Search Results: bibliomania or book madness by thomas frognall dibdin

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Boston:: Bibliophile Society,. Very Good. 1903. Hardcover. B00A6D0JMU . Volume I only. Limited edition of 483 copies. Moderate shelf wear and aging, else very good in green, marbled paper covered boards with gilt lettering and design on the spine. ; 273 pages .

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Chatto & Windus. Used - Good. 1876. Hardcover. Stout 8vo., 617 pp. (+ index)., illus. Rebound in black and red cloth, with gilt stamped titles on spine. Internally mostly very good, with some pages rather brittle. Title page, back FEP, and p. xxix detached but present. Approx. 6-in. closed tear to p xxxi. A good working copy, neatly rebound. Good.

Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme 1809. REBOUND- different text from much expanded 1811 edition, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, iv + 87pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to spine & board extrems, moderate tanning to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps with moderate pencil annotations to front eps, age appropriate foxing/discolouration to pages)

8vo., [8], xiv, 618, 64, plus indexes, [4] pages.Full leather binding with five raised bands and gilt title. Inner gilt dentelles with marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Leather to joints, leading edges of boards, and corners rubbed with marginal loss on corners. Corners bumped. Minor scratching and indents to boards without loss. Light foxing for first +/-30 pages and sporadically to a few subsequent pages. Heavy foxing to rear end-paper and final page of indexes. Otherwise text very clean. Very good condition except for defects reported.
Three plates present of the four for regular copies listed by Windle & Pippin "seldom all present in regular or large-paper copies" (Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1776-1847 A Bibliography, New Castle, Oak Knoll Press, 1999, p.42) – missing the frontispiece portrait of Dibdin. The cuts at pp. 250, 254, and 484 are on india paper which Windle & Pippin note are "sometimes found" in copies (ibid. p,43).
One of 500 copies printed.
Windle & Pippin A11d.
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Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London, 1809. Hardback, half-morocco over marbled paper covered boards. Aeg. 22 x 14.5cm. Vignette title in red and black. iv, 87pp, [1] ads. Portrairt frontis. First edition. Red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown. A closed tear to a couple of early leaves, nicely restored. Slightest wear to extremities. A very good copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1809. FIRST EDITION. Title in black with red. Half calf over linen; preliminary and last leaves foxed, interior and text in generally excellent condition. First edition of this popular book which passed through many later editions. This work was inspired by another, published under the same title, by John Ferrier, M.D. Ferrier had extensive medical experience and did himself suffer from the disease which he named Biblio-Mania. His work, in verse, begins: What wild desires, what restless torments seize The hapless man, who feels the book-disease.Dibdin was the originator and vice-president of the Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812, the first of the numerous book clubs which have done such service to literature.

London: printed for the author, by J. McCreery ... and sold by Messrs. Longman [et al.], 1811. Second edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [3], 275, [1]; [7], 280-782, [2]; engraved title page in volume I, 1 engraved plate, illustrations in the text, decorative page borders at the beginning of each of the six sections of the book; contemporary calf, smooth gilt-decorated spines, black morocco labels, rear joint of volume I cracked (cords ho0lding), upper joint on volume II starting; all else very good. Early ownership signature of Robt. Entwhistle and armorial bookplate of George Montgomery Traherne. A separate issue was printed in imp. 8vo, 2 vols. Lowndes notes that the Bibliomania is written in dialogues or conversations, the characters introduced are well-known book collectors of the author's acquaintance. Jackson identifies these "interlocutors" as J. Rennie, J. Dent, P. Bliss, B. Botfield, Sir F. Freeling, R. Lang, J. North, Lord Aberdeen, J. Markland, Sir G.H. Freeling, R. Wilbraham, and Thomas Hill. Jackson… Read More

, ix, [3], 782, [1] pages, much extended and enlarged second edition of the 1809 work with illustrated head and tailpieces, decorated title pages for each section, decorated capitals, vignette to title page, woodcuts in the text and one plate, complete edition with all six parts