Books and bidders

by A. S. W. Rosenbach

INDEX

• Adam, R. B., [161].
• Adonais, [25].
• Agnesi, Baptista, [274].
• Agriculture of Argyll County, [21].
• Alexander, forged letter of, [121].
• Althorp, Lord, [90], [91], [263].
• Ambrosian Library (Milan), [271].
• Amenities of Book Collecting (Newton), [47].
• America, History of (Robertson), [20].
• American Tract Society, [184].
• Americana, [45], [53-58], [172-177], [253], [265-299].
• See also Franklin and Washington.
• Amore di Florio e di Bianchafiore (Boccaccio), [29].
• Amoretti (Spenser), [148], [149], [150].
• Anderson Galleries sales, [53], [95], [219], [286].
• André, Major, forged letter of, [99], [100].
• “Annabel Lee,” MS. of, [164], [166], [167].
• Arcadia (Sidney), [61].
• Arnold, Benedict, letter of, [172], [173], [174].
• Articles of Confederation (U. S. A.), [176], [177].
• Asquith, Margot, [43].
• Autographs, A Book about, [119].
• Avery, Mary, [188].
• Ayer, Edward E., [252].
• Babes in the Wood, [195].
• Bache, Benjamin Franklin, [197], [198].
• Bacon’s Essays, [46], [50].
• Badeau, Gen. Adam, [299].
• Bancroft, George, [6].
• “Bannockburn,” original MS. of Burns’s, [162].
• Barker, Robert, [237].
• Barmudas, Discovery of the, etc., [265].
• Barnes (Berners), Dame Juliana, [30].
• Battle Abbey Cartularies, [257], [258].
• Baxter, Richard, [43], [79].
• Beatty, A. Chester, [225].
• Beauregard, Gen. Pierre Gustave
• Toutant, [292], [293];
• letter of Lee to, [295], [296].
• Beauties of the Primer, [199].
• Bellomont, Earl of, [64].
• Bement, Clarence S., [8], [18], [239].
• Bennett, Arnold, MS. of, [262].
• Berners (Barnes), Dame Juliana, [30].
• Bible, Aitken, [242].
• Bible, Bamberg (Pfister), [220], [221], [229].
• Bible, Baskett’s, [242].
• Bible, Breeches (Genevan), [239], [240], [241].
• Bible, Bug, [241].
• Bible, Conqueror, [222].
• Bible, Coverdale, [234], [236], [237].
• Bible, Eggestyn, [231].
• Bible, Eliot Indian, [78], [242].
• Bible, Genevan (Breeches), [239], [240], [241].
• Bible, Great, [231], [237].
• Bible, Great French, [231].
• Bible, Gutenberg, [17], [28], [83], [84], [89];
• in Mazarin Library, [211], [214], [215];
• the Melk copy of, [212];
• production of, [212], [213], [214];
• identification by De Bure, [214], [215];
• perfecting the types for, [216];
• copy in Eton College library, [217], [218];
• from the Vulgate MS., [218];
• copies bought by Dr. Rosenbach, [218], [219], [220];
• bought by James Lenox, [244].
• Bible, He, [237], [239].
• Bible, Jenson, [231].
• Bible, King James (Authorized), [237], [238], [239].
• Bible, Mainz (of 1462), [221].
• Bible, Mazarin. See Gutenberg Bible.
• Bible, Pfister (Bamberg), [220], [221], [229].
• Bible, “R”, [231].
• Bible, Saur, [242].
• Bible, She, [237].
• Bible, Strasburg, [231].
• Bible, Sweynheym and Pannartz, [231].
• Bible, Vinegar, [241], [242].
• Bible, Wicked, [241], [242].
• Bible for the Poor, [228], [229].
• Bible in English, [232-242].
• Bible MSS., Codex Vaticanus, [221];
• Codex Alexandrinus, [221];
• Codex Sinaiticus, [221], [222];
• illuminated copies, [222], [223], [224], [225];
• Four Gospels, ninth century, [223];
• Liesborn Gospels, [223], [224];
• Historiated Bible of fourteenth century, [224];
• early Hebrew copy, [224].
• Bibles, Thumb, [205].
• Biblia Pauperum, [228], [229].
• Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), [215], [229], [245].
• Bigelow, John, [141], [142].
• Bixby, William K., [40].
• Black Giles, [195].
• Blandford, Marquis of, [90], [91], [128].
• Block books, [226], [227], [228], [229].
• Boccaccio, Giovanni, [29], [90].
• Boker, George H., [6].
• Book of Hunting and Hawking, The, [30].
• Boswell, James, [14], [47], [126], [127], [128].
• Botticelli, Sandro, [229].
• Bowden, A. J., [81], [82].
• Boyle, Elizabeth, Faerie Queene presented to, [148], [149], [150].
• Bradford, Thomas, [206].
• Bradford, William (Governor), [281].
• Bradford, William (printer), [64], [65].
• Brailes, W. de, [224], [225].
• Brant, Sebastian, [22].
• Brawne, Fanny, letter of Keats to, [95], [96], [97].
• Brazil, National Library of, [221].
• Brevoort, James Carson, [267].
• Brewster, Sir David, [118].
• Brief and True Relation of the Discovery of the Northern Part of Virginia, A (Brereton), [277].
• Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (Hariot), [275].
• Brief Description of New York First Called New Netherlands (Denton), [282].
• Brigham, Clarence S., [288].
• Brinley, Dr. George, [19], [267].
• British Museum library, [50], [157], [221], [226], [244], [245], [246].
• Britwell Court sale, [52], [77], [257].
• Brown, Charles Brockden, [5].
• Brown, John Carter, [243], [244], [267], [272], [275].
• Brummell, George (“Beau”), letter of, [258].
• Bry, Théodore de, [275].
• Bryant, William Cullen, [6].
• Buccaneers of America, The, [206].
• Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, [27], [85], [158].
• Burns, Robert, Glenriddel MSS. of, [160], [161];
• Adam collection of, [161-164].
• California, University of Southern, [45].
• Call to the Unconverted, [43], [44], [79].
• Cambridge University library, [50], [245].
• Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, [115].
• Canterbury Tales, The, [29].
• Capell collection at Trinity College, [52].
• Carlos V (Lope de Vega), [77].
• “Carroll, Lewis” (C. L. Dodgson), forged autographs of, [111].
• Cartier (Jacques) atlas, [275].
• Carysfort sale, [219], [221].
• Casas, Bartolomé de las, [275].
• Catlin, George, [223].
• Caxton, William, [29], [62];
• History of Troy, [132];
• Golden Legend, [232], [233].
• Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), letter of, [100], [101], [102].
• Champlain, Samuel de, [66].
• Charles V, forged letter of, [118];
• genuine signature of, [269].
• Chasles, Michel, [117-121].
• Chatterton, Thomas, [128], [129], [130].
• Chattin, James, [198].
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, MSS. of, [252];
• contemporary portrait of, [252].
• Church, E. Dwight, [142].
• Cieza de Leon, Pedro de, [275].
• Civil Law (Brown), [20].
• Clarissa Harlowe, [204].
• Clark, C. W., [256].
• Clark, William A., Jr., [45], [80].
• Clemens, Samuel L. (“Mark Twain”), [164], [165].
• Clements, William L., [45].
• Cleopatra, forged letter of, [119].
• Cockerell, Sydney C., [224], [225].
• Colbert, Jean Baptiste, [21], [24].
• Colbreath, William, [289].
• Collections of Treaties (Jenkinson), [20].
• Columbus, Christopher, [269], [270];
• letter of, [271], [272].
• Compleat Angler, The, [30].
• Condell, Henry, [88], [151].
• Confederation, Articles of (U. S. A.), [176], [177].
• Confessio Amantis, [252].
• Congressional Library, [67], [176], [246].
• Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court, A, [164].
• Conrad, Joseph, [143], [144], [145].
• Cooper, James Fenimore, [6].
• Cortés, Hernando, [269], [274].
• Cosmographiæ Introductio, [273].
• Coster (Koster), Lourens Janszoon, [216].
• Cotton, Rev. John, [188], [189].
• Coverdale, Miles, [234], [236].
• Crane sale (1913), [198], [199].
• Crawford, Lord, [250].
• Cries of Philadelphia, The, [195].
• Dailey Meditations, or Quotidian Preparations for and Consideration of Death and Eternity (Johnson, 1668), [77].
• Dante (Foligno, 1472), [86].
• Dare, Virginia, record of birth in Smith’s Virginia, [280].
• Davies, Sir John, [52].
• Day, Mahlon, [207].
• De Bure, Guillaume-François, [214], [215].
• De Puy, Henry F., [173], [174].
• Deane, Silas, [176].
• Decades of the New World (Martyr), [273].
• Decameron (Boccaccio), [29], [90], [91].
• Declaration of Independence, Gwinnett a signer of, [53], [54], [286];
• certified copy of, [176], [288];
• letter of another signer (Rodney), [288].
• Defoe, Daniel, [59], [60].
• Delaware’s signer of the Declaration, [288].
• Denton, Daniel, [282].
• Devonshire, Duke of, [89], [248], [256].
• Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, [89], [90], [91].
• Dickens, Charles, letters about Pickwick Papers, [155], [157];
• page from the MS., [156];
• a gift to British Museum, [157];
• Haunted Man, [158], [159];
• MS. of his last letter, [160].
• Discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Isle of Devils (Jourdain), [265].
• Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (Hakluyt), [275].
• Dodd, Mead and Company, [81].
• Dodd, Robert, [81], [82].
• Don Quixote, [100].
• Drake, Francis, [275].
• Dreer, Ferdinand J., [105].
• Drinkwater, John, [26], [27].
• Drury Lane Theatre, [14].
• Dying Sayings of Hannah Hill, Junior, [182], [186], [187].
• Eames, Dr. Wilberforce, [192], [193].
• Eaton, John Henry, [6].
• Edmunds, Charles, [51].
• Electoral Library, Mainz, [215].
• Eliot, John, [43], [44], [78].
• Elizabeth, Queen, dedication of Genevan Bible to, [240].
• Elizabethan Club library, [50], [255].
• Elkins, William M., [202].
• Ellsworth, James W., [219], [273].
• Emancipation Proclamation, first draft of, [291].
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Whitman’s tribute to, [152], [153], [154].
• English Historical Manuscripts Commission, [258].
• Enough is as good as a Feast (Wagner), reprint of, [256].
• Epigrams and Elegies, [52].
• “Epimanes,” (Poe), [167], [168], [169].
