bookmanship

== English == === Etymology === From bookman +‎ -ship. Compare penmanship. === Noun === bookmanship (uncountable) Skill in, or appreciation of, the editing and production design of books; being a connoisseur of books; love of books. 1980 April, Lawrence J. McCrank "Education for Rare Book Librarianship: A Reexamination of Trends and Problems" p.9 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library Science; Occasional papers No.144) As library school graduates appear only semiliterate in terms of the book as a physical, aesthetic object, such critics wonder what has happened to the role of bookmanship in library education. 2009 Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Judith Baughman F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Marketplace: The Auction and Dealer Catalogues, 1935-2006 p.xv (Univ of South Carolina Press, 2009) →ISBN: Bookmanship is a way of life: you live to acquire books. Skill in using books; profiting from one's reading; erudition. 1946 [2001] Holbrook Jackson The reading of books p.10 (University of Illinois Press, 2001) →ISBN Bookmanship is the art of adjusting literature to life.