Transcriber's Notes

Thomas Frognall Dibdin's Bibliomania was originally published in1809 and was re-issued in several editions, including one published byChatto & Windus in 1876. This e-book was prepared from a reprint ofthe 1876 edition, published by Thoemmes Press and Kinokuniya CompanyLtd. in 1997. Where the reprint was unclear, the transcriber consultedthe actual 1876 edition. All color images were scanned from the 1876 edition.

The original contains numerous footnotes, denoted by numbers in thesection entitled The Bibliomania, andby symbols in the remainder of the book. All of thefootnotes are consecutively numbered in this e-book; footnotes withinfootnotes are lettered.

Some phrases are rendered in the original in blackletter; they arerendered in bold italic in this e-book.

This e-book contains passages in ancient Greek, which may notdisplay properly in some browsers, depending on what fonts the readerhas installed. Hover the mouse over the Greek to see a pop-uptransliteration, e.g. βιβλος.

Spelling and typographical errors are retained as they appear in theoriginal. They are underlined in red, with a popup Transcriber's Note containing the correct spelling.Minor punctuation and font errors have been corrected withoutnote. Inconsistent diacriticals and hyphenation have been retained asthey appear in the original.

There are frequent inconsistencies in the spelling of certain propernames. These have been retained as they appear in the original, for example:

• Bibliothèque/Bibliothéque
• Boccaccio/Bocaccio/Boccacio
• De Foe/Defoe
• Français/François
• Loménie/Lomenie
• Montfauçon/Montfaucon
• Roxburgh/Roxburghe
• Shakspeare/Shakespeare
• Spenser/Spencer
• Tewrdannckhs/Tewrdranckhs/Teurdanckhs (and other variations)
• Vallière/Valliere

The original pagination used two sets of Roman numerals and twosets of Arabic numerals. To distinguish between them, in this e-bookthe Roman-numeral pages in the Indexes arepreceded by "I." The Arabic-numeral pages in the section entitledThe Bibliomania are preceded by "B."Some page numbers are skipped due to blank pages.

Page references, including those in the Indexes,do not distinguish between references appearing in the main text andthose appearing in footnotes. Therefore, in this e-book, where thereferenced matter does not appear in the main text on the linked page, it canbe found in the nearest footnote.