antiquary

James, the English antiquary and ghost-story writer, to whose work I am devoted.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2021

Yet Irwin is hardly a dry-as-dust antiquary, and “Wonders Will Never Cease” frequently reveals the wide range of his reading: His description of the world’s end was obviously adapted from H.G.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2017

Hingley writes of the 19th-century Newcastle antiquary John Clayton, who bought as much as he could of the land through which Hadrian's wall ran, and rebuilt tracts of it.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2013

Among the many strange sights that evening were parliamentary records being flung from windows, while the antiquary Thomas Phillipps ran about picking them up from the cobbles.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012

He adds that John Leland, the antiquary, had a brother John, and that John White, Bishop of Winchester 1556-1560, was brother to Sir John White, Knight, Lord Mayor in 1563.

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley

With knowledge under siege, antiquaries of that time were the last defense against the destruction of books.

From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2020

Wilson structures “A Magical World” as essentially a series of lightly sketched biographies of the era’s most prominent theologians, philosophers, physicians, cosmographers and antiquaries.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2018

The gentry on whose lands it stood – some of whom were important antiquaries, collecting and preserving the inscribed stones that were found along it – were beginning to make serious money from coal and steel.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2013

For centuries "stained drawings" had been the approved means for antiquaries, topographers and military men to map the lie of the land.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2011

Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiqua rian literature.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster