[a. F. bibliognoste, f. BIBLIO- + Gr. γνώστης one who knows.] One who knows books and bibliography. Hence Bibliognostic a.
a. 1824. D’Israeli, Cur. Lit. (1839), III. 343. A bibliognoste … is one knowing in title-pages and colophons … and all the minutiæ of a book.
1863. Sat. Rev., 505. A priggish bibliognostic air.
