Footnotes

[10] Owing to circumstances for which neither the writer nor the printers are responsible, some sheets were worked, before the corrections had been carried out.

INDEX

Acton, Lord, [57]-[58]
Adam Bel, [121]
Addington, S., [45]
Advice in the formation of a catalogue, [277]
Advice in the formation of a library, [275]-[276]
Advice to collectors, [255]-[256], [282]
Aldenham, Lord (H. H. Gibbs), [56]-[57], [58]
Alexander de Villâ Dei (Ville Dieu), [217]
Alleyn, Edward, [32]
Althorp Library, [48]
Amateur binding, [249]-[250], [340]
American laws, bibliography of, [279]
American libraries, [34], [36], [341]
American literature, [72]-[73]
American market, [13], [36], [70]-[72], [145], [151], [158]-[160], [213], [257], [304]-[307]
American reprints of English books, [158]
Amherst, Hon. Alicia, [25]
Anathema against book-thieves, [30]
Ancient bindings, [209]-[210]
Anglo-American literature, [158]
Anglo-French collectors, [27], [173], [192]-[194]
Anne, Queen, [39]
Arthur, Romance of, printed by Caxton, [301], [305]
Arundel Books and MSS., [4], [55]
Ashburnham Library, [5], [47], [49]-[51], [275], [328], [330]
Ashburton, Lord, [27]
Aubrey, John, [19]
Auctions, [141]-[142], [310] et seqq., [5], [323], [342]
Auctions, catalogues of, [318], [332]
Auctions, provincial, [315]
Aulus Gellius, [104], [337]
Autographs in books, [195] et seqq.
Autographs in French books, [210]-[211]
Aymon, Four Sons of, [338]

Bagford, John, [24], [122], [322]
Baker, Thomas, [221]
Ballads, [45], [78]
Bamborough Castle, [336]
Barclay's Ship of Fools, [222]
Bargains, [20], [287]
Barnard, Sir F., [38]
Barretts of Lee, [9]
Bay Psalm Book, [159]
Bayle's Dictionary, [94]
Beckford, W., [56], [208]-[209]
Bedford Missal, [248]
Bewick, W., [184]
Bibles, [68]-[69], [199], [204], [223], [299]-[301], [304]
Biblioclasts, [123]-[124]
Bibliomania, [19]-[20]
Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris, [29], [38]
Biddings, low, [324]-[325]
Binding, [220] et seqq., [338], [340]
Blanchardine and Eglantine, [35]
Blenheim Palace library, [43]
Blount's Jocular Tenures, [215]
Bolingbroke, Lord, [205]
Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, [57]
Book of St. Albans, [303]
Book-Clubs, [7], [257], [280]
Book-collecting centres (old), [33]
Book-lovers, [15]-[17], [88], [94]
Book-market (1810-1870), [46]
Book-recipients, [90]
Book trade, [293]
Books of reference, [262]-[263]
Books, which are books, [94]-[108]
Bradshaw, Henry, [52], [158]
Breton, Nicholas, [80], [149]-[151]
Bridgewater library, [56], [58], [272]
Bright, B. H., [5], [47]
Bristol, [335]
Bristol booksellers, [10], [336]
British Museum, [4], [31], [42], [53], [121], [263], [270], [341]
Britton, Thomas, [320]
Britwell Library, [25]-[26], [41]-[43], [277]
Brooke, Thomas, [203]
Brown, Tom, [316]
Brydges, Sir Egerton, [335]
Bunburys of Bury, [9]
Burneys, the, [208]
Burns, R., [305]
Bury, [8]-[9], [335]
Bute, Earls and Marquises of, [56]

