Book of Books
Americannoun
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A short note on the work at the back of the 750-page Documenta compendium of essays, The Book of Books, gives the barest information.
From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2012
He took occasion to praise the Bible as the " Book of Books."
From Time Magazine Archive
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He caught the words; they were from the Book of Books, which he had learned to know and value.
From The Two Shipmates by Kingston, William Henry Giles
This would be the Bible, or Book of Books, which let the missionaries carry to the uttermost parts of the earth.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David
They cannot read the literature of Greece and Rome, nay, they cannot study the Book of Books, without these facts being constantly brought to mind.
From Youth and Sex by Scharlieb, Mary
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