biblioclast

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Two interesting types of maniac are known respectively as the bibliotaph and the biblioclast.

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  1. A mutilator or destroyer of books. Made bonfires of the Maya and Aztec manuscripts. … May these bishops expiate their crimes in the purgatory of biblioclasts. Athenæum, June 7, 1884.

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  • Two interesting types of maniac are known respectively as the bibliotaph and the biblioclast. —  The Bibliotaph and Other People
  • Bagford (John), the biblioclast, r: 18. —  The Enemies of Books
  • Mr. Blades, in his work _The Enemies of Books_, accuses him of being 'a wicked old biblioclast who went about the country, from library to library, tearing away title-pages from rare books of all sizes '; and Dr. Dibdin in —  English Book Collectors
  • A biblioclast is one who indulges himself in the questionable pleasure of mutilating books in order more sumptuously to fit out a particular volume. —  The Bibliotaph and Other People
  • Bagford the biblioclast. —  The Enemies of Books
 

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  1. Greek βιβλίον, a book, + -κλαστης, < κλᾶν, break: cf. iconoclast.
 

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