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The bibliomania; or, Book-madness. History, symptoms and cure of this fatal disease.

Title: The bibliomania; or, Book-madness. History, symptoms and cure of this fatal disease. By Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
Author: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847.
Publication: Boston, The Bibliophile Society, 1903.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP (Bibliophile) (Dibdin, T. F. Bibliomania)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

4 v. front.; 4to.

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Note

One of 483 copies; all over-sheets destroyed.
Printed and electrotyped by the Heintzemann Press, Boston.
Includes an introduction by Richard Garnett, and an essay on "Rare books and their values," by William P. Cutter.
Frontispieces, etched by W.H.W. Bicknell after the oil paintings made by Howard Pyle for the Society; in two printings, on Japanese vellum, remarque proof, and on Holland paper, without remarque.

Call Number

*KP (Bibliophile) (Dibdin, T. F. Bibliomania)

OCLC

779269

Author

Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847.

Title

The bibliomania; or, Book-madness. History, symptoms and cure of this fatal disease. By Thomas Frognall Dibdin.

Imprint

Boston, The Bibliophile Society, 1903.

Local Note

Copy 1: Draper Collection.

Copy 2: Extra illustrated with 60 marginal water-color drawings (v.1-3).

Copy 2: Binding of bluish-gray morocco, gilt, with floral design, gilt with inlays of colored morocco.

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Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906.

Cutter, W. P. (William Parker), 1867-1935.

Pyle, Howard. Illustrator

Bicknell, W. H. W. Illustrator

Bibliophile Society (Boston, Mass.)

Draper Collection.

Research Call Number

*KP (Bibliophile) (Dibdin, T. F. Bibliomania)