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And yet, despite these self-accusations, bibliophily rather than bibliomania would be the word to characterize his conscientious purpose.

From The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac by Field, Eugene

Here Plato and Aristotle, Herodotus and Thucydides always had room to breathe, without ever being called upon to endure the contamination of worm-eaten bibliophily.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton