anthologer

English

Etymology

From anthology +‎ -er.

Noun

anthologer (plural anthologers)

1. An anthologist.
   • 1898, D[avid] S[amuel] Margoliouth, The Letters of Abu ’l-‘Alā of Ma‘arrat al-Nu‘mān (Anecdota Oxoniensia: Texts, Documents, and Extracts Chiefly from Manuscripts in the Bodleian and Other Oxford Libraries; Semitic series, part X), Oxford, Oxon: At the Clarendon Press, page 2:

     Although the anthologer Al-Bakharzi says that the passages in Abu ’l-‘Alā’s letters first called his attention to the eminence of AI-Maghribi as a writer, the phrase used is scarcely an exaggeration.

   • 1953 March 7, Sloan Wilson, “Lures to Learn”, in Saturday Review, New York, N.Y.: Saturday Review Associates, Inc., page 13, column 2:

     A few pages of unadulterated Twain are inserted in the end, and there are unsimplified pieces by James Thurber and Dorothy Canfield, as well as many other selections, both contemporary and classic, which show that the anthologers set about their task with imagination and taste.

   • 1991, Adrian Mitchell, Adrian Mitchell’s Greatest Hits, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, →ISBN, page 24:

     It became extremely popular, finding its way into all sorts of anthologies. (Once a poem’s in one anthology it shoots up the charts – most anthologers only read anthologies.)