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BIBLIOPHOBIA
REMARKS ON THE PRESENT LANGUID AND DEPRESSED STATE OF LITERATURE AND THE BOOK TRADE. IN A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE AUTHOR OF THE BIBLIOMANIA |
| By: |
Thomas Frognall Dibdin |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
110801559X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781108015592 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
| Pub. date: |
24 June, 2010 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries |
| Pages: |
108 |
| Description: |
In Dibdin's 1832 pamphlet, the narrator embarks upon a journey from booksellers to libraries, to seek the traces of 'bibliomania'. |
| Synopsis: |
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' - gained popularity with the publication of Dibdin's book, in which bibliophiles conduct dialogues on the nature and history of book collecting, and the symptoms of and possible remedies for this 'fatal disease'. Published in 1832 under the pseudonym Mercurius Rusticus, Bibliophobia is a short pamphlet, which presents itself as a letter to the author of Bibliomania. The narrator, a book-lover himself, goes on a 'bibliopolistic pilgrimage', only to find out that 'bibliomania is no more', and that 'books are only the shadow of what they were'. From book-lovers to collectors, and from booksellers to libraries, the narrator carries out his entertaining yet melancholic investigation all the way to the Bodleian Library. |
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black & white illustrations |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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