[DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL.] Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book Trade . . . By Mercurius Rusticus [pseud.]. Erratum slip at page 16; without the publisher's slip at page 90. 8vo, original boards

[DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL.] Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book Trade . . . By Mercurius Rusticus [pseud.]. Erratum slip at page 16; without the publisher's slip at page 90. 8vo, original boards with front-cover label, spine rubbed, chipped at top, rear joint starting. With later handwritten key to pseudonymous characters in the book laid in. Bookplate of John Platt of Clifton Lodge, Llandudno. London, 1832 E400-600 FIRST EDITION, regular issue (the accompanying letter notwithstanding). INSCRIBED: "John Rawlinson, Esq. From Mercurius Rusticus," AND WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED with Dibdin's monogram(in full): "My dear Sir Finding that I have no copy of the Bibliophobia upon small paper, I shall be forced to compel you to put up with a large paper copy of that capricious but original performance. It was written-'calamo currentissimo.' Yours from TFD." One page with Rawlinson's address on verso, small 4to. Np, 22 May 1832.