bibliopegism
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from New Latin bibliopegus (“bookbinder”) + -ism.[1]
Noun
editbibliopegism (uncountable)
- (archaic, rare) Bookbinding.
- Synonyms: bibliopegia, bibliopegy
- 1903 March, William Loring Andrews, “Vagaries of Book-collectors”, in The Lamp, volume XXVI (new series), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 109, column 1:
- Dibdin's Decameron, Nichol's Literary Anecdotes, and Beloe's Sexagenarian constitute our library of reference for the study of bibliopegism, in the days when "up rose Roger Payne like a star diffusing lustre on all sides, and rejoicing the hearts of all true sons of Bibliomania."
References
edit- ^ “bibliopegism, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.