• Epistles for the Ladies, [20].
• Estrées, Gabrielle d’, [68], [70], [72], [74].
• Eton College library, [217], [218].
• Faerie Queene, The, [148-151].
• Fall of Princes (Lydgate), [252].
• Fenwick, T. FitzRoy, [223].
• Fielding, Henry, [37].
• Fillon, Benjamin, [100].
• First folio Shakespeare, points on, [86];
• printing of, [88], [89].
• First Laws of New York, [64].
• Fitzgerald, Edward, [175].
• “Fitzvictor” (Shelley), [55].
• Fleet, T. and J., [201].
• Fletcher, John, letter to Countess of Huntingdon, [146].
• Fogel, Johann, [218].
• Folger, H. C., [53], [88], [256].
• Forgeries, [98-133].
• Forman, J. Buxton, [42], [95].
• Fortescue, Hon. John, [217].
• Fortune’s Lottery (Paice), [77].
• Foster, John, [281].
• Fox, George, [191].
• Fox, Joseph M., [18], [74].
• Franklin, Benjamin, epitaph of, [66], [67];
• letter of, [135];
• work book of his printing business, [136-139];
• MS. of his Autobiography, [142];
• signature to the Declaration, [176];
• children’s books, [189], [190], [191];
• Story of a Whistle, [195], [196];
• New England Primer, [196];
• Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth, [196], [197];
• letter to Jonathan Williams, [197], [198].
• Frederick the Great, [176], [177].
• Frederickson sale, [40].
• French National Library, [215], [229], [245].
• Freneau, Philip, [20].
• Frick, Henry C., [80].
• Fust, Johann, [216], [217], [221].
• Garrick, David, Prologue recited by, [14];
• letter of Dr. Johnson to, [48], [49].
• General Advertiser (London), [14].
• General Historie of Virginia (Smith), [267], [278];
• dedication of, [278], [279];
• extracts from, [280].
• General Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts, collected out of the Records of the General Court (1648), [63], [64].
• Gentleman’s Magazine, [14].
• George the Third, [246].
• Gerson, Johannes, [28].
• Glass of Whiskey, The, title and page of, [193], [194], [195].
• Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, [40].
• Golden Legend (Caxton), [232], [233].
• Goldsmith, Oliver, [202], [203].
• Goodspeed, Charles, [66], [67].
• Goody Two Shoes, [202].
• Gower, John, [252].
• Grammar, Lindley Murray’s, [6].
• Grant, Gen. Ulysses S., letter to his father (1861), [297];
• telegram announcing Lee’s surrender, [298], [299].
• Gratz, Simon, [119].
• Gray, Thomas, [13], [130], [217].
• Green, Bartholomew, [200].
• Green, T. (New Haven, 1740), [200], [201].
• Greene, Belle da Costa, [217].
• Greene, Robert, [146].
• Grenville, Hon. Thomas, [246].
• Gribbel, John, [160].
• Grolier, Jean, [21], [22].
• Grolier Club library, [50].
• Gundulph, Bishop of Rochester, Bible of, [222].
• Gutenberg, Johann, [213], [214], [216], [220].
• Gwinnett, Button, autographs, [53], [54], [286].
• Gwynne, Edward, [88].
• Hakluyt, Richard, [275].
• Hall, David, [139], [196].
• Halsey, Rosalie V., [198], [204].
• Hamlet, forged pages of, [126], [127], [128].
• Hancock, John, Washington letter to, [9], [10], [11].
• Handel, George Frederick, manuscript music of, [69].
• Hans Breitmann’s Party, and Other Ballads, [6].
• Hariot, Thomas, [275].
• Harkness, Mrs. E. S., [220].
• Harkness, Mrs. Stephen V., [220].
• Harmsworth, Sir R. L., [256], [261], [299].
• Harper, Lathrop C., [192], [193].
• Harvard University, Widener Library, [45], [46], [66], [85].
• Harvey, Gabriel, book given by Spenser to, [149].
• Hathaway, Anne, forged letter to, [126].
• Haunted Man, The (Dickens), [158], [159].
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, [26];
• MS. title-page of Wonder Book, [180];
• his copy of Hubbard’s history of Indian wars, [280], [281].
• Hawthorne, William, [281].
• Haydon, Benjamin Robert, [41].
• Heavenly Spirits for Youthful Minds, [193], [194].
• Heber, Richard, [61], [62], [248], [252], [257].
• Heminge, John, [88], [151].
• Henkels, Stan V., [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [68], [80], [81].
• Henry, Prince, Bible of, [239].
• Herrick, Robert, [255].
• Hesperides (Herrick), [255].
• Heywood, Thomas, [256].
• Hispanic Society Library, [275].
• Historie of New England (Winthrop), [281].
• Historie of Plimouth Plantation (Bradford), [281], [282].
• History of America (Robertson), [20].
• History of America abridged for the use of Children of all Denominations, [206], [207].
• History of Ann Lively and her Bible, [184].
• History of Little Fannie, etc., [209].
• History of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Epitomized; for the Use of Children in the South Parish at Andover, [184], [185].
• Hoe, Robert, [99], [176].
• Hoe sales, [30], [77], [83], [176], [218].
• Hogarth, Samuel Johnson’s epitaph for, [48], [49].
• Holford, Robert Stayner, [248].
