Bookmen

But this familiar impulse to abstraction went hand-in-hand in the early decades of the nineteenth century with a sharpened interest in books as printed objects and in the physical relationship to them on the part of what were known as "bookmen": readers, collectors, authors. ❋ Unknown (2004)

a writing typically dismissed in the periodical press as the product of foolish "bookmen" absorbed by the mere "outside" of books. ❋ Unknown (2004)

"bookmen," and when one is a bookman one is a bookman during about twenty-three and three-quarter hours in every day. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

I sold my hard-bought school books for ridiculous sums to second-hand bookmen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Perhaps it was a recoil from his environment and training, or from the tempered seed of his ancestors, who had been bookmen generation preceding generation; but at any rate, he found enjoyment in being down in the working-class world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How he built both is a captivating story populated by legendary bookmen, enterprising scouts and endearing eccentrics. ❋ Allison Hoover Bartlett (2010)

Its members represented outstanding scholars and bookmen in the great tradition of bibliographers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Jacob Christoph (or James Christopher, or Jakob Christoffel) Le Blon was born in 1667 into a family of artists, printers, and bookmen. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We all have our favourite bookstores and bookmen and I am fortunate to not only love The Strand bookstore in Manhattan but have Fred Bass its owner as a family friend. ❋ Martyn Daniels (2008)

For somewhere undercover, in the bizarre, cutthroat world of bookmen and collectors, someone is dealing death along with vintage Chandlers and Twains. ❋ Divers (2007)

Underlining the turn from nature and toward alienated forms of identity that appears in much bibliophilic writing both then and now, Jackson's bizarre bookmen seek to escape the human, biological world of reproduction (and, not so incidentally, of women) and to be born again into that of the printed word. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Arguing for renewed attention to bookmen and to the minor genres of book-love in the period, the essay reads both as engaged (ironically enough) in deploying the book as part of Romanticism's ongoing struggle against the forces of dispersion and abstraction linked to modern print culture. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Philip Connell draws attention to this extraordinary investment in print when he comments in relation to one of the quintessential bookmen of the early nineteenth century: The Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin trained and practiced as an Anglican clergyman. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Indeed, books confounded that distinction, as they did distinctions between sensation/intellection, feeling/thinking, and other foundational binaries; for their part, bookmen proved equally unsettling, their identities strangely invested in print in ways that disturbed the clarity of distinctions between interiority and exteriority. ❋ Unknown (2004)

A noticeable feature was the frankness with which experienced bookmen laid aside stock phrases, and dealt with this book as in response to a strong personal appeal. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Lewis's first novel, Our Mr. Wrenn, is very much school of Wells: it was, of course, well-reviewed by his fellow bookmen. ❋ Vidal, Gore (1992)

The authors were usually professional bookmen writing for a bookish public. ❋ Hutton Webster (N/A)

It was in the order of things, and no cause for blame, that, after this town passed from the provincial stage, there was so long a period when it had to be, as De Quincey said of Oxford Street, a stony-hearted mother to her bookmen and poets; that she had few posts for them and little of a market. ❋ Various (N/A)