[see -HOOD.] † a. Knowledge of books, scholarship (obs.). b. The estate or dignity of a book.

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1772.  H. Walpole, Corr. (1837), III. 46. Who has a better opinion of my bookhood than I deserve.

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1881.  Southern Law Rev. (St. Louis), VII. 289. This book dares to assert its bookhood independent of dress.

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