TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Illustrations have been placed as close as possible to their textual descriptions. Pages 106 and 107 contain full-page illustrations. These page numbers follow page 108.
Variations in spelling have been left as in the original. Examples include the following:
| Crede | Creede | |
| Creside | Cressida | |
| Faerie | Faërie | |
| Magliabecchi | Magliabechi | |
| Polychronicon | Policronicon | |
| Schoeffer's | Schoëffer | Schœffer |
| Sweynheim | Sweynheym | |
| Troilus | Troylus | |
| Zarothum | Zarothus |
The following words appear with and without hyphens. They have been left as in the original.
| book-buyer | bookbuyer |
| book-buying | bookbuying |
| book-case | bookcase |
| book-plate | bookplate |
| book-selling | bookselling |
| Coffee-house | Coffeehouse |
| sale-room | saleroom |
| waste-paper | wastepaper |
The following corrections have been made to the text:
page xiv: Purcell (p. 165)[original has 164]
page xv: necessarily a learned man.[original is missing period]
page 24: 1 Peers pennylesse supplication[original has supplicatiō to indicate there wasn't room for the final n]
page 33: the '[opening quote is missing in original]Godfrey of Bulloigne' selling for 18s.
page 40: early age of forty-four[original has fourty-four]
page 74: duplicate of my wooden leg."[original has extraneous single quote]
page 81: the MSS. of Gray, in their perfect calligraphy[original has caligraphy]
page 142: Rowfant[original has Rowfont] Library
page 146: where a sale of books was in progress[original has progess]
page 147: on the Banks of Lake Liman, near Geneva,"[ending quotation mark missing in original]
page 194: For Billingsgate, quit Flexney, and be wise.'[ending quotation mark missing in original]
page 232: like another Magliabecchi,[removed extraneous quotation mark after Magliabecchi]
page 260: Countess of Westmoreland[original has Westmorland]
page 264: We give facsimiles[original has facsimilies]
page 294: '[quotation mark missing in original]Jokely, very interesting
page 295: 'The Rose and the Ring by R. Browing.'[original has comma]
page 303: catalogue raisonné[original has raisonnée]
page 310: 'The Death Wake' (1831),[original has period]
page 322: Princess Marie Liechtenstein[original has Leichtenstein]
page 323: Arch, J. and A.[original has J.]
page 323: Bannatyne[original has Bannantyne] Club, the,
page 324: under Bibles and New Testaments entry:
Fust and Schoeffer (1462) was out of alphabetical order in the original
in the Gutenberg sub-entry, the pages numbers were out of order in the original
page 324: Brooke[original has Brook], Lord Warwick, 100
page 325: under Caxton—
'Book of Good Manners,'[comma missing in original]
Godfrey of Bulloigne[original has Bulloyne]
Higden's 'Polychronicon[original has Polycronicon]
History of Blanchardyn[original has Blanchardin]
'Troylus and Creside,'[ending quote missing in original and spelling is Cressid]
Virgil's 'Æneid'[original has Ænid]
page 326: Drummond's 'Forth[original has Fourth] Fasting,' 86
page 327: Finsbury Square, 177, 179-183[removed extraneous period]
page 327: Glashier,[comma missing in original] George, 202
page 327: Guilford[original has Guildford], Earl of
page 327: Guilford[original has Guildford], Francis, Baron
page 328: Johnson, Joseph[original has John], 214, 215
page 328: Johnston[original has Johnstone], William
page 328: Kempis, Thomas à[original has á]
page 330: Nornaville[original has Nornanville] and Fell
page 330: Nourse[original has Nowise], John, 236
page 331: Rewiczki[original has Rewicski], Count
page 331: Loyalty[original has Royalty--entry has been moved to maintain alphabetical order], the 'repository' of, 250
page 332: Stibbs[original has Stibbes], E. W.
page 332: Thackeray, W. M., 83[out of alphabetical order in original]
page 332: Tyndale[original has Tyndall], John, 16
page 332: Tyson, Dr. E., 176[out of alphabetical order in original]
page 333: Vérard[original has Verard], Antoine
page 333: entries for Walford, Cornelius, Walford, Mr. E., Walker, John, Warde, Roger, and Ward, Mr. W., were out of alphabetical order in the original
page 333: Weskett,[comma missing in original] 'On Insurances,' 151
In the index on page 328, there is an entry for Thomas à Kempis. His name is not mentioned in the book, but he is the author of "Imitatio Christi" which is discussed in the text on the referenced pages.
