Literary Record and Bibliography [in manuscript] compiled by his great-nephew Edward Rimbault Dibdin

The Dictionary of National Biography states that T. J. Dibdin (1771-1841, closely associated with Sadler's Wells, Drury Lane and the Surrey Theatre) wrote 'nearly two thousand songs and about two hundred operas and plays'. This list, which covers the whole of his life from his earliest known work in 1789 to his death in 1841, is compiled with considerable care on the rectos and some of the versos of 79 bound and numbered leaves (most being the letterhead of the North-East Coast Exhibition, of which E. Rimbault Dibdin was the Director). Several loose leaves are tipped-in, including one carrying a transcription of 'The Irishman in Wales' (sung by T. J. Dibdin at Sadlers Wells, 1798). Closely written in red, blue and black ink and in pencil, and with numerous corrections and additions. The compiler notes the items he has not seen. Title leaf in manuscript. Sturdy brown buckram binding in good order, with 'LITERARY RECORD OF T. J. DIBDIN' in gold blocking on spine. E. Rimbault Dibdin's own copy, signed by him on ffep, and with his bookplate on front pastedown.