À Becket, Gilbert, Comic History of Rome, [78];
Comic History of England, [78].
Adam, Robert B., 184 n.
Adams, John, [58].
Advertisements, importance of, in verifying first editions of certain books, [79].
Ainsworth, W. H., [346].
Albert, Prince Consort. See Martin, Sir Theodore.
Albert Memorial, [285].
Alderson, Amelia (Mrs. Opie), [232].
Aldines, [5], [88].
Alexandra, Princess of Wales, [284].
Alken, Henry, Analysis of the Hunting Field, and Life of John Mytton, illustrated by, [77].
Allan, John, [83], [84], [85].
Allen, Edmund, [21], [307] ff.
Allen, John, Memorial of, [57].
Allis, William E., [115], [116].
American Book Prices Current, [103].
Anderson, Mary, [327].
Anderson’s Auction Rooms, [103], [354].
Andrews, William Loring, Gossip about Book-collecting, [51].
Anne, Queen, [278].
Anne of Denmark, Queen of James I, [280].
Arblay, Madame d’. See Burney, Fanny.
Argyle, Archibald Campbell, Duke of, [150].
Arnold, William Harris, Record of Books and Letters, [18], [103-106];
First Report of a Book-collector, [101], [102].
Association books 1, [107] ff.
Athenæum, The, 106 n.
Auchinleck, Alexander Boswell, Lord, his Death, [173];
mentioned, [150], [165], [166], [172].
Auchinleck, Boswell’s birthplace, the author’s visit to, [181-184].
Auction catalogues, [30].
Auction sales, [59], [60].
Audubon, John J., Birds of North America, [5].
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticæ, [90].
Austen, Jane, [186], [187], [253].
Bacon, Francis, Lord, quoted, [7];
and Shakespeare, [92];
Essaies (1598), Widener’s last purchase, [354], [355].
Bagehot, Walter, [272].
Bangs & Co., [104].
Bank of North America, History of the, [57], [58].
Barclay, Alexander, [91].
Barclay and Perkins’s, [195].
Baretti, Giuseppe M. A., attacks Mrs. Piozzi, [216];
mentioned, [194], [198].
Barham, Thomas, Ingoldsby Legends, unique presentation copy of first edition, [347].
Barrett, Lawrence, [327].
Barrie, Sir James M., What Every Woman Knows, [196].
Bartlett, Henrietta, [72].
Barton, Bernard, [135].
Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of. See Disraeli.
Beard, Tom, presentation copy of A Christmas Carol to, [116].
Beardsley, Aubrey, caricature of O. Wilde, [114], [319].
Beauclerk, Lady Diana, [179].
Beckford, William, presentation copy of Disraeli’s Henrietta Temple to, [29].
Bell, Currer, Ellis, and Acton, Poems, [83]. See Brontë Sisters.
Bement, Clarence S., [89].
Berayne, Katherine Tudor de (“Mam y Cymry”), [189].
Bernhardt, Sarah, [337].
Bible, the, Shakespeare “cryptogram” in, [92], [117]. See Gutenberg Bible.
Bibliographies, [113] ff.
Biddle, Nicholas, Memoirs of, [58].
Bindings, [54], [55], [74].
Birrell, Augustine, quoted, [33], [151].
Bixby, William K., [72], [352].
Blair, Miss, [161].
Blake, William, Marriage of Heaven and Hell, [52], [82];
Poetical Sketches, [81], [82];
Songs of Innocence and Experience, [81], [82];
Linnell collection, sale of, [82].
Blandford, Marquis of. See Spencer, George.
Blount, Edward, [93].
“Blue-Stockings, The”, [194].
Boccaccio, Giovanni, the Decameron, [70].
Boehm, Sir J. E., [285], [286].
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (MS.), [90], [91].
Boleyn, Anne, [275].
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, [177].
Bonnell, H. H., [83].
Book Auction Records, [103].
Book Prices Current, [72].
Book-collecting, delights of, [2] ff.;
changing fashions in, [5].
Book-plates, [60], [61].
Books, “as originally published,” [54], [55];
advancing prices of, [66] ff., [70] ff. See Association Books, Bindings, Extra-illustrated Books, Presentation Books, Subscription Books.
Booksellers, Second-hand, catalogues of, [30] ff.
Boscawen, Mrs. Edward, [179].
Boswell, James, quoted, on London, [13];
Macaulay’s characterization of, refuted, [148], [149];
early years, [149], [150];
first meeting with Johnson, [150], [151];
his style, [151];
portraiture of Johnson, [152];
devotion to Johnson, [152];
not very much in Johnson’s company, [153];
qualities as a biographer, [153], [154];
weaknesses considered, [154] ff., [159] ff.;
Carlyle on, [154];
conversational powers, [156];
Life of Johnson, largely his own autobiography, [156], [157];
letters to Temple, [157] ff.;
last days and death, [164], [165], [180];
wanderings about Europe, [165], [166];
letter to Dilly, [166];
first paper drawn by, as an advocate, [168];
“press notices” of himself, [170-172];
marries Margaret Montgomerie, [172];
continued interest in Johnson, [172], [173];
death of his father, [173];
financial difficulties, [173];
effect of Johnson’s death on, [173];
publishes the Journal of the Tour to the Hebrides, [174];
its success encourages him to undertake Johnson’s life, [174];
the Life published (1791), [175], [176];
wife’s death, [174];
thinks of running for Parliament, [175];
contemporary opinions of, [181];
Johnson on, [181];
mentioned, [21], [30], [174], [201], [214], [226].
Life of Samuel Johnson, dedication copy, to Sir Joshua Reynolds, [18], [19], [347];
divers editions of, [64];
Macaulay’s essay on, considered and criticized, [145] ff.;
merits of, in general, [153];
its success, [175];
presentation copy of, to James Boswell, Jr., [176];
effect of its publication, [178-180];
almost universally praised, [184], [185];
the great English epic, [185];
Mrs. Thrale’s copy of, [222];
mentioned, [61], [98], [307], [308], [309].
An Account of Corsica, [166-170], [172];
presentation copy of, [59].
Boswell, James, Jr., [176], [180].
Boswell, Mrs. Margaret, her bon mot on Johnson, [173];
her death, [174];
mentioned, [154], [164], [172].
Bowden, A. J., [75].
Bradford Club, [57].
Brandt, Sebastian, The Ship of Fools, [91], [92].
Bristol, Bishop of, [317].
British Museum, [43], [101], [111].
Broadley, A. M., published Mrs. Thrale’s Journal of a Tour in Wales, [218], [221].
Brontë, Charlotte, presentation copy of Henry Esmond to, [347];
mentioned, [83].
Brontë, Emily, [187].
Brontë Museum, [83].
Brontë Sisters, [186], [187]. See Bell, Currer, etc.
Brooks, Edmund D., bookseller, [53], [54], [83].
Brough, Fanny, [336].
Browning, Arabel, [26].
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, letter of, [26], [27];
mentioned, [186], [187].
Browning, Robert, Pauline, [103];
mentioned, [26], [27], [91], [228].
Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward, [253].
Bunbury, Henry W., [32].
Burke, Edmund, inscription to, from Boswell, [185];
mentioned, [151], [181], [187], [188], [194], [221].
Burney, Dr. Charles, [194], [208].
Burney, Fanny (Madame d’Arblay), Evelina, [46], [127], [199], [200];
her Diary, quoted, on life at Streatham Park, [199] ff.;
mentioned, [186], [187], [204], [209], [221].
Burns, Robert, Poems, first Edinburgh edition, [83], [84];
Kilmarnock edition, [83-86], [103].
Burns Museum, [86].
Bushnell, John, [281].
Butler, Samuel, The Way of all Flesh, [124].
Byron, Allegra, [238], [244].
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, copy of Thomson’s Seasons presented by, to Frances W. Webster, [29];
mentioned, [238].
Caine, Hall, [268].
Carlton Hotel, London, [268].
Carlyle, Thomas, presentation copy of Dickens’s American Notes to, [115];
on Boswell, [154];
mentioned, [185], [293].
Carnegie, Andrew, Triumphant Democracy, quoted, [271].
Cassatt, A. J., [54].
Catalogues of second-hand books, [30] ff., [65] ff.;
amusing blunders in, [62], [113].
Caxton, William, his books in general, [8], [72];
his edition of Tully, his Treatises on Old Age and Friendship, [22];
mentioned, [91].
Caxton Head, Sign of the, [30].
Chaffanbrass, Mr., [256], [264].
Chapman, George, translation of Homer, [102].
Charing Cross, [268].
Charing Cross Road, the book-lover’s happy hunting-ground, [15], [16].
Charles I, [278], [281].
Charles II, [278], [282].
Charlotte, Queen of George III, Dodd’s letter to, [309];
mentioned, [21], [306].
Chatham, William Pitt, Earl of, [246].
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Works, [102].
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of, [21], [301].
Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, fifth Earl of, [305], [306].
Chew, Beverly, [7], [75], [87], [102], [103], [351].
Christ Church, History of, [58].
Christ’s Hospital, [53].
Cicero, Cato Major, Franklin’s edition of, [9];
Treatises of Old Age and Friendship (Caxton), [22].
“City” of London, royal visit to, [266] ff.;
physical boundaries and jurisdiction of, [277].
