Bibliomania, Or, Book-Madness

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… Read more about this item

London:: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme by W. Savage,, 1809.. First edition.. 8vo. Hardcover.. Fine binding modern quarter calf over marbled boards gilt rules at spine ends and gilt black title label. New endpapers. Title page and B1 printed in black and red. Outer margin textblock edges uncut (not uncommon) .A2 & B1 with tiny repair… Read more about this item

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842. New and Improved. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition. The 1842 New and Improved edition, large paper issue. Bound in quarter leather over cloth. Light wear and rubbing to binding, front joint a little weak, scattered minor foxing and spotting internally, light offsetting from engravings here and there, but generally clean and bright.… Read more about this item

Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London, 1809. Hardback, half-morocco over marbled paper covered boards. Aeg. 22 x 14.5cm. Vignette title in red and black. iv, 87pp, [1] ads. Portrairt frontis. First edition. Red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey to upper pastedown. A closed tear to a couple of early leaves, nicely restored. Slightest wear… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme by W. Savage, 1809. First edition. Title vignette. iv, 87, [1, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Circa 1914 full crushed brown morocco, gilt, a.e.g., the rest uncut, by the Booklover's Shop (signed in gilt on front and rear turn-ins "Bound by The Booklovers Shop Cleveland. Hardy Maillard Pilon"). Small paper repair… Read more about this item

Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1903. Four volumes; one of 483 copies. Illustrated with four etchings by W.H. W. Bicknell after paintings by Howard Pyle. A near fine set. [With] Etchings by W.H.W. Bicknell after Original Paintings by Howard Pyle. Large folio; publishers boards with metal clasps; soiled and worn; one of 320 sets. These plates were made in… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1809. FIRST EDITION. Title in black with red. Half calf over linen; preliminary and last leaves foxed, interior and text in generally excellent condition. First edition of this popular book which passed through many later editions. This work was inspired by another, published under the same title, by John Ferrier, M.D. Ferrier had… Read more about this item

Tall thick 8vo. London: Bohn, 1842. Tall thick 8vo, (2), [i-vii], vii-xiv, 618, 63, (1), xxxiii pp. Full pebbled brown morocco with gilt fillet borders, gilt turn-ins, gilt-panelled backstrip, raised bands, gilt top, rebacked retaining original backstrip. Bookplate on front pastedown of Francis Frederick Fox and Charles Sebag-Montefiore. § First combined edition, large paper copy. The book… Read more about this item

Boston: The Bibliophile Society. Very Good+. 1903. Hardcover. Complete in four volumes. One of 483 copies. Green marbled boards. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1811. 19th century quarter calf over marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine label with author and title in gilt, second edition date of 1811 at foot of spine, gilt borders on spine, marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt. 8vo. 19th century quarter calf over marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine label with author… Read more about this item

London: Henry G. Bohn. Very Good-. 1842. New Edition. Hardcover. Several "books" bound together, 618pp, 63pp, postscript and indexes. Bound in full brown Morocco, raised bands, gilt titles, top edge and dentilles, marbled endsheets. Binding is very solid, showing a bit of leather wear at the joints. Previous ownes handsome bookplate on front pastedown, interior pages… Read more about this item

Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1903. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto, Limited wition of 483 sets bound in green and ivory paper over boards. Each with a frontis with an etching by W.H.W. Bicknell after a painting by Howard Pyle. A light abrasion on front cover of volume 4 otherwise a very good sound set. Laid… Read more about this item

London: Privately printed, (1811). Second edition. Greatly expanded from the 1809, 80-page first edition, THIS IS THE VERSION THAT BROUGHT HIM FAME. Two volumes bound in one; this copy with volume II title page (from the large-paper issue) inserted following p.[276], as sometimes seen [Windle A11c]. "...dialogues on books and book-collecting conducted by a set of male characters (many… Read more about this item

Boston:: Bibliophile Society,. Very Good. 1903. Hardcover. B00A6D0JMU . Volume I only. Limited edition of 483 copies. Moderate shelf wear and aging, else very good in green, marbled paper covered boards with gilt lettering and design on the spine. ; 273 pages .

Paperback / softback. New.

, ix, [3], 782, [1] pages, much extended and enlarged second edition of the 1809 work with illustrated head and tailpieces, decorated title pages for each section, decorated capitals, vignette to title page, woodcuts in the text and one plate, complete edition with all six parts

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New. Thomas Frognall Dibdin's entertaining novel on 'book-madness' explores all the aspects of the 'fatal disease' that is obsessive book collecting, in a humorous yet passionate narrative. Based on the revised 1811 edition, this reissue brings back to life Dibdin's bibliomaniac characters, their playful dialogues, and Dibdin's own bibliographical clarifications.

Paperback / softback. New.