bibliopoly

If the ſecretary to the French bibliopoly tranſlates the tragedy of Henry V. faithfully, as he has promiſed, he vvill open a fine ſchool of delicacy and decorum for the inſtruction of our courtiers.

1776, Voltaire, “[The Appendix to the Fourth Volume of the London Review.] Lettre de M. de Voltaire à l’Academie Francoise, &c. Or, A Letter from M. de Voltaire, to the French Academy, Read at Their Last Public Assembly on the Festival of St. Louis, August 23, 1776.”, in [anonymous], transl., edited by W[illiam] Kenrick, The London Review of English and Foreign Literature, volume IV, London: […] T[homas] Evans, […], →OCLC, page 511

Instead of attempting to translate the terms of Roman bibliopoly, many of which are ill-understood, and all of which would sound harsh in English poetry, I have, in common I believe with all translators, described his writings as in a modern book.

1821, George Lamb, “Notes to Vol. I”, in Caius Valerius Catullus, translated by George Lamb, The Poems of Caius Valerius Catullus Translated. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 145

We have heard similar complaints (at least as far as the book trade is concerned) from the highest quarters of bibliopoly.

1831 August, O. Y., “An Apology for a Preface to Our Fourth Volume”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume IV, number XIX, London: James Fraser […], →OCLC, footnote *, page 4

Great as was the success—and its sale was almost unprecedented in the annals of Russian bibliopoly, the career of the "Polar Star" was exceedingly brief, as it did not extend beyond its third volume.

1836, “Art. IX.—Poliarnya Zvœsdà; Severnie Tzvœti; Nevsky Almanakh, &c. &c. The Polar Star; Northern Flowers; Neva Almanack, &c. &c.—Russian Annuals and Literary Pocket Books.”, in The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume XVI, number XXXII, London: Adolphus Richter & Co. (late Treuttel and Wurtz, and Richter,) […]); Black and Armstrong, […], →OCLC, page 446

There are as good fish in that buccaneering sea of Bibliopoly as ever were caught, and if one of them have broken away from your harpoon, I hope the net may prove a downright Kraken on whom, if needful, you can pitch your tent and live.

1853 December 5, Bliss Perry, quoting James Russell Lowell, “The Editor who was Never the Editor”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics, volume C, number 5, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], published November 1907, →OCLC, page 664, column 2