DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847). Autograph manuscript, fair copy of his book, An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics (published 1802), with deletions to the sections headed 'Septuagint', 'Greek Testament', and occasionally elsewhere, dated 'Bibliographical Germ 1800' in pencil at end, and with instructions to bind the manuscript 'in calf gilt' pencilled at front, 38 pages, 12mo, including 4 blanks, with further notes on a preliminary leaf , front free endpaper endorsed by Sophia Dibdin, June 1850, 'This Book was written by my late Father the Revd. Thomas Frognall Dibdin and was the germ from which his Classics sprung', contemporary mottled calf gilt, red edges (one page slightly cropped by the binder).
DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847). Autograph manuscript, fair copy of his book, An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics (published 1802), with deletions to the sections headed 'Septuagint', 'Greek Testament', and occasionally elsewhere, dated 'Bibliographical Germ 1800' in pencil at end, and with instructions to bind the manuscript 'in calf gilt' pencilled at front, 38 pages, 12mo, including 4 blanks, with further notes on a preliminary leaf , front free endpaper endorsed by Sophia Dibdin, June 1850, 'This Book was written by my late Father the Revd. Thomas Frognall Dibdin and was the germ from which his Classics sprung', contemporary mottled calf gilt, red edges (one page slightly cropped by the binder). The manuscript for Dibdin's first bibliographical work is aptly described as a 'Bibliographical Germ'. For it contains none of the footnotes which occur in the 63-page first edition of his Introduction to the ... Classics , only the tabulated listings of authors giving editor, place of publication, format, date, and a short comment on value. Some authors listed in the manuscript are omitted from the first edition (Minucius Felix, Silius Italicus, Strabo, Suidas, Teognis, Theophrastus and Valerius Flaccus). Conversely, some works or authors who feature in the first edition are less fully dealt with or omitted from the manuscript (these include Bracton's De Legibus , Cicero, Dion Cassius, L.A. Florus, Herodotus, Hesiod, Homer, and Seneca). Whereas the names of authors are consistently latinised in print, there is some anglicisation of names in the manuscript. Dibdin's comments sometimes change between the two versions. The order of entries also changes in so far as the Delphin Classics, Mattaire's Classics and Barbou's Classics are moved from their position at the start of the manuscript to the end of the printed version, other series of classics are also added, and slight improvements are made to the alphabetical order. A few of the entries which have been deleted from the manuscript nevertheless appear in print. The manuscript is also the germ from which Dibdin's career as a bibliographer blossomed, for his slim publication, reprinted in 1804, 1808 and 1827, introduced him to George John second Earl of Spencer, the possessor of one of the most valuable libraries in the country. If it owed much to the views of Edward Harwood its usefulness as a vade mecum was undoubted, and it gave considerable incentive to collectors and booksellers of the day who frequently quoted from it.
DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847). Autograph manuscript, fair copy of his book, An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics (published 1802), with deletions to the sections headed 'Septuagint', 'Greek Testament', and occasionally elsewhere, dated 'Bibliographical Germ 1800' in pencil at end, and with instructions to bind the manuscript 'in calf gilt' pencilled at front, 38 pages, 12mo, including 4 blanks, with further notes on a preliminary leaf , front free endpaper endorsed by Sophia Dibdin, June 1850, 'This Book was written by my late Father the Revd. Thomas Frognall Dibdin and was the germ from which his Classics sprung', contemporary mottled calf gilt, red edges (one page slightly cropped by the binder).
DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847). Autograph manuscript, fair copy of his book, An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics (published 1802), with deletions to the sections headed 'Septuagint', 'Greek Testament', and occasionally elsewhere, dated 'Bibliographical Germ 1800' in pencil at end, and with instructions to bind the manuscript 'in calf gilt' pencilled at front, 38 pages, 12mo, including 4 blanks, with further notes on a preliminary leaf , front free endpaper endorsed by Sophia Dibdin, June 1850, 'This Book was written by my late Father the Revd. Thomas Frognall Dibdin and was the germ from which his Classics sprung', contemporary mottled calf gilt, red edges (one page slightly cropped by the binder). The manuscript for Dibdin's first bibliographical work is aptly described as a 'Bibliographical Germ'. For it contains none of the footnotes which occur in the 63-page first edition of his Introduction to the ... Classics , only the tabulated listings of authors giving editor, place of publication, format, date, and a short comment on value. Some authors listed in the manuscript are omitted from the first edition (Minucius Felix, Silius Italicus, Strabo, Suidas, Teognis, Theophrastus and Valerius Flaccus). Conversely, some works or authors who feature in the first edition are less fully dealt with or omitted from the manuscript (these include Bracton's De Legibus , Cicero, Dion Cassius, L.A. Florus, Herodotus, Hesiod, Homer, and Seneca). Whereas the names of authors are consistently latinised in print, there is some anglicisation of names in the manuscript. Dibdin's comments sometimes change between the two versions. The order of entries also changes in so far as the Delphin Classics, Mattaire's Classics and Barbou's Classics are moved from their position at the start of the manuscript to the end of the printed version, other series of classics are also added, and slight improvements are made to the alphabetical order. A few of the entries which have been deleted from the manuscript nevertheless appear in print. The manuscript is also the germ from which Dibdin's career as a bibliographer blossomed, for his slim publication, reprinted in 1804, 1808 and 1827, introduced him to George John second Earl of Spencer, the possessor of one of the most valuable libraries in the country. If it owed much to the views of Edward Harwood its usefulness as a vade mecum was undoubted, and it gave considerable incentive to collectors and booksellers of the day who frequently quoted from it.
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