Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a bibliopegist or to bibliopegy: as, bibliopegistic skill.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Pertaining to the art of binding books.
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- adjective Relating to
bookbinding .
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Examples
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The work has become mere printed paper; but it is perhaps not less covetable as a triumph of bibliopegistic art, than as a memorial of the distinguished or interesting personages through whose hands it has passed to our own.
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 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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What a field, therefore, was here for the display of the bibliopegistic art!
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The copy is cruelly cropt, and the volume is sufficiently badly printed; which makes it the more surprising that such pains should have been taken with its bibliopegistic embellishments.
A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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Since then, indeed within a very few years, the famous CHARLES LEWIS -- of whose bibliopegistic renown the
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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The name of LEWIS will be always held high in the estimation of bibliopegistic Virtuosi.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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Accident brought me one morning in contact with a set of the New Dugdale's Monasticon, bound in blue morocco, and most gorgeously bound and gilded, lying upon the table of Mr. James Bohn -- a mountain of bibliopegistic grandeur!
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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