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bookseller|ˈbʊkˌsɛlə(r)|
A vender of books.
1527Higden's Polycron. (title), Imprented..at ye expences of John Reynes bokeseller. 1542–3Act 34–35 Hen. VIII, i, Ani printer, bokebinder, bokeseller, or anie other person. 1615Crooke Body of Man 420 He dissected a Bookseller, and found his heart more then halfe rotted away. 1788Walpoliana clxix. 77 One of those booksellers in Paternoster-row who publish things in numbers. 1816J. Gilchrist Philos. Etym. Introd. 4 He only glanced over it for a short time in a bookseller's shop.
Hence ˈbookˌsellerish a., ˈbookˌsellerism.
1778R. Potter in Parr's Wks. (1828) VIII. 228 The common complaint against authorism and booksellerism. 1815Southey Lett. (1856) II. 414 It is impossible that any compositions can be more booksellerish. |