• Holford, Sir George, [31], [53], [86], [249].
• Holkham MSS., [222].
• Hubbard, William, on the Indian wars in New England, [26], [280], [281].
• Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of, [187].
• Hunt, Leigh, [171].
• Huntington, Archer M., [100], [275].
• Huntington, Henry E., The Book of Hunting and Hawking, [30];
• devotion to book-collecting, [33];
• Queen Mab, [42];
• collection open to the public, [44], [45];
• Bacon’s Essays, [50];
• Venus and Adonis, [52];
• method of buying, [82], [83];
• first folio Shakespeare, [89];
• MS. of Franklin’s Autobiography, [142];
• Arnold letter, [174];
• the Royal Primer, [198], [199];
• the Conqueror Bible, [222];
• block books, [228];
• Coverdale Bible, [236];
• quoted, [252];
• his collection, [253];
• Hamlet, second edition, [255];
• Columbus letter, [271], [272];
• Cartier atlas, [275].
• Huth sales (1912), [46], [50];
• (1911), [238].
• Independence, Declaration of, [53], [54], [176], [286], [288].
• Independence Hall and Square, sale of, [177].
• Indian wars in New England, William Hubbard’s story of the, [26], [280], [281].
• Inland Navigation (Brown), [20].
• Instructions for Right Spelling, [191], [192].
• Ireland, William Henry, [122-128].
• Ives, Gen. Brayton, [40], [99], [267].
• Jack Juggler, title page of, [247].
• Jaggard, Isaac, [88].
• Jaggard, William, [88].
• Janeway, Rev. James, [189], [190].
• Jansen, Reinier, [191].
• Jennings, Samuel, attack on, [65].
• Jersey, Earl of, [29].
• Johnson, Jacob, [5], [183].
• Johnson, Marmaduke, [77].
• Johnson, Samuel, Prologue for Drury-Lane Theatre, [14];
• A. Edward Newton’s enthusiasm for, [47];
• Boswell’s Life, [47];
• letter suggesting epitaph for Hogarth, [48], [49].
• Johnson, W., [208].
• Johnson and Warner, [183].
• Jones, H. V., [269], [272].
• Jones, John Paul, Life of, [206].
• Jonson, Ben, verses on Shakespeare, [88], [89].
• Jordan, Mrs. (Dolly), [127], [128].
• Jourdain, Sylvester, [265].
• Journal of the most Material Occurrences proceeding the Seige of Fort Schuyler (Colbreath), [289].
• Joyce, James, MS. of, [171].
• “Judith and Holofernes” (woodcut), [233].
• Kane, Grenville, [272].
• Keats, John, Amy Lowell on, [39], [40];
• his copy of Shakespeare, [40];
• MS. of sonnet to Haydon, [41];
• Shelley letter referring to, [42];
• Wilde’s sonnet on sale of his love letters, [94];
• Morley’s sonnet on sale of one letter to Dr. Rosenbach, [95];
• MS. letter to Fanny Brawne, [96], [97];
• advancing value of, [181].
• Kemble, John Philip, [127], [128].
• Kennerley, Mitchell, [65], [66].
• Kern, Jerome D., [42].
• Killigrew, Thomas, [259].
• King Edward IV (Heywood), reprint of, [256].
• King Lear, forged copy of, [126], [128].
• King-Hamy chart, [273].
• Kingsborough, Lord, [223].
• Kirby, Thomas E., [80].
• Koster (Coster), Lourens Janszoon, [216].
• Lamport Hall, seat of Ishams, discoveries at, [51].
• Laud (William), Archbishop, [242].
• Lawler, Percy E., [136-139].
• Laws of New York (Bradford, 1694), [19].
• Lazarus, forged letter of, [120].
• Lee, Gen. Robert Edward, letter resigning commission in U. S. Army, [294], [295];
• letter after close of the war, [295], [296];
• Grant’s announcement of his surrender, [298], [299].
• Legacy for Children, being Some of the Last Expressions and Dying Sayings of Hannah Hill, Junr., etc., [186], [187].
• Leicester, Earl of, [222].
• Leland, Charles Godfrey, [6].
• Leningrad Library, [221].
• Lenox, James, [84], [243], [244], [267], [271], [272].
• Leonard, Zenas, [284].
• Lessons for Children from Two to Five Years Old, [197].
• Library, Ambrosian, [271];
• British Museum, [50], [157], [221], [226], [244], [245], [246];
• Cambridge University, [50], [245];
• Congressional, [67], [176], [246];
• Electoral (Mainz), [215];
• Elizabethan Club (Yale), [50], [255];
• Eton College, [217], [218];
• French National, [215], [229], [245];
• Grolier Club, [50];
• Hispanic Society, [275];
• Leningrad, [221];
• Mazarin, [24], [211], [212], [214], [215];
• National, of Brazil, [221];
• New York Public, [84], [228], [236], [237], [271];
• Newberry, [253];
• Philadelphia Free, [237], [250];
• Record Office, London, [146], [259];
• Somerset House, [146];
• Sorbonne, [23];
• Spanish National, [100];
• University of Michigan, [45];
• University of Pennsylvania, [197];
• University of Southern California, [45];
• Vatican, [221];
• Widener (Harvard), [45], [46], [66], [85];
• Windsor Castle, [217];
• Yale University, [220].
• See also names of individual collectors.
