bookmongers

This historical nugget of the Boston bookmongers of a century ago is so rare, that only two copies are known in public libraries, namely, in the

A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford

He was well acquainted with the writings of all the ancients -- nor did he just skim over the heads and contents of books as some do who ought not to be called learned men, but skilful bookmongers.

Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

So I stuck to my low task-work; my penny-a lining in third-class newspapers; my translating from Frenchmen and Germans, and plagiarising from dead authors, to supply the raw material for bookmongering by more accomplished bookmongers than I.

Basil Wilkie Collins 1856

I’m pretty good about my consumerism beyond the bookmongers, but when it comes to bookstores, I’m a slave to the page.

Confessions of a Book Nerd: The Danger of Bookstores - Reading Local: Portland 2010