INDEX.
Aberdeen laird, an, described by his wife, [10] et seq.
Adams, Dr Francis, an eminent Greek scholar, [264] et seq.
Adventures of Saints, [396], [397].
Advertisements, reading of, [156] et seq.
—curious historical interest of, [160] et seq.
Aidan and Columba, [383].
Ailbhe, St, and the cranes, [390].
Albania, a poem, reprinted by Leyden, [196].
Alexandrian Library, destruction of, by fire, [211].
Almanacs, as affording profitable reading, [155] et seq.
Amateur book-hunters, [106] et seq.
Ambrosian Library, the, at Milan, [198].
American collections dealing with early American history, [189] et seq.
Americans duplicating old European Libraries, [174]
—in relation to art and letters, ib.
—combating for rarities, [175]
—ransacking and anatomising private collections, [178].
Ancient literature, considerable amount of, lost, [324].
Angelo Maï of the Vatican, [229]
—recovery by him of Institute of Gaius, [326].
Annotating of books a crime and a virtue, [185] et seq.
Antiquarianism known as archæology, [3].
Architecture, Church, of the early British Christians, [372].
Ardsnischen, Pastor of, buying a Greek New Testament, [60].
Armagh, Book of, [388] et seq.
Assessed Taxes Department in relation to decay of libraries, [192].
Astor, John Jacob, the bequest of, [174].
Astorian Library, wealth of the, [176] et seq.
Atticus as a dealer and capitalist publisher, [108] note.
Attorneys in Norwich, in Norfolk, and in Suffolk, [141] et seq.
Auchinleck Press, account of, [294] et seq.
Auctioneers: Carfrae, [60] et seq.
—Evans, [93] et seq.
—anecdote of a Cockney auctioneer, [178].
Auction-haunter different from prowler, [88] et seq.
Authors and compositors, [77] et seq.
Bacon commending brevity of old Scots Acts, [146].
Bailiff, the, and the writ, [136] note.
Baillet, Adrien, librarian and author of Jugemens des Savans, [230] et seq.
Ballad fabricating, [306].
Bannatyne Club, [284] et seq.
—Scott's song for festivities of, [285].
Barclay, Colonel, a Quaker, anecdote of, [9] note.
Bargain hunters and their leanings, [162].
Baskerville, the Birmingham printer, inaccuracy of, [67].
Bede on the Saints, [379].
Bentham, words in one sentence of an Act of Parliament counted by, [144].
Bethune, Rev. Dr, Waltonian Library of, [87] et seq.
Bible, inaccurate editions of, [67] et seq.
—old editions comparatively numerous, [218].
Bibliognoste, definition of, [5] note.
Bibliographe, definition of, [5] note.
Bibliographers, function of, a cruel one, [237] et seq.
—victimising each other, [242].
Bibliographical Decameron, various quotations from, [93], [294] et seq.
Bibliographies, [233] et seq.
—on special subjects, [235]
—those devoted to the best books, [239].
Bibliomane, definition of, [5].
Bibliomania a disease, [13].
"Bibliomania," Dibdin's, quotations from, [18]
—Ferriar's, quotation from, [86], [87] note.
Bibliophile, definition of, [5].
Bibliotaphe, definition of, [5].
Bibliothèque bleue, anecdote connected with the, [50].
Bibliuguiancie discussed by Peignot, [220].
"Bill-books" of compositors, [79] et seq.
Binders, famous, [28].
Bindings, "Inchrule" Brewer's love of, [28]
—bindings as relics, [30].
Boccaccio, editio princeps of, [91]
—cause of its extreme rarity, [92]
—sold at the Roxburghe Library sale, [94] et seq.
Bodleian Library, origin of, [198].
Bohemian of literature, [108] et seq.
Bohun, Edmond, a Jacobite and last English licenser, [208].
Bollandus, his great work on the Saints, [355] et seq.
—the persistent labours of his successors, [356].
Book-caterers, [20] et seq.
