Bibliomania; or Book-Madness / A Bibliographical Romance

A satirical and bibliographical miscellany that treats obsessive book collecting as a disease, mixing humorous sketches, catalogue-like anecdotes, and critical commentary. It outlines perceived causes, symptoms, and supposed remedies for book-collecting mania, interweaving fictionalized vignettes of collectors, cataloguing practices, and bibliographical curiosities with learned notes and appendices. The tone balances playful mockery and antiquarian erudition, and the arrangement shifts between epistolary passages, short essays, and illustrative digressions, often including lists, cuts, and annotations aimed at both amusing and instructing readers about the pleasures and pitfalls of bibliophilism.