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Tweeting: Thomas F. Dibdin's *Bibliomania; or Book Madness* (1809), reissued by Project Gutenberg. Code at: Creator: @prosaicdrmr

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_Be this as it may, it is a
work divested of all
acrimonious feeling--is
applicable to all classes of
society, to whom harmless
enthusiasm cannot be offensive
--and is based upon a
foundation not likely to be
speedily undermined._ _T.F.
DIBDIN._ _May_ 1, 1842.
#bibliomania1809

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and profitable perusal;
composed perhaps in a quaint
and original style, but in
accordance with the characters
of the_ Dramatis Person.
#bibliomania1809

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The thought, however, was a
good one; and many of the
heads are powerfully executed.
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He planned and published the_
Physiognomical Portraits, _a
performance not divested of
interest--but failing in
general success, from the
prints being, in many
instances, a repetition of
their precursors.
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How he loved to embellish--
almost to satiety--a favourite
work, may be seen by
consulting a subsequent page
towards the end of this
volume. #bibliomania1809

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Had his natural talents, which
were strong and elastic,
been cultivated in early life,
he would, in all
probability, have attained a
considerable reputation.
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His body was in the
counting-house; but his spirit
was abroad, in the studio of
the painter or engraver.
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He had latterly extensive
calico-printing works at
Mitcham, and devoted much
of his time to the production
of beautiful patterns in that
fabrication; his taste, in
almost every thing which he
undertook, leant towards the
fine arts. #bibliomania1809

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[Footnote 1: _Mr. EDWARD
WALMSLEY, who died in 1841, at
an advanced age, had been long
known to me. #bibliomania1809

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_Be this as it may, it is a
work divested of all
acrimonious feeling--is
applicable to all classes of
society, to whom harmless
enthusiasm cannot be offensive
--and is based upon a
foundation not likely to be
speedily undermined._ _T.F.
DIBDIN._ _May_ 1, 1842.
#bibliomania1809

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and profitable perusal;
composed perhaps in a quaint
and original style, but in
accordance with the characters
of the_ Dramatis Person.
#bibliomania1809

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_ _Another motive may be
humbly, yet confidently,
assigned for the re-appearance
of this Work. #bibliomania1809

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The wounds, inflicted in the
HEBERIAN contest, have
gradually healed, and are
subsiding into forgetfulness;
excepting where, from_
collateral _causes, there are
too many_ striking _reasons to
remember their existence.
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and yet, in the appearance of
what are called_ English
Rarities, _the market seems to
be almost as barren as ever.
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_But I apprehend the general
apathy of Bibliomaniacs to be
in a great measure
attributable to the vast
influx of BOOKS, of every
description, from the
Continent--owing to the long
continuance of peace;
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A copy of the original and
most scarce edition is among
the Selden books in the
Bodleian library, and in the
Chetham Collection at
Manchester. See the_
Typographical Antiquities,
_vol._ iii. _p._ 158-60.
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For now I will wear_ this,
_and now I will wear_ that,
_Now I will wear--I cannot
tell what._ _This highly
curious and illustrative work
was reprinted, with all its
wood-cut embellishments, by
Mr. Upcott. #bibliomania1809

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Dr. Board, who wrote his_
Introduction of Knowledge _in
the year 1542, and dedicated
it to the Princess Mary, thus
observes of our countrymen:_
_I am an Englishman, and naked
do I stand here, Musing
in my mind what raiment I
shall wear; #bibliomania1809

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_ _The changes and
alterations in "things,"--that
is to say in the_
=Bibliomania= _itself--have
been equally capricious and
unaccountable: our countrymen
being, in_ these _days, to the
full as fond of novelty and
variety as in those of Henry
the Eighth. #bibliomania1809

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This has furnished a monitory
theme for the APPENDIX; which,
to the friends both of the
dead and the living, cannot be
perused without sympathising
emotions--_ _"A sigh the
absent claim, the DEAD a
tear." #bibliomania1809