bookmen

But this familiar impulse to abstraction went hand-in-hand in the early decades of the nineteenth century with a sharpened interest in books as printed objects and in the physical relationship to them on the part of what were known as "bookmen": readers, collectors, authors.

Bibliographic Romance: Bibliophilia and the Book Object 2004

a writing typically dismissed in the periodical press as the product of foolish "bookmen" absorbed by the mere "outside" of books.

Introduction 2004

"bookmen," and when one is a bookman one is a bookman during about twenty-three and three-quarter hours in every day.

Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women Arnold Bennett 1899

I sold my hard-bought school books for ridiculous sums to second-hand bookmen.

THE BRAIN MERCHANT 2010

Perhaps it was a recoil from his environment and training, or from the tempered seed of his ancestors, who had been bookmen generation preceding generation; but at any rate, he found enjoyment in being down in the working-class world.

SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010

How he built both is a captivating story populated by legendary bookmen, enterprising scouts and endearing eccentrics.

Extreme Book-Collecting Allison Hoover Bartlett 2010

I sold my hard-bought school books for ridiculous sums to second-hand bookmen.

Chapter 23 2010

Its members represented outstanding scholars and bookmen in the great tradition of bibliographers.

Librarians in the United States. 2009

Jacob Christoph (or James Christopher, or Jakob Christoffel) Le Blon was born in 1667 into a family of artists, printers, and bookmen.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

We all have our favourite bookstores and bookmen and I am fortunate to not only love The Strand bookstore in Manhattan but have Fred Bass its owner as a family friend.

Archive 2008-04-01 Martyn Daniels 2008