The genuine edition. Thirty-six copies printed. The nineteen books described went into the Spencer and Heber collections.
DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall.—Bibliography, a Poem, in Six Books. With Preface and Notes. London: 1812. 8vo, boards, uncut edges.
Fifty copies, privately printed, the greater part destroyed by fire.
DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall.—Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or a Descriptive Catalogue of the books printed in The Fifteenth Century, and of many valuable first editions, in the Library of George John Earl Spencer, K. G. . . . by the Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin. . . . London: printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakspeare Press. . . . 1814-[1815] Royal 8vo, four volumes, brown morocco, gilt back, side corners, gilt edges, by Bedford.
Frontispiece, the quarterings of Lord Spencer's arms, by V. Woodthorpe after Sir Isaac Heard, dedicatory page engraved by Woodthorpe, and numerous facsimiles.
DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall.—The Bibliographical Decameron; or Ten Days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts and Subjects connected with Early Engraving, Typography and Bibliography by the Rev. T. F. Dibdin London: Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer & Co. Shakespeare Press 1817. Royal 8vo, three volumes, red morocco, gilt back, sunken panels on the sides, gilt tooled, doubled with red morocco, gilt borders, gilt edges, by Lewis.
DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall.—A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, by the Rev. Tho. Frognall Dibdin . . . London: printed for the Author by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press &c. 1821. Royal 8vo, three volumes, red levant morocco, gilt back, side panels and corners, gilt edges, by Bedford.
In addition to the eighty-three plates published with this book, two hundred and thirty-six have been added, embracing the Lewis etchings, proofs on India paper, sixty-eight portraits, including the author by Thomson after Phillips, Evelyn by Worthington after Walker, Aldus and Paulus Manutius, etc. With a few exceptions, every plate inserted is a proof on India paper.
DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall.—A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour &c., 1821. Royal 8vo, three volumes, half russia, gilt back, uncut edges.
Another copy printed upon large paper.