Accession number
PML 146007-08
Creator
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847.
Published
London: : Printed for the author, by J. M'Creery, Blackhorse-Court, Fleet-Street; and sold by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1811.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"A short time after the publication of the first edition of this work, a very worthy and shrewd bibliomaniac ... exclaimed that 'the book would do, but that there was not gall enough in it' ... It will be evident, on a slight inspection of the present edition, that it is so much altered and enlarged , as to assume the character of a new work."--To the reader, p. [v]-vi.
Paged continuously.
Illustrated throughout with wood engravings by John, Ebenezer, and Mary Byfield. Cf. Windle.
Vol. 1: [2], ix, [5], 275, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [5], 280-782, [2] p.
"Supplement."--p. 747.
Library's copy is one of 18 on large paper, with the added frontispiece portrait of the author in v. 1.
Paged continuously.
Illustrated throughout with wood engravings by John, Ebenezer, and Mary Byfield. Cf. Windle.
Vol. 1: [2], ix, [5], 275, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [5], 280-782, [2] p.
"Supplement."--p. 747.
Library's copy is one of 18 on large paper, with the added frontispiece portrait of the author in v. 1.
Description
2 v. : ill., port. ; 28 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Red morocco tooled in gilt, by Charles Lewis.
Classification
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