Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL. The Bibliographical Decameron; or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects connected with Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliography. 37 plates; numerous text illustrations, including many mounted India proofs. Half-titles. Imprint leaf at end of Volumes 1 and 3; errata leaf in each volume. 3 volumes. 8vo, 239x150 mm, 19th-century gilt-panelled navy morocco by R. W. Smith, joints worn and starting; varying foxing on plates with occasional offsetting onto adjacent leaves, contents otherwise generally clean, Volume 1 with typewritten catalogue slip tipped to verso of title, and short clean tear in 2C4. London, 1817

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first edition. Bigmore & Wyman I, 169 ("one of the monuments of typographical bibliography"); Jackson 40 ("perhaps the most lavish of all Dibdin's works"); Updike II, 190 ("one of the most successful typographical achievements of the early nineteenth century"); Windle & Pippin A28.