bibliomane
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Etymology
From French bibliomane;[1] equivalent to biblio- + -mane.
Noun
bibliomane (plural bibliomanes)
- Synonym of bibliomaniac
- 1879 January 11, “Bibliomania in 1878”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume XLVII, London: […], page 46, column 1:
- A very significant fact is that the Greek and Latin classics in the choicest editions, unless indeed they have the good luck to be in Derome or Trautz-Bauzonnet bindings, are not looked at by the bibliomanes of the period.
- 1966, Bibliotheca Medica: Physician for Tomorrow, the Harvard Medical School, page 78:
- To the bibliomanes of my generation, it comes as a shock to learn how much of a book can be punched onto a tape and clicked off by a computer.
- 2001, The Book Collector, volume 50, page 136:
- (A companion piece by Brenda Scragg on the bibliomane William Ford is, alas, but a shadow of the rewarding study of this collector-turned-dealer which Anthony Lister published in the book collector in 1989.)
- 2007, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, volume 122, page 245, column 1:
- The ever-present danger was that the cultivated amateur would overstep the bounds of civilized interest into the domain of obsession; the line between the bibliophile and the bibliomane was never quite as firmly drawn as Nodier would have liked: “There is only a single attack of nerves separating the bibliophile from the bibliomaniac” (Du bibliophile au bibliomane, il n’y a qu’une crise”; 102).
References
- “bibliomane, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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