grangerize

present singular third person grangerizes · participle present grangerizing · participle past grangerized · past grangerized · alternative UK grangerise

1. intransitiveTo illustrate (a book) with material such as images taken from other published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
2. transitiveTo illustrate with material taken from published sources.

   He was a large, loose, fattish man with unintelligent brown eyes magnified by spectacles; he wore an ill-fitting frock-coat and a paper collar, and he showed me, as his great treasure and interest, a large Bible which he had grangerised with photographs of pictures.

   1908, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “How I Became a London Student and Went Astray”, in Tono-Bungay […], Toronto, Ont.: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd., →OCLC, 2nd book (The Rise of Tono-Bungay)

3. transitiveTo remove material, especially images, from a publication.

   In fifty cases out of a hundred, booksellers who make grangerizing a speciality find it pays far better to break up an illustrated book than to sell it intact.

   1895, William Roberts, The book-hunter in London: historical and other studies of collectors and collecting. With numerous portraits and illustrations

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   In more recent years many finely illustrated books (such as Audubon's The Birds of America and Bartolozzi's fine engravings of Holbein's portraits), together with books of many modern artists, have been grangerized for their individual prints.

   1986, American book collector, volume 7