Book-clubs, [243] et seq.
—their structure, [251]
—advantages of, [255] et seq.
—confining their attention to books of non-members, [257]
—the Sydenham Club, [265]
—the Roxburghe Club, ib. et seq., &c.
—their gradual growth, [266] et seq.
—Dibdin's description of the origin of the Roxburghe Club, [267]
—their secrecy, [271]
—the Bannatyne Club, [284] et seq.
—book-club men, ib. et seq.
—character of their editors, [307], [315]
—value of such clubs to history, [309]
—their literature, [311]
—Camden Club, ib.
—Chetham Club, [312]
—Surtees Club, ib.
—Maitland Club, ib.
—Spalding Club, ib.
—Irish Archæological and other Clubs, ib. et seq.
—purity of text of book-club literature, and consequent historical value, [322] et seq., [327]
—as art unions, [404] et seq.
Book-hunters as creators of libraries, [168] et seq., [197]
—as preservers of literature, [205] et seq.
—as chiffoniers, [219]
—as discoverers of valuable and curious books, [224]
—as librarians, [227] et seq.
—their clubs, [243] et seq.
—various titles of, [5], [6]
—vision of mighty book-hunters, [14]
—book-hunters as bibliothaptes and bibliolytes, [54] et seq.
—classification of, [64] et seq.
—as Rubricists, [63]
—as aspirants after large paper copies, [86]
—their place in the dispensations of Providence, [101] et seq.
—the harmlessness and advantages of their disease, [102] et seq.
—book-hunters and dealers, [104]
—in relation to other hobby-riders, [105]
—their lack of mercenary spirit, ib. et seq.
—in the amateur phase, [106] et seq.
—their freedom from low company, [109]
—their intellectual advantages, ib. et seq.
—from their pursuit readers and scholars, [114]
—their delight in a new toy, [123].
Books, annotating of, a crime and a virtue, [185] et seq.
—their decay from natural causes, [211] et seq.
—books, large and solid, factors in the acquisition of fame, [215]
—such only fitted for authors and students, [252]
—books, small and fragile, preserved by book-hunters, [215]
—rarity of old school-books, ib. et seq.
—importance of any kind of old books, [217]
—rare books printed by early English printers, [218] et seq.
—David Clement on rare books, [224] et seq.
—rare books not always rare, [225]
—books as introducers of books, [233]
—reproduction of old and rare books by book-clubs, [246] et seq.
—books used in Ireland in sixth century, [388].
Boswell, Sir Alexander, as a book-club man, [292] et seq.
—his reprints, [293]
—his Auchinleck Press, [294]
—his character and writings, [295] et seq.
Botfield, Beriah, his work, [194] note.
Bourdaloue, favourite reading of, [112].
Brewer, "Inchrule," as a mighty book-hunter, [25] et seq.
—origin of his name, [26]
—his love of bindings, [28]
—his satellites, [31] et seq.
British Museum, deposits of books in, [194] note
—origin of library, [197] et seq.
Brunet as an "Inchruler," [26]
—his description of an Elzevir Cæsar, ib. note.
Buckle, historical researches of, [342].
"Bulls," Irish, in unlikely books, [132] et seq.
—specimen of an index "bull," [133].
Burton, Mr, private library of, [182] et seq.
Butler, poetical remains of, discovered by the antiquary Thyer, [326].
Camden Club, purpose of, [311]
—a curious volume of, [315] et seq.
"Canadian," mistaken use of, for Candian, [74].
Carfrae, the auctioneer, [60] et seq.
—selling fragments of early English poetry, [61].
"Causes Célèbres," records of French and German crime, [149] et seq.
—their fitness for novel-making, [150].
Celtic Christianity, [369] et seq., [377] et seq.
Chetham Club, purpose of, [312].
Church architecture of early British Christians, [372] et seq.
Classical literature, incompleteness of, [324]
—recent discoveries in, of paltry value, [325] et seq.
Classification of book-hunters, [62].
