um usui multiplici felicitur restituit?"_

T.F.D.

_Kensington, March_ 25, 1811.

[Footnote 2: Catalogus Librorum Rariorum, praef. ix. edit.
1793.]

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CONTENTS.

PART I. THE EVENING WALK.
_On the right uses of Literature_ p. 3-20.

II. THE CABINET.
_Outline of Foreign and Domestic Bibliography_ p. 23-92.

III. THE AUCTION-ROOM.
_Character of Orlando. Of ancient Prices of Books,
and of Book-Binding. Book-Auction Bibliomaniacs_ p. 103-139.

IV. THE LIBRARY.
_Dr. Henry's History of Great Britain. A Game at
Chess. Of Monachism and Chivalry. Dinner at Lorenzo's.
Some Account of Book Collectors in England_ p. 143-207.

V. THE DRAWING ROOM.
_History of the Bibliomania, or Account of Book
Collectors, concluded_ p. 211-463.

VI. THE ALCOVE.
_Symptoms of the Disease called the Bibliomania.
Probable Means of its Cure_ p. 467-565.

SUPPLEMENT.

CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.

GENERAL INDEX.

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PUBLISHED BY THE PROPRIETOR (FOR THE NEW EDITION) OF THE REV. Dr.
DIBDINS BIBLIOMANIA, 1840.

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=The Bibliomania.=

MY DEAR SIR,

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-loving acquaintance, a strong
sensation of fear and of hope possessed me: of fear, that I might have
been accused, however indirectly, of having contributed towards the
increase of this Mania; and of hope, that the true object of
book-collecting, and literary pursuits, might have been fully and
fairly developed. The perusal of this elegant epistle dissipated alike
my fears and my hopes; for, instead of caustic verses, and satirical
notes,[3] I found a smooth, melodious, and persuasive panegyric;
unmixed, however, with any rules for the choice of books, or the
regulation of study.

[Footnote 3: There are, nevertheless, some satirical
allusions which one could have wished had been suppressed.
For instance:

He turns where PYBUS rears his atlas-head
Or MADOC'S mass conceals its veins of lead;

What has Mr. Pybus's gorgeous book in praise of the late
Russian Emperor Paul I. (which some have called the