Cæsar, Sir Julius, [323]
Calendaries' Gild at Bristol, [335]
Cambridge, [10]-[11], [30]-[33], [65], [77], [201], [275], [316], [336]
Capell's Shakespeariana, [275]
Capital books, [296], [338]
Carew MSS., [5]
Carleton, Sir Dudley, [151]
Catalogues of libraries, [46], [57]-[58], [310]
Caveat Emptor, [282]
Cavendish, Henry, [57]
Caxton, W., [21], [24], [77], [201], [232], [301], [328]
Cervantes, [113]
Chained books, [34]
Chamberlain, John, [150]
Changes of taste, [135], [139]
Chap-books, [76]
Characters, books of, [65]
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, printed by Caxton, [5], [301], [306]
Cheap literature, [111]
Chetham, Humphrey, [33], [205]
Church libraries, [33]
Circulating libraries, [6]-[7], [335]
City Companies, [200], [204]
Civil War tracts, [65]
Classification of libraries, [59]-[91]
Colchester, [336]
Coleridge, S. T., [15], [207]
Collections, English, [54]
Collectors of MSS., [4]-[5]
Collier, John Payne, [41], [57], [270]
Collins, William, [8]
Colonial (North American) literature, [158]-[160]
Combe, Thomas, [337]
Commission system, [307]-[309]
Concubranus, [221], [343]
Continental libraries, [34]
Cooper, William, [319]
Copper-plates, [182]
Copyright, [176]
Correction of the press, [177]
Corser, Rev. Thomas, [14], [47], [273]
Cotton, Sir Robert, [4]
Counterfeit bindings, [256]
Crawford, Earl of, [274]
Crichton, James, [68]
Cuisinier François, [22]
Cunliffe, Henry, [47]
Currer, Miss Richardson, [25], [47]-[48]

Danby, Lord Treasurer, [205]
Daniel, George, [20], [42], [45]-[47], [272]
Daniel, Samuel, [20], [28], [45]-[47]
Davenant, Sir W., [215]
Davies, Sir Thomas, [207]
Day, Stephen, printer at Cambridge (N.E.), [159]
Dedications, [214]-[215]
D'Eon, Chevalier, [21]-[24]
Derings of Surrenden, [5]
Destruction of books, [18], [125], [338]
Devonshire, Duke of, [41], [57]
Diane de Poitiers bindings, [231]
Dickens, Charles, [7]
Dilettanti, [82]
Doran, Dr., [89]
Dorat, [187]-[188]
Drayton, Michael, [202], [205], [338]
Driffield, Thomas, [336]
Dryden, John, [201]-[202]
Dulwich College, [32]
Dunfermline, [335]
Dunton, John, [7], [319]
Durham and Winchester bindings, [222]
Dyce, Rev. A., [40], [54], [79]

Earle, Mrs., [24]
Earliest productions of the press, [18]
Early English literature, [144] et seqq.
East Anglia, [9], [335]-[336]
Edge-painting, [248]
Edinburgh, [335]
Edition de Luxe, [191]
Edwards of Halifax, [244], [248]
Elements of interest in books, [296]
Elizabeth's (Queen) Prayer Book, [249]
Elizabethan literature, [143] et seqq.
Ellenbog, Udalric, [226]
Elliott's Brewery at Pimlico, [42]
Emblems, Books of, [64]-[65], [337]
English and foreign presses, [67]-[68], [153]
English binders, [201], [208], [220] et seqq., [242], et seqq., [340]
English books abroad, [35]
English collectors, [4]-[5], [8]-[9], [11], [14]-[16], [54]-[58]
English lists of, [244], [246]
English presses, [153]-[154]
English series, [149]
Enscheden collection at Haarlem, [35]
Ephemeral schools of writers, [173]
Esprit in binding, [228]
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, [205]
Evelyn, John, [9], [312], [315]
Eves, the two, [251]

Fanshawe, Sir R., [202]
Farrer of Little Gidding, [247]
Fenn, Sir John, [9], [123], [151], [295], [332]
Fictitious imprints, [153]-[154]
First editions, [174]-[176], [178]
FitzGerald, Edward, [88]
Flockton, bookseller at Canterbury, [335]
Florio, John, [202], [205], [214], [339]
Foljambe, Sir F., [202]
Foreign liveries for English books, [249]
Foreign presses for the same, [153]
Forster, John, [54], [65]
Fountaine Collection, [196], [336]
Four Sons of Aymon, [122], [338]
Fragments of books, [115]-[119], [122], [338]
Franklin, Benjamin, [335]
Franks, Sir Wollaston, [214]
Fraser of Lovat, [336]
Free libraries, [7], [161]-[163]
French binders, [234], [236], [238], [251], et seqq., [341]
French list of, [252]
French books, [186]-[187], [192]-[194]
French collectors, [22], [192]-[194]
French taste in collecting, [36]
French works of reference, [278]
Frere sale, [295], [332]
Freres, The, [9]