Clement, David, illustrious French bibliographer, [224].
Clubs in general, [243] et seq.
Cogswell, Dr, first librarian of the Astorian Library, [174] et seq.
Collectors and their satellites, [30] et seq.
—as book-readers, [113] et seq.
—in relation to the scholar, [115].
Columba, St Adamnan's life of, [374]
—among the Picts, [377]
—settling succession of Aidan, [383]
—anecdotes of, [387], [389], [403], &c.
—Columba fishing, [395].
Compositors, characteristics of, [76] et seq.
—their reasons for interest in an author's work, [77] et seq.
—"bill-books" of, [79]
—their professional apathy, [81].
Copyright Act, value of, [191].
"Course of reading," a so-called, [110].
Creation of libraries, [168] et seq.
Criminal trials, attractive interest of, [148]
—"illustrating" of, [150].
Cuthbert, St, and the solan-geese, [390] et seq.
Dame aux Camélias quoted, [10] note.
Dealers in their relations to book-buyers, [107].
Decay of books, [211] et seq.
De Quincey on the Society of Friends, [8], [9].
Desultory reader, or Bohemian of literature, [108] et seq.
Devices of old printers, collection of, [64] et seq.
Dibdin, quotation from his Bibliomania, [18]
—known as "Foggy Dibdin," [89]
—at the Roxburghe sale, [91]
—as a book-hunter, [165]
—on the cradle of the book-club system, [267]
—his "Library Companion," [280] et seq.
"Didot" Horace, in the Junot Library, [63].
Dietrich, collection of theses by, [64].
Diogenes, the so-called tub of, [120] note.
Directory of a city, the, as affording profitable reading, [155].
Douglas, Francis, anecdote told in his description of the east coast of Scotland, [9] note.
"Dragon" as a book-hunter, vide "Vampire."
Drunkenness of a former age, [11].
Duplicates, first buying of, [16]
—most virulent form of bibliomania, [173].
Early Northern Saints, [352] et seq.
Ecchellensis, Abraham, his controversy with Flavigny, [67].
Ecclesiastical architecture, [372] et seq.
Ecclesiologist, the, as editor of book-club literature, [321].
Editions of the Classics, typographical blunders in, [68].
"Editio princeps," advantages of possessing an, [167]
—of Boccaccio, [91].
Elzevir Cæsar, Brunet's measurement of, [26]
—origin of its rarity, [66].
Elzevirs, reason of their not being rare at present, [225].
Errors in the various editions of the Bible, [67] et seq.
Evans, the auctioneer, [93].
Exchequer bill, curious specimen of, [134] et seq.
Facsimiles, extensive manufacture of, [27].
Farmer, Dr Richard, and Johnson, [130] et seq.
Feuerbach's German collection of causes célèbres, [149].
Ferrier's Bibliomania, quotation from, [86] note.
Fires in libraries, [210] et seq.
Fisher, Rev. John, Bishop of Rochester, originator of Library of St John's, [204] et seq.
Flavigny's controversy with Abraham Ecchellensis, [67].
Fountains, religious controversies connected with, [401] et seq.
French causes célèbres, [149] et seq.
French novels, the morals of, [10].
Friends, Society of, greatest criminals found among, [8]
—De Quincey's testimony to the same effect, ib. et seq.
Furniture, old, [192].
Fustian, curious statute of Henry VII. concerning, [142] et seq.
Game of Chess, by Caxton, captured in Holland by Snuffy Davie, [222].
Genealogist, a, as editor of book-club literature, [316] et seq.
—his influence and genius, [318].
Genealogy, Scottish peculiarities in, [317]
—extract on, from the Liber de Antiquis Legibus, [318].
Genius, rewards of, unequally distributed, [258].
Glasgow, the shield argent of, [393] et seq.
Gleaner, the, and his harvest, [124] et seq.
"Good reader," a, the bore of a house, [113].
Gordon, Sir Robert, collector of Gordonstoun Library, [97] et seq.
