1593 A. Chute Beawtie Dishonoured 18 Then blame not yeouth if want only he wooes: Since doting old and bookewise cannot choese.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. viii. 32 Your farmer..neede not to be bookewise.

1790 W. Blakey Let. 7 Apr. in Gentleman's Mag. (1792) July 607/2 He is a very proper person to decide the question in hand, much better that many of those book-wise gentry who are stocked with other people's ideas.

1802 Portfolio 20 Mar. 81/3 It is well to supply the deficiencies of our book-wise heads, by some experience in the philosophy of life.

1885 Cassell's Family Mag. Jan. 83 Wishing she had had more schooling, and that Peter might grow up ‘book-wise’.

1913 Washington Post 31 Jan. 2/2 He declared that some of the pupils became too bookwise with too much schooling.

2011 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 3 Dec. 22 Fox is no action hero but is bookwise and street-smart enough to navigate through cover-ups and official obstruction.

1798 R. Davidson & D. Douglas Decisions Court of Session 1792–6 365 The act 1696, c. 15. allowed ‘contracts, decreets, dispositions, extracts, transumpts, and other securities’, to be written bookwise.

1829 Mechanics' Mag. 11 134/2 Almost as thin as paper, perfectly pliable, and capable of being stitched together bookwise.

1861 W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 759 Before the introduction of the present system of writing deeds 'bookwise', the sheets were pasted together at length.

1912 J. H. Matthews Vaughans Courtfield 40 The document is in Latin on parchment..and is bound bookwise in red morocco.

2010 J. Kramnick Action & Objects 250 (note) Thus Merricks argues that there are no tables, no books, and no baseballs, just atoms arranged tablewise or bookwise or baseballwise.