Bibliophobia. Remarks on the present languid and depressed state of literature and the book trade. In a letter addressed to the author of the Bibliomania / by Mercurius Rusticus [pseud.] With notes by Cato Parvus.
- Thomas Frognall Dibdin
- Date:
- 1832
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Bibliophobia. Remarks on the present languid and depressed state of literature and the book trade. In a letter addressed to the author of the Bibliomania / by Mercurius Rusticus [pseud.] With notes by Cato Parvus. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![acquired. Years neither damp the ardour, nor slacken the exertions, of their owner; whose judgment is yet as ripe, and whose taste yet as refined, as ever. On its scale—and of its class— (and the scale is far from being a stinted one) it puts all competition at defiance. I observe, how- ever, that you have said pretty nearly the same thing, in your last edition of the Introduction to the Classics.* You will be pleased to refer to that part of my Letter in which the name of Atticus is men- tioned. j' I learn that the book-appetite of this gentleman is of the same cormorant-capacity as ever : nay, that a return to his native land has rather sharpened than subdued it—that Charles Lewis has been obliged to lay in such a stock of russia and morocco skins—to bind only his black- letter romances in the Italian, Spanish, French and English languages—as may appear incredible to those not having ocular demonstration of its truth. Such a set of tools also has been manu- factured for the binding of them, as is altogether marvellous ; and as to the extent of his library, to save trouble, you had better say, at once, that it reaches from ****** to Nuremberg ! For proof of an intermediate link in a chain of such extension, stop at the Rue not a stone’s throw from the Quai Voltaire—and casting your * Vol. I. ]). xi. f Page 37.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29331456_0097.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
