Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Bibliomania; orBook-Madness, by Thomas Frognall DibdinThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: Bibliomania; or Book-MadnessA Bibliographical RomanceAuthor: Thomas Frognall DibdinRelease Date: April 8, 2009 [eBook #28540]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BIBLIOMANIA; OR BOOK-MADNESS*** E-text prepared by Suzanne Lybarger, Brian Janes, Linda Cantoni,and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team(http://www.pgdp.net) Transcriber's NotesThomas Frognall Dibdin's Bibliomania was originally published in 1809 and was re-issued in several editions,including one published by Chatto & Windus in 1876. This e-book was prepared from a reprint of the 1876 edition,published by Thoemmes Press and Kinokuniya Company Ltd. in 1997. Where the reprint was unclear, thetranscriber consulted the actual 1876 edition. All color images were scanned from the 1876 edition.The original contains numerous footnotes, denoted by numbers in the section entitled The Bibliomania, and bysymbols in the remainder of the book. All of the footnotes are consecutively numbered in this e-book; footnoteswithin footnotes are lettered.Some phrases are rendered in the original in ...