[a. F. bibliotaphe, f. BIBLIO- + Gr. τάφος tomb.] One who buries books by keeping them under lock and key. So Bibliotaphic a., Bibliotaphist (Crabbe).
a. 1824. D’Israeli, Cur. Lit. (1866), 503/1. A bibliotaphe buries his books, by keeping them under lock.
1880. St. James’s Gaz., 5 Nov., 14. The last species of ‘enemy’ treated of by Mr. Blades, is the ‘bibliotaph’ or book-burier.
