tractate†; livret†; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual,
pamphlet, enchiridion†, circular, publication; chap book.
part, issue, number livraison [Fr.]; album, portfolio; periodical,
serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal.
paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet†; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page;
quire, ream.
[subdivisions of a book] chapter, section, head, article,
paragraph, passage, clause; endpapers, frontispiece; cover, binding.
folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo†, sextodecimo†, octodecimo†.
encyclopedia; encompilation†.
[collection of books] library, bibliotheca†.
press &c (publication) 531.
[complete description] definitive work, treatise, comprehensive
treatise (dissertation) 595.
[person who writes a book] writer, author, litterateur [Fr.],
essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary
hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press,
representative of the press; adjective jerker†, diaskeaust†, ghost, hack
writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor,
subeditor†; playwright &c 599; poet &c 597.
bookseller, publisher; bibliopole†, bibliopolist†; librarian;
bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop.
knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning &c (knowledge)
490.
Phr. among the giant fossils of my past [E.
B.
Browning]; craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux [Fr.]; for
authors nobler palms remain [Pope]; I lived to write and wrote to live
[Rogers]; look in thy heart and write [Sidney]; there is no Past so
long as Books shall live [Bulwer Lytton]; the public mind is the
creation of the Master-Writers [Disraeli]; volumes that I prize above
my dukedom [Tempest].