sb. and a. [f. prec. + -AC.] A. sb. One affected with bibliomania. B. adj. Given to bibliomania; mad after books; also = next.
1816. Scott, Antiq., iv. The most determined, as well as earliest bibliomaniac upon record … Don Quixote de la Mancha.
1865. Ruskin, Sesame, 75. If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad—a biblio-maniac.
1834. Fraser’s Mag., IX. 146. Biblio-maniac and genealogical inquiry.
1883. Athenæum, 17 Nov., 629/3. The bibliomaniac Ptolemies.
