The Book-Lovers' Anthology
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LEARNING'S PANTHEON: THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD
THE BOOK-LOVERS' ANTHOLOGY
EDITED BY R. M. LEONARD
'Here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine into it but the thred to binde them.'
Montaigne (Florio's translation)
HENRY FROWDE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON, NEW YORK, TORONTO AND MELBOURNE
1911
OXFORD: HORACE HART PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
One of the most delightful of the Last Essays of Elia is entitled 'Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading', a title which would serve very well to indicate the contents of this anthology. In bringing together into one volume the tributes and opinions of a galaxy of writers, my object has been the glorification of books as books, a book being regarded as a real and separate entity, and often as an end in itself. There is a wide circle to whom this collection should appeal, in addition to bibliomaniacs or mere collectors of first or rare editions to whom the contents are often anathema, for the love of books is not confined to scholars or great readers. This love is incommunicable: it comes, but happily seldom goes, as the wind which bloweth where it listeth; it is perfectly sincere, and knows nothing of conventions and sham admirations.
No greater lover of books has ever lived than that Englishman who was born at Bury St. Edmunds seven hundred and thirty years ago—Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham, author of Philobiblon , and, as Lord Campbell said, undoubtedly the founder of the order of book-lovers in England. Centuries passed, and then the more modern worship of books was promoted by one of even higher station than this lord chancellor and lord high treasurer of England—by King James, whom sycophants and cynics called the British Solomon. The sixteenth century saw also the births of Bacon, Burton, and Florio, the inspired translator of Montaigne, and Ben Jonson, who all deserved well of the order. Milton, with prose and poetry, handed down the sacred fire in the seventeenth century, and his
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THE BOOK-LOVERS' ANTHOLOGY
GRACE BEFORE BOOKS
THE DELIGHTFUL SOCIETY OF BOOKS
THE CONTENTMENT I HAVE IN MY BOOKS
HE THAT LOVETH A BOOK WILL NEVER WANT
THE COMPANY OF MUTES
A CONSOLATION FOR THE DEAF
SWEET UNREPROACHING COMPANIONS
MY DAYS AMONG THE DEAD ARE PASSED
A HEAVENLY DELIGHT
THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE COMPANY
THE FELLOWSHIP OF BOOKS
A COMPANY OF THE WISEST AND THE WITTIEST
A MAGNATE IN THE REALM OF BOOKS
MY BOOKS
TO MY BOOKS
ON PARTING WITH MY BOOKS
TO MY BOOKS ON PARTING WITH THEM
TRUE FRIENDS THAT CHEER
MY BOOKS
TO SIR HENRY GOODYER
OUR BEST ACQUAINTANCE
THE TRUE ELYSIAN FIELDS
BOOKS AND FRIENDS
