typomania

Noun

typomania (uncountable)

1. enthusiasm for typography
   • One of the most virulent cases of typomania was that of the man who, some ten years ago, inveigled his fiancee to go to Washington to be married in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving because he considered it the most appropriate setting […]1938, New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art, page 27
   • When typomania strikes, sooner or later the victim is seized with an irresistible urge to print a display of the types he holds — perhaps on a single sheet, perhaps in a series of typecards.1986, Small Printer, volume 22, page 35
2. obsession with being published or writing for publication
   • We have all smiled over the account of how Dr. Holland, on seeing his first printed poem in the Youth's Companion, "walked on air;" and all those who have ever been afflicted with even the mildest form of that disease which Dr. Holland has characterized as "typomania," have slyly hugged their...1886, The Disciple, volume 3, page 626
   • At the same time a wandering minstrel named W. Dawson found enough encouragement among the starchy old Revolutionary heroes to enable him to publish a "Political and Literary Miscellany" which he called the Intelligencer. It was on the Western Statesman of Lawrenceburg under Gregg that Augustus...1918, A History of Indiana: From 1850 to the present, page 1101