WordOfTheDay(30/11/2015)

\BIB-lee-uh-taf, -tahf\

noun 1. a person who caches or hoards books.

Quotes

The late Sir Thomas Phillipps, of Middle Hill, was a remarkable instance of a bibliotaph. He bought bibliographical treasures simply to bury them. His mansion was crammed with books; he purchased whole libraries, and never even saw what he bought. -- William Blades, The Enemies of Books, 1888

Origin

Bibliotaph comes from the Greek terms biblíon meaning "book" and táphos meaning "burial." It entered English in the early 1800s.