THE DESIRABLE TABERNACLE
MAN'S PREROGATIVE
TO HIS BOOKS
THE LEGACIES OF GENIUS
IN PRISON
THE DEPOSITARY OF EVERYTHING HONOURABLE
LOVE THAT IS LARGE
A CATHOLIC TASTE IN BOOKS
A SENSE OF HUMOUR
BOOKS THE TRUE LEVELLERS
AUTHORS AS LOVERS OF BOOKS
THE THEORY OF BOOKS
BOOKS A SUBSTANTIAL WORLD
TO WORDSWORTH
THE SOULS OF BOOKS
USEFUL AND MIGHTY THINGS
AN EXTRAORDINARY DELIGHT TO STUDY
SWEET AND HAPPY HOURS
THE PROUDER PLEASURES OF THE MIND
A TASTE TO BE PRAYED FOR
MORE THAN MEAT, DRINK, AND CLOTHING
THE BOOK THE HIGHEST DELIGHT
THE PLEASURE DERIVED FROM BOOKS
OUR DEBT TO A BOOK
RICH FARE
POWER AND GLADNESS
THE COMMODITY REAPED OF BOOKS
BOOKS IS NURSE TO TRUTH
FOR WISDOM, PIETY, DELIGHT, OR USE
OF THE ENTERTAINMENT OF BOOKS
INSTRUCTION OR AMUSEMENT
EXERCISE FOR THE MIND
WHY BOOKS WERE INVENTED
WHY BOOKS ARE READ
THE INFLUENCE OF BOOKS
REMUNERATIVE READING
THE MOOD FOR BOOKS
PERMANENCE FOR THOUGHT
THE MIRACULOUS ART OF WRITING
BOOKS AS MEMORIALS
FASHION IN BOOKS
COATS FOR MACKEREL
TO HIS BOOK
IMMORTALITY IN BOOKS
ENDURING MONUMENTS
THE STRANGE QUALITY OF BOOKS
BOOKS ARE NOT DEAD THINGS
SHAKESPEARE IN HEAVEN
THE LIBRARIES OF HEAVEN
THE ONLY THINGS THAT LAST FOR EVER
THE AUTHORS' METAMORPHOSIS
O BLESSED LETTERS
A LASTING LINK OF AGES
THE VIRTUE OF A TRUE BOOK
ACTION AND REACTION
THE ULTIMATE TEST OF BOOKS
BOOKS OF THE HOUR AND OF ALL TIME
WHO WILL BELIEVE MY VERSE
IMMORTALITY IN SONG
ONE DAY I WROTE HER NAME
WELL I REMEMBER HOW YOU SMILED
THE MULTIPLICITY OF BOOKS
SUPERFLUOUS BOOKS
MULTIPLICATION IS VEXATION
THE MULTIPLICATION OF ORIGINALS
THE AUTHORS' ADVANTAGE
AN IGNORANT AGE HATH MANY BOOKS
THE DIFFUSION OF BOOKS AND ITS EFFECT ON CULTURE
THE DISTRACTION OF CHOICE
A LIBRARY OF ONE
A LIBRARY OF TWELVE
ANCIENT AND MODERN BOOKS
THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS
OLD AUTHORS TO READ
CLASSICUS
THE DEAD ALONE CANONIZED
THE CLASSICS
THE MOONS OF LITERATURE
THE READING OF NEW BOOKS
THE CLASSICS ALWAYS MODERN
ON READING OLD BOOKS
ON READING NEW BOOKS
A PREFERENCE FOR GREAT MODELS
THE VALUE OF MODERN BOOKS
A SORT OF THIRD ESTATE
OLD AND NEW BOOKS
SECURITY IN OLD BOOKS
TO MY BOOK
HIS PRAYER FOR ABSOLUTION
BOOKS THAT DO HURT
BOOKS AND THIEVES
MOUNTEBANK AUTHORS
PRINTERS GAIN BY BAD BOOKS
THE EVIL THAT MEN DO
BOOKS BAD AND GOOD
ON CERTAIN BOOKS
'TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE'
LIBERTY AND BAD BOOKS
BAD BOOKS AND DEBAUCHED MINDS
VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE
A WHIMSICAL SURPRISE
ROMANCES ARE PERNICIOUS
WHETHER 'TIS LAWFUL TO READ ROMANCES
THE DANGER OF POETS AND ROMANCES
A DAUGHTER'S FAVOURITE NOVELS
'ONLY A NOVEL'
NOVELS AS ENGINES OF CIVILIZATION
A NOVEL OF HIGH LIFE
NOVELS ARE SWEETS
EVERY MAN HIS DUE
PLAGIARIE
TRANSPLANTATION
BOOK-MAKERS AND PLAGIARISTS
A LEARNED PLAGIARY
HIDDEN TREASURE
LITERARY COOKERY
THE MANUFACTORY OF BOOKS
HOW VOLUMES SWELL
RECIPE FOR AN ANTHOLOGY
