bibliopole
noun
a bookseller, especially a dealer in rare or used books.
bibliopolic
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a word derived from
bibliopole.
Example Sentences
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During the second and third quarters of the nineteenth century its bibliopolic annals are indeed few.
From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by W. (William) Roberts
There are between thirty and forty bookstalls or barrows here, and the place has what we may describe as a bibliopolic history, which goes back for a period of twenty years.
From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by W. (William) Roberts
The second East End worthy has a literary as well as a bibliopolic interest.
From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by W. (William) Roberts
The Devil is unhappily dead, in that international bibliopolic province, and little hope of his reviving for some time; whereupon this is what Squire Appleton does.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle
The whole neighbourhood of which Covent Garden may be taken as the centre, is full of a bibliopolic history, which dates back to the beginning of the last century.
From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by W. (William) Roberts
