grangerism

1. the augmentation of the illustrative material in a book by prints, sketches, and engravings not found in the original edition.
2. the mutilation of books to acquire extra illustrative materials. — grangerize, v.

See also: Agriculture

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The barbed-wire patentees chose courts and judges carefully, while privately expressing fear that "[t]he political agitation of demagogues in inciting the farmer, is beginning to tell upon the Court." (407) The Bell telephone interests lived in fear of a judge with "any taint of grangerism or any political bee in his bonnet." (408) Henry Wallace, a leading agricultural journalist and organizer of the Farmers' Protective Association against the barbed-wire patent, opined in 1888:

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This is known as Grangerism, a Victorian practice of illustrating a particular book with engravings torn from other books.

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Scott, "Grangerism in Champaign County, Illinois, 1873-1877," Mid-America: An Historical Review 43:3 (July 1961): 139-63.

Reversing the curse: agricultural millennialism at the Illinois Industrial University (1)

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