henation have been retained as they appear in the original.

There are frequent inconsistencies in the spelling of certain
proper names. These have been retained as they appear in the
original, for example:

Bibliotheque/Bibliotheque
Boccaccio/Bocaccio/Boccacio
De Foe/Defoe
Francais/Francois
Lomenie/Lomenie
Montfaucon/Montfaucon
Roxburgh/Roxburghe
Shakspeare/Shakespeare
Spenser/Spencer
Tewrdannckhs/Tewrdranckhs/Teurdanckhs (and other variations)
Valliere/Valliere

BIBLIOMANIA.

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BIBLIOMANIA;

OR

=Book-Madness;=

A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ROMANCE.

ILLUSTRATED WITH CUTS.

BY THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN, D.D.

=New and improved Edition,=

TO WHICH ARE ADDED
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS, AND A SUPPLEMENT INCLUDING A KEY
TO THE ASSUMED CHARACTERS IN THE DRAMA.

[Illustration: _Engraved by S. Freeman._]

=London:=
Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly.
MDCCCLXXVI.

[Illustration: T.F. DIBDIN, D.D.

_Engraved by James Thomson from the Original Painting by T. Phillips,
Esqr. R.A._

Published by the Proprietors (for the New Edition) of the Rev. Dr.
Dibdins Bibliomania 1840.]

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TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF POWIS,

PRESIDENT OF

=The Roxburgh Club,=

THIS

NEW EDITION

OF

BIBLIOMANIA

IS

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY

THE AUTHOR.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

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consequence, more in uniformity with the previous publications of the
Author._

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edition, which has become so scarce that there seemed to be no
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_to the number: and although this re-impression may, on first glance,
appear something like a violation of contract with the public, yet,
when the length of time which has elapsed, and the smallness of the
price of the preceding impression, be considered, there does not
appear to be any very serious obstacle to the present republication;
the more so, as th