E-text prepared by Suzanne Lybarger, Brian Janes, Linda Cantoni, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 28540-h.htm or 28540-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/5/4/28540/28540-h/28540-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/5/4/28540/28540-h.zip) Transcriber's Note: Thomas Frognall Dibdin's _Bibliomania_ was originally published in 1809 and was re-issued in several editions, including one published by Chatto & Windus in 1876. This e-book was prepared from a reprint of the 1876 edition, published by Thoemmes Press and Kinokuniya Company Ltd. in 1997. Where the reprint was unclear, the transcriber consulted a copy of the actual 1876 edition. Footnotes The original contains numerous footnotes, denoted by numbers prior to Part I, and by symbols in the remainder of the book. All of the footnotes are consecutively numbered in this e-book; footnotes within footnotes are lettered. Some of the footnotes contain lengthy book catalogues with descriptions and prices. For ease of reading, in this e-book these catalogues have been formatted as lists rather than tables. Text that in the original was rendered in blackletter is enclosed between equal signs (=bold face=). Spelling and typographical errors are retained as they appear in the original, with a [Transcriber's Note] containing the correct spelling. Minor obvious punctuation and font errors have been corrected without note. Inconsistent diacriticals and hyphenation have been retained as they appear in the original. There are frequent inconsistencies in the spelling of certain proper names. These have been retained as they appear in the original, for example: Bibliotheque/Bibliotheque Boccaccio/Bocaccio/Boccacio De Foe/Defoe Francais/Francois Lomenie/Lomenie Montfaucon/Montfaucon Roxburgh/Roxburghe Shakspeare/Shakespeare Spenser/Spencer Tewrdannckhs/Tewrdranckhs/Teurdanckhs (and other variations) Valliere/Valliere BIBLIOMANIA. [Illustration] _Libri quosdam ad Scientiam, quosdam AD INSANIAM, deduxere._ GEYLER: Navis Stultifera: sign. B. iiij. rev. BIBLIOMANIA; OR =Book-Madness;= A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ROMANCE. ILLUSTRATED WITH CUTS. BY THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN, D.D. =New and improved Edition,= TO WHICH ARE ADDED PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS, AND A SUPPLEMENT INCLUDING A KEY TO THE ASSUMED CHARACTERS IN THE DRAMA. [Illustration: _Engraved by S. Freeman._] =London:= Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly. MDCCCLXXVI. [Illustration: T.F. DIBDIN, D.D.