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[Dibdin, Thomas Frognall] - [William Beckford, attrib.], (Dibdin, Thomas Frognall) — (William Beckford, attributed to)
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Description
- [Dibdin, Thomas Frognall] - [William Beckford, attrib.]
- A Dialogue in the Shades, between William Caxton, Fodius, a Bibliomaniac, and William Wynken, Clerk, a descendant of Wynken de Worde... A Ballad entitled Rare Doings at Roxburghe-Hall. [London:] J.F. Dove, 1817
- Ink and paper
4to (10 7/8 x 7 1/4 in.; 277 x 186 mm, untrimmed). Engraved plate on page 1, large-paper copy. Original green wrappers (one blind cover only). Brown cloth slip-case.
Provenance
acquisition: Sotheby's London, May 4, 1966, lot 99
Literature
Renato Rabaiotti, "Beckford's Dialogue in the Shades and Dibdin's The Lincolne Nosegay" in The Book Collector, summer 1989, pp. 211-228; Windle and Pippin D9
Catalogue Note
Usually found bound up with William Clarke's Repertorium Bibliographicum of 1819, this two-part pamphlet of satirical verse is a response to Dibdin's Lincolne Nosegay and the Bibliographical Decameron. The attribution varies from William Beckford to the Clarke brothers.
A rare anti-Dibdinia.