BOOK AMATEURS.
It was the Abbé Rive, librarian to the Duke de la Vallière, who made the following classification:—
A Bibliognoste is one knowing in title-pages and colophons, and in editions; when and where printed; the presses whence issued; and all the minutiæ of a book.
A Bibliographe is a describer of books and other literary arrangements.
A Bibliomane is an indiscriminate accumulator, who blunders faster than he buys, cock-brained and purse-heavy.
A Bibliophile, the lover of books, is the only one in the class who appears to read them for his own pleasure.
A Bibliotaphe buries his books, by keeping them under lock, or framing them in glass cases.