Government and public libraries, [191].
Graham, Mr Lorimer, collection by, [186] et seq.
Grandison, Sir Charles, his perfection a defect, [8].
"Grangerites," peculiar glory of, [82] et seq.
—origin of name, ib.
—their mode of proceeding, [83] et seq.
Greek nomenclature, abuses and merits of, [2].
Grollier, a princely collector, [48].
Hagiology, [353].
Hallervord, John, Bibliotheca Curiosa of, [241].
Harvard Library, loss of old, [190].
Havelok the Dane reprinted by Roxburghe Club, [279].
Hazlewood, Joseph, a black sheep in the Roxburghe Club, [272]
—description of his treasures, ib. et seq.
—title of one of his reprints, [273]
—description of another of his reprints, ib. note
—fate of his History, [274].
Heathenism in the British Isles, [400] et seq.
Heber, Richard, origin of his library, [98] et seq.
—Dibdin and Heber, [99]
—duplicating his collection, [173].
Hierology of Greece, [359].
Highland springs, pilgrimages to, [299].
Historical literature, reprints of, [327]
—in manuscript, ib. et seq.
Histrio-Mastix of Prynne, its unfortunate history, [129] et seq.
Hobby, the, of book-hunting, [101] et seq.
Hortensius, [267].
Illustrating of criminal trials, [150]
—its advantages to posterity, ib. et seq.
—at its height, [180] note.
—illustrating a folio copy of Shakespeare, ib. note.
Illustrators of books, the, known as "Grangerites," [82]
—their mode of proceeding, [83] et seq.
Imperfect copies, completion of, [27].
Index Expurgatorius of Charles Lamb, [152] note.
Inlaying, process of, [219].
Iona, the saints of, [382].
Ireland, history of, in early times fabulous, [362];
Keating's History, ib. et seq.
Ireland, primitive church in, [368] et seq.
Irish Archæological and other Clubs, [312] et seq.
Irish "bulls," instances of, [132].
Irish statutes and Irish history, [146] et seq.
Jöcher, Allgemeines Gelehrten Lexicon of, [235].
Johnson and Dr Richard Farmer, [130] et seq.
Johnston, Captain, his Lives of Highwaymen and Pirates, [149].
Jolly, Bishop Robert, [244]
—as a book-hunter, [245].
"Jolly" Club, the, [246].
Jones, Sir William, reading Cicero, [111].
Junot, the library of, [63].
Keating, Jeffrey, D.D., his History of Ireland, [363] et seq.
Kent, Chancellor, collection of, [184] et seq.
Kentigern, St, anecdotes of, [392] et seq.
Knox, Vicesimus, Spirit of Despotism by, [197].
Lamb, Charles, Index Expurgatorius of, [152] note.
Large-paper copies, aspirants after, [86].
Laurentian Library at Florence, [198].
Law books, composition of, [118].
Law maxims, absurd book on, [138] note.
Law papers as furnishing humorous reading, [135] et seq.
Law technicalities, vagaries of, [136] et seq.
Levant monks, apathy of, with reference to priceless books, [209].
Librarians recruited from the ranks of book-hunters, [227]
—disadvantages of "Cerberus" librarians, [228] et seq.
—Angelo Maï of the Vatican, [229]
—Magliabecchi, ib. et seq.
—Adrien Baillet, [230] et seq.
—librarians as scholars, [231] et seq.
Libraries as stimulants to intellectual culture, [115] et seq.
—growth of great libraries, [169]
—impossibility of their being improvised, ib. et seq.
—their gradual accumulation, [170] et seq.
—Imperial Library at Paris, [176], [205], &c.
—size of American libraries, Harvard, Astorian, Library of Congress, Boston Athenæum, [176]
—their large number in the States, ib.
—The Private Libraries of New York, by James Wynne, M.D., [177]
—specimen of a New York interior, [182]
—library of Chancellor Kent, [184] et seq.
