1693, W. Robertson, Phraseologia Generalis, A Battledore boy or Horn-book-boy.
1903, G.A. Natesan, The Indian Review: A Monthly Journal, Volume 4, His first situation was as book-boy in the library of the Bristol Law Society.
1997, William Hughes Mulligan, Mulligan's Law: The Wit and Wisdom of William Hughes Mulligan, While a student at Fordham Law School I was indentured to the Association as a book-boy at Vesey Street charged with the responsibility of shelving the books in the south reading toom.