Clairmont, Mrs. M. J., Godwin’s second wife, [237]. See Godwin, Mrs. M. J.
Clairmont, Mary Jane (Claire), Lord Byron’s mistress, [238], [242], [243], [244].
Clarke, Charles Cowden, [18].
Clarke, Mary Cowden, [18].
Classics, The, collectors’ waning interest in, [5].
Clough, Sir Richard, [189].
Cock (tavern), The, [283].
Coggeshall, Edwin W., sale of his Dickens collection, [78], [79], [115], [116].
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, [111], [222].
Collier, Jane, [38].
Collier, John Payne, [37], [38], [39], [41].
Collins, W. Wilkie, The Moonstone, [226], [255].
Colman, George, Jr., [231].
Common Prayer, Book of, [117].
Congreve, William, [44].
Conrad, Joseph, inscription in The Nigger of the Narcissus, [56].
Contributions to English Bibliography, [113].
Conway, W. A., and Mrs. Thrale-Piozzi, [23], [224].
Corsica, Boswell’s visit To, and its results, [165], [166].
Coryat, Thomas, Coryat’s Crudities, [90], [91].
Cosens, F. W., his Lamb and Southey MSS., [38-41].
Costello, Dudley, [115].
Cottle, Joseph, Annual Anthology, [38], 39 and n., [41].
Cowper, William, The Task, Thackeray’s copy of, with inscription, [346], [347].
“Crawford, Mrs.,” [134], [135].
Croker, John Wilson, his edition of Boswell’s Life and Macaulay, [146], [147].
Cromwell, Oliver, [278].
Cruikshank, George, [68].
Daly, Augustin, [41].
Davies, Thomas, bookseller, [30], [150], [151], [165].
Davies, Mrs. Thomas, [31], [151].
Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe, first edition, [43], [44], [99-101], [102];
rare newspaper edition of, [101];
mentioned, [122], [126].
Devil Tavern, The, [282], [283].
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, [5].
Dickens, Charles, disappearance of his London, [10];
the author’s presentation copies of various works of, [46];
Eckel’s First Editions of Charles Dickens, [55], [79], [114], [115];
value of presentation copies of, [73];
Coggeshall collection of his works, [78], [115], [116];
why prices of early editions continue to advance, [117];
and Miss Kelly, [130];
mentioned, [66], [152], [250], [251], [252], [253], [261].
A Christmas Carol, first edition, [10], [11];
presentation copies of, [116].
The Cricket on the Hearth, manuscript of, [27], [53], [54];
presentation copy of, to Macready, [116].
Oliver Twist, presentation copy of, to Macready, [44], [46].
Pickwick Papers, in parts (Coggeshall copy), [78-80];
copy of, inscribed to Mary Hogarth, [80], [81];
fourth in circulation among printed books, [117];
“in parts as published,” [346];
presentation copy of, to W. H. Ainsworth, [346]; [255].
Bleak House, presentation copy of, to D. Costello, [115].
American Notes, presentation copies of, to Carlyle, [115],
and to Macready, [116].
The Haunted Man, presentation copy of, to Maclise, [116].
The Chimes, presentation copy of, to C. Dickens, Jr., [116].
The Village Coquette, dedication of, [118].
A Tale of Two Cities, [255].
Dickens, Charles, Jr., presentation copy of The Chimes to, [116].
Dickinson, John Ehret, inscription from O. Wilde to, [342].
Dilly, Charles, publisher of Corsica,
letter of Boswell to, [166], [167];
publishes the Life of Johnson, [175], [176].
Disraeli, Benjamin, Henrietta Temple, presentation copy of, to W. Beckford, [29];
mentioned, [253], [324].
Dobell, Bertram, Bookseller, 28 and n., [29].
Dobson, Austin, quatrain by, [266];
quoted, [293].
Dodd, Mrs. Mary, [295], [301], [302], [306], [309].
Dodd, Robert, [48].
Dodd, William (the “Macaroni Parson”), the Johnson-Dodd letters, [19-21], [306] ff.;
his history, [294] ff.;
Beauties of Shakespeare, [296], [297];
The Sisters, [297];
chaplain at Magdalen House, [298];
character of his preaching, [299];
made a royal chaplain, [300];
tutor to Lord Chesterfield’s son, [301];
builds Charlotte Chapel and becomes prosperous and extravagant, [302];
leads a triple life, [302];
tries to purchase living of St. George’s, Hanover Square, [303];
and is disgraced, [304];
convicted of forgery and sentenced to death, [305], [306];
Thoughts in Prison, [306];
Dr. Johnson’s aid enlisted to obtain his pardon, [306], [310], [311];
his execution, [315-317].