—of Mr Lorimer Graham, [186]
—of Rev. Dr Magoon, [187] et seq.
—of Mr Menzies, [189] note
—Harvard Library, [190]
—Government and public libraries, [191]
—privileged libraries and the Copyright Act, [193] note
—British Museum Library, [197] et seq.
—Ambrosian Library at Milan, [198]
—Laurentian Library at Florence, ib.
—Bodleian Library, ib.
—Memoirs of Libraries, by Edward Edwards, [199] note
—Durham College Library, nucleus of Trinity of Oxford, [203]
—burning of Alexandrian Library, [211].
Licensing, abolition of, in England, [208].
Limiting number of impressions, [281] et seq.
Literary forgeries, moral code of, [303] et seq.
Long Parliament, proceedings of, [328] et seq.
Lucullus, Magnus, of Grand Priory, [46] et seq.
Lycanthropy, [279].
Magi, in their conflicts with saints, [401] et seq.
Magliabecchi, the librarian, [229] et seq.
Magoon, Rev. Dr, library of, [187] et seq.
Maitland Club, [312].
Margaret, Queen of Scotland, as a saint, [355].
Meadow, Archdeacon, description of as a mighty book-hunter, [14]
—at an auction, [15]
—a portion of his collection sold, [17]
—reputed to read his own books, [18]
—his learning, [19].
Medici, library of the, [198] et seq.
Men of the Time, printers' blunders in, [75].
Menzies, Mr, valuable American collection of, [189] note.
Metaphysics, origin of name, [127].
Monkbarns as a book-hunter, [165] et seq.
—his description of Snuffy Davie's prowlings, [221] et seq.
Nathalan, St, anecdote of, [395].
Newgate Calendar, interest of, [148].
New York, private libraries of, [177] et seq.
Nomenclature, Greek, abuses and merits of, [2].
Noy, Attorney-General, and the Histrio-Mastix, [130].
Oelrichs, John Charles Conrad, rare work by, [207].
Old writers, their careful disclaiming of original ideas, [117].
Olio, Grose's, extract from, [54] note.
Onslow, Mr, and naming of members of Parliament, [131].
Owen's Parallelograms, the nature of, [13]
—biographical notice of Owen in Men of the Time, [75] et seq.
Oxford, Bishop of, biographical notice of, in Men of the Time, [75].
Palæographist, meaning of the name, [3].
Palimpsest, meaning of, [3].
Pamphlets, careful preservation of, enforced, [339].
Panel, meaning of, in England and in Scotland, [138].
Papaverius, Thomas, [32] et seq.
—his unpunctuality, [33]
—his costume, ib. et seq.
—his eloquence, [35], [36]
—on vagrancy, [38]
—his irresponsibility in pecuniary matters, [39]
—his charity, [41]
—as a philosopher of human nature, [42]
—as a book-hunter, ib. et seq.
—as a borrower of books, [43] et seq.
—his acute sensibility, [45].
Peignot, his Dictionnaire de Bibliologie, [127] note, [207]
—his dictionary of condemned books, [208]
—as a vagabond bibliographer, [239] et seq.
Philobiblion of Richard of Bury, [199]
—extract from, [220] note.
Photius, curious history of the Bibliotheca of, [236].
Picts, St Columba among the, [377].
Pinkerton, John, description of, [285].
Playbills, collection of, a phase of bibliomania, [64].
Poems and plays as relics of pure literature, [217] et seq.
Popular authors objects of competition among publishers, [260] et seq.
Preservation of literature, [205] et seq.
—politics and religion, with reference to, [208]
—wars and revolutions with reference to, [209]
—books in the midst of fire, [210].
Pretenders, [161] et seq.
—generally bargain-hunters, [162]
—their devices, [163].
Printers' blunders serviceable to literature, [71] et seq.
—laughable examples of, [72] et seq.
—tragic results of, [75]
—examples of, in Men of the Time, [76].
Printing press, private, an appalling form of bibliomania, [293]
—possession of, by Sir Alexander Boswell, [294].
