Meaning of bibliopoly | Babel Free

Definitions

Bookselling.

literary, uncountable

Examples

“If the ſecretary to the French bibliopoly tranſlates the tragedy of Henry V. faithfully, as he has promiſed, he vvill open a fine ſchool of delicacy and decorum for the inſtruction of our courtiers.”

“Instead of attempting to translate the terms of Roman bibliopoly, many of which are ill-understood, and all of which would sound harsh in English poetry, I have, in common I believe with all translators, described his writings as in a modern book.”

“Nature, however, has been kind, and bibliopoly thrives.”

“We have heard similar complaints (at least as far as the book trade is concerned) from the highest quarters of bibliopoly.”

“Great as was the success—and its sale was almost unprecedented in the annals of Russian bibliopoly, the career of the "Polar Star" was exceedingly brief, as it did not extend beyond its third volume.”

“There are as good fish in that buccaneering sea of Bibliopoly as ever were caught, and if one of them have broken away from your harpoon, I hope the net may prove a downright Kraken on whom, if needful, you can pitch your tent and live.”

“Bibliopoly, bibliopoesy, in all their branches, are sick, sick, hastening to death and new genesis.”

“Although [Ralph Waldo] Emerson initiated the correspondence, [Thomas] Carlyle was to gain much from this friendship in the next decade as Emerson was to perform many services for the Scotsman, […] performing much bibliopoly for Carlyle in the next few years.”

“The three parts were sufficiently self-contained to warrant consideration as individual monographs, and such has been the shape of their transposition to Anglo-American vernacular and bibliopoly.”

“The evolution of political and social structures and concomitant systems of education certainly plays a role here, as do the technology of printing, the growth of lending libraries and other book-circulating associations, the serialization of otherwise unwieldy and unaffordable books, and the gradual advent of indiscriminate mass bibliopoly, all of which produce a situation where in principle anyone, for a reasonable sum of money, can become a reader of anything.”

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