1.  A person who keeps the accounts of a mercantile concern, public office, etc.

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1555.  Act 2–3 Phil. & M., vii. § 4. The parties to the bargaine … shall come to the open place appointed for the toll taker, or for the booke keeper … and there enter … their names … in the toll takers book.

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1842.  Dickens, Amer. Notes (1850), 109/2. Melancholy ghosts of departed book-keepers, who had fallen dead at the desk.

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  2.  One who hoards books; a book-miser. rare.

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1884.  Julian Magnus, in Harper’s Mag., Nov., 828/1. The old-fashioned book-keeper, who fears his precious books will be hurt by using.

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