In the index, many of the page references were incorrect. Corrections have been made as indicated in the following table.
| Entry | Original Page # | Correct Page # | ||
| Aldine editions, | 128-131 | 129-131 | ||
| Aldus, | 128 | 129 | ||
| Alfred, | 2 | 3 | ||
| Anacreon, Stephen edition, | 128 | 129 | ||
| Anthologia Græca' (1494), | 129 | 130 | ||
| Archaica Club, | 78 | 79 | ||
| 'Aristophanes' (1498), | 128 | 129 | ||
| Aristotle (1495-98), | 129 | 130 | ||
| Askew Sale, the, | 127, et seq. | 128, et seq. | ||
| Bannatyne Club, the, | 62 | 62 note | ||
| Baptist Library at Bristol, | 137 | 138 | ||
| Barbican, the, | 175, 176 | 176, 177 | ||
| Batemans of Little Britain, | 170 | 171 | ||
| Becket, Thomas, | 175 note | 176 note | ||
| Bernard, Dr. Francis, | 131 | 132 | ||
| Bibles and New Testaments | ||||
| Coverdale's (1535), | 113 | 138 | ||
| Græca Septuaginta, | 192 | 192 note | ||
| St. Jerome's MS., | 139, 140 | 140 | ||
| Bishopsgate Churchyard, | 160 | 161 | ||
| Black-letter books, | 135 | 136 | ||
| Blandford, Marquis of, | 61 | 61 note | ||
| Bloomfield, R., | 153 | 154 | ||
| 'Boke of St. Albans,' | 135, 136 | 136 | ||
| Book-ghouls, | 159 | 160 | ||
| Bookstalls and bookstalling, | 148-166 | 149-167 | ||
| Brabourne, Lord, | 106 | 107 | ||
| Britten, Mr. James, | 150 | 151 | ||
| Britton, Thomas, | 171, 172 | 172, 173 | ||
| Brown, 'Old,' | 156 | 157 | ||
| Bruscambille on 'Long Noses,' | 151 | 152 | ||
| Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress,' | 144, 145 | 145, 146 | ||
| Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, | 140, 141 | 141, 142 | ||
| Butterworth, Henry, | 217 | 217 note | ||
| Campbell, Mr. Dykes, | 106 | 107 | ||
| Caxton, W. | 131 | 132 | ||
| 'Arthur, King,' | 132 | 133 | ||
| 'Book called Cathon,' | 131, 132 | 132, 133 | ||
| 'Book of Chivalry,' | 135 | 136 | ||
| 'Chastising of God's Children,' | 131 | 132 | ||
| Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales,' | 135 | 136 | ||
| 'Chronicles of England,' | 131, 132 | 132, 133 | ||
| Cicero ('De Senectute'), 'Of Old Age,' | 90, 131, 132 | 132, 133 | ||
| 'Dictes and Sayings,' | 131 | 132 | ||
| 'Doctrinal of Sapience,' | 131, 132 | 132, 133 | ||
| 'Game and Playe of Chesse,' | 131, 132, 134 | 132, 133, 135 | ||
| 'Godfrey of Bulloigne,' | 131 | 132 | ||
| 'Golden Legend,' | 132 | 133 | ||
| Gower's 'Confessio Amantis,' | 132 | 133 | ||
| Higden's 'Description of Britayne,' | 132 | ? | ||
| Higden's 'Polychronicon,' | 80 | 89 | ||
| 'Historyes of Troy,' | 131 | 132 | ||
| 'History of Blanchardyn and Eglantine,' | 132 | 133 | ||
| 'History of Jason,' | 131, 132 | 132, 133 | ||
| 'Mirrour of the World,' | 132 | 133 | ||
| Russell's 'Propositio,' | 133 | 134 | ||
| 'Troylus and Creside,' | 132 | 133 | ||
| Virgil's 'Æneid,' | 132 | 133 | ||
| Caxton, the highest paid for a, | 132 | 133 | ||
| Caxtons, the Althorp, | 133 | 134 | ||
| Chained books at Hereford, | 274 | ? | ||
| Chandler, Dr., | 287 | 289 | ||
