BIBLIOMANIA • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Bibliomania

... opening on a patch of turf not much larger than itself, and the aspect of the place was on the whole sombrous. The walls were entirely clothed with books; most of them folios and quartos, and all in that complete state of repair which at a glance reveals a tinge of bibliomania. A dozen volumes or so, needful for immediate purposes of reference, were placed close by him on a small movable frame—something like a dumb-waiter. All the rest were in their proper niches, and wherever a volume had been lent, its room was occupied by a wooden block of ...

— Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) • John Gibson Lockhart