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A reprint of the 1849 edition

"This edition is limited to 500 copies. 25 copies on Japan paper, numbered 1 to 25; 475 copies on deckle-edged paper, numbered 26 to 500." This copy not numbered

Half-title (title of original edition): Bibliomania in the middle ages, or Sketches of bookworms, collectors, Bible students, scribes, and illuminators, from the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods to the introduction of printing into England, with anecdotes illustrating the history of the monastic libraries of Great Britain in the olden time ..

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