| Clarke, W., | 134 | 135 | ||
| Daniel, G., | 140-142 | 141-143 | ||
| Daniell, Mr. E., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Day's circulating library, | 207, 208 | 208 | ||
| Defoe, Daniel, | 155 | 156 | ||
| Devonshire, Dukes of, | 61, 132, 140, 141, 172 | 61 note, 133, 141, 142, 173 | ||
| Diodorus Siculus (1539), | 129 | 130 | ||
| Dobell, Mr. B., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Dorset, Earl of, | 169 | 170 | ||
| Drayton, M., | 157 | 158 | ||
| Duck Lane, | 174, 175 | 175, 176 | ||
| Duke Street, Little Britain, | 174, 175 | 175, 176 | ||
| East End, book-hunting in, | 154, et seq. | 155, et seq. | ||
| Editiones Principes, | 127-131 | 128-131 | ||
| Ellis, Mr. G. I., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Elyot's 'Castell of Helth,' | 165 | 166 | ||
| Euripides (1503), | 128 | 129 | ||
| Exeter 'Change, | 153, 154 | 154, 155 | ||
| Extra-illustrating, | 164 | 165 | ||
| Farringdon Road, | 157, 158 | 158, 159 | ||
| Finsbury Square, | 177 | 178 | ||
| Foote, Samuel, | 162 | 163 | ||
| Franklin, B., | 174 | 175 | ||
| Fuller's 'David's Hainous Sinne,' | 150 | 151 | ||
| Funnibus, L., | 146 | 147 | ||
| Garnett, Dr. R., | 165 | 166 | ||
| Garth, Samuel, | 175 | 176 | ||
| George III., | 129, 134, 140 | 130, 135, 141 | ||
| Gifford, Dr., | 138, 139 | 139, 140 | ||
| Glasse's 'Art of Cookery,' | 149 | 150 | ||
| Goldsmith's 'Vicar of Wakefield,' | 145 | 146 | ||
| Gomme, Mr. G. L., | 150 | 151 | ||
| Grangerizing, | 164 | 165 | ||
| Gray's MSS., | 145 | 146 | ||
| Gwillim's 'Display of Heraldry,' | 155 | 156 | ||
| Harleian Library, The, | 193 | 192 | ||
| Harvey, Mr. F., | 164 | 165 | ||
| Harwood, Dr., | 127-130 | 128-131 | ||
| Hatchards, | 253, 254 | 252-254 | ||
| Heliconia Club, | 78 | 79 | ||
| Herodotus (1502), | 128 | 129 | ||
| Hindley, Mr. C., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Hodge, Mr. E. Grose, | 106 | 107 | ||
| Hodgson and Co., | 145, 161-163 | 146, 162-164 | ||
| Holford, Captain, | 145 | 146 | ||
| Holywell Street, | 152, 153 | 153, 154 | ||
| Homer, the Foulis edition, | 128 | 129 | ||
| Horace, editio princeps, | 129 | 130 | ||
| Hunter, Mr., | 129 | 130 | ||
| Hunt, Leigh, | 148 | 149 | ||
| Islington, cattle market at, | 163 | 164 | ||
| Isocrates (1493), | 128 | 129 | ||
| Jeffrey, Edward, | 112 | 113 | ||
| Jersey, Earl of, | 132 | 133 | ||
| Johnson, Dr., | 257 | 237 | ||
| Jolley, Thomas, | 142 note | 143 note | ||
| Juvenal and Persius (1469), | 130 | 131 | ||
| King, John, | 177 | 178 | ||
| King, Thomas, | 177 | 178 | ||
| Knock-outs, | 163 | 164 | ||
| Lamb, Charles, | 175, 176 | 176, 177 | ||
| Lamb's 'Beauty and the Beast,' | 149 | 150 | ||
| Langford, auctioneer, | 138 | 139 | ||
| Leighton, Mr., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Lemoine, Henry, | 160 | 161 | ||
| Lisburne, Lord, | 128 | 129 | ||
| Locker-Lampson, F., | 106 | 107 | ||
| London House, Aldersgate Street, | 40 | 39 | ||
| Longman and Co., | 79, 80 | 80 | ||
