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Nor is there anything to allay the curiosity thus excited in finding that the French, in the all-comprehensive spirit of their classification and nomenclature, include the book-eater with the decorous title Bibliophage, seeing that in so gossiping a work as Peignot's Dictionnaire de Bibliologie, all that is communicated under this department is, "Bibliophage signifie celui qui mange des livres."
"DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNÉ DE BIBLIOLOGIE: contenant 1mo, L'explication des principaux termes relatifs
The French have, as usual, dignified the process which restores diseased books to health and condition by an appropriate technical name it is Bibliuguiancie; and under that title it will be found fitly and appropriately discussed in the Dictionnaire de Bibliologie of Peignot, who specially mentions two practitioners of this kind as having conferred lustre on their profession by their skill and success Vialard and Heudier.
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