bibliopole
noun
a bookseller, especially a dealer in rare or used books.
bibliopolist
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a variation of
bibliopole.
Example Sentences
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Ha, sirs!" resumed the bibliopolist, "you are learned, are you?
From Rejected Addresses by James Smith
Of a very different character from this Aldine bibliopolist is a bookseller of the name of VON FISCHHEIM: the simplest, the merriest, the most artless of his fraternity.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Mr. Otis Clapp, bibliopolist, has the work, and will be pleased to supply it to an indefinite number of the family above referred to.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various
Who was the bibliopolist with whom originated the pernicious scheme of adapting newly printed title-pages to books which had had a previous existence?
From Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
This enterprising bibliopolist had heard much of the prodigious erudition of the writer; but he had not the sagacity to discover that other literary qualities were also required to make twenty folios at all saleable.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
