1. Illustrations, engravings, or other printed images cut from books or periodicals and inserted into blank spaces or margins of other books, typically as a form of decoration or annotation.
Usage: plural form; historical; named after James Granger, an 18th-century English clergyman who popularized the practice

Examples

• The collector filled the margins of her antique volume with grangerisms from contemporary newspapers.
• Grangerisms were a popular hobby among Victorian book enthusiasts who wanted to personalize their libraries.
• The practice of adding grangerisms to books became so widespread that it damaged many valuable first editions.
• He carefully selected grangerisms to complement the text of his leather-bound history book.