Definition of Booklore

1. Noun. (alternative name of book-learning) ¹

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

bookkept
bookland
booklands
bookless
booklessness
booklet
booklets
booklice
booklight
booklights
booklike
bookling
booklings
booklist
booklists
booklore (current term)
booklores
booklouse
booklover
booklovers
booklung
booklungs
bookly
bookmaker
bookmakers
bookmaking
bookmakings
bookman
bookmark
bookmarkable

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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