Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance

When the poetical Epistle of Dr. Ferriar, under the popular title of "THE BIBLIOMANIA," was announced for publication, I honestly confess that, in common with many of my book-lo...

his Variorum edition of Pope's Works, and thence copied into the recent edition of the same by the Rev. W.L. Bowles. But PEMBROKE deserved a more particular notice. Exclusively...

It was on a fine autumnal evening, when the sun was setting serenely behind a thick copse upon a distant hill, and his warm tints were lighting up a magnificent and widely-exten...

Condemn the daies of elders great or small, And then blurre out the course of present tyme: Cast one age down, and so doe orethrow all, And burne the bookes of printed prose or...

Gottingen; the other, by Badius Ascensius, is somewhat more commonly known. A century elapsed before this work was deemed deserving of republication; when the country that had g...

"As to the late method used in selling books by AUCTION in London, I suppose that many have paid dear for their experience in this way--it being apparent that most books bought...

----Wisdom loves This seat serene, and Virtue's self approves:-- Here come the griev'd, a change of thought to find; The curious here, to feed a craving mind: Here the devout, t...

Volatile as the reader may comceive [Transcriber's Note: conceive] the character of Lisardo to be, there were traits in it of marked goodness and merit. His enthusiasm so freque...

History of Engl. Poetry, vol. i., 347. It was printed, as well as the subsequent editions of 1488, and 1528, "with some deviations from the original, and even misrepresentations...

3275. Thomas of Arundel, his Legend in old English verse; VII parts, with the Entre, or Prologue: _written A.D. M.C.VII. upon vellum, the Capitals illuminated_, fol. Here follow...

295. Cicero de Officiis, C.T. F.D. _Moguntiae ap. Fust._ 1465. 4to. In hoc exemplari Rubrica inter libros secundum ac tertium habet singularia errata, quae in nullo alio exempla...

["There are cuts to the Revelations, different from any Mr. Herbert had seen; nor had he seen the book itself, till he was writing his 'Corrections and additions,' where, at p....

57. Observations on Authors, Ancient and Modern, 2 vol. Lond. 1731-2. "This was Dr. Jortin's own copy, who has written the name of each author to every piece of criticism, and a...

_deceased_. Hydrographer to the Board of Admiralty, and the Hon. East India Company, &c., sold by auction by King and Lochee, May 29, 1809, 8vo.--7190 articles: _A Catalogue, &c...

"One saith this booke is too long: another, too short: the third, of due length; and for fine phrase and style, the like [of] that booke was not made a great while. It is all li...

strengthen his assertion in calling the edition "_fort rare_." The reprint, or spurious edition, has always struck me as the prettier book of the two. These examples appeared in...

The scenery and the dialogue of this Part are more especially _Waltonian_. The characters are few; but LYSANDER must of necessity be the Author--as he is the principal actor in...

This portion of the "Bibliomania," embracing about fourscore pages, contains a _Precis_, or review of the more popular works, then extant, upon BIBLIOGRAPHY. It forms an immense...

We are here introduced into one of the most bustling and spirit-stirring portions of the whole Work. It is full of characters--alas! now, with only _two_ exceptions, mouldering...

This is one of the rarest books in the class of British Topography. The first part was never printed, it has therefore no general title. A copy is in the library of the Right Ho...

At the end of the Volume there is a Tract by Gascoigne, entitled "Certain Notes of Instruction concerning the Making of verses, or Rimes, in English." The Tract is not mentioned...

This Part embraces the _History of Literature_, in the formation of Libraries, from the Conquest to the commencement of the reign of Henry VIII., and undoubtedly contains much t...

This Part is a copious continuation of the History of Book Collectors and Collections up to the year 1810. There is nothing to add in the way of CHARACTER; and the subject itsel...

A word only:--and that respecting _Illustrated Copies_. Leaving Mr. Windus in full possession of his Raphael Morghens, William Woollets, William Sharpes, &c.--and allowing him t...