelle Techniken. Experimentelle Gestaltung' 'Cover to cover' -- subject(s): Bookbinding 'Innovative bookbinding' -- subject(s): Technique, Bookbinding, Artists' books 'The Art & Craft of Handmade Books' -- subject(s): Bookbinding, Amateurs' manuals
It's called "glair".
Elbridge Woodman Palmer has written: 'A course in bookbinding for vocational training' -- subject(s): Bookbinding
Arthur Low Bailey has written: 'Library bookbinding' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Bookbinding
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Howard M. Nixon has written: 'Twelve books in fine bindings from the library of J.W. Hely-Hutchinson' -- subject(s): Bookbinding, Facsimiles 'British bookbindings presented by Kenneth H. Oldaker to the Chapter Library of Westminster Abbey' -- subject(s): Bookbinding, Catalogs, Library, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Abbey. Chapter Library 'Royal English bookbindings in the British Museum' 'Sixteenth-century gold-tooled bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library' -- subject(s): Bookbinding, Catalogs, Fine bindings, Gilding, History, Pierpont Morgan Library, Renaissance Bookbinding 'Five centuries of English bookbinding' -- subject(s): Addresses, essays, lectures, Bookbinding, Facsimiles, History 'The development of certain styles of bookbinding' -- subject(s): Bookbinding, History
G. V. Woodman has written: 'The evolution of bookbinding' -- subject(s): Bookbinding, History 'Precepts for printers'