Author: Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-18

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 9781333267148

Excerpt from The Bibliographical Decameron, or Ten Days Pleasant Discourse Upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects Connected With Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliography, Vol. 3 Alas, Poon Musrarns For Musrarna, ' read now, the late Wuusu Nanson Gannmrn, Bookseller in pall-mall. This unfortunate bibliopolist laid violent hands on himself, about three years after the delineation of his character, in the Bibliomania, under the name of Mustapha see page 163 of that work. That delineation, however, was by no means the cause of such a catastrophe. It had been provoked, or it would not have been obtruded upon the public. Mr. William Nelson Gardiner found that it was not stingless; as indeed it was not intended to be - for, previously to its appearance, my name and pretensions had been treated, in one of his own hatch-patch catalogues, with so little ceremony and courtesy, that he must have considered me a mere dolt to have quietly sub mitted to such outrageous and unfounded censure. Accordingly he received the castigation in question; which, coming upon a thin-skin surface, necessarily pro duced blisters, and engendered a disposition to retaliate. His lcx talionis' was demonstrated in a subsequent catalogue: his usual channel of making the public acquainted with the importance of his sentiments on all points - for he verily believed that none but himself could be his parallel.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.