TO LEIGH HUNT, ON AN OMISSION IN HIS 'FEAST OF THE POETS'
OUR MASTER, MELEAGER
THAT INVENTION OF THE ENEMY—AN ABRIDGEMENT
ORIGINAL EDITIONS
DEDICATIONS
PRESENTATION COPIES
POETS AND THEIR BIBLIOGRAPHIES
MEN IN THEIR NIGHTGOWNS
BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY PREFERRED TO HISTORY
ON READING TRANSLATIONS
ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE CLASSICS
TO MY WORTHY AND HONOURED FRIEND MASTER GEORGE CHAPMAN
WHEN TRANSLATIONS ARE TO BE PREFERRED
'THAT SILLY VANITY OF IMPERTINENT CITATIONS'
QUOTATION
MERIT IN QUOTATION
WHAT SHAKESPEARE HATH LEFT US
ON THE PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE
SHAKESPEARE'S LIVELONG MONUMENT
UNDER MR. MILTON'S PICTURE BEFORE HIS 'PARADISE LOST'
UPON MY BROTHER'S BOOK CALLED 'THE GROUNDS, LABOUR AND REWARD OF FAITH'
UPON THE BOOK AND PICTURE OF THE SERAPHICAL SAINT TERESA
THE SEAT OF AUTHORITY
BOOKS PREFERRED TO PREACHERS
BOOKS OF MORALITY
THE SECRET INFLUENCE OF BOOKS
DEAD COUNSELLORS ARE SAFEST
THE REAL WORKING EFFECTIVE CHURCH
BOOKS AS SIGN-POSTS
THE NEED OF A GUIDE TO BOOKS
THE TRUE UNIVERSITY OF THESE DAYS
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE: TWO EPIGRAMS
THE ANSWER
AGAINST WRITERS THAT CARP AT OTHER MEN'S BOOKS
A CRITIC
WHERE FOOLS RUSH IN
LITERARY HYPOCRISY
IN THE SEAT OF THE SCORNER
THE FINAL VERDICT UPON BOOKS
THE CRITICS' INFLUENCE ON THE PUBLIC
TASTE IN LITERATURE AND ART
THE FILIAL PIETY OF BOOKS
THE MOTE AND THE BEAM
CENSORSHIP
THE IMPRIMATUR
A GREAT BOOK IS A GREAT EVIL
A LITTLE BOOK THE MOST EXCELLENT
BOOKS WITH ONE IDEA IN THEM
BOOKS OF ONE THOUGHT
INDUCTIVE CRITICISM
READING BETWEEN LINES
PURPLE PATCHES
THE ROYAL ROAD
READERS AND WRITERS
STUDIES
HOW TO SPEND OUR DAYS
THE CHOICE OF BOOKS
CHEWING THE CUD
THE SUFFICIENCY OF HOMER
HOMER AND VIRGIL
READ WITHOUT PREJUDICE
READING ACCORDING TO INCLINATION
READ FEW BOOKS WELL
BOOKS AS FRUITFUL TREES
READING SEVERAL BOOKS AT A TIME
WHEN AND WHERE TO READ
SMALL AUTHORS DANGEROUS
BOOKS THAT PROVOKE THOUGHT
RULES FOR READING
A DIET OF BOOKS
A COURSE OF READING
OF READING
POETS AS COMMENTATORS
THE METHOD OF READING PROFANE HISTORY
EPITOMES
ABSTRACTS OF BOOKS
BESCRIBBLING WITH NOTES
BOOKS TO BE MARKED
UNDERSCORING
THE PARSON'S ACCESSORY KNOWLEDGE
COMMONPLACE BOOKS
A NEW METHOD OF A COMMONPLACE BOOK
MARGINAL NOTES AND COMMONPLACE BOOKS
THE BEE AND THE BUTTERFLY
SKIPPING WIT
CHANCE READINGS
RIDING POST
APPETITE AND SATIETY
THE HABIT OF CASUAL READING
JOHNSON'S CURSORY READING
DESULTORY READING
THE GREATEST CLERKS BE NOT ALWAYS THE WISEST MEN
A BOOKISH AMBITION
FULL LIBRARIES AND EMPTY HEADS
TO THE GOOD OR BAD READER
A PRETENDER TO LEARNING
SUPERFICIAL READERS
THE READING COXCOMB
READING TO KILL TIME
TALKING FROM BOOKS
A SHORT CUT TO FAME
TITLE-READERS
THE BURNING OF DON QUIXOTE'S BOOKS
BRAINS SQUASHED BY BOOKS
FOLLY GENERATED BY BOOKS
SURCLOYING THE STOMACH
