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DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL. The Bibliographical Decameron; or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects connected with
DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL. The Bibliographical Decameron; or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects connected with Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliography. 38 plates; numerous text illustrations, including many mounted India proofs. Half-titles. Imprint leaf at end of Volumes 1 and 3; errata leaf at end of Volumes 2 and 3. 3 volumes. 8vo, later 19th-century 1/2 morocco gilt, spines faded and rubbed; contents variously foxed, some heavy offsetting from illustrations. London, 1817
- Notes: first edition. In this copy of Volume 1 the plate issued after publication to face page cxlii is absent as usual, while a plate not called for in the plate list ("[in] principio erat verbu[m]") is bound opposite page lxxxv. Bigmore & Wyman I, 169 ("one of the monuments of typographical bibliography"); Jackson 40 ("perhaps the most lavish of all Dibdin's works"); Updike II, 190 ("one of the most successful typographical achievements of the early nineteenth century"); Windle & Pippin A28.
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