• Life of Samuel Johnson, [14], [47].
• Lincoln, Abraham, autographs of, [290];
• first draft of Emancipation Proclamation, [291];
• of Baltimore address, [291];
• other addresses and letters of, [291], [292];
• account of his death, [294].
• Little Truths, [206].
• Lives of Highwaymen, [206].
• Lives of Pirates, [206].
• Lives of the Twelve Cæsars, [206].
• Lord Jim (Conrad), MS. page of, [145].
• Louÿs, Pierre, [116].
• Lovelace, Richard, [255].
• Lowell, Amy, [39], [40].
• Lucas, Vrain, [117-121].
• Lucasta (Lovelace), [255].
• Lufft, Hans, [236].
• Luther, Martin, [235].
• Lydgate, John, [252].
• McCarty and Davis, [6], [183].
• MacDonald, Ramsay, [246].
• MacGeorge, Bernard Buchanan, [87].
• Malone, Edmund, [127].
• Malory, Sir Thomas, [29].
• Manutius, Aldus, [21].
• “Mark Twain,” [164], [165].
• Marlowe, Christopher, [52], [146], [261].
• Martyr, Peter, [273].
• “Marvel, Ik” (Donald G. Mitchell), [6].
• Mary Magdalene, forged letter of, [120], [121].
• Mason, William, [130].
• Mason, William S., [67], [196].
• Massingham, H. W., [142], [143].
• Mather, Cotton, [185], [190], [191].
• Mazarin, Cardinal (Jules), [21], [23], [211].
• Mazarin Library, [24], [211], [212], [214], [215].
• “Meistersinger, Die,” MS. page of, [73].
• Melville, Herman, [6], [26].
• Mentelin, [231].
• Menzies, William, [267].
• “Messiah, The” (Handel), MS. page of, [69].
• Michigan, University of, [45].
• Millar, Eric G., [225].
• Milne, A. A., [28].
• Milton, John, [259].
• Mitchell, Donald G., [6].
• Moby Dick, first edition, [26];
• presentation copy, [26], [27].
• Molière (Boucher, 1734), [85], [86].
• Moll Flanders, [206].
• Morgan, J. Pierpont, [238], [239], [245].
• See also Morgan Library.
• Morgan, Junius Spencer, [238].
• Morgan, Pierpont, Library, letter of George Washington, [10];
• Malory’s Morte d’Arthur (Caxton), [29];
• collection open to public, [45], [263];
• Vespucci letter and commonplace book, [56], [57];
• librarian of, [217];
• MS. Bibles, [222];
• Holkham MSS., [222];
• block books, [228];
• Lufft Bible, [236];
• Coverdale Bible, [236];
• He Bible, [239].
• Morley, Christopher, sonnet on Dr. Rosenbach’s purchase of Keats’s love letter, [95], [96], [97].
• Morrison, Alfred, [100].
• Morrison sale, [55].
• Morte d’Arthur, Le, [29].
• Mostyn, Lord, [256].
• Mother Goose’s Melodies, [203].
• Motherless Mary, a Young and Friendless Orphan, etc., [206].
• Mourt, George, [282].
• “Murders in the Rue Morgue, The,” [93].
• Murphy, Henry C., [267].
• Murray, Lindley, [6].
• Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England (Hubbard), [26], [280], [281].
• Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, MS. page of, [251].
• New England Magazine, Poe’s letter to, [170].
• New England Primer, [196].
• New England’s Prospect (Wood), [282].
• New York Cries, [207], [208].
• New York Public Library, [84], [228], [236], [237], [271], [272].
• Newbery, John, [202].
• Newberry Library, [253].
• Newton, A. Edward, [47], [67], [237].
• Nichols, Charles L., [288].
• North, Lord (Frederick), Benedict Arnold’s letter to, [172], [173], [174].
• Occleve, Thomas, Poems of, [252].
• Ockanickon, an Indian King, The Dying Words of, [81], [82].
• Odes, Gray’s, [13].
• Old Dame Trudge and Her Parrot, [209].
• Omar Khayyám, MS. of, [175].
• Paice’s Fortune’s Lottery, [77].
• Paine, Philip, Dailey Meditations, [77].
• Pallinganius’s Zodyacke of Lyfe, [77].
• Palmart, Lamberto, [37].
• Pamela, [204].
• Paraphrastical Exposition, etc. (1693), [65].
• Parker, James, [139].
• Pascal, forged letter of, [118].
• Passionate Pilgrim, The, [52].
• Patty Primrose, [187].
• Pellechet, Mademoiselle, [217].
• Penn, William, [282], [283].
• Pennsylvania, University of, [197].
• Pennypacker, Samuel W., [8], [9], [10], [11], [91].
• Penrod, [187].
• Pentateuch, forged text of, [225], [226];
• the Tyndale translation, [236].
• Pepys, Samuel, [259].
• Perry, Marsden J., [87], [128].
• Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation, [208], [209].
• Pforzheimer, Carl H., [159], [219], [237].
• Pfister, Albrecht, [220], [221], [229].
• Philadelphia Free Library, [237], [250].
• Philes, George P., [3].
• Philley, John, [65].
• Phillips, Samuel, [184], [185].
• Phillipps, Sir Thomas, [222], [223].
• Pickwick Papers, The, [155-159].
