The edition is thus separated into its thousand books, which the Collator goes over to see that each is perfect.
"The Booklover and His Books"
Harry Lyman Koopman
The duty of a Collator is indeed dull, yet, like other tedious tasks, is very necessary; but an emendatory critick would ill discharge his duty, without qualities very different from dulness.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist, and the laborious Collator at some unlucky moment frolicks in conjecture.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith