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[DIBDIN (Thomas Frognall)] LICQUET (Théodore). Lettre Neuvième relative Bibliothéque Publique de Rouen, traduite de l'Anglais, avec des notes, par Thre. Licquet, Conservateur de cette Bibliothéque.1821

Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Crapelet, First edition, royal 8vo (270 x 178 mm), 48pp., one of 100 copies, half title, some light spotting, minor worm holes to blank gutter margin, original blue boards, upper joint split, uncut. 'Despite Dibdin's protestations... M. Licquet's corrections of his rather careless account of some of the books he was shown at Rouen was sufficiently embarrassing to cause Dibdin to omit the whole account of that library in his second edition.'—Jackson. The half-title reads: 'Voyage Bibliographique Archéologique et Pittoresque, en France et en Allemagne, par le Rev. Th. Frognall'. Jackson, 52; Windle & Pippin, A41.

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