Dodd, Rev. Mr., father of William, [294], [296].
Dodd, Mead & Co., [48].
Donne, John, Walton’s Life of, [96].
Dowden, Edward, Life of Shelley, [108].
Drake, James F., bookseller, [49], [51], [110].
Dreer, Ferdinand J., [57], [58], [83].
Dutton, E. P., & Co., [115].
Eckel, John C., First Editions of Charles Dickens, [55], [79], [114] ff.
Edinburgh Review, [147].
Edmonton Churchyard, [53].
Egan, Pierce, Boxiana, [81].
Elia and Eliana, [52].
Eliot, George. See Evans, Mary Ann.
“Eliot” Bible, [86].
Elizabeth, Queen, [189], [270], [277], [278].
Elizabethan Club, [72].
Elliott, Ebenezer, [83].
Elzevirs, [5], [88].
England, dispersion of great private libraries in, [70], [71].
English Literature, three greatest characters in, [151].
Evans, Mary Ann, [111], [186], [187], [253].
Examiner, The, [135], [143].
Executions, public, in England, in 18th century, [314], [315].
Extra-illustrated books, [55], [57].
Fell, John, Bishop of Oxford, [96].
Field, Eugene, [15].
Fielding, Henry, [156], [253].
FitzGerald, Edward, Rubaiyat, [7].
Fleet Street, in author’s book-plate, [61].
Folger, H. C., [72].
Foote, Samuel, [304].
Fore-edge painting, fine example of, [74].
Forman, H. Buxton, [106].
Formosa, Historical and Geographical Description of, [32].
Forster, John, [24].
Fortnightly Magazine, [332].
Fox, Charles James, [130].
Foxe, John, The Book of Martyrs, [76].
France, Anatole, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, [65].
Franklin, Benjamin, his edition of the Cato Major, [9];
mentioned, [58], [177].
Frederick William, Crown Prince of Prussia, [284].
French Revolution, [229].
Friswell, Hain, [261].
Furness, Horace H., [92].
Gale, Minna, [327].
Gamp, Sairey, [243].
Garrett, Mr., President of B. & O. Railroad, [54].
Garrick, David, Love in the Suds, [28];
mentioned, [43], [194], [200].
Garrick, Mrs. David, [194].
Gaskell, Elizabeth C., Cranford, [125].
George III, [21], [214], [306], [307], [309].
George V, [266], [270].
Gibbon, Edward, [162], [181].
Gilbert, William S., [78], [331].
Gilbert and Sullivan, Patience, Wilde caricatured in, [324].
Gissing, George, Workers in the Dawn, [124].
Godwin, Fanny, illegitimate daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, [244], [245].
Godwin, M. J., Godwin’s second wife, Lamb’s comments on, [238], [239], [240];
her bookshop on Skinner St., [239];
pursues Shelley and his companions, [242], [243].
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Godwin’s First Wife, dies in childbirth, [233];
mentioned [232], [238].
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, 2d, copy of Queen Mab inscribed to, [108];
marries Shelley, [244], [245].
See Shelley, Mary W.
Godwin, William, sketch of his life, [228] ff.;
a political heretic and schismatic, [229];
Enquiry concerning Political Justice, [229], [230];
Adventures of Caleb Williams, [231], [232];
fascination for the fair sex, [232];
relations with Mary Wollstonecraft, [232], 233:
marries her, [233];
her death, [233];
courts Harriet Lee, [234];
financial troubles, [234], [235];
quarrelsomeness, [234];
his tragedy, Antonio, “damned with universal consent,” [235-237];
marries Mrs. Clairmont, [237], [238];
Life of Chaucer, [238], [239];
books for children, [239];
suggests Tales from Shakespeare to the Lambs, [239];
his opinions become less advanced, [240];
revival of interest in, through Shelley, [242];
absurd relations with Shelley, [243], [244];
his financial troubles thicken, [243], [244], [245];
his later literary work, [246];
Hazlitt’s anecdote of, [246];
becomes Yeoman Usher of the Exchequer, [247];
death, [247];
essay on “Sepulchres,” [247], [248];
the “husband of the first suffragette,” [248].
Goldsmith, Oliver, A Haunch of Venison (1776), [32];
The Vicar of Wakefield, “points” of first edition, [46], [98], [102], [127];
edition with Rowlandson plates, [46];
She Stoops to Conquer, [46], [103];
Johnson’s story of the sale of MS. of the Vicar, [98], [99];
The Traveller, [99];
The Deserted Village, [102];
mentioned, [8], [24], [61], [89], [194], [303], [304], [321], [322].
Goncourt, Edmond de, [94].
Gordon, Gen. Sir Alexander, presentation copies of Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort to, from Queen Victoria, [33], [34].
Grammatica Grœca, [89], [90].
Granniss, Ruth S., [113].
Gray, Thomas, Poems, 74:
the Elegy, [103];
Gen. Wolfe’s copy of the Elegy, [107], [108];
mentioned, [156], [163].
Greeley, Horace, [2].
Griffin, The, on the Site of Temple Bar, [269], [284], [285].
Grolier Club, bibliographies published by, [113] ff.;
exhibitions of, [113];
mentioned, [351], [352].
Gutenberg Bible, record price paid by H. E. Huntington for, at Hoe sale, [36], [67];
mentioned, [73].
Hagen, W. H., his copy of Paradise Lost, 5 n.;
sale of his collection, [102], [103], [106];
mentioned, [97].
Hamilton, Lady Emma, [320].
Hardy, Thomas, Desperate Remedies, [11], [13], [124];
letter of, to “old Tinsley,” [11], [12];
Far from the Madding Crowd, MS. of, [11], [13], [14];
Under the Greenwood Tree, [13];
The Woodlanders, [124];
quoted, [212].
Harrington, Lady, [307], [308].
Harrison, Mr., at Theobald’s Park, [288], [289].
Harvard University, Harry E. Widener graduated at, [345];
his collection now in keeping of, [349];
the Widener Memorial Library, [353].
Hawkins, Sir John, Life of Johnson, [21], [174], [214];
Boswell and, [179], [180];
mentioned, [305], [309], [317].
Hawtrey, Charles, [336].
Hazlitt, William, Anecdote of Godwin, [246], [247];
mentioned, [239].
Heath, James, engraver, 184 n.
Heming and Condell, [92].
Henkels, Stan, [57], [100].
Henry VI, [275].
Herbert, George, Walton’s Life of, [96];
The Temple, [97].
Herrick, Robert, Hesperides, first edition, [7], [102], [103].
Hill, George Birkbeck, editor of Boswell, [22], [64], [153], [181], [309].
Hill, Walter, bookseller, [44], [46], [83], [91].
Hingley, Mr., [298].
Hodgkins, Thomas, [239].
Hoe, Robert, sale of his collection, [36], [92], [103], [352], [354].
Hogarth, Mary, presentation copy of Pickwick Papers in parts to, [80], [81].
Hogarth, William, [190].
Holbrook, Richard T., [18].
Hollings, Frank, bookseller, [33].
Hollingsworth, John, [132].
Homer, Pope’s translation of, [9];
Chapman’s, [102].
Hooker, Richard, Walton’s Life of, [96].
Horneck, Miss, [24].
Horneck, Mrs., [24].
Howells, William Dean, [251], [254].
Hume, David, [161], [165].
Huntington, Henry E., pays record price for Gutenberg Bible, [36];
mentioned, [71], [72], [73], [352].
Hutchinson, Thomas, Ballad of a Poor Book-Lover (MS.), [69].
Huth, Alfred, sale of his collection, [354].
Hutt, Charles, bookseller, [66].
Hutt, Fred, bookseller, [10], [11], [63].
Hutton, Laurence, his collection of death-masks, [68];
mentioned, [69].
Iaggard, Isaac, [93].
Imlay, Mrs. Gilbert. See Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft.
Incunabula, [72].
Irving, Henry, [129], [268].
Ives, Brayton, his copy of Shelley’s Queen Mab, [108].
James I, [278], [280], [287].
Jefferson, Thomas, [58].
Jellicoe, Sir John (Viscount), [291].
Johnson, Henry, [213].
Johnson, John G., [42].
