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See also:DIBDIN, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS FROGNALL (1776—1847) , See also:English bibliographer, See also:born at See also:Calcutta in 1776, was the son of Thomas Dibdin, the sailor See also:brother of See also:Charles Dibdin. His See also:father and See also:mother both died on the way See also:home to See also:England in 178o, and Thomas was brought up by a maternal See also:uncle. He was educated at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and studied for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn. After an unsuccessful See also:attempt to obtain practice as a provincial counsel at See also:Worcester, he was ordained a clergyman at the See also:close of 1804, being appointed to a curacy at See also:Kensington. It was not until 1823 that he received the living of Exning in See also:Sussex. Soon after-wards he was appointed by See also:Lord See also:Liverpool to the rectory of St See also:Mary's, Bryanston Square, which he held until his See also:death on the 18th of See also:November 184 7. The first of his numerous See also:bibliographical See also:works was his Introduction to the Knowledge of See also:Editions of the See also:Classics (18o2), which brought him under the See also:notice of the third See also:Earl See also:Spencer, to whom he owed much important aid in his bibliographical pursuits. The See also:rich library at Althorp was thrown open to him; he spent much of his time in it, and in 1814—1815 published his Bibliotheca Spenceriana. As the library was not open to the See also:general public, the See also:information given in the Bibliotheca was found very useful, but since its author was unable even to read the characters in which the books he described were written, the See also:work was marred by the errors which more or less characterize all his productions. This See also:fault of inaccuracy how-ever was less obtrusive in his See also:series of playful, discursive works in the See also:form of dialogues on his favourite subject, the first of which, Bibliomania (1809), was republished with large additions in 18x1, and was very popular, passing through numerous editions. To the same class belonged the Bibliographical Decameron, a larger work, which appeared in 1817. In 18ro he began the publication of a new and much extended edition of See also:Ames's Typographical Antiquities. The first See also:volume was a See also:great success, but the publication was checked by the failure of the See also:fourth volume, and was
never completed. In 1818 Dibdin was commissioned by Earl Spencer to See also:purchase books for him on the See also:continent, an expedition described in his sumptuous Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in See also:France and See also:Germany (1821). In 1824 he made an ambitious venture in his Library See also:Companion, or the See also:Young See also:Man's See also:Guide and Old Man's Comfort in the Choice of a Library, intended to point out the best works in all departments of literature. His culture was not broad enough, however, to render him competent for the task, and the work was severely criticized. For some years Dibdin gave himself up chiefly to religious literature. He returned to bibliography in his Bibliophobia, orRemarks on the See also:Present Depression in the See also:State of Literature and the See also:Book See also:Trade (1832), and the same subject furnishes the See also:main See also:interest of his Reminiscences of a See also:Literary See also:Life (1836), and his Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the See also:Northern Counties of England and See also:Scotland (1838). Dibdin was the originator and See also:vice-See also:president, Lord Spencer being the president, of the See also:Roxburghe See also:Club, founded in 1812, —the first of the numerous book clubs which have done such service to literature.
End of Article: DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL (1776—1847)
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