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DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall. The Director: a Weekly Literary Journal. London: William Savage for Longman, 1807. 8° (222 x 133mm). Half-titles. 4pp. subscribers' list at end of vol. I. (Light browning throughout.) Original half cloth (spines sometime strengthened). [Sold with:] – Bibliophobia. London: for Henry Bohn, 1832, 8° (222 x 140mm). Erratum slip at p.17, (Lacking engraved plate.) Original boards with printed paper label on upper cover (worn with spine defective). Provenance: A.N.L. Munby (booklabel). [And:] – Reminiscences of a Literary Life. London: John Major, 1836. 2 vols, 8° (220 x 135mm). Engraved frontispieces and 8 plates, woodcut text-illustrations and vignette on title of vol. I. (Occasional spotting, heavier to frontispiece in vol. I.) Later green morocco, gilt edges. [And:] – A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland. London: 1838. 2 vols, 8° (250 x 155mm). Engraved frontispieces and plates, with the 4pp. Supplement and 30pp. General Index and leaf of corrections at end of vol. I, followed by 18pp. of publisher's ads. Green morocco by Riviere, gilt spines, top edges gilt, others uncut (spines slightly faded).

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DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall. The Director: a Weekly Literary Journal. London: William Savage for Longman, 1807. 8° (222 x 133mm). Half-titles. 4pp. subscribers' list at end of vol. I. (Light browning throughout.) Original half cloth (spines sometime strengthened). [Sold with:] – Bibliophobia. London: for Henry Bohn, 1832, 8° (222 x 140mm). Erratum slip at p.17, (Lacking engraved plate.) Original boards with printed paper label on upper cover (worn with spine defective). Provenance: A.N.L. Munby (booklabel). [And:] – Reminiscences of a Literary Life. London: John Major, 1836. 2 vols, 8° (220 x 135mm). Engraved frontispieces and 8 plates, woodcut text-illustrations and vignette on title of vol. I. (Occasional spotting, heavier to frontispiece in vol. I.) Later green morocco, gilt edges. [And:] – A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland. London: 1838. 2 vols, 8° (250 x 155mm). Engraved frontispieces and plates, with the 4pp. Supplement and 30pp. General Index and leaf of corrections at end of vol. I, followed by 18pp. of publisher's ads. Green morocco by Riviere, gilt spines, top edges gilt, others uncut (spines slightly faded).