Additions to Bibliotheca Spenceriana (also reissued in this series) and detailed descriptions of the interiors of Althorp, published in 1822.[...]
Bibliomania, the almost obsessive collecting of rare books and early editions by the aristocracy, which peaked in 1812 with the sale of the Valdarfer Boccaccio, was fuelled in no small part by the work of the bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847). As well as serving as librarian for his p[...]