bibliomaniacal
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Each volume is preserved in a silken cover—and the whole is kept inviolate from the impurities of bibliomaniacal miasmata, in a sarcophagus-shaped piece of furniture of cedar and mahogany.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Yes; we may now as well notice the efforts of that extraordinary bibliomaniacal triumvirate, Colet, More, and Erasmus.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
We will now proceed to the bibliomaniacal anecdotes of Nicholas Ferrar, senior and junior.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
The impressions long remained limited; and continual use and subsequent neglect accomplished between them the task of creating the modern bibliographical and bibliomaniacal schools.
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt
Now let us go on quietly towards the close of my long-winded bibliomaniacal history.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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