[PW] Idle query
Sylvia Milne
sylviamilne at btinternet.com
Thu Aug 2 06:59:51 PDT 2007
Grangerism
Gran"ger*ism (?), n. [So called from the Rev. James Granger, whose
Biographical History of England" (1769) was a favorite book for illustration
in this manner.] The practice of illustrating a particular book by
engravings collected from other books.
Source: 1913 Webster's
Revised Unabridged Dictionary at
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/webster.form.html
or http://tinyurl.com/36ony
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