Johnson, Samuel, on poetry and Pope, [10];
holograph prayer of, [22];
many prayers written by, [22];
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, [23], [24];
letter to Mrs. Horneck, [22];
and Mrs. Davies, [31];
Psalmanazar Memoirs, inscribed by, to Mrs. Thrale, [31], [32];
Prologue Spoken at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane, [42], [43];
and the author’s book-plate, [60], [61];
Mrs. Thrale’s copy of the Dictionary, [63];
letter to the Thrales, [63];
his letters considered, [63], [64];
his story of the sale of the MS. of The Vicar of Wakefield, [98];
translator of Lobo’s Abyssinia, [125];
The Prince of Abissinia (Rasselas), [125], [206], [207];
and Jonson, [145];
Macaulay’s representation of, [147];
first meeting with Boswell, [150], [151];
what his fame owes to Boswell, [151], [152];
his advice to Boswell, [166];
on Boswell’s Corsica, [170];
effect of his death on Boswell, [173];
Mrs. Thrale’s Anecdotes, [174];
Hawkins’s Life of, [174];
need of an index to his dicta, [176], [177];
on Boswell, [181];
introduced
to the Thrales by Murphy, [192];
growth and long continuance of the intimacy, [193];
their first and greatest lion, [194], [195];
practically a member of the Thrale household, [197], [198];
his “menagerie of old women,” [198];
at Streatham, [199], [200];
verses to Mrs. Thrale, [201];
business adviser to the Thrales, [202];
executor of Thrale’s estate, [203], [204];
Streatham portrait of, [204], [205];
presentation copy of The Prince of Abissinia to Mrs. Thrale, [206], [207];
violent letter to Mrs. Thrale on her engagement to Piozzi, and her reply, [211], [212];
effect of his death on Mrs. Thrale-Piozzi, [213], [214];
author’s imaginary meeting with, [273], [274];
his efforts to obtain a reprieve for Dr. Dodd, [306] ff.;
letter of ghostly counsel to Dodd, and prayer for him, [311], [312];
writes “gallows speech” for Dodd (undelivered), [313], [314], [317];
on public executions, [317];
mentioned, [5], [52], [76], [80], [111], [114], [130], [155], [184], [187], [188], [189], [208], [215], [218], [221], [222], [226], [260], [268], [278], [282], [303], [321], [342].
See Boswell, James; Dodd, William; Thrale-Piozzi, Hester Lynch.
Jones, Inigo, [278].
Jonson, Ben, [145], [282].
Jordan, Dorothea, [133].
Jowett, Benjamin, [185].
Karslake, Frank, [103].
Keats, John, Endymion, Wordsworth’s copy of, [7], [29], [106];
Poems (1817), presentation copies of, [18], [104], [106], and n., [122];
his copy of Spenser’s Works, presented by Severn, [24], [25];
influence of Spenser on, [25];
rarity of books from his library, [25];
prices of MSS. of his works, [101];
To the Misses M—— at Hastings (MS.), [105], 106 n.;
Lamia, [106];
The Eve of St. Agnes, [355].
Kelly, Frances Maria, relations with Lamb, [129-144];
as an actress, [129], [130];
Lamb’s admiration for, [130], [131];
his offer of marriage, [132] ff., [138] ff.;
the original of his “Barbara S——,” [135];
Lamb’s earlier letters to, [136-138];
her reply to his offer of marriage, [142].
Kemble, John Philip, [130], [235], [236].
Kennerley, Mitchell, [103].
King, Edward, [354].
Kingsley, Charles, [253].
“Knockout, The,” at London auctions, [102], [103].
Labouchere, Henry, Truth, [28].
Lamb, Charles, autograph letter to Taylor & Hessey, [28];
receipt for copyright of Elia, [28], [74];
Elia, presentation copy of, [28];
Prose Works (1836), [37];
Letters (1837), [37];
Elegy on a Quid of Tobacco, [38], 39 n., [40];
in the Cosens MSS., [38], [39], [41];
birth and growth of the author’s interest in, [52], [53];
his burial-place, [53];
his house at Enfield, [53];
Old China, [68];
as book-collector and book-lover, [68];
admiration for Miss Kelly, [130] ff.;
Dream Children reminiscent of her, [130], [131];
resurrection of his letter offering marriage to her, [132] ff.;
sonnet to her, [133];
on Blue-stockings, [134];
“Barbara S——,” [134], [135];
writes Epilogue to Godwin’s Antonio, [235];
describes its first performance and damnation, [236], [237];
his copy of the play-bill, with comments, [237];
on Mrs. Godwin, [239], [240];
bon mots of, [241];
mentioned, [7], [48], [89], [112], [122], [129], [222], [239], [330].
See Kelly, Frances Maria.
Lamb, Charles and Mary, Tales from Shakespeare, [7], [239].
Lamb, Mary, and her brother’s courtship of Miss Kelly, [136], [138], [141], [142];
mentioned, [38], [53], [239].
Lambert, William H., sale of his collection, [48].
Lambton, Sir Hedworth, assumes name of Meux and inherits Lady Meux’s estates, [288], [289];
on active service in the late war, 291 and n.
See Temple Bar.
Lee, Harriet, courted by Godwin, [234].
Leech, John, illustration for A Christmas Carol, [116]; [78].
Levasseur, Thérèse, [165].
Lewes, George Henry, [176].
Lincoln, Abraham, [333].
Linnell, John, his Blake collection, [82].
Lippincott’s Magazine, [329].
Livingston, Luther S., [48], [49], [75], [97], [103].
Lloyd, Constance, Marries Wilde, [328].
Lobo, Father, his Abyssinia translated by Dr. Johnson, [125].
Locke, John, [91].
Locke, William J., The Belovèd Vagabond, [91].
