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Meaning of GRANGERISM

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Gran"ger*ism\, n. [So called from the Rev. James
Granger, whose ``Biographical History of England'' (1769) was
a favorite book for illustration in this manner.]
The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings
collected from other books.
 

 

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