Shelfmark
En.3.17
Author
Title
Bibliomania ; or, Book-madness : a bibliographical romance. Illustrated with cuts. / by Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Book-madness
Edition
New and improved ed. / to which are added preliminary observations, and a supplement including a key to the assumed characters in the drama.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly., MDCCCCLXXVI. [1876]
Physical description
xviii, 63, 618, xxxiv p. : ill., ports. (engr. front.); 26 cm.
Note
Frontispiece is an engraved portrait of the author -- inserted between pp. [i] and [ii].
Note
With a dedication to the Earl of Powis, president of the Roxburgh Club -- p. [v].
Note
Includes reprinted t.p. from the first edition, 1809.
Note
Half-title, with illustration and epigram on verso.
Note
Includes index.
Provenance
Booklabel of Eton College Library.
Binding
Contemporary green quarter morocco; mauve patterned-sand grain paper on boards; gold tooled title on spine; brown and blue marbled endpapers.
Subject
Subject
Bibliography.
Subject
Book collecting.
Subject
Bibliomania.
Added entry--name
Powis, Edward James Herbert, 1818 - 1891 Earl of, dedicatee.
Added entry--name
Freeman, Samuel, 1773 - 1857 engraver.
Added entry--name
Phillips, Thomas artist.
Added entry--name
Thomson, James, 1700 - 1748 engraver.
Added entry--place
England London
Identifier
B32397