Title: Lot of nine volumes Author: Dibdin, T[homas] F[rognall] Place: Mostly London Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: Comprises: The Bibliographical Decameron; or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts... 3 volumes. Illustrated with plates and text illustrations (including mounted plates), some printed in color, one folding plate, one double-page plate. (8vo) 9¾x6, half morocco and marbled boards, top edges gilt. First Edition. London: Printed for the Author; sold by G. & E. Nicol, et al, 1817. This "is perhaps the most lavish of all Dibdin's works...its publication was a financial success and doubtless marks the high-water mark of the Dibdinian bibliomania" (Jackson). Armorial bookplates of James Lesley, Jr. Jackson 40; Windle & Pippin A28. Spines rubbed and dry, corners worn, lower cover of vol. 1 nearly detached; foxing to plates and scattered in text; else very good. * A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland. 2 volumes. Illustrated with plates. (8vo) 9½x5¾, half red morocco and marbled boards, all edges gilt. First Edition. London: Printed for the author and sold by James Bohn. et al. (Upper covers detached, bindings otherwise chipped and worn; waterstain to plates and some foxing, other staining.) * Four modern Dibdin reference works: "A Dialogue in the Shades: Rare Doings at Roxburghe Hall", 1985; Windle & Pippin, "Thomas Frognall Dibdin: A Bibliography", 1999; 2 others. Together, 9 volumes. First editions of two of Dibdin's best-known works; plus a fine collection of Dibdin reference. Lot Amendments Condition: Condition varies; overall about very good. Item number: 165596
Title: Lot of nine volumes Author: Dibdin, T[homas] F[rognall] Place: Mostly London Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: Comprises: The Bibliographical Decameron; or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts... 3 volumes. Illustrated with plates and text illustrations (including mounted plates), some printed in color, one folding plate, one double-page plate. (8vo) 9¾x6, half morocco and marbled boards, top edges gilt. First Edition. London: Printed for the Author; sold by G. & E. Nicol, et al, 1817. This "is perhaps the most lavish of all Dibdin's works...its publication was a financial success and doubtless marks the high-water mark of the Dibdinian bibliomania" (Jackson). Armorial bookplates of James Lesley, Jr. Jackson 40; Windle & Pippin A28. Spines rubbed and dry, corners worn, lower cover of vol. 1 nearly detached; foxing to plates and scattered in text; else very good. * A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland. 2 volumes. Illustrated with plates. (8vo) 9½x5¾, half red morocco and marbled boards, all edges gilt. First Edition. London: Printed for the author and sold by James Bohn. et al. (Upper covers detached, bindings otherwise chipped and worn; waterstain to plates and some foxing, other staining.) * Four modern Dibdin reference works: "A Dialogue in the Shades: Rare Doings at Roxburghe Hall", 1985; Windle & Pippin, "Thomas Frognall Dibdin: A Bibliography", 1999; 2 others. Together, 9 volumes. First editions of two of Dibdin's best-known works; plus a fine collection of Dibdin reference. Lot Amendments Condition: Condition varies; overall about very good. Item number: 165596
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