Oct 14, 2021 - Sale 2582

Sale 2582 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847)
The Bibliomania; or, Book Madness.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme by Savage, 1809.



First edition, large octavo, title page printed in red and black with woodcut vignette based on Brant's foolish book collector, untrimmed, some spotting to contents, ex libris George Richard Mackarness (1823-1883), the Bishop of Argyll, with his bookplate; half calf, front board detached, 9 x 5 1/2 in.