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What does grangerizing mean?

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  1. present participle of grangerize
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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.
This process, known as grangerizing, came to mean any book that was rebound into a different edition with new additional prints, letters, or other memorabilia.
As well, the practice of grangerizing or extra-illustrating published books was popular from the mid-eighteenth century to the early-twentieth century.
Once conceived, grangerizing came to include books that were disbound and rebound with added illustrations, letters, autographs or other additions.
Once the library of a bibliophile was not thought complete without examples of the art of grangerizing or privately illustrated illustrated books.
Because many books were robbed of steel engravings to put into Granger's history, such mutilation came to be known as grangerizing.

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