| 词汇 | grangerize |
| 词源 | grangerize. Reverend James Granger (1723–76) himself clipped some 14,000 engraved portraits from other books to use as possible illustrations for his Biographical History of En- gland. Some of the books he pillaged were rare ones, and to make matters worse, he suggested in his preface that private collections like his might prove valuable someday. This resulted in a fad called grangerizing, or extra-illustration, with thou- sands of people mutilating fine books and stuffing pictures and other material into Granger’s book. Editions following the 1769 Biographical History . . . adapted to a Methodical Catalogue of Engraved British Heads provided blank pages for the insertion of these extra illustrations; the book eventually increased to six volumes from its original two. Sets of Granger illustrated with up to 3,000 engravings were compiled, and so many early En- glish books were ravaged that to grangerize came to mean the mutilation that remains the bane of librarians today. |
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