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Definition of Bibliopegists
1. bibliopegist [n] - See also: bibliopegist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bibliopegists
Literary usage of Bibliopegists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1903)
"... as well as European, bibliopegists, and those interested in the subject have
in these attractive displays ample opportunities to examine, ..."
2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1895)
"... Buttolph " bookbinder" of Boston, under date of 1718, which may be worthy of
record as preserving the name of one of the early bibliopegists of the Hub. ..."
3. A History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: With a Chapter on the Early by Winifred Eva Howe, Henry Watson Kent (1913)
"... and book bindings from the hands of renowned bibliopegists of former times
are as much works of art . . . as paintings on canvas or sculptures in stone, ..."
4. The Reporters: Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks by John William Wallace, Franklin Fiske Heard (1882)
"And as the English bookbinders of that day had not all learned the elegant art,
now so generally known to bibliopegists, of filling up a book, when too thin ..."
5. The Memorial History of the City of New York: From Its First Settlement to by James Grant Wilson (1893)
"... bibliopegists. There are others from the libraries of Maioli, Canevari, Diane
de Poitiers, De Thou, ..."
6. The Bookworm: An Illustrated Treasury of Old-time Literature (1894)
"... owners or indiscreet bibliopegists (bless them both !) in unholy wedlock; nor
with the folio volume, lettered outside, ..."
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