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-- "A bibliotaphe buries his books, by keeping them under lock, or framing them in glass-cases."
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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The accurate Peignot, after accepting of this classification with high admiration of its simplicity and exhaustiveness, is seized in his supplementary volume with a misgiving in the matter of the bibliotaphe, explaining that it ought to be translated as a grave of books, and that the proper technical expression for the performer referred to by Rive, is bibliothapt.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
sionnach commented on the word bibliotaphe
Someone who buries or hides books
December 22, 2010