book learning

He was very fond of book-learning, which, they say, was an uncommon taste in those times.

You cannot pronounce the word, he told me; but by it you have been enchanted: this, and not book-learning, has worked the change.

We have ceased to take the narrow view that it consists only in book-learning and aptness with the pen.

He is very backward in his book-learning, cannot write at all, and a very lame reader.