The Bibliomania, or, book-madness; a bibliographical romance. Illustrated with cuts. New and improved edition, to which are now added preliminary observations, and a supplement including a key to the assumed characters in the drama.: 2 volumes in 1. One of 500 copies printed.

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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