Garlands, [77]
George III., [40]
Gilding of books, [234]
Goffering, [340]
Gold binding, [214]
Grenville, Thomas, [15], [46], [271]
Grolier bindings, [226], [230]-[231]
Grolier Club, [257]
Guarini, B., [203]

Hailstone, Edward, [81]
Ham House, [55]
Hanmer, Sir Thomas, [80]
Hanmers of Mildenhall, [9]
Hardwicke MSS., [4]
Harleian Library, [4], [37]-[38], [40], [55], [312], [318], [321]-[322], [337]
Harleian Miscellany, [79]
Harvey, Gabriel, [201]
Hasta, [312]-[313]
Hawes, Francis, [313]
Hazlitt, W., [80], [158], [165]
Hearne, Thomas, [21], [135], [221]
Heber, Richard, [4]-[5], [38], [40]-[43], [46], [81], [267], [269], [270]-[271], [321], [335]
Helyas, 1512, [340]
Henri Deux binding, [231]
Henrietta Maria, [214]
Henry VIII., [196], [198], [339]
Heriot, George, [234]
Herveys of Ickworth, [9]
Hesse, Landgraf of, [336]
Highest prices realised for books, [299]-[304]
Hill, Thomas, [268]
Hoe, Robert, [341]-[342]
Hogarth, [181]
Honeywood bequest to Lincoln, [33], [336]
Horæ, [63], [199], [210], [339]
Howard, Sir John, first Duke of Norfolk, [335]
Howell, Thomas, [337]
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, [335]
Hundred Merry Tales, 1526, [35], [338]
Hunt, Leigh, [39], [80], [158], [165]
Huth, Henry, [6], [15], [21], [25], [41]-[46], [64], [274], [341]
Hutton, W., [335]

Illuminated MSS., [335]
Illustrated Books, [178] et seqq., [278], [339]
Illustrated copies, [189]-[191]
Imitatio Christi, [64], [111]
Imperfect books, [134]
Incanto, [313]
Inch of candle, [314], [341]
Inglis library, [54], [56]
Inns of Court, [11]
Irish collectors, [158]
Irish presses, [157]
Irish series, [156]-[158]

Jenynges, Edward, [338]
Jermyn, Henry, [215]
Johnson, Dr., [38], [55], [103], [339]
Johnsons of Spalding, [19], [51]-[53]
Jolley, Thomas, [81]
Jonson, Benjamin, [202]
Josephine, the Empress, [211]
Jubinal, Achille, [29]
Judith, History of, 1565, [338]

Keir Library, [191]
Kentish collectors, [9]
Killigrew, T., [205]
Kinloss Abbey, [204]
Kirkman, F., [311]
Knight, Charles, [7]
Kressen, Anton, of Nürnberg, [210]

Laing, David, [11]
Lamb, Charles, [6], [15], [88], [139], [158], [207], [209], [240]
Lambeth Library, [5]
Lambton, Henry, [202]
Langbaine, Gerard, [339]
Langland, Andrew, [204]
Laycock, W., [79]
Lee-Warlys, the, [9]
Leigh, George, auctioneer, [24], [208]
Le Houx, Jean, [112]-[113]
Le Neve, P., [5]
Le Stranges of Hunstanton, [335]
Levant morocco, [225], [250]
Libraries, Cathedral, [33]
Libraries, College, [31]
Libraries, Foreign, [34]
Libraries, National, [31]
Libraries, Provincial, [336]
Libraries compared, [15]-[17], [38]
Lichfield, William, [121]
Limited market for rarer books, [138]
Lincoln Cathedral, [33], [336]
Lincoln Nosegay, [269]
Lincolnshire, two give-away sales in, [133]
Little Gidding bindings, [247]
Liturgies, [63], [68]
Locker-Lampson, F., [45], [58]
Longleat library, [56]
Lost books, [120]-[128], [130], [133]
Louis XV., [230]
Louis XVI., [211]
Lounging Books of a Gentleman, 1788, [326]
Lovelace's Lucasta, [129]
Luttrell, Narcissus, [21], [77]
Lydgate's Troy-Book, [35]-[36]
Lyonnese calf, [225], [249]

