booklings

In like manner, every thing relating to Paris, and illustrative of it at a period of interest which probably will not arise again for centuries, has been already made known in Paul's admirable letters, in poor Scott's powerful but unmerciful satire, and finally in a host of books, booklings, and bookatees, teaching us how to spend any period of time at

Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

It has only very lately occurred to me that both you and I are somewhat changed since we placed the _summum bonum_ in Waltonian idleness, and that you have very possibly renounced fly-fishing, and settled down into a literary incubation, likely to bless the world with a brood of booklings.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

It was stocked instead with little booklings put out by a couple of avant garde publishers here.

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