Bibliophobia: Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book Trade by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Bibliophobia: Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book Trade

Thomas Frognall Dibdin

108 pages • first pub 1809 (editions)

nonfiction informative slow-paced
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In 1809, Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847) published the first edition of Bibliomania, focussing on the contemporary craze for book collecting. Introduced in English at the end of the eighteenth century, the term 'bibliomania' - or 'book-madness'...

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