Title: BIBLIOMANIA; | OR | Book Madness: | A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ROMANCE, | IN SIX PARTS. | Illustrated with Cuts. | BY THE REV. | THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN. | {vignette} | INTERIOR OF THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY | I pity all our great ones and rich men that know not this happiness. HEINSIUS. | LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, | By J. McCreery, Blackhorse-court, Fleet-street; | AND SOLD BY MESSRS. LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, | AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. | 1811.||
Pagination: ffl, [i, ii] – ht, frontis., [iii, iv] – t.p., blank, [v]vi-ix – to the reader, [x] – blank, [2] – contents, [1, 2] – part 1 fl. t.p., blank, [3] – woodcut frame and capital I, 4-782 (imprint to p. 782) [2] – errata, blank, bfl; 1 plate op. p. 158.
Collation: [A]6 B-Z8 2A-2Z8, 3A-3B8, 3C-3F4.
Binding: 8vo, 23 x 14 cm, modern full dark brown calf by Period Binders (Bath, England), gilt fillet border to boards, raised bands with gilt ornaments and lettering to spine, pp. 685-688 an open tear in upper 1/8 of lateral margin, all margins marbled.
Substantially revised 1st edition (“so much altered and enlarged, as to assume the character of a new work”).
Author: Thomas Frognall Dibdin (British, 1776 – 1847).
