grangerizing

Verb

grangerize (third-person singular simple present grangerizes, present participle grangerizing, simple past and past participle grangerized)

1. (intransitive) To illustrate (a book) with material such as images taken from other published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
2. (transitive) To illustrate with material taken from published sources.
   • He was a large, loose, fattish man with unintelligent brown eyes magnified by spectacles; he wore an ill-fitting frock-coat and a paper collar, and he showed me, as his great treasure and interest, a large Bible which he had grangerised with photographs of pictures.1908, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “How I Became a London Student and Went Astray”, in Tono-Bungay […], Toronto, Ont.: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd., →OCLC, 2nd book (The Rise of Tono-Bungay)
3. (transitive) To remove material, especially images, from a publication.
   • In fifty cases out of a hundred, booksellers who make grangerizing a speciality find it pays far better to break up an illustrated book than to sell it intact.1895, William Roberts, The book-hunter in London: historical and other studies of collectors and collecting. With numerous portraits and illustrations