Word: bibliomaniacal
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Though the garden-variety 19th century English baronet was normally content with a small, showcase library, Sir Thomas Phillipps was a certified bibliomaniac. Eventually his passion for manuscript collecting carried him to the point of buying the entire stock of London wastepaper merchants. He collected to the extent that his wife complained that they were "booked out of one wing and ratted out of the other...
This is a de luxe anthology written by bookworms for bookworms. The only wolf calls in its pages rise when a bug-eyed bibliomaniac spots an unescorted Gutenberg Bible or First Folio Shakespeare. With the knowingness of a convention of beekeepers discussing the nuptial flight of the queen, 40-odd bibliophiles talk about the designing, the collecting, the stealing and the forging of books. Some of the highlights...
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