DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL. The Bibliographical Decameron; or, Ten DaysPleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects con- nected with Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliography. 37 plates; numerous text illustrations, many of them

DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL. The Bibliographical Decameron; or, Ten DaysPleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects con- nected with Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliography. 37 plates; numerous text illustrations, many of them mounted India-proofs. Half- titles. Large 8vo, original boards, spines varnished and variously imperfect, Volume 1 front cover loose; contents variously foxed; uncut London, 1817 E800-1200 FIRST EDITION. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with over 90 18th- and 19th-century engravings. Bigmore & Wyman I, 196; Jackson 40 "perhaps the most lavish of all Dibdin's works"); Updike II, 190 ("oneof the most successful typographical achievements of the early 19th century"). WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM DIBDIN tipped in Volume 1, presenting Mr. Dickens with a set of The Bibliographical Decameron in original boards and requesting payment of the balance of his subscription. One page, small 4to. Kensington, 11 December 1817.