He was also an eminent bibliophile, possessing a library of thirty thousand volumes.
It is a process, as readers may know, not good for the book, and I thought the illustrious statesman and bibliophile looked a little embarrassed.
Rachel, however, not being in the slightest degree a bibliophile, discerned no interest whatever in the title-page.
The Court of Naples also might boast of some illustrious bibliophiles.
Though no bibliophile himself, he was anxious that everything should be done that could promote the interests of literature.
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All polar bibliophiles will want this book, especially as it is so modestly priced - the book bargain of the year !
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Those who have no 'high culture', or potential 'high culture', are bereft of an intelligentsia, and lack the requisite quota of poets, balladeers, bibliophiles, engineers and officers for successful nation-building.
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I can visualise bibliophiles of the future anxious to secure copies of it as one of the brightest works of fiction published in the period.
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With itsbibliophileowners, the home had several libraries.
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He was abibliophile, collector and patron of the arts, and took little interest in public affairs.
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Despite a dazzling collection of art, she was one of the greatest bibliophiles of her time.
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Apart from separate writers or bibliophiles, a group of scribes used to give a legal from to the ideas of people and relations among them.
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Amongst many things, she was also known as abibliophile.
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Over the more than 15 years of his service (18381855), he distinguished himself as a librarian andbibliophile, reorganized the library and published its catalog.
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She is initially portrayed as an introverted, taciturnbibliophile.
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Thebibliophilereached the settled determination to make his collection as complete as it was possible to make it.
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These stores and literary festivals, attractbibliophiletourists.
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He is an avid football player and abibliophile.
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As a child, he was an intensebibliophileand avid collector of old books.
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He was a notedbibliophileand one the foremost exponents of the style of book collecting.
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