• Pilgrim’s Progress, The, [31], [32], [33].
• Pirates, a Tale for Youth, The, [206].
• Pizarro, Francisco, chart used by, [274], [275].
• Poe, Edgar Allan, [3], [4], [6], [93];
• MS. of “Annabel Lee,” [164], [166], [167];
• letters, [168], [170];
• MS. page of “Epimanes,” [169];
• advancing value of, [181].
• Poitiers, Diane de, [57], [58].
• Political State of Europe, The, [20].
• Pollard, Alfred W., [245], [255].
• Polock, Moses, [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [17], [18], [19], [35], [36], [37], [104], [105], [181-184], [264], [265], [266].
• Poor, Henry W., [79].
• Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson (Shelley), [55].
• Primer Improved, [199].
• Pretty Book for Children, A, [203].
• Prize for Youthful Obedience, The, [206].
• Proceedings of the Convention, 1775, Washington’s copy of, [288].
• Prodigal Daughter, or a strange and wonderful relation, etc., [202].
• Progressive Primer, [199].
• Prologue (Johnson) for opening Drury Lane Theatre, [14].
• Prophecies That Remain To Be Fulfilled (Winchester), [20].
• Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania, [196], [197].
• Prose Romances (Poe), [93], [95].
• Psalter of Fust and Schöffer, [217].
• Ptolemy’s Geography, [58].
• Pudd’nhead Wilson, [164].
• Pug’s Visit to Mr. Punch, [209].
• Putnam, Herbert, [246].
• Quaritch, Alfred, [63], [64], [84], [85], [218], [238].
• Quaritch, Bernard, [99].
• Queen Mab, [40], [42].
• Quentel, Peter, [235], [236].
• Quinn sale (1924), [143].
• Record Office, London Public, [146], [259].
• Redgrave, G. R., [255].
• Reed, John Watson, [89].
• Relation or Journal of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation settled at Plimouth in New England (Mourt), [282].
• Republican Party, Lincoln’s MS. speech about formation of, [291], [292].
• Revere, Paul, [287].
• Reynard the Fox, [11].
• Ricci, Seymour de, [174].
• Richelieu, Cardinal (Armand Jean du Plessia), [21], [22], [23].
• Richmond, George H., and Company, [81].
• Rio de Janeiro, national library at, [221].
• Robertson, William, [20].
• Robinson Crusoe, [59], [60].
• Rodney, Cæsar, [288].
• Rosenbach, A. S. W., purchase of a Washington letter, [10], [11];
• Reynard the Fox, [11], [12];
• Gray’s Odes, [13], [14];
• Johnson’s Drury Lane Prologue, [14], [15];
• Gutenberg Bible, [17];
• inheritance from Moses Polock, [19];
• books from Washington’s library, [20];
• first edition Adonais, [25];
• Moby Dick, [26], [27];
• Shakespeare first folio, [27];
• The Book of Hunting and Hawking, [30];
• Pilgrim’s Progress, [31], [32], [33];
• Keats’s copy of Shakespeare, [40];
• Shelley’s own copy of Queen Mab, [40];
• Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted in Indian language, [43];
• letter of Dr. Johnson to Garrick, [48], [49];
• second edition Venus and Adonis, [53];
• signature of Button Gwinnett, [53], [54];
• letter of Amerigo Vespucci, [55], [56];
• commonplace book of Giorgio Vespucci, [56], [57];
• first edition Robinson Crusoe, [59], [60], [61];
• book from Lamb’s library, [61];
• Bradford’s First Laws of New York, [64];
• first book printed in New York, [65];
• Franklin’s first draft of his own epitaph, [66], [67];
• Missal of Gabrielle d’Estrées, [68], [70], [71], [72], [74];
• MS. of Handel’s
• “Messiah,” [69];
• MS. of Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger,” [73];
• Lope de Vega’s Carlos V, [77];
• first volume of verse printed in North America, [77], [78], [79];
• Unpublishable Memoirs, [82];
• first folio Shakespeare, [84], [85];
• the Holford first folio, [86];
• four folios from the Perry sale, [87];
• volume of nine Shakespeare plays, [88];
• Poe’s Prose Romances, [93];
• MS. sonnet by Oscar Wilde on sale of Keats’s love letters, [94];
• letter of Keats to Fanny Brawne, [95], [96], [97];
• autograph letter of Cervantes, [100], [101], [102];
• letter written by George Washington, [106], [107];
• illustrated MS. letter of Thackeray, [110];
• MS. of Wilde’s Salomé, [112], [113], [114], [116];
• MS. dedication of Wilde’s Sphinx, [115];
• forgery of a Shakespeare MS. by Ireland, [123];
• Ireland’s confession, [128];
• autograph letter of Franklin, [135];
• Franklin’s work book of his press, [138], [139];
• MSS. of Bernard Shaw, [142], [143];
• MS. of Conrad’s Victory, [143], [144];
• of Lord Jim, [145];
• Shakespeare’s Troylus and Cresseida, [147];
• presentation copy, first edition of The Faerie Queene, [148], [149], [150];
• book given by Spenser to Gabriel Harvey, [149];
• MS. of Walt Whitman’s “By Emerson’s Grave,” [152], [153], [154];
• Dickens’s letter about beginning Pickwick, [155], [157];
• MS. pages of Pickwick, [156], [157];
• Dickens’s note in verse, [158], [159];
• his last written letter, [160];
• MS. poems of Burns, [161], [162], [163], [164];
• MSS. of Mark Twain, [164], [165];
