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DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL. Bibliomania; or, Book Madness: A Bibliographical Romance. 3 (of 5) plates, comprising mounted India proof engraved frontispiece portrait of Dibdin and engraved plate of Luther and Melanchthon in Volume 1, and engraved frontispiece portrait of Benjamin Heath in Volume 2; lacks the engraved limitation leaf and the plate of The Cave of Despair. Half-titles. 2 volumes. Large 8vo, 270x180 mm, 19th-century gilt-panelled red morocco by Hayday & Co., spines and joints worn; scattered light foxing. London, 1842
first combined edition, reprinting the 1809 and 1811 editions.large-paper issue, limited to fifty (or fifty-five?) copies, out of an edition of 500. Jackson 19; Windle & Pippin A11d (noting that the plates are seldom all present).