| Lovelace's 'Lucasta,' | 144 | 145 | ||
| Lytton, Lord, | 149 | 150 | ||
| Macaulay, Lord, | 148 | 149 | ||
| Manuscript, the textual value of a, | 127 | 128 | ||
| Martial's 'Epigrammata,' | 131 | 132 | ||
| Mather, Increase, | 150 | 151 | ||
| Mayhew, Henry, | 160 | 161 | ||
| Millington, E. | 169 | 170 | ||
| Milton's 'Paradise Lost,' | 144, 169 | 145, 170 | ||
| Molini, Mr., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Moorfields, | 167, 176-179 | 168, 177-179 | ||
| Murray, John of Sacomb, | 137, 138 | 138, 139 | ||
| Musæus (1494), | 129 | 130 | ||
| Neligan, Dr., | 106 | 107 | ||
| New Cut, the, | 156, 157 | 157 | ||
| Newton, W., | 173 | 174 | ||
| Nicol, George, | 127 | 126 | ||
| North, Francis, | 169 | 170 | ||
| North, Roger, | 169 | 170 | ||
| Novimagus, Society of, | 82 | 83 | ||
| Ovid (1471), | 130 | 131 | ||
| Oxford, Edward, Earl of, | 138, 172 | 139, 173 | ||
| Pamphlet shops, | 154 | 155 | ||
| Passavant, Speyr, | 139 | 140 | ||
| Pellet, Thomas, | 154 | 155 | ||
| Pembroke, Lord, | 172 | 173 | ||
| Pepys, Samuel, | 249 | 248 | ||
| Perry, James, | 132 | 133 | ||
| Plato, | 129 | 130 | ||
| Pliny, 'Historia Naturalis,' | 130 | 131 | ||
| Poetry, old English, | 144 | 145 | ||
| Pope, Alexander, | 150 | 151 | ||
| Purcell, of Red Lion Passage, | 164 | 165 | ||
| Puttenham's 'Art of English Poesie,' | 144 | 145 | ||
| Quaritch, Mr. B., | 106, 281 | 106, 280 | ||
| Railton, Mr., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Ratcliffe, John, | 131 | 132 | ||
| Rawlinson, T. and R., | 135 | 136 | ||
| Reed, Isaac, | 144 | 145 | ||
| Reeves, Mr. W., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Richardson's 'Remarks on Paradise Lost,' | 169 | 170 | ||
| Rimell, Mr. J., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Robinson's 'Handefull of Pleasant Delites,' | 144 | 145 | ||
| Robson, Mr., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Roche, Mr. J., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Rogers, Samuel, | 79-82 | 80-82 | ||
| Roxburghe, John, Duke of, | 140 | 141 | ||
| Rubric posts, | 175 | 176 | ||
| Rylands, Mrs., | 145 | 146 | ||
| Sacheverell, Dr. Henry, | 257 | 251 | ||
| Sala, Mr. G. A., | 149, 156 | 150, 157 | ||
| Salisbury, Mr. J., | 209, 211 | 211 | ||
| Sanderson, Bishop, | 170 | 171 | ||
| Scott, R., | 172 | 173 | ||
| Scott's 'Vision of Don Roderick,' | 149 | 150 | ||
| Scriptorium, | 1, 2 | 2 | ||
| Selsey, Lord, | 132 | 133 | ||
| Seneca, 'Tragœdiæ' (1475), | 130 | 131 | ||
| Sewell, John, | 175 | 176 note | ||
| Shakespeare, W., | 140-142 | 141-143 | ||
| First Folio (1623), | 140 | 141 | ||
| Second Folio (1632), | 140-142 | 141-143 | ||
| Third Folio (1664), | 140-142 | 141-143 | ||
| Fourth Folio (1685), | 140-142 | 141-143 | ||
| Quarto editions | ||||
