For secondary bibliomania there is no known cure; the few cases reported as having been cured were doubtless not bibliomania at all, or, at least, were what we of the faculty call false or chicken bibliomania.
I think it was while we were in London and while we were deep in the many fads of bibliomania that we arrived at this important conclusion.
O'Rell has met with several cases (as he informs me) in which suppressed bibliomania has resulted fatally.
To make short of a long story, the medical faculty is nearly a unit upon the proposition that wherever suppressed bibliomania is suspected immediate steps should be taken to bring out the disease.
O'Rell is the most famous authority we have in bibliomania and kindred maladies.
And yet, despite these self-accusations, bibliophily rather than bibliomania would be the word to characterize his conscientious purpose.
Brunet wrote that at this sale the thermometer of the bibliomania reached its highest point.
Bibliomania can scarcely be said to have existed in the seventeenth century, but it commenced in the middle of the next century, when the Mead library was sold.
Objections may be made by some to his descriptions, but he certainly greatly influenced the bibliomania of a former age, and made many sales famous which otherwise would have been forgotten except by the few.
It is pleasant, however, to trace these workings of bibliomania in the monasteries; and it is a surprise quite agreeable and delicious in itself to meet with instances like the present.
After the invention of the printing art, bibliomania took some mighty strides; and many choice collectors, full of ardor in the pursuit, became renowned for the vast book stores they amassed together.
When the bibliomania had reached its height, Messrs.
During the more acute stages of bibliomania in this country at the latter part of the last century and the beginning of this, 'when the Archaica, Heliconia, and Roxburghe Clubs were outbidding each other for old black-letter works .
Far be it from me," said he, solemnly, "to lend my approval to any enterprise that contemplates bibliomania as a disease instead of a crime.
Yes, a certain remedy for this madness is had in Keeley's bichloride of gold bibliomania bolus, a packet of which I now hold in my hand!
I live in Evanston, the home of that saintly woman Miss Willard, and under her teachings I have become convinced that bibliomania is a sin which must be eradicated by piety and not by pills.
It seems to me that a man who buys books which he does not read, and especially such as he cannot read, merely on account of their value as merchandise, degrades the noble passion of bibliomania to the level of a trade.
Bibliomania has as many heads as the famed Briareus; but it seldom lifts more than two or three at once.
In him truly the bibliomania may be counted among the many illustrations of the truth so often moralised on, that the highest natures are not exempt from human frailty in some shape or other.
Those joys which the Bibliomania affords Are felt and acknowledged by Dukes and by Lords!
He adds that "this symptom of the bibliomania is at the present day both general and violent.
As late as 1843, Dibdin remarks that "it is a remarkable circumstance, that the bibliomania has almost uniformly confined its attacks to the male sex, and among people in the higher and middling classes of society.
On hearing his name, he called him to him, and, after looking at him for some time with great curiosity, said that he was sure he was a Dane.
