DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall.

The Bibliographical Decameron; or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts and Subjects connected with Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliography.

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37 plates (see below) & numerous engravings pasted in the text. Three vols. Large 8vo, cont. vellumover boards (short crack at head of upper joint of Vol. I, some offsetting from plates), sides elaborately panelled in gilt, crown & globe gilt stamps in the corners, central diamond shaped pointillé cartouche, spines elaborately gilt, a.e.g. London: Printed for the Author, 1817. First edition, and an extremely attractive set, of "perhaps the most lavish of all Dibdin's works...Its publication was a financial success and doubtless marks the high-water mark of the Dibdinian bibliomania."­Jackson 40. As is almost always the case, plate 9 in the first volume is lacking (see Windle & Pippin A28). The Thomas Payne plate in Vol. III is in the third state. Signature of Sarah Tyrconnel on each title and with the bookplate of her husband, John Delaval Carpenter (1790-1853), Earl of Tyrconnel. Bookplate of Lord Wardington.

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