How To Use Bibliomania In A Sentence
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His bibliomania is such that he notices little around him: the advent of electricity, the onset of war.
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Indeed, the bad name that proverbially hangs the dog has already been given to the one under consideration, for bibliomania is older in the technology of this kind of nosology than dipsomania, which is now understood to be an almost established ground for seclusion, and deprivation of the management of one's own affairs.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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The impressions long remained limited; and continual use and subsequent neglect accomplished between them the task of creating the modern bibliographical and bibliomaniacal schools.
The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
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Perhaps they will patronize him, and consider pityingly his bibliomania.
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The Library is fortunate to have received the products of his bibliomania.
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Never has bibliomania been written in such a wistful way.
Books. Matter. Stories. Matter. (Or: How a Book Made Me Cry After Six Pages) « BAHAY TALINHAGA
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I hesitated a moment; but having heard that such communications were usually made by the visitors of show places, I answered: "Oh! a very venerable one, if your master is what they call a bibliomaniac -- Caxton.
The Caxtons — Volume 05
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Some, such as bibliomania - obsessive collecting of books - aren't too worrying.
The Guardian World News
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I would be a cross between a bibliodemon and bibliomaniac.
Bibliotypes
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His bibliomania drove him to pay a fortune for any book that caught his interest.
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As his bibliomania grew, his worst fears became confirmed; he wrote less and less, and more crabbedly and obscurely.
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-- the veteran collector grows young again in thinking upon the valour he then exhibited; and the juvenile collector talks "braggartly" of other times -- which he calls the golden days of the bibliomania -- when he reflects upon his lusty efforts in securing an _Exemplar
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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Then, too, while our membership is entirely homogeneous in bibliomaniacal spirit, it is so scattered over such a vast expanse of territory that only a small percentage of the members would be able to enjoy club-room privileges; even those within easy reach of such rooms would probably not frequent them enough to justify any considerable expense in maintenance.
Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs
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Early nineteenth-century phenomena such as bibliomania and the figure of the "bookman" helped to spark a widespread awareness of books as printed objects and an interest in the physical dimensions of the readerly relationship to them.
Article Abstracts
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(The other reason indulgence and castigation often are hard to distinguish in an account of bibliomania is that those diagnosing the disorder so often detect symptoms in themselves.)
"Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
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The proper relation to books is not that of the ‘bookworm’ or ‘bibliomaniac,’ but that of the ‘creative’ reader who uses books as a stimulus to attain ‘his own sight of principles.’
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To antiquaries and lovers of the odd and curious it must ever be valuable; but the obligation of having a fellow of Magdalen at one's elbow much interferes with that quiet, cozy "mousing" so dear to the soul of a bibliomaniac.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
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And yet, despite these self-accusations, bibliophily rather than bibliomania would be the word to characterize his conscientious purpose.
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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His bibliomania ran especially to foreign books and obscure theologians.
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The same auspicious fate that prompted those bibliomaniacal monks to hide away manuscript treasures in the cellars of their monasteries, inspired Poggio Bracciolini several centuries later to hunt out and invade those sacred hiding-places, and these quests were rewarded with finds whose value cannot be overestimated.
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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I'm a quotationaholic, sort of like a bibliomaniac (which I also am) but for quotations.
Printing: Book Review The LAST LECTURE by Randy Pausch
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Some one has said that "to call a bibliophile a bibliomaniac is to conduct
Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs
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Without being a bibliomaniac it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decoration of a room, and I took the liveliest plea-
TESTIMONIES
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But for the elucidation of his character as a student, or a bibliomaniac, we naturally turn to the huge mass of his epistles which have been preserved; and in them we find a constant reference to books which shew his intimacy with the classics as well as the patristical lore of the church.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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Taking over a whole town for the cause of pages printed and bound may look to some like bibliomania.
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He obsessively spent money he didn't have on books, and his bibliomania was the first great manifestation of his propensity to addiction - a hunger to consume that was 'absolutely endless and inexorable as the grave'.
The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum
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Hard not like a man who describes himself as "an antediluvian, bibliomaniac, and curmudgeon.
Deo gratias ..
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Bibliophobe, a hater of books: Bibliotaph, a burier of books -- one who hides or conceals them: Bibliomaniac, or bibliomane, one who has a mania or passion for collecting books.
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
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Bibliophobe, a hater of books: Bibliotaph, a burier of books -- one who hides or conceals them: Bibliomaniac, or bibliomane, one who has a mania or passion for collecting books.
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
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We should not flatter ourselves that the enjoyment of the delights of bibliomania was reserved to one time and generation; a greater than any of us lived many centuries ago, and went his bibliomaniacal way, gathering together treasures from every quarter, and diffusing every where a veneration and love for books.
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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The modern bibliophiles who know what it is to revel in the enjoyment of a goodly library, luxuriant in costly bindings and rich in bibliographical rarities, who are fully susceptible to the delights and exquisite sensibilities of that sweet madness called bibliomania, will readily comprehend the multiplied pleasures of that early and illustrious bibliophile in the seclusion of Auckland Palace; he there ardently applied his energies and wealth to the accumulation of books; and whilst engaged in this pleasing avocation, let us endeavor to catch a glimpse of him.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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The ardor of possessing books, commonly called bibliomania, also styled bibliophilism and "biblio" -- whatever else that has suggested itself to the fruitful imaginations of dozens of felicitous writers upon the subject, -- is described by Dibdin as a "disease which grows with our growth, and strengthens with our strength.
Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs
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Bibliomaniacs were censured, that is, for eschewing commonplace means of engaging the material traces of the literary past and commonplace means of cohabiting with the nation's literary tradition.
"Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
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It'seems that books bought can better satisfy my bibliomania than books borrowed.
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Along the way he offers a sort of autobiography of his bibliomania, which takes him across New England and the rest of the country searching for old books.
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The bibliomaniac, that is, remakes the literary heritage as his cabinet library.
"Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
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Mainly I'm a bibliomaniac and I do a lot of book collecting and I have some nice books, first editions and so on.
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In similar fashion, the book-love of the minor Romantics (a kind of mimic or miniaturized bibliomania) allowed for a certain truancy to the high Romantic notions of authorship and the literary imagination that those same essayists were devoted to promulgating.
Introduction
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He was a lover of classical literature who passed his bibliomania to his son.
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Such a nice bibliomaniacal fancy must have delighted Dibdin; and as he was at one time librarian at Althorpe, he doubtless was the medium of bestowing this charm upon the binding of his own work for his friend.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
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I think that in any study of anything, an example of excess is instructive, because bibliomania on the whole -- bibliophilia, which is the cousin, are productive exercises.
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
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Himself an indefatigable collector of books, the possessor of a library as valuable as it was interesting, a library containing volumes obtained only at the cost of great personal sacrifice, he was in the most active sympathy with the disease called bibliomania, and knew, as few comparatively poor men have known, the half-pathetic, half-humorous side of that incurable mental infirmity.
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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The Bangalore-based freelance writer, is a bibliomaniac and a bibliomane.
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Early nineteenth-century phenomena such as bibliomania and the figure of the "bookman" helped to spark a widespread awareness of books as printed objects and an interest in the physical dimensions of the readerly relationship to them.
Article Abstracts
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Le Prince's comments were echoed nearly forty years later by another visitor to the library, the British antiquarian and self-professed ‘bibliomaniac’ Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
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Librarians were outraged and felt he had given bibliomania a bad name because the word originally meant ‘an intense love for books’.
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To our no small surprise, very soon after this quietus had been given to bibliomaniacal hopes, the books in question appeared before us in excellent condition.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
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The literary essays chronicle a bibliomaniac's passion and obsession with naming and collecting.
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Burns, or Americana, or any other branch or phase of bibliomania; for each of these things accomplishes a noble purpose in that each contributes to the glory of the great common cause of bibliomania, which is indeed the summum bonum of human life.
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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For more than a decade, and until he became enamoured of books and bibliomania, Field was the most widely quoted political paragrapher in America.
Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
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Were it not a bad time for a bibliopolists, bibliomaniacs, bibliographers, and bibliotheques which hinder bibliolatry, he would have given them in a bumper, and not drop by drop as if he were afflicted with dysury of the brain.
Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
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I am a reformed bibliomaniac; a decade ago I would be easily spending $100 a week on books.
In Defence Of Buying Books | Lifehacker Australia
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He retired to his bibliomaniacal bed, but not to repose.
Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs
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Connell, in particular, outlines how bibliomaniacal self-indulgence threatened the ideological sleight-of-hand that invited Britons to understand others 'private properties as part of the common stock of the national heritage, and to understand gentlemanly book collectinglike that of Jane
"Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
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Writing to Egbert, Archbishop of York, of whose bibliomaniacal character and fine library we have yet to speak, Boniface thanks that illustrious collector for the choice volumes he had kindly sent him, and further entreats Egbert to procure for him transcripts of the smaller works
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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But the bibliomaniac may in fact have supplied his contemporaries with a resource for thinking about how booksor, better still, the canon (that "imaginary totality of works" referenced by John Guillory, who cautions us against the ideological misprision involved in thinking that it might be materialized anywhere) might be more firmly attached to persons, might be rendered personal effects.
"Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
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I turn now to that commentary: a series of moments when the encounter of well-heeled bibliomaniac and shabby-genteel minor Romantic seems to make them each other's mirror images, united by a common unwillingness to conceive of books as something we might assimilate as pure mental phenomena, and a readiness to allow literariness to be effaced by the volumes that lodge it.
"Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
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Called a "baby bibliomaniac" as a child, he acquired his first book at auction, the fable "Reynard the Fox," at age 11.
Extreme Book-Collecting
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Romantic familiar essay (e.g. William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt) and, on the other, of the career of Thomas Frognall Dibdin, prolific bibliographer and premier bibliomaniac, whose reception underlines the way in which the figure of the "bookman" helped to destabilize the divisions organizing the intellectual field.
Article Abstracts
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My friend, Dr. Gosset -- who will not (I trust) petition for excommunicating me from the orthodox church to which I have the honour of belonging, if I number him in the upper class of bibliomaniacs -- was unable to attend the sale of the Pinelli collection, from severe illness: but he _did petition_ for a sight of one of these volumes of old
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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These works may now be considered as great bibliomaniacal curiosities.
The Teesdale Angler
