bibliophile
noun
a person who loves or collects books, especially as examples of fine or unusual printing, binding, or the like.
bibliophilist
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a variation of
bibliophile.
Example Sentences
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Many rare tracts had been of old in the Library, but much of the completeness of the present collection is due to the energy of the well-known American bibliophilist, Henry Stevens, Esq.
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by William Dunn Macray
It disturbed my bibliophilist labors, and gave a twang of musty nausea even to the sweet scent of old binding-leather.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 by Various