Locker-Lampson, Frederick, his copy of the first folio of Shakespeare, [93];
and of the Compleat Angler, first edition, [96];
mentioned, [346].
London, the great market of the world for collectors’ books, [8] ff.;
and Dickens, [10];
bookshops of, [13] ff.;
Stow’s Survay of, [32], [274], [275];
changes in, [66], [268], [269];
preëminence of, as a book-market, passing to New York? [71];
Aggas’s pictorial map of, [274];
the plague and the great fire, [279].
London, a poem, [32].
London County Council, [10].
Lowell, Amy, [222].
Lowell, James Russell, [7], [154], [185].
Lowther, Katherine, and Gen. Wolfe’s copy of Gray’s Elegy, [107].
Lucas, Edmund V., [132], [133].
Lud Gate, [277].
Macaulay, Hannah More, [146].
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord, his essay on Boswell’s Johnson criticized, [145] ff.
Maclise, Daniel, presentation copy of Dickens’s The Haunted Man, to, [116].
Macpherson, James, [211].
Macready, William C., presentation copies to, of Oliver Twist, [44], [46], [47],
American Notes, [116],
and The Cricket on the Hearth, [116].
Macrobius, Saturnalia, [90].
Madison, James, [58].
Magdalen House, Dodd chaplain at, [298], [299].
Maggs, the Brothers, booksellers, [66], [103].
Mangin, Edward, Piozziana, quoted, [17].
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, [307].
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, [278].
Marshall, Archibald, [251].
Marshall, John, [58].
Marshall, Joshua, [281].
Martin, Sir Theodore, Life of the Prince Consort, inscribed presentation copy of, to Gen. Sir A. Gordon, [33], [34].
Martin, Mrs., Letter of Mrs. Browning to, [26].
Mary, Queen of George V, [267], [270].
Mason, Stuart, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde, [114].
Mason, William, Elfrida, Boswell’s copy of, [159], [163].
Mathew, Caroline, [25].
Mathew, George Felton, poem of Keats addressed to, [25]; 106 n.
Matthews, Brander, Ballads of Books, [69].
Meirs, Richard Waln, [68].
Melmoth, Sebastian, name assumed by Wilde in Paris, [340].
Meredith, George, Modern Loves, inscribed to Swinburne, [121];
mentioned, [250].
Meux, Sir Hedworth. See Lambton, Sir Hedworth.
Meux, Lady Henry, makes Sir H. Lambton her heir, [288], [289].
Meux, Sir Henry, buys Temple Bar and sets it up at Theobald’s Park, [286].
Millard, Evelyn, [337].
Millett, Maude, [336].
Milton, John, Paradise Lost, first edition, with first title-page, 5 and n., [6], [87], [102], [103];
Lycidas, [103], [354].
Montagu, Elizabeth, [194], [200], [204].
Montgomerie, Margaret. See Boswell, Margaret.
Moore, George, Memoirs of My Dead Life, proof-sheets of, [49], [50];
Literature at Nurse, and Pagan Poems, presentation copies of, [49], [51];
Flowers of Passion, [87];
quoted, on the Griffin, [285].
Moran, E. R., [347].
More, Hannah, [153], [154], [194].
Morgan, John Pierpont, acquires Boswell’s letters to Temple, [158];
mentioned, [71], [98], [351], [352].
Morley, Christopher, 150 n.
Morris, William, [331].
Mudie’s Lending Library, [49].
Murphy, Arthur, introduces Johnson to the Thrales, [192], [193].
Neilson, Julia, [336].
Nelson, Horatio, Lord, [320], [321].
New York, and the rare-book market, [71].
Newton, A. Edward, book-plate of, [60], [61];
visit to Auchinleck, [181-184];
imaginary meeting with Dr. Johnson, [273], [274];
visit to Theobald’s Park (Temple Bar), [286-290].
North, Ernest D., bookseller, [46], [52].
Oration in Carpenter’s Hall (Philadelphia), [58].
Original London Post, Robinson Crusoe published serially in, [101].
Osbourne, S. Lloyd, [112].
Osgood, Charles G., [60], [61], [176], [177].
Paine, Thomas, [229], [230], [231].
Paoli, Pascal, [156], [165], [166], [169], [170].
Pater, Walter, quoted, on Wilde’s comedies, [334].
Patissier, François, Le, [88].
Patterson, John M., [168].
Paul, C. Kegan, [247].
Pearson, Mr., bookseller, [21-23].
Pembroke, Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of, [346].
Pembroke College (Oxford), [22].
Penn, William, [58].
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, Our House, presentation copy of, to the author, [32], [94], [328].
Pennell, Joseph, [94], [328].
Pepys, Samuel, [158].
