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Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, D.D.
(b. Calcutta, 1776; d. November 18th, 1847). “Poems” (1797); “An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics” (1803); “Bibliomania, or Book Madness” (1811); “Bibliotheca Spenseriana” (1814); “The Bibliographical Decameron; or, Ten Days’ Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts, etc.” (1817); “Sermons” (1820–25); “The Bibliographical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany” (1821); “Ædes Althorpianæ” (1822); “The Library Companion” (1824); “La Belle Marianne: a Tale of Truth and Woe” (1824); “Sunday Library” (1831); “Bibliophobia” (1832); “A Bibliographical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and of Scotland” (1838); and editions of the works of Ames, Sir Thomas More, Thomas à Kempis, Fénelon, and others. See his “Reminiscences of a Literary Life” (1836).