OVER-READING
DEEP-VERSED IN BOOKS AND SHALLOW IN HIMSELF
SWALLOWING THE HUSKS
READING AND ILLITERACY
READING AS INTELLECTUAL INDOLENCE
BOOKS AND MEN
BOOKS AND LIFE
THE MIGHTY DEAD
THE MESSAGE OF BOOKS
OVERRATING THE VIRTUE OF BOOKS
BOOKS AN ENEMY TO HEALTH
WHAT PROFITS IT
BOOKS AND EYESIGHT
WHEN TO READ
BOOKS INSTEAD OF STIMULANTS
THE PHARMACY OF BOOKS
A LITERATURA HILARIS
THE BLESSED CHLOROFORM OF THE MIND
LOUNGING BOOKS
TO DRIVE THE NIGHT AWAY
READING IN BED
READING AND MEAL TIMES
THE DOG AND THE BONE
PROOF OF GOOD MATTER
WRITING AT MEAL TIMES
OUT-OF-DOORS READING
O FOR A BOOKE
FAREWELL TO BOOKS IN SPRINGTIME
THE TABLES TURNED
LEARNING
PICTURE BOOKS IN WINTER
THE HORN-BOOK
OLD STORY BOOKS
THE FIRST AUTHORS FOR YOUTH
BOOKS AND THE WORLD
ADVICE TO MOTHERS
GETTING A BOY FORWARD
AT LARGE IN THE LIBRARY
THE BEST BOOKS THE COMMONEST
MONTAIGNE'S EARLY READING
JOHNSON'S EARLY READING
GIBBON'S EARLY READING
A BIRTH OF INTELLECT
WORDSWORTH'S EARLY READING
OLD-FASHIONED VERSE
LEIGH HUNT'S EARLY READING
A KINDLY TIE
CHARLES DICKENS'S EARLY READING
THE VISIONARY GLEAM
READING FOR LOVE'S SAKE
VALEDICTION TO HIS BOOK
THE BOOK OF THE BRAIN
LOVE'S PURVEYOR
THE DOUBLE LESSON
CUPID AND THE BOOK OF POEMS
BOOKS AS SPOKESMEN
TO HIS BOOK: OF HIS LADY
TO THE LADY LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD
A BOOK OF FLESH AND BLOOD
WOMEN'S EYES
[Greek: UPOTHÊKÊ EIS EMAUTON]
OF A NEW MARRIED STUDENT THAT PLAYED FAST AND LOOSE
MARRIAGE AND BOOKS
MARRIAGE! MY YEARS ARE YOUNG
LOVE AND THE LIBRARY
A COUNTER ATTRACTION
TO COSMELIA
ON A PRAYER BOOK SENT TO MRS. M. R.
ON GEORGE HERBERT'S 'THE TEMPLE' SENT TO A GENTLEWOMAN
TO HELEN
SENT WITH POEMS
WOMAN AND BOOKS
THE GHOST OF BETTY BARNES
A CHEAP AND LASTING PLEASURE
THE POETS
THE WORLD OF BOOKS
THE CLASSICAL EDUCATION OF WOMEN
GIRLS' READING
POETRY AND PIETY
A LADY'S LIBRARY
WOMEN'S WANT
BOOKS FOR A LADY'S LIBRARY
TO A LADY FURNISHING HER LIBRARY AT *** IN WARWICKSHIRE
LYDIA LANGUISH AND THE CIRCULATING LIBRARY
THE OLD BACHELOR'S BOOKS
THE OXFORD SCHOLAR AND HIS BOOKS
THE CHIEF FOOL
THE ENVOY OF ALEXANDER BARCLAY, TRANSLATOR EXHORTING THE FOOLES ACCLOYED WITH THIS VICE TO AMEND THEIR FOLLY
LETTER-FERRETS
DAINTIES THAT ARE BRED OF A BOOK
AN ANTIQUARY
AN IGNORANT BOOK-COLLECTOR
THE BIBLIOMANIA
BIBLIOSOPHIA
GOLDEN VOLUMES! RICHEST TREASURES!
A MALADY OF WEAK MINDS
AN UNWORTHY PROFESSOR
A BIBLIOMANIAC
THE ENVIABLE BOOKWORM
EARS NAILED TO BOOKS
THE ANTIQUARY'S TREASURES
KISSING A FOLIO
THE LITERARY HAREM
BAYARD TAYLOR
DEFINITIONS
THE LAST EDITIONS THE BEST
SIBRANDUS SCHAFNABURGENSIS
A STUDENT
OF HANDLING BOOKS
DEDUCTIONS FROM SCRIPTURE
AN EDITION DE LUXE
CARE AS TO BINDINGS
GOLD CLASPS AND A GOLDEN STORY
NOBLER THAN CONTENTS
LINES HAVE THEIR LININGS, AND BOOTS THEIR BUCKRAM
EYE-WORSHIP
BOOKBINDINGS
DISCRIMINATION IN BINDINGS
SUITABLE BINDINGS
'TIS FOLLY TO BE WISE
THE OUTSIDE OF A BOOK
