grangerize
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- grangerise (mostly UK)
Etymology
[edit]From Granger + -ize, after James Granger, an 18th-century English biographer. Granger's Biographical History of England (1769) included areas for readers to illustrate the pages.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]grangerize (third-person singular simple present grangerizes, present participle grangerizing, simple past and past participle grangerized)
- (intransitive) To illustrate (a book) with material such as images taken from other published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
- (transitive) To illustrate with material taken from published sources.
- 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):
- 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.
- (transitive) To remove material, especially images, from a publication.
- 1895, William Roberts, The book-hunter in London: historical and other studies of collectors and collecting. With numerous portraits and illustrations:
- 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.
- 1986, American book collector, volume 7:
- 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.