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From wwftd. Quote:
grangerize v.t. illustrate, especially by interleaving, with additional pictures. grangerism, n.
I found the following titbit quite interesting.
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James Granger (1723-1776)
Reverend Granger clipped over 14,000 engraved portraits from other books to use as possible illustrations for his Biographical History of England. Some of the books he pillaged were rare ones, and to make matters worse, he suggested in his preface that prvate collections like his might prove valuable someday. This resulted in an unfortunate fad called grangerizing or extra-illustration, with thousands of people mutilating fine books and stuffing pictures and other material into Granger's. 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, and the book eventually expanded to six volumnes from its original two. Sets of Granger illustrated with up to 3,000 engravings were compiled, and so many early English books were ravaged that "to grangerize" came to mean the mutilation that remains the bane of librarians today.
R. Hendrickson, The Dictionary of Literary Anecdotes, 1990.
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I don't know from whence you got that short def'n; but it surely doesn't capture the "cutting" aspect; here's what I have for grangerism, which at least suggests nefandous acts. May 9, 2006 the worthless word for the day is: grangerism
[fr. James Granger who published a 'Biographical History of England', with blank leaves for the reception of engraved portraits or other pictorial illustrations of the text.] (cf. grangerize, to so illustrate) the practice of illustrating a book with engravings, prints, etc. cut from other books
"The only drawback to Grangerism is that it leads to the plunder and mutilation of valuable books for the enrichment and amplification of others. It is stated in the advertisement to the fifth edition of Granger's Biographical History of England, that at its first appearance the rage to illustrate it became so prevalent, that scarcely a copy of any work embellished with portraits could be found in an unmutilated state." - George Augustus Sala, Living London
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