2. Noun. Factual information concerning books, for example regarding such matters as authors and the history of publication and printing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Booklore
1. book learning [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Booklore
Literary usage of Booklore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of Bibliography and Dramatic Index by Frederick Winthrop Faxon, Mary Estella Bates, Anne C. Sutherland (1917)
"Its appeal is much like that of conversation, stimulating and suggestive, in its
quick-glancing comment upon one aspect after another of booklore; ..."
2. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1906)
"... semi-bibliographical accounts, embracing such subjects as the Masters of the
Rolls series. Early chronicles. Botany and booklore, Children's literature, ..."
3. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1911)
"But his wild instincts were never so dulled by his booklore but that he knew how
to coax the partridge to feed at his door, ..."
4. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1911)
"For an account of the work see booklore, v. 4, p. 39-41, London, 1886. A much
earlier account of Scot's work appears in The British Librarian.. .1738, p. ..."
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