Meaning of bibliomane | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of bibliomaniac.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“(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.)”

“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).”

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