antiquarian

Introduced by antiquarian bookseller Rebecca Romney, “Projections” reprints a dozen science-fiction stories, each as a separate booklet tidily packaged together in a handsome box.

Was there in this formalism a life which escapes us, as we handle the dry bones of antiquarianism?

But there is perhaps as much worthless historical Speculation as trifling Antiquarianism extant in literature.

For Cosway's wonderful collection of articles of art, antiquarianism, and vertû, Hazlitt has only good-natured banter.