book-collector

Park, Thomas (1758/9 – 1834): trained as an engraver, Park became a poet, book-collector, antiquary, bibliographer and editor — not least of Bloomfield's poetry.

Index of People 2009

Most of the cast does not reoccur in the series Death and a very brief trans-temporal appearance by a certain simian book-collector aside, but Pratchett still has time to paint them in impressive detail.

Archive 2009-10-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

Also with us in the same room was an obsessive Southend book-collector, a beautiful woman pursued by elderly writers, a designer who could not afford his Ferrari and only one man who was ever likely to have had a career in Shell.

Read The Warning Bell before the Germans 2009

Also with us in the same room was an obsessive Southend book-collector, a beautiful woman pursued by elderly writers, a designer who could not afford his Ferrari and only one man who was ever likely to have had a career in Shell.

Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG: 2009

Most of the cast does not reoccur in the series Death and a very brief trans-temporal appearance by a certain simian book-collector aside, but Pratchett still has time to paint them in impressive detail.

Wertzone Classics: Small Gods by Terry Pratchett Adam Whitehead 2009

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Quote of the Day Bill Crider 2006

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Archive 2006-12-03 Bill Crider 2006

Thus, with the delusive idea that I was to be ushered into some of the secret enjoyments of the pleasing diversion of book-buying, I presently found myself more familiar with the habits, vices, and various unimportant matters of the author's conception -- points, in short, having no bearing whatever upon the subject under consideration -- than with the pleasures of a book-collector.

Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs Henry H. Harper

We see her ascend her invisible carriage, we go with her to her invisible home, we meet her viewless husband; -- here we shudder, but we recover ourselves; we are convinced that he could not have been a book-collector, or she had not dared such a deed.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

Of his theological errors, or his faults as a church disciplinarian, I have nothing here to do, but leave that delicate question to the ecclesiastical historian, having vindicated his character from the charge of ignorance, and displayed some pleasing traits which he evinced as a student and book-collector.

Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather