Thomas Frognall Dibdin | An introduction to... rare and valuable editions, 1827, 2 vols, blue morocco, Beckford copy

Thomas Frognall Dibdin

An introduction to the knowledge of rare and valuable editions of the Greek and Latin Classics. Together with an account of polyglot Bibles, polyglot Psalters, Hebrew Bibles, Greek Bibles and Greek Testaments, the Greek Fathers, and the Latin Fathers... the fourth edition. London: Harding and Lepard, and G.B. Whittaker, 1827

2 volumes, 4to (283 x 187mm.), large paper copy, engraved frontispiece of a section of the Complutensian Polyglot, contemporary diced blue morocco gilt by Fairbairn, flat spines gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, frontispiece slightly foxed, extremities slightly rubbed

BECKFORD'S COPY of Dibdin's influential guide to bookbuying, first published in 1802, and one of 250 large paper copies.