| 'Hamlet,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| '2 Henry IV.,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Henry V.,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Henry VI.,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Lear,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Love's Labour Lost,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Merchant of Venice,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Merry Wives of Windsor,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Much Ado About Nothing,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Othello,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Pericles,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Poems,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Rape of Lucrece,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Richard II.,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Richard III.,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Romeo and Juliet,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Sonnets,' | 142, 143 note | 143 and note | ||
| 'Troilus and Cressida,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Venus and Adonis,' | 142, 143 note | 143 and note | ||
| Shandy, Mr., | 151 | 152 | ||
| Sherley's 'Wits New Dyall,' | 166 | 167 | ||
| Shoreditch, | 154 | 155 | ||
| Silius Italicus, | 130 | 131 | ||
| Slater, Mr. J. H., | 149 | 150 | ||
| Sloane, Sir Hans, | 171 | 172 | ||
| Snowden, Mr. G. S., | 106 | 107 | ||
| 'Snuffy Davy,' | 134 | 135 | ||
| Solly, Edward, | 47 | 46 | ||
| Somers, Lord, | 171 | 172 | ||
| Sophocles (1502), | 128 | 129 | ||
| Sotheran, Mr. H., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Spectator, the, | 174 | 175 | ||
| Spenser's 'Faërie Queene,' | 144 | 145 | ||
| St. Albans, books printed at, | 135, 136 | 136, 137 | ||
| St. Paul's Churchyard, | 152 | 153 | ||
| Staple Inn, | 43 | 42 | ||
| Stevens, Henry, | 106 | 107 | ||
| Stibbs, E. W., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Strand, the, | 152 | 153 | ||
| Sunderland, Earl of, | 172 | 173 | ||
| Swift, Jonathan, | 171, 175 | 172, 176 | ||
| Sydenham Tusculum, Hill's, | 78 | 79 | ||
| Sydney, Sir Robert, | 141 | 142 | ||
| Sykes, Sir M. M., | 61 | 61 note | ||
| Taylor, Watson, | 132 | 133 | ||
| Theocritus (1495), | 129 | 130 | ||
| Thoms, W. J., | 155, 156 | 156 | ||
| Thoresby, Ralph, | 177 | 178 | ||
| Toovey, J., | 106, 141, 145 | 107, 142 | ||
| Tyson, Dr. E., | 175 | 176 | ||
| Valerius Maximus (1471), | 130 | 131 | ||
| Vérard, Antoine, | 12 | 13 | ||
| Walford, Mr. E., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Walton, Izaak, | 170 | 171 | ||
| Walton's 'Compleat Angler,' | 143, 144 | 144, 145 | ||
| Walford, Cornelius, | 150, 151 | 151, 152 | ||
| Walker, John, | 114 | 113 | ||
| Ward, Mr. W., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Warwick, Earl of, | 106 | 107 | ||
| Weskett, 'On Insurances,' | 151 | 152 | ||
| Westell, Mr. J., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Whitechapel, | 154 | 155 | ||
| Winchelsea, Earl of, | 172 | 173 | ||
| Women as book-thieves, | 278-280 | 279-280 | ||
| Wynkyn de Worde, | 118 | 111 | ||
Ellipsis are represented as in the original.