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    Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776 – 18 November 1847) was an English bibliographer, born in Calcutta to Thomas Dibdin, the sailor brother of the composer Charles...
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  • Thomas Dibdin may refer to: Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847), English bibliographer Thomas John Dibdin (1771–1841), English dramatist and songwriter...
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  • Lewis Tonna Dibdin (1852–1938) British lawyer and Dean of the Arches Michael Dibdin (1947–2007), British crime writer Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847)...
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    Literacy. 49 (8): 725–726. JSTOR 40014100. Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1811). Bibliomania: Or Book Madness. ( Dibdin's Bibliomania at Project Gutenberg) Basbanes...
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    of Books: "The Philobiblon" translated by E. C. Thomas. London: Alexander Moring Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1809). Bibliomania. New York, Henry G. Bohn. Holzenberg...
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    later sold it to George for £750. In 1802, George hired Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin as an official librarian to look after the collection and the library...
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    Bibliomania; or Book Madness was first published in 1809 by the Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847). Written in the form of fictional dialogues from bibliophiles...
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    Horn, to acquire many of their rare books and manuscripts. Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin, a Church of England clergyman and bibliographer, wrote the first...
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    members were admitted the following year. The club was formed by Thomas Frognall Dibdin, author of the book Bibliomania; or Book-Madness (1809), who served...
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    son Thomas, Dibdin was an ancestor of the British politician Michael Heseltine. He was also the uncle of the bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin. Seven...
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    from the original on 15 September 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020. Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1814). Bibliotheca Spenceriana; Or a Descriptive Catalogue of the...
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    institution membership required.) "Fifteener" was coined by bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin, a term endorsed by William Morris and Robert Proctor. (Carter &...
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  • (1809–1892) William Reid Dick (1879–1961) Charles Dickens (1812–1870) Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847) Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) Charles Lutwidge Dodgson...
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    letter praising his work. His work was later admired in England by Thomas Frognall Dibdin, who wrote that "in his Italic letter...he stands unrivalled; such...
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    His zealous collecting efforts, which were termed bibliomania by Thomas Frognall Dibdin, resulted in the preservation of much historical material, particularly...
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    of Blessington, and Margaret Farmer were married in the church. Thomas Frognall Dibdin (c.1823 – 1847) was a rector, and Samuel Augustus Barnett was introduced...
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  • illustrations for books. These included several volumes for the writer Thomas Frognall Dibdin. Mary and John Byfield also produced illustrations for the Chiswick...
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    bibliophile. Lang begins his book with a quote from Thomas Frognall Dibdin: "All men," says Dr. Dibdin, "like to be their own librarians." A writer on the...
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    in 1833 she had Thomas Hartwell Horne prepare a second edition which was printed to reflect further changes. Thomas Frognall Dibdin wrote in 1838 that...
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    the détenus of Napoleon, and he came back to England an invalid. Thomas Frognall Dibdin and Richard Heber visited Wodhull in the winter of 1815 and found...
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    regarded Richard Heber as his pupil in book-hunting. He helped Thomas Frognall Dibdin in preparing the second edition of his Introduction to the Classics...
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    as high chancellor and treasurer of England) and, according to Thomas Frognall Dibdin, inspired the prince with his own love of books. Somehow he became...
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    Darley (1795–1846) Robert Deverell (né Pedley) (1760–1841) Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847) Charles Wentworth Dilke (1789–1864) George Dyer (1755–1841)...
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  • of 2nd Earl Spencer, the origin of the Roxburghe Club, formed by Thomas Frognall Dibdin. June 24–December 14 – The French invasion of Russia will form the...
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    account in Latin, the manuscript of which was extensively used by Thomas Frognall Dibdin in compiling his Aedes Althorpianae. His library was sold by his...
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    not now known to be extant. Atkinson showed it to Thomas Frognall Dibdin, who was on tour; Dibdin had it engraved. The reproduced double portrait then...
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  • on satin or paper. About 40 were auctioned in the 20th century. Thomas Frognall Dibdin described Whittaker's Magna Carta as "gorgeous and truly unrivalled"...
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  • John de Lancaster Catherine Cuthbertson – Romance of the Pyrenees Thomas Frognall Dibdin – Bibliomania; or Book-Madness: a bibliographical romance Maria...
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    dangerously involved in speculative ventures with a bibliographer named Thomas Frognall Dibdin. This eventually led, after many changes of address, to bankruptcy...
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  • from the earliest times to the reign of Richard III, edited by Thomas Frognall Dibdin in 1811. His best known legal works are The Abbreviacion of Statutis...
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