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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![eye up at a huge mansion, in which .30,000 tomes are deposited—and which has been recently cal- led “ Grand Hotel Bibliomanesque”—learn, that, What was Bullard's once, is * * * * *’s now. But if the days of youth with Atticus are over, his early example has found more than one imi- tator. Look back also, Reverend Sir, and see if the name of Euphormio, and mention of his me- ditated book-pyramid,* be easily to be found. When a lad at Eton, I learn that this Euphormio was always “ strange and prying,” like Henry Dyson of old,']'into book-recesses which were but little haunted ; and that an uncut copy of the Lac Pnerorum, printed by William Faques, or Andrew Skot, first caught his eye and fixed his affections. Those affections have been steady as the polar star, ever since; and now, midway ’twixt his twentieth and thirtieth year, he lords it, without controul, over such a domain of books —in the hall of his ancestors—as would induce an ordinary man to distrust the evidence of his senses. But Euphormio is something, and a good deal, more than a mere Collector of costly and precious volumes. He is a Bibliographer, of no common calibre ; and volunteers a world of la- bour in the specification of the worth and rarity of his several treasures. He is meditating such * Paiie 2:1. (- Bibliomania, j>. 398.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29331456_0098.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
