Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (II) Communication of Ideas
Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas
3. Written Language

593. Book.

   NOUN:BOOK, booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule or opuscle, opusculum; tract, tractate, treatise, livret [F.], brochure, monograph, pamphlet, codex, libretto; handbook, manual, enchiridion; novel (composition) [See Writing]; circular, publication; the press [See Publication]; chapbook.
  part, issue, number, livraison [F.]; album, portfolio; periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal.
  PAPER, bill, sheet, broadsheet; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page; quire, ream.
  PASTEBOARD, cardboard, strawboard, millboard, binder’s board; carton.
  MAKE-UP, bastard title, title, printer’s imprint, subtitles, dedication, preface, contents, list of plates or illustrations, errata, introduction, text; chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause; recto, verso or reverso; supplement, appendix, index.
  [SIZES] folio, quarto (4to or 4°); octavo (8vo), cap 8vo, demy 8vo, imperial 8vo, medium 8vo, royal 8vo, post 8vo, pott 8vo, crown 8vo, foolscap 8vo; duodecimo, twelvemo or 12mo; sextodecimo, sixteenmo or 16mo; octodecimo, eighteenmo or 18mo.
  BOOKBINDING, bibliopegy; folding, stitching, wire-stitching; tooling; blind -, gold- tooling; binder’s title; case, cover; quarter -, half -, three-quarters- bound book; full leather.
  [BINDING MATERIALS] paper, paper boards, buckram, cloth, skiver, roan, pigskin, Russia, Turkey morocco, levant morocco, seal, parchment, vellum.
  WORK OF REFERENCE, encyclopedia or encyclopædia, cyclopedia or cyclopædia, dictionary, thesaurus, concordance, anthology; compilation.
  WRITER, author, littérateur [F.], essayist; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; adjective jerker [slang], hack writer, hack, ghost [cant], ink slinger [slang]; journalist, publicist, writer for -, gentleman of -, representative of- the press; reporter, correspondent; war -, special- correspondent; knight of the -plume, – pen, – quill [all humorous]; penny-a-liner; editor, subeditor, reviser, diaskeuast; scribe [See Writing]; playwright [See The Drama]; poet [See Poetry].
  THE TRADE, publisher, bookseller; book -salesman, – agent, – canvasser, – solicitor.
  bibliopole, bibliopolist, book collector; bookbinder, bibliopegist; bookworm [See Scholar]; bibliologist, bibliographer, bibliophile, bibliognost, librarian, bibliothec.
  bookstore, bookshop, bookseller’s shop, librairie [F.], publishing house.
  LIBRARY, bibliotheca, public library, lending library.
  KNOWLEDGE OF BOOKS, bibliography, bibliology; book learning (knowledge) [See Knowledge]; bookselling, bibliopolism.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Among the giant fossils of my past.—E. B. Browning
2. Craignez tout d’un auteur en courroux.
3. For authors nobler palms remain.—Pope
4. I lived to write and wrote to live.—Rogers
5. Look in thy heart and write.—Sidney
6. There is no Past so long as Books shall live.—Bulwer-Lytton
7. The public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers.—Disraeli
8. Volumes that I prize above my dukedom.—Tempest
9. The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.—Carlyle