Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 1060
  • 1060

Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

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Description

  • Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
  • The Bibliographical Decameron; or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and subjects connected with early engraving, typography and bibliography. London: Printed for the Author, by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press: and sold by G. and W. Nicol, Payne and Foss, Evans, John and Arthur Arch, Triphook, and J. Major, 1817
  • Ink, paper and cow
Three volumes, 4to (11 x 7 1/2 in.; 280 x 185 mm). One of the fifty large-paper copies, reimposed in quarto. Many of the plates and vignettes, some in colors, are proofs on India paper (laid down on paper for full-page illustrations). Contemporary calf, gilt fillets, gilt ornament on spines. Excellent condition except for top of spine of volume 1. 

Provenance

Baron Northwick (bookplate). acquisition: Seven Gables, 1971

Literature

Jackson 40; Windle and Pippin A28 (For detailed collation, please refer to the department). 

Catalogue Note

First edition, large-paper copy.

"One of the most ambitious of Dibdin's publication, it was a financial success and doubtless marks the high-water mark of the Didbinian Bibliomania" (Jackson).