Macaulay, Lord, [6]
M'Culloch, J. R., [3]-[4]
Maidment, James, [11]
Maioli bindings, [231]
Maitland, Lord, [312]
Malone, Edmond, [21], [339]
Manesse Liderbuch, [304]
Manuscript Notes in Books, [206], [339]
Manuscripts, [4]-[5]
Marie Antoinette, [36], [187], [211]
Marler, Anthony, [200]
Marlowe, Christopher, [35], [89], [284], [336]
Maroquin de Constantinople, [225]
Martin of Palgrave, T., [5], [9], [123]
Massinger, Philip, [202]
Materials in which books have been bound, [223] et seqq.
Materials on which books have been printed, [137], [216]-[220], [339]
Mazarin or Gutenberg Bible, [44]-[45], [69], [300]-[301]
Medical literature, [73]
Mentelin, Johann, [209]
Mesdames de France, [230]
Middle-Hill Library, [80]
Millers of Craigentinny, [42]-[43], [337]
Millington, Edward, [316], [319]
Milton, John, [201]
Miscellaneous collectors, [80]
Missæ Speciales, [299]
Mitford, Rev. John, [9]
Modern side in collecting, [161] et seqq.
Molière, [254]
Monastic binding, [221]
Monastic writers, [66]
Monographs, [279]
Montague, R., [340]
Montaigne, [29], [101], [106], [109], [111], [200], [339]
Moore, John, Bishop of Ely, [123]
More, Sir T., [204]
Morgan, Pierpont, [341]-[342]
Morocco bindings (early), [223], [253]
Motives for selling libraries, [325]
Murray, Regent, [204]

Napoleon, [211]-[212]
Nash, Richard, [206]
Newcastle, Duchess of, [15]
Newton, Sir Isaac, [215]
Norfolk, Duke of, library given to Royal Society, [55]
North family, [316]
Northcote family, [204]

Obsolete books of reference, [263]-[265], [266]-[267]
Occult Literature, [74]
Ogilby, John, [315]
Oldys, W., [339]
Old-fashioned English libraries, [38]
Orestes, 1567, [338]
Osterley Park library, [55], [301]
Over-production of books (former), [13]
Oxford, [4]-[5], [11], [30]-[32], [65], [77], [114], [153], [275], [335]
Oxford Harleys, Earls of, [37]-[38]
Oxindens of Barham, [9], [335]

Palsgrave, John, [178]
Parkhurst, Thomas, [318]
Parr family, [199]
Parzival and Titurell, [330]
Paston Letters, [332]
Patmore, Coventry, [218]
Paul's Head Tavern in Carter Lane, [320]
Pennant, Thomas, [337]
Pepys, S., [24], [33], [76]-[77], [208], [215], [284], [286], [312], [315]
Peterborough Cathedral, [336]
Petre, Lord, [9]
Petrarch, [209]-[210]
Phillipps, Sir T., [5], [81]
Picas of Salisbury use, [77]
Pilgrim Fathers, [72], [159]
Pirkheimer Library, [55]
Plantin Museum, [35]
Playing-cards, [279]
Plymouth, [338]
Pope, A., [205]
Porter, Endymion, [215]
Prices of books, [20]-[21], [170]-[171], [285] et seqq.
Prices of binding, [171], [338]
Prideaux, Miss, [250], [340]
Provincial bindings, [247]
Provincial booksellers, [8]-[11]
Psalters of 1457 and 1459, [299]-[300], [304]
Public libraries, [29]-[36]
Pyne, Henry, [70], [89]-[90]

Quaritch's catalogue of bindings, 1888, [257]
Quaritch's General catalogue, [255]-[256]

