Definition of Bibliophily

1. [n -LIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bibliophily

bibliopegist
bibliopegistic
bibliopegists
bibliopegy
bibliophage
bibliophages
bibliophile
bibliophiles
bibliophilia
bibliophilic
bibliophilies
bibliophilism
bibliophilisms
bibliophilist
bibliophilists
bibliophily (current term)
bibliophobia
bibliopole
bibliopoles
bibliopolic
bibliopolism
bibliopolist
bibliopolistic
bibliopolists
bibliotaph
bibliotaphs
bibliothec
bibliotheca
bibliothecae
bibliothecal

Literary usage of Bibliophily

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Making of an American's Library by Arthur Elmore Bostwick (1915)
"Recuperative bibliophily "XT EITHER a borrower nor aI ^kj lender be," says Polonius to his son. We all nod our heads in approval as we read, ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"$1.75 Scribner Bible types of modern men. Mackay, VV. M. $1.75 Doran Biblical interpretation, Essays in. Smith, HP $3 M. Jones bibliophily, ..."

3. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1908)
"Almost the oldest Sacred Book (as distinguished from "sacred passages" in Cicero and others) of bibliophily, it remains entirely outside of literary ..."

4. Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1891)
"Strange to say, even at this early stage of bibliophily there were stealers of books. In another letter, addressed by Cicero to P. Sulpicius (Ad fam. xiii. ..."

5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1890)
"France will still maintain her well-earned honour of being the true land of bibliophily; England will still guard the reputation of her sublime indifference ..."

6. Letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Edmund Gosse, Thomas James Wise (1919)
"I have lately had two noble windfalls in the way of dramatic bibliophily (if there is such a word): Rowley's All's Lost by Lust, of which hitherto I knew ..."

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