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Bibliophile

noun
1.
Someone who loves (and usually collects) books.  Synonyms: book lover, booklover.





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"Bibliophile" Quotes from Famous Books



... [359] distant only one hour by rail" In the next letter (August 14th) Burton refers to a proposed special quarto (large paper) edition of Mr. Payne's Nights, the scheme for which, however, fell through. "I am delighted with the idea," he says, "for though not a bibliophile in practice (L s. d. preventing) I am entirely in theory." There is also an amusing reference to a clergyman who after giving his name for a copy withdrew it. Says Burton, "If the Rev. A. miss this opportunity of grace he can blame only himself. It is very sad but ...
— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright
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... had been behind me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying. I remember that as I picked them up, I observed the title of one of them, THE ORIGIN OF TREE WORSHIP, and it struck me that the fellow must be some poor bibliophile, who, either as a trade or as a hobby, was a collector of obscure volumes. I endeavoured to apologize for the accident, but it was evident that these books which I had so unfortunately maltreated were very precious objects in the eyes ...
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes • Arthur Conan Doyle
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Words linked to "Bibliophile" :   student, bibliophilic, bookman, booklover, scholarly person, scholar


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