• Poe’s “Annabel Lee” and “Epimanes,” [166], [167], [168], [169], [170];
• MS. page of Joyce’s Ulysses, [171];
• letter of Benedict Arnold, [172], [173], [174];
• MS. page of the Rubáiyát, [175];
• contemporary certified copies Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation (U.S.), [176], [177];
• MS. title page of Hawthorne’s Wonder Book, [180];
• collection of old-fashioned books for children, [182-209];
• Gutenberg Bibles, [212], [213], [218], [219], [220];
• Pfister (Bamberg) Bible, [220], [221];
• the 1462 Bible (Mainz), [221];
• MS. Bible of eleventh century, [222];
• Gospels of ninth century, [223], [224];
• French illustrated Bible of fourteenth century, [224];
• early English Bible pictures, [224], [225];
• ancient block books, [227], [228];
• Jenson Bible (1479), [231];
• Caxton books, [232], [233];
• annotated He Bible (1611), [239];
• Jack Juggler (1555), [247];
• MS. of White’s Selborne, [251];
• MSS. of Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and Occleve, [252];
• the Battle Abbey Cartularies, [257], [258];
• letter of Beau Brummell, [258];
• MS. of Arnold Bennett, [262];
• a tea-ship broadside, [266];
• old Spanish MS. concerning Cortés, signed by Charles V, [268], [269];
• Columbus letter (1493), German edition, [271], [272];
• the King-Hamy chart, [273];
• charts used by Cortés and Pizarro, [274], [275];
• tailor’s bill to De Soto, [276];
• first work of Captain John Smith, [277], [278];
• Washington’s autographed copy of Proceedings of the Convention (Richmond, 1775), [285];
• signature of Button Gwinnett, [286];
• pass for Paul Revere, signed by Joseph Warren, [287], [288];
• Cæsar Rodney letter about signing of the Declaration, [288];
• Lincoln letters, [290];
• first draft of Emancipation Proclamation, [291];
• Lincoln’s Baltimore address, [291];
• his speech on formation of Republican Party, [291], [292];
• his letter about the flag, [292];
• Walker letters about Confederate flag, [292], [293];
• notebook describing Lincoln’s death, [294];
• Lee’s resignation of commission in U. S. Army, [294], [295];
• letter to Beauregard; after the surrender, [295], [296];
• letter of Grant to his father, [297];
• telegram of Grant to Stanton, announcing Lee’s surrender, [298], [299].
• Rosenbach, Philip H., [85], [112], [172], [176], [177], [268], [269].
• Rosenbach, Rebecca, [183], [184].
• Rosier, James, [277].
• Rowley, Thomas (Chatterton), [129], [130].
• Roxburghe, Duke of, [89], [90], [248].
• Royal Battledoor, The, [203].
• Royal Primer, [198], [199].
• Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The, [175].
• Rule of the New-Creature. To be Practiced every day in all the Particulars of which are Ten, [188].
• Rutland, Duke of, [259].
• Rylands (John) Memorial Library, [229], [245], [263].
• Santangel, Luis de, Columbus
• letters to, [270], [271], [272].
• Sassoon, David, [224].
• Sauvages, Des (Champlain, 1603), [66].
• Savonarola, Girolamo, [229].
• Scarlet Letter, The (quoted), [281].
• Schelling, Felix E., [259].
• Schöffer, Peter, [216], [217], [221], [236].
• School of Good Manners Composed for the Help of Parents, etc., [201].
• Schoolmaster Printer, the, [30].
• Scolenberg, Baron von, [177].
• Scotch Rogue, The, [206].
• Scott, Sir Walter (quoted), [252].
• Scott, Gen. Winfield, Lee’s letter to, resigning commission, [294], [295].
• Search after Happiness, The, [206].
• Second Part of the Tragedy of Amboyna, [282].
• Sedgwick, Theodore, [54].
• Shakespeare, first folio, [27], [84], [85], [86], [87], [88];
• second folio, [35];
• Keats’s copy of, [40];
• Venus and Adonis, [51], [52];
• The Passionate Pilgrim, [52];
• Poems, [87];
• history of folios, [87], [88], [89];
• Jonson’s verses in, [88], [89];
• early sales of, [89];
• forged MSS. of, [122-128];
• Vortigern and Rowena (forged), [127], [128];
• Troylus and Cresseida, [147];
• editorial comment on his MSS., [151], [152];
• Trowbridge set of the four folios, [219];
• earliest American purchase of a first folio, [244];
• Hamlet, second edition, [255], [256];
• The Tempest, [265].
• Shapira, ----, [225], [226].
• Shaw, George Bernard, [142], [143].
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• Queen Mab, [40], [42];
• personal correspondence, [42];
• notes, [42];
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• advancing value of, [181].
• Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, [128].
• Ship of Fools, The, [22].
• Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1475-1640, [255].
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• Skinner, Abraham, Washington letter to, [9], [10].
• Smith, George D., [52], [83], [198], [199].
• Smith, Harry B., [40], [155].
• Smith, John, [267], [277], [278], [279], [280].
• Some Excellent Verses for the Education of Youth, [200].
• Somerset House, [146].
