Bibliomania; or Book-Madness (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Bibliographical RomanceBy Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Length22h 42m
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Thomas Frognall Dibdin's Bibliomania; or Book-Madness is at once a history, taxonomy, and theatrical celebration of obsessive book collecting. First published in 1809 and substantially expanded in 1811, it combines dialogues, anecdotes, bibliographical notices, imagined cases, and literary quotation to portray the bibliomaniac as both comic eccentric and participant in a serious intellectual culture. Its learned miscellany ranges across early printing, illuminated manuscripts, rare editions, auctions, libraries, and the pleasures of textual possession. Written in an ornate, allusive style that deliberately mingles satire with antiquarian enthusiasm, the work belongs to the Romantic-era revival of medieval and Renaissance taste and to the emergence of bibliography as a specialized scholarly pursuit. Dibdin's subject is therefore not merely books, but the social identities, institutions, and passions formed around them. An Anglican clergyman, bibliographer, and indefatigable collector, Dibdin was deeply embedded in the early nineteenth-century world of private libraries, booksellers, auctions, and bibliophilic societies. His experience producing works such as Typographical Antiquities, together with his association with the Roxburghe Club and leading collectors, furnished the practical knowledge and comic observation that animate this volume. Bibliomania reflects both admiration for this expanding culture of connoisseurship and anxiety about its extravagances, especially the transformation of scholarship into status and acquisition. This book will reward readers interested in book history, collecting, print culture, literary sociability, and the formation of modern bibliographical knowledge. It is especially valuable for showing how nineteenth-century readers imagined their own relationship to the material book: critically, affectionately, and with self-conscious humor.
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Length22 hrs 42 mins
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Publish dateAug 10, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Synopsis
3Historical Context
4The Bibliomania.
5POSTSCRIPT.
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6PART I. The Evening Walk.
7ON THE RIGHT USES OF LITERATURE.
8The Evening Walk.
9ON THE RIGHT USES OF LITERATURE.
10OUTLINE OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY.
11The Cabinet.
12OUTLINE OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY.
13CHARACTER OF ORLANDO. OF ANCIENT PRICES OF BOOKS, AND BOOK-BINDING. BOOK-AUCTION BIBLIOMANIACS.
14The Auction Room.
15CHARACTER OF ORLANDO. OF ANCIENT PRICES OF BOOKS, AND BOOK-BINDING. BOOK AUCTION BIBLIOMANIACS.
16DR. HENRY’S HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN. A GAME AT CHESS.—OF MONACHISM AND CHIVALRY. DINNER AT LORENZO’S. SOME ACCOUNT OF BOOK-COLLECTORS IN ENGLAND.
17The Library.
18DR. HENRY’S HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN. A GAME OF CHESS.—OF MONACHISM AND CHIVALRY. DINNER AT LORENZO’S. SOME ACCOUNT OF BOOK-COLLECTORS IN ENGLAND.
19HISTORY OF THE BIBLIOMANIA, OR ACCOUNT OF BOOK COLLECTORS, CONCLUDED.
20The Drawing Room.
21HISTORY OF THE BIBLIOMANIA, OR ACCOUNT OF BOOK-COLLECTORS, CONTINUED. (pt. 1)
22HISTORY OF THE BIBLIOMANIA, OR ACCOUNT OF BOOK-COLLECTORS, CONTINUED. (pt. 2)
23HISTORY OF THE BIBLIOMANIA, OR ACCOUNT OF BOOK-COLLECTORS, CONTINUED. (pt. 3)
24HISTORY OF THE BIBLIOMANIA, OR ACCOUNT OF BOOK-COLLECTORS, CONTINUED. (pt. 4)
25SYMPTOMS OF THE BIBLIOMANIA.——PROBABLE MEANS OF ITS CURE.
26The Alcove.
27SYMPTOMS OF THE BIBLIOMANIA.——PROBABLE MEANS OF ITS CURE. (pt. 1)
28SYMPTOMS OF THE BIBLIOMANIA.——PROBABLE MEANS OF ITS CURE. (pt. 2)
29SUPPLEMENT.
30THE SUPPLEMENT. PART I.
31THE EVENING WALK.
32PART II.
33THE CABINET.
34PART III.
35THE AUCTION-ROOM.
36PART IV.
37THE LIBRARY.
38PART V.
39THE DRAWING-ROOM.
40PART VI.
41THE ALCOVE.
42Illustrated Copies.
43INDEXES.
44CHRONOLOGICAL, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL, AND GENERAL.
45CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX.
46Lovers and Collectors of Books in Great Britain.
47BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
48GENERAL INDEX.
49Analysis
50Reflection
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