Citations:bookling


 * 1826 — The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Science. &c., Volume 10, Number 502, 2 September 1826, page 553:
 * A bit of a bookling of some thirty pages, but one of great utility, inasmuch as it contains Tables by which the value of cattle, grain, &c., &c., may be ascertained at a glance, with the utmost ease and near approach to extreme accuracy.
 * 1859 — Anthony Trollope, The Bertrams, Chapman & Hall (1859), Volume II, Chapter III:
 * The book—or bookling, for it consisted but of one small demy-octavo volume—was not such as delighted his friends either at Littlebath or at Oxford, or even at those two Hampshire parsonages.
 * 1864 — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Sr., Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster, Edmonston and Douglas (1864), pages 84-85:
 * Taking the Tauchnitz standard price as regards the mere ancient text, I should say there was about two pennyworth of Greek in the bookling I have in view: the notes might possibly be worth a penny, and a paper-cover might be got for the fraction of a farthing. The book in question, to the disgrace of the publisher or purchaser, costs four shillings and sixpence. I would rather publish the classics than teach them.
 * 1869 — William Ballantyne Hodgson, The Education of Girls and the Employment of Women of the Upper Classes Educationally Considered, Trübner & Co. (1869), page 67:
 * "I assert that a good Latin grammar might be limited to twenty-four pages, and sold, with a large profit, for sixpence! and that this bookling, with an extra outlay of half-a-crown, might, with a competent master, carry scholars over two years of work.
 * 1890 — John Kerr, The History of Curling and Fifty Years of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, David Douglas (1890), page 282:
 * With the progress of the club the Annual has kept step, its first number (1839) being a "tiny bookling" of 48 pages, of which 300 copies were printed; its last (1889), a formidable 442 pages, of which 4000 copies were printed and supplied to the affiliated clubs.
 * 1890 — "The Lightness of Books and Their Form", The Bookmart, Volume 7, Number 82, March 1890:
 * Then the proud, who love to see large octavos and duodecimos in vain bindings on their shelves, may have their fancy's fill, while to every sincere lover of literature shall be given his little light bookling, to be read abed, or lounged with in an easy-chair, or to be unpocketed for a taste of its sweetness in city car or cab, or upon still country by-paths.
 * 1899 — Edmund Gosse, The Life and Letters of John Donne, Dodd, Mead and Company (1899), Volume I, page 254:
 * To the next of Donne's publications his critics and biographers have hitherto given less attention than it deserves. The Conclave Ignatii, of which only two copies are known to exist, has been treated as "a bookling of little merit," and has not been carefully enough examined for biographical matter.
 * 1899 — G. F. Monkshood (pseudonym of William James Clarke), Rudyard Kipling: An Attempt at Appreciation, Greening & Co. (1899), page 65:
 * By Kiplingites, "Echoes" is understood to be a bookling of poetic parodies.
 * 1973 — Lance Salway, A Peculiar Gift: Nineteenth Century Writings on Books for Children, Kestral Books (1976), ISBN 9780722651407, page 257:
 * That the bookling, which is delightfully printed and produced, is likely to be delivered over to the tiny folk for whose pastime it is made we hesitate to believe.
 * 2000 — Martin Levin, "The ugly bookling", The Globe and Mail, 15 January 2000:
 * Here's a nasty little publishing trendlet: the appearance of teeny-tiny books, or booklings.
 * 2002 — Jeffrey A. Lilly, The Last Carnival, iUniverse (2002), ISBN 0595246923, page 209:
 * Led by a group of distinguished ("from what?") movie producers, one of them even had a bookling deposited on the syllabubus: MAKING AMERICA BEAUTIFUL, a silky tractoid of an ars filmica americana.
 * 2009 — Jason Emerson, Lincoln the Inventor, Southern Illinois University Press (2009), ISBN 9780809328987, page xiii:
 * So, in harkening to a generations-old practice, I offer this little bookling as a succinct (and yet hopefully substantial) study of an overlooked aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life.