• Sorbonne, library of the, and Richelieu collection, [23].
• Sotheby sales, [31], [32], [33], [52], [84], [85], [87], [89], [90], [91].
• Soto, Hermando de, [276].
• Spanish National Library, [100].
• Spencer, Earl, [90], [91], [245], [248], [263].
• Spenser, Edmund, [148-151].
• Sphinx, The (Wilde), dedication of, [115].
• Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes. In either England: Drawn out of the breasts of both Testaments, etc. (1684), [188], [189].
• Spitzer chart, [275].
• Spring, Robert, [105], [106].
• Stanton, Edwin M., [298], [299].
• Stevens, Henry, [243], [244].
• Story of a Whistle, The, [196].
• Strawberry Hill Press, the, [13].
• Streeter, Thomas E., [200].
• Stuart, John T., [290].
• Sussex, Duke of, [248].
• Swann, Mrs. Arthur W., [54].
• Sweynheym and Pannartz, [231].
• Sykes, Sir Mark, [248].
• Taft, C. S., [294].
• Tea-ship broadside, [266].
• Tempest, The, [265].
• Thackeray, William M., forged notes of, [109], [111];
• genuine MS. of, [110].
• Thomas, Isaiah, [202].
• Thomas à Becket, [232].
• Thou, Jacques Auguste de, [21], [24].
• Token for Children, being an exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives and Joyous Deaths of Several Young Children (1749), [189], [190].
• Token for the Children of New England or some Examples of Children, in whom the Fear of God was remarkably budding before they died, etc., [190], [191].
• Tom Jones, [36], [204].
• Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of, [187].
• Tom Sawyer Abroad, [164], [165].
• Tower of London, architect of the, [222].
• Travers, Clayton L., [191], [192].
• Treasure Island, [122], [187].
• Treaties, Collections of (Jenkinson), [20].
• Troylus and Cresseida, title page (1609), [147].
• True Relation of such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate as hath hapned in Virginia (Smith), [277].
• True Relation of the most prosperous Voyage made this present year 1605 in the Discovery of the Land of Virginia, A (Rosier), [277].
• Tunstall, Bishop Cuthbert, [234], [235].
• Tyndale, William, [234], [235], [236].
• Ulysses (Joyce), MS. page of, [171].
• Unpublishable Memoirs, [82].
• Utopia (More), [60], [61].
• Van Antwerp, William C., [84].
• Vatican library, [221].
• Vega, Lope Felix de, [77].
• Venus and Adonis, [51], [52], [53].
• Verses for Little Children, by a Friend, [200].
• Vespucci, Amerigo, letter of, [55], [56], [57].
• Vespucci, Giorgio Antonio, [56], [57].
• Victory (Conrad), MS. page of, [144].
• Virginia Journal, [19].
• Virtuous William, [187].
• Voyages, De Bry’s, [275].
• Wagner, Wilhelm Richard, MS. of, [73].
• Waldseemüller, Martin, [273].
• Walker, Gen. Leroy P., [292], [293].
• Walker, Matilda Pope, [293].
• Wallace, Sir Richard, [248].
• Walpole, Horace, [13], [14], [130].
• Walton, Izaak, [30].
• Warner, Benjamin, [5].
• Warren, Gen. Joseph, [287].
• Washington, George, letters of, [9], [10], [11];
• locket with hair of, [15], [16];
• books from library of, [19], [20];
• MS. of, [106], [107];
• forged correspondence of, [108];
• autographed copy of Proceedings of the Convention (Richmond, 1775), [285].
• Washington, Martha, [20], [21];
• letter written by G. W. for, [106], [107].
• Webster, Noah, [6], [206].
• Wehkomaonganoo Asquam Peantogig, [43], [79].
• West Indian Voyage (Drake), [275].
• When We Were Very Young, [28].
• White, Gilbert, MS. of, [251].
• White, William A., [33], [157], [253].
• Whitman, Walt, MS. of “By Emerson’s Grave,” [152], [153], [154].
• Who Killed Cock Robin, [209].
• Widekind, King, Gospels of, [223], [224].
• Widener, Harry Elkins, [45], [46], [66], [85].
• Widener, Joseph, [87], [218].
• Widener Library (Harvard), [45], [46], [66], [85].
• Widener, P. A. B., [45], [80], [218].
• Wilde, Oscar, original and forged MSS. of, [94], [112];
• Salomé, [112], [113], [114], [116];
• dedication of The Sphinx to Mrs. Campbell, [115].
• William Penn’s Conversion from a Gentleman to a Quaker, [282], [283].
• William the Conqueror, [222], [257].
• Windsor Castle library, [217].
• Winnie-the-pooh, [187].
• Winship, George Parker, [288].
• Winthrop, John (Governor), [185], [187], [281].
• Wise, Thomas J., [42], [256].
• Wolsey (Thomas), Cardinal, [234], [235].
• Wood, William, [282].
• Wrigley and Berriman, [206], [207].
• Wroth, Lawrence C., [288].
• Wynkyn de Worde, [62].
• Yale University Library, [220].
• Young, Owen D., [157].
• Zodyacke of Life, The, [77].

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Transcriber’s Notes:

Variations in spelling and hyphenation are retained.

Perceived typographical errors have been changed.

The index entry of p156 for Marlowe, Christopher, has been corrected to p146.

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