biblioklept

noun

1. A person who steals books.

   rare

   Thus Libri, who was the greatest of Biblioklepts, rescued many of the books he stole from dirt and misuse, and had them bound royally in purple and scarlet.

Where it comes from

From biblio- (“book”) + Ancient Greek κλέπτης (kléptēs, “thief”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry biblioklept (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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