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Roget-categorie 593

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#593. Book

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booklet — writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule^† — tract, tractate^† — livret^† — brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion^†, circular, publication — chap book.
part, issue, number livraison [Fr.] — album, portfolio — periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal.
paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet^† — leaf, leaflet — fly leaf, page — quire, ream.
[subdivisions of a book] chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause — endpapers, frontispiece — cover, binding.
folio, quarto, octavo — duodecimo^†, sextodecimo^†, octodecimo^†.
encyclopedia — encompilation^†.
[collection of books] library, bibliotheca^†.
press etc. (publication) 531.
[complete description] definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation) 595.
[person who writes a book] writer, author, litterateur [Fr.], essayist, journalism — pen, scribbler, the scribbling race — literary hack, Grub-street writer — writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press — adjective jerker^†, diaskeaust^†, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger — publicist — reporter, penny a liner — editor, subeditor^† — playwright etc. 599 — poet etc. 597.
bookseller, publisher — bibliopole^†, bibliopolist^† — librarian — bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop.
knowledge of books, bibliography — book learning etc. (knowledge) 490.

uitdrukking

among the giant fossils of my past" [E. B. Browning]; craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux [Fr.] — for authors nobler palms remain" [Pope]; I lived to write and wrote to live" [Rogers]; look in thy heart and write" [Sidney]; there is no Past so long as Books shall live" [Bulwer Lytton]; the public mind is the creation of the Master- the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers" [Disraeli]; volumes that I prize above my dukedom" [Tempest].

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