Professional dealer, the, [107].
Prowler different from auction-haunter, [88] et seq.
Prynne and his Histrio-Mastix, [129] et seq.
Publishers and good literature, [262].
Quaker collector of paintings, a, anecdote of, [103].
Queen Cadyow and St Kentigern, [394].
Rambles in search of sculptured stones, [411] et seq.
Rarity, the comparative, of certain books, [170] et seq.
—Americans and the rarity of books, [173] et seq.
—rarity of works of early English printers, [218] et seq.
—rarity increased by increased number of copies, [282].
Ratcliffe, Dr, a physician, [69] note.
Reading of books by book-hunters and possessors of libraries, [109]
—impossible in certain cases, [110]
—ought to be desultory, ib. et seq.
"Reading with the fingers" a test of scholarship, [116].
Religion and politics in reference to the preservation of literature, [208].
Religious hypocrites, uncharitableness and intolerance of, [7]
—their development into criminals, [8].
Reminiscences of a book-hunting life, [59] et seq.
"Remnants," or broken books, [254].
Rent-paying in Scotland, [140] note.
Resuscitated literature, peculiar value of, [324]
—objected to in hagiology, [359].
Richard of Bury, Bishop of Durham, as a private collector, [199] et seq.
—as a benefactor of posterity, [200] et seq.
—originator of Durham College Library, the nucleus of Trinity of Oxford, [203]
—on the treatment of manuscripts (quotation from the Philobiblion), [220] note.
Ritson, Joseph, opponent of John Pinkerton, [287] et seq.
—his peculiarities, [288] et seq.
Robespierre, draft of decree before, concerning the public libraries of Paris, [209].
Romans as introducers of Christianity into Great Britain, [360], [379]
—as slighters of history, [360] et seq.
Rout upon Rout, by Felix Nixon, [57].
Roxburghe Club, [97], [265] et seq.
—its origin, [268]
—its dinner and toasts, [269]
—its members, [270]
—its "revels," [275]
—Hazlewood's connection with, ib. and note et seq.
—reprinting by, of ancient books, [278] et seq.
—its first serious efforts, [279]
—Dibdin as its master, [280]
—under the care of the scholarly Botfield, [281]
—its proffer of membership to Sir Walter Scott, [283] et seq.
Roxburghe, Duke of, as a book-hunter, [90], [164]
—origin of his bibliomania, [90] et seq.
Roxburghe Library, sale of, [89] et seq.
—scenes at the auction, [92] et seq.
—Earl Spencer present, [93] et seq.
Rubricists, book-hunters as, [63].
Rule, Gilbert, ghost-story concerning, [346] et seq.
"Runic Knot," the, [409].
Saints, the early Northern, [352] et seq.
—the making of, [353]
—festival days of, [354] et seq.
—Bollandus and his successors on saints, [355] et seq.
—value in history of saint literature, [358] et seq.
—vestiges of the peculiar characteristics of early Northern saints, [371] et seq.
—their church architecture, [372]
—saints of Irish origin innumerable, [375]
—independent of Rome, [381]
—mostly all obscure, ib. et seq.
—as prophesiers of death, [383]
—personal habits of, [389]
—fishing and marine anecdotes of, [395] et seq.
Scholars in relation to collectors, [115] et seq.
School-books, rarity of old, [215] et seq.
Schoolboy life, reminiscences of, conjured up by an advertisement, [157] et seq.
Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence, a curious book, [240].
Scots Acts, brevity of, [146].
Scott, Sir Walter, as a book-club man, [283]
—his admission to the Roxburghe Club, ib. et seq.
—writing a song for the Bannatyne Club, [285]
—his reprint of a trial for murder, [290] et seq.
—imposed on by Robert Surtees, [300] et seq.
—first idea of Waverley suggested to him by Surtees, [306].
Sculptured stones in Scotland, [405] et seq.
—description of one, [406]
—their character, [407] et seq.
