bibliophile
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Best known for his diaries, the tailor's son was also a bibliophile who bequeathed his large library to the University of Cambridge's Magdalene College.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2024
He was a Christian Zionist and bibliophile, who by all accounts knew the land of Israel better than many of the Jews who lived there.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2023
Corcoran was a bibliophile who didn’t horde books but who delighted in knowing what she could about those within her sphere of Modern art interests and making them available to others.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2022
As something of a bibliophile, I found cutting pictures out of books appalling, but newspaper work hardens even the most sensitive soul.
From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022
No doubt many amateurs will not agree with me in this; some, perhaps, will declare I have arrived at a monstrous degree of cynicism for a bibliophile.
From Book Repair and Restoration by Buck, Mitchell
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