BOOKS YOU MAY HOLD IN YOUR HAND
BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS AND NIGHTMARE
DELIGHT IN BOOK-PRINTS
A NEAT RIVULET OF TEXT
THE BOOKWORMS
THE BOOKWORM
A MOTH
THE CURE FOR BOOKWORMS
ROYAL PATRONAGE OF BOOKS
THE TREASURE
THE MOST VALUABLE BOOK
THE READERS AT THE BOOKSTALL
TETRACHORDON
THE SECOND-HAND CATALOGUE
THE FIND
PURCHASING AN ACT OF PIETY
A FORCED SALE
THE VOCATION
TO MY BOOKSELLER
THE WRITER TO HIS BOOK
AD BIBLIOPOLAM
IN BONDAGE TO THE BOOKSELLER
IN PATERNOSTER ROW
THE ELEPHANT AND THE BOOKSELLER
LITERARY UPHOLSTERERS
ON A MISCELLANY OF POEMS
VERSES TO BE PREFIXED BEFORE BERNARD LINTOTT'S NEW MISCELLANY
TO MR. MURRAY
TO THE EDITOR OF 'THE EVERY-DAY BOOK'
THE BANNATYNE CLUB, OR ONE VOLUME MORE
THE BOOKSELLERS' BANQUET
WHAT A HEART-BREAKING SHOP
GENTEEL ORNAMENTS
MAMMON AND BOOKS
THE POOR STUDENT
NATIONAL EXPENDITURE ON BOOKS
THE VALUE OF BOOK BORROWING
ACCIDENTS TO BOOKS
BORROWERS OF BOOKS
BORROWING AND LENDING
WEDDED TO BOOKS
THE ART OF BOOK-KEEPING
THE BOOK OF NATURE
THE BOOK
THE BOOK OF LIFE
THE WIND OVER THE CHIMNEY
A GREAT NECROMANCER
BOOKS FOR MAGIC
THE SECRET OF STRENGTH
RED LETTERS AND CONJURING
MERLIN'S BOOK
FAST AND LOOSE
READ THE SCRIPTURES
TO THE HOLY BIBLE
ON BUYING THE BIBLE
'I READ ONLY THE BIBLE'
A MAN OF ONE BOOK
HOMO UNIUS LIBRI
THE SCRIPTURES: WHAT ARE THEY?
'THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS'
NO BOOK LIKE THE BIBLE
TO A FAMILY BIBLE
THE BOOK OF BOOKS
A VERY PRICELESS THING
MATERIAL FOR POESY
SACRED AND PROFANE WRITERS
A STANDARD FOR LANGUAGE
THE GRAND MINE OF DICTION
THE ENGLISH OF THE BIBLE
THE BIBLE AND BURNS
THE BIG HA'-BIBLE
'OF THE IMITATION OF CHRIST'
LITERARY GEOGRAPHY
ON 'CORYAT'S CRUDITES'
LITERATURE FOR DESOLATE ISLANDS
BOOKS FOR THE SALON
THE LIBRARY AND THE GRAVE
THE LIBRARY A GLORIOUS COURT
THE LIBRARY AS STUDY
THE STUDY
THE CONSULTING ROOM OF A WISE MAN
THE LIBRARY A KEY TO CHARACTER
THE SCENT OF BOOKS
AN EPISCOPAL LIBRARY
A MODERN LIBRARY
SAFE AND UNTOUCHED
CIBBER'S LIBRARY
MR. SHANDY'S LIBRARY
DOMINIE SAMPSON IN THE LIBRARY
THE PEASANT'S LIBRARY
THE LIBRARY IN THE GARRET
MONTAIGNE'S LIBRARY
A COLLOQUY IN A LIBRARY
CHARLES LAMB'S LIBRARY
STANZAS COMPOSED IN THE REV. J. MITFORD'S LIBRARY
THE SHRINES OF THE ANCIENT SAINTS
A MOST HORRIBLE INFAMY
LIBRARIES FOR EVERY CITY
THE LIBRARY
THE REFERENCE LIBRARY
IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY
THE LIBRARY AN HERACLEA
BOOKS IN A NEW LIGHT
ON THE SIGHT OF A GREAT LIBRARY
REFLECTIONS IN A LIBRARY
THOUGHTS IN A LIBRARY
THE TRUE POEM ON THE LIBRARY
THE LIBRARY
THE LIBRARY
OF LIBRARIES: THE BODLEIAN
ON THE DEATH OF SIR THOMAS BODLEY
TO BE CHAINED WITH GOOD AUTHORS
PINDARIC ODE
ON SIR THOMAS BODLEY'S LIBRARY, THE AUTHOR BEING THEN IN OXFORD
THE BODLEIANS OF OXFORD
THE BODLEIAN: A DEAD SEA OF BOOKS
A COLLEGE LIBRARY
MERTON LIBRARY
OXFORD NIGHTS
ON THE LIBRARY AT CAMBRIDGE
THE SOUL'S VIATICUM