—Mr John Stuart's transcripts of, [410]
—ramble in search of, [411] et seq.
—one of them at Lochcolissor, ib.
—others in various parts, [412] et seq.
Seneca commending literary moderation, [119] note.
Serf, St, and his robin, [392].
Shakespearian criticism a branch of knowledge, [69] et seq.
—valuable to literature, [71].
Sheepfolds, Ruskin on the construction of, [125].
Sloane, Sir Hans, originator of British Museum Library, [197].
Smart, Fitzpatrick, as a mighty book-hunter, [19]
—his peculiar line known as the "Fitzpatrick Smart Walk," [20]
—his fancy ill to please, [21]
—his household gods, [22]
—his dress, [23]
—his wonderful genius, [25]
—fate of his collection, ib.
Smithsonian Institution, origin of, [174].
Snuffy Davie, a prince of book-hunters, [166]
—his capture of the Game of Chess, [222].
Societies, book and other, [247] et seq.
—the transactions of learned, an outlet for genius, [262] et seq.
Spalding Club, [312]
—as an art-union, [404].
Spalding, John, value of his literary remains, [330] et seq.
—quotation from his "Memorials," [333] et seq.
—characteristics of his writings, [337].
Spencer, Earl, at the Roxburghe Library sale, [93] et seq.
—his skirmish for the Caxtons, [123].
Spottiswoode Society, purpose of the, [247].
State trials replete with romance, [148].
Stated-task reader, the, [113].
Statute-making, pleasantry in, [143].
Stuart, Mr John, and the sculptured stones in Scotland, [410].
Superstitions, a book on, replete with errors in language, [153] et seq.
Surtees Club, [312].
Surtees, Robert, the historian of Durham, as a book-club man, [298]
—anecdotes of, ib. et seq.
—imposing on Sir Walter Scott, [300] et seq.
—his contributions to Scott's Minstrelsy, [304]
—suggesting Waverley to Scott, [306].
Sydenham Club, [265].
Thomson, James, and his books, [29]
—his uncle's criticism on "Winter," ib.
Thomson, Rev. William, character of, [67] et seq.
—his translation of Cunningham's Latin History of Britain, [68] note.
Title of an English Act, [145].
Title-page, a, no distinct intimation of contents of book, [124]
—framing of exhaustive title-page, [126] et seq.
—specimen of lengthy title-page, [127]
—advantages of such, [128].
Toy literature, [216] note.
Transactions of learned societies, [262].
Trinity Library, Oxford, origin of, [203].
Types of Guttenberg and Faust, beauty of, [218].
Types, MacEwen on the, its fate at an auction, [125].
Typographical blunders, [71] et seq.
United States well stocked with libraries, [176]
—its citizens as book-hunters, [177].
"Vampire" as a book-hunter, [55]
—his collection, [56] et seq.
—his policy at auctions, [57] et seq.
Vellum books, [63].
Verney, Sir Ralph, noting proceedings of the Long Parliament, [328] et seq.
Vision, a, of mighty book-hunters, [14] et seq.
Vulgate of Sixtus V., multitude of errors in, [67].
Waltonian Library, the, of Rev. Dr Bethune, [87] et seq.
Wars and revolutions, factors in the destruction of libraries, [209].
Watt, Dr, his bibliography, [234].
Watts, Isaac, and the "Grangerites," [83] et seq.
Wells dedicated to saints, [397] et seq.
Wilberforce, Samuel, Bishop of Oxford, humorous blunder in a biographical notice concerning, [76].
Wilbrod, St, and the Frisian Prince, [376].
William and the Wer Wolf reprinted by Roxburghe Club, [279] et seq.
Wodrow, Rev. Robert, his literary remains and collections, [338]
—his private note-books, [340]
—extracts from his note-books concerning "special providences," [343] et seq.
—his ghost and witch stories, [346] et seq.
—anecdote concerning the devil's sermon, [349] et seq.
"Ye" and "the," common delusion concerning, [270] note.
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