Rabirius, Junius, [313]
Randolph, Thomas, [147]
Rarities in early English series, [149]
Rawlinson, Thomas, [320]
Rea or Rede, Francis, bookbinder, [201]
Reed, Isaac, [89], [335]
Reference books, [165], [259] et seqq., [292]
Reference libraries, [7]
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [3], [206]
Richard Cœur de Lion, 1509, [49]
Richards, John, a Dorsetshire farmer, [7]
Richardson, Edmond, [208], [340]
Rig, the, [333]-[334]
Rimbault, Dr., [80]
Risks of realisation, [140]-[142]
Robert of Leicester, [336]
Robespierre, [211], [339]
Rodd, Thomas, [20]
Rolle of Hampole, Richard, [205]
Rolls of collectors, Hazlitt's, [6], [25], [37], [86], [90], [336]
Romish literature, [67]
Roxburghe, John, Earl of, [39]
Roxburghe Library, [11], [39], [40], [46], [335]
Royal books, [198]-[200]
Rylands, Mrs., [25], [48]

Sandars, Samuel, [32], [54], [336]
Sanderson, Cobden, [250]
Savile family, [204]
Schreiber, Lady Charlotte, [48]
Scotland, [7], [11], [19], [149], [204]
Scotish binders, [244]-[246]
Scotish collectors, [11], [19], [155], [204], [229], [336]
Scotish presses, [155]
Scotish series, [149]
Scott, Robert, [319]
Seaman, Lazarus, [315], [317], [342]
Separation of sets of books, [235]
Service-books, [63], [148]
Shakespear, W., [13], [20]-[21], [22], [35], [38], [80], [100], [170], [205], [207], [214], [233], [275], [302]-[303], [339]
Ship of Fools, [222]
Simeon, Sir John, [81]
Sion College, [32], [335]
Skene of Skene, [19]
Slatyer's Palæalbion, 1621, [339]
Smith, George, [274]
Smith, Richard, [316]
Smollett, T., [246]
Solly, Edward, [81]
Somers Tracts, [79]
Southey's Cottonian Library, [249]
Spanish binding, [230], [267]-[268]
Special collections in public libraries, [33]
Special copies of books, [200]
Specialists, [60] et seqq., [79]-[80]
Spencer, Lord, [49], [271]
Spenser, Edmund, [128], [201], [233], [241]
Spoliation of public libraries, [29], [336]
Steevens, George, [89], [335]
Stirling-Maxwell, Sir W., [191], [339]
Subjects or Lines, choice of, for libraries, [59]-[91]
Sullivan, Sir Edward, [250], [340]
Superabundance of books, [13]
Surrey collectors, [9]
Swinton, General, [11]
Sydneys of Penshurst, [9]

Taylor, John, [202]
Technical treatises, [75]
Thomason the stationer, [65], [194]
Thomas Limner of Bury, [335]
Thorold, Sir John, [56]
Thorpe, Thomas, [45]
Thought or mind in binding, [228]
"Three-halfpenny ware," [150]
Tite, Sir W., [43]
Toledo Missal, [303]
Tollemaches, the, [9], [45]
Tom's coffee-house, [320]
Tonson, Jacob, [201]
Translations, [109]-[114], [337]
Turbervile, George, [233]
Turner, Dawson, [9]
Turner, J. M. W., [181]
Turner, R. S., [27]
Twopenny biddings, [325]
Twysden, Mary, [205]
Types of collectors, [88]-[91]
Tyrrwhitt, Lady Elizabeth, [214]

Unique books, [338], [341]
Unique English books abroad, [35]
Universities, [10]-[11], [65], [77], [336]
Usher, Archbishop, [205]

Vaux de Vire, [112]-[113]
Venetian school of binding, [246], [340]
Venice, [34]
Verard, Antoine, [335]
Vocabulary of auctions, [330]
Voyages and travels, [70]

Walton, Isaak, [203], [213], [233]
Warton, Thomas, [8], [20]
Weale, Jacobus, [53], [64]
West of England, [10], [336], [338]
Westminster Abbey, [34]
Westmorland, Earl of, [339]
White, Gilbert, [108], [337]
Williams, Lord-Keeper, [34]
Willoughby family, [204]
Wodhull, Michael, [208]
Wolfreston books, [323]
Wycherley, W., [204]-[205]
Wynns of Peniarth, [57]

Zürich, [34]-[35]