Электронная книга: Thomas Frognall Dibdin «Bibliotheca Spenceriana. Vol. 4»
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Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Thomas Frognall Dibdin (
His father and mother both died on the way home to England in 1780, and Thomas was brought up by a maternal uncle. He was educated at
The first of his numerous bibliographical works was his "Introduction to the Knowledge of Editions of the Classics" (1802), which brought him under the notice of the second Earl Spencer, to whom he owed much important aid in his bibliographical pursuits. The rich library at
To the same class belonged the "Bibliographical Decameron", a larger work, which appeared in 1817. In 1810 he began the publication of a new and much extended edition of Ames's "Typographical Antiquities". The first volume was a great success, but the publication was checked by the failure of the fourth volume, and was never completed. In 1818 Dibdin was commissioned by Earl Spencer to purchase books for him on the continent, an expedition described in his sumptuous "Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany" (1821).
In 1824 he made an ambitious venture in his "Library Companion, or the Young Man's Guide and Old Man's Comfort in the Choice of a Library", intended to point out the best works in all departments of literature. His culture was not broad enough, however, to render him competent for the task, and the work was severely criticized. For some years Dibdin gave himself up chiefly to religious literature. He returned to bibliography in his "Bibliophobia, or Remarks on the Present Depression in the State of Literature and the Book Trade" (1832), and the same subject furnishes the main interest of his "Reminiscences of a Literary Life" (1836), and his "Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and Scotland" (1838).
Dibdin was the originator and vice-president, Earl Spencer being the president, of the
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