bookholder
nounEtymology From book + holder.
1
A support for a book, holding it open for reading or copying.
2
Someone who holds a book.
3
Obsolete A prompter at a theatre.
- they are out of their parts, sure: it may be 'tis the book-holder's fault1623 (first performance), John Fletcher, William Rowley, “The Maid in the Mill”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):