1842 M.D.'s Daughter I. v. 93 Oh thin 'tis joyed I am, Miss Grace, to have the honour of presinting you this booky, this morning, while the freshness o' the vargin dew is a-moistcnin' of it.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) i. 2 ‘We have made her a bow-pot.’ ‘Say a bouquet, sister Jemima, 'tis more genteel.’ ‘Well, a booky as big almost as a hay-stack.’

1868 M. C. Houstoun Sink or Swim I iii. 51 Among the most suggestive of these eccentricities was the purchase in London of a ‘booky’ of hothouse flowers, and the driving of his big black horse.

1958 N. Marsh Singing in Shrouds iv. 70 Well on our silver wedding some of the gentlemen from Mr Cuddy's Lodge brought us a gorgeous mixed booky of hot-house flowers.

1708 J. Ozell tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin v. 94 Poor Ev'rard Sinks beneath a Booky Show'r; Twelves, Quartos, Folios, and Octavos pour.

1832 J. K. Paulding Westward Ho! I. xiii. 194 You're one of the booky fellers, that think on one thing while they are talking about another.

1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xlvii. 554 Lessons in morals..which come, not of booky teaching, but of experience.

1884 G. Allen Strange Stories 105 Gladys was clever too, though not booky.

1941 J. Masefield Gautama 13 Basil Blackwell's shop..within whose booky house Half England's scholars nibble books or browse.

2005 N. Hornby Long Way Down 52 You say to yourself, OK, I'm a booky person, so then you go and get some books from the library and carry them around for a while.