Meaning of grangerize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To illustrate (a book) with material such as images taken from other published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
   intransitive
2. To illustrate with material taken from published sources.
   transitive
3. To remove material, especially images, from a publication.
   transitive

Examples

“He was a large, loose, fattish man with unintelligent brown eyes magnified by spectacles; he wore an ill-fitting frock-coat and a paper collar, and he showed me, as his great treasure and interest⟳, a large Bible which he had grangerised with photographs of pictures.”

“In fifty cases out of a hundred, booksellers who make⟳ grangerizing a speciality find⟳ it pays far better to break⟳ up an illustrated book than to sell⟳ it intact.”

“In more recent years many finely illustrated books (such as Audubon's The Birds of America and Bartolozzi's fine engravings of Holbein's portraits), together with books of many modern artists, have⟳ been grangerized for their individual prints.”

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