Thomas Frognall Dibdin 
Bibliomania, or Book-Madness [PDF ebook] 
A Bibliographical Romance; Illustrated With Cuts

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Another consideration deeply impressed itself upon the mind of the Author. The course of thirty years has necessarily brought changes and alterations amongst men and things. The dart of death has been so busy during this period that, of the Bibliomaniacs so plentifully recorded in the previous work, scarcely’three, -including the Author – have survived. This has fur nished a monitory theme for the appendix; which.