Title: Scribbleomania; or, The Printer’s Devil’s Polichronicon. A sublime poem. Edited by Anser Pen-Drag-On, Esq.
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. viii, 341. Signatures: [A]4 B-X8 Y-Z4 AA4. One of t</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">wo copies in this collection:  Half calf. Catalogue page and yellow slip with handwritten price, etc. removed from volume. The items are available in MS 580 in Special Collections (Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University) Contains title vignette and 87 plates, of which 6 are views.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">A pseudonomous work by the former Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland (1775-1835). Scribbleomania contains a series of verses commented upon in elongated footnotes, in which Ireland discusses the merits of past and contemporary English writers. He speaks highly of his own literary work in “Dramatists” and “Romance Writers.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_1723157" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>