Percy, Hugh (Bishop), [179].
Percy, Mrs., presentation copy of Rasselas to, [125].
Perkins, Mary. See Dodd, Mary.
Phelps, William Lyon, on Trollope, [250], [251], [258].
Pickwick, Mr., Seymour’s original drawing of, [346].
Pinero, Sir A., [335].
Piozzi, Gabriel, copy of Johnson’s Prince of Abissinia (Rasselas) presented to, by Mrs. Thrale, [206], [207];
his acquaintance with Mrs. T., [207-209];
becomes engaged to her, [210];
their marriage, [212], [213];
his death, [223];
mentioned, [194], [214], [217].
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. See Thrale-Piozzi, Hester Lynch.
Plague, The, in London, [279].
Pope, Alexander, his Homer, [9];
Dr. Johnson, and O. Wilde, on, [10];
mentioned, [89].
Presentation books, [107].
Princeton University, [68].
Prints, collecting, [4];
inlaying, [57].
Psalmanazar, George, Memoirs, association
copy of, [31];
Johnson and, [31], [32].
Punch, [120], [335].
Pynson, Richard, [91].
Quaritch, Bernard, the Napoleon of booksellers, [15];
his catalogues, [87] ff.;
mentioned, [7], [76].
Quaritch, Bernard Alfred, a worthy son of his father, [15];
on Widener, [353], [354];
mentioned, [8], [71], [98], [103].
Quin, James, [190].
Radcliffe, Ann, [253].
Ralph Roister Doister, [89].
Ransome, Arthur, Oscar Wilde, [49].
Reade, Charles, [253].
Redway, W. E., manager of Hollings’s, [33].
Reed, Henry, Copy of Vanity Fair presented to, by Thackeray, [19].
Rembrandt, H. van Rijn, [152].
Reveley, Mrs., [232].
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, dedication copy of Boswell’s Johnson to, [18];
mentioned, [153], [156], [181], 184 n., [194], [200], [347].
Rice, Mrs. Hamilton, builds Widener Memorial Library, [353];
mentioned, [48], [112], [346].
Roberts, The Holy Land, [5].
Robinson, Mary Darby (“Perdita”), [232].
Robinson, Henry Crabbe, [37].
Roosevelt, Theodore, [329].
Rosenbach, A. S. W. (“Rosy”), bookseller, [41-44];
quoted, on Widener, [348];
his catalogue of Widener’s Stevenson collection, [348];
mentioned, [71], [75], [80], [106], [109].
Ross, Robert, quoted, [114];
and Wilde, [341], [342].
Rossetti, Dante G., his sketch of Tennyson reading Maud, [26], [27];
inscription to Swinburne, [106].
Rossetti, W. M., [26].
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, [165].
Rudd, Margaret, Anecdotes of the Life and Transactions of, [81].
Rug-collecting, [3], [4].
Ruskin, John, [323], [331].
Russell, E. F., [110].
Sabin, Frank, [24], [25].
Sabin, F. T., bookseller, [24], [54], [66], [87].
St. George’s, Hanover Square, [303].
St. Paul’s, London, thanksgiving service in, [267], [268];
rebuilt by Wren after the great fire, [279].
Salusbury, Hester Lynch. See Thrale-Piozzi, Hester Lynch.
Salusbury, Sir John, [189].
Salusbury, Mrs. John, [190].
Salusbury, John Piozzi, [206], [207], [223], [224].
Sandys, Lord, [194].
Saturday Review, quoted, on Wilde’s poetry, [325].
Schelling, Felix, Elizabethan Drama and other books, [62];
mentioned, [296].
Scott, Sir Walter, The Heart of Midlothian, [256];
mentioned, [111].
Sessler, Charles, bookseller, [44], [46], [47], [116].
Severn, Joseph, copy of Spenser’s Works presented by, to Keats, [25].
Seymour, Robert, original drawings for Pickwick Papers, [346].
Shakespeare, William, folios and quartos, [67], [72];
Hamlet, first quartos of, [72];
Venus and Adonis, early editions of, [72];
Titus Andronicus, [72];
the first folio, [92], [93], [346];
Poems written by Wil. Shakespeare, Gent. (1640), [346];
mentioned, [43], [117], [152], [296].
Shaw, G. Bernard, [323], [324].
Shelley, Mrs. Harriet, deserted by Shelley, [242];
her death, [244].
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Frankenstein, [231].
See Godwin, Mary W., 2d.
Shelley, Percy B., Queen Mab, presentation copy of, to Mary W. Godwin, [108];
and Godwin, [242];
elopes with Mary W. Godwin, [242];
marries her, [244];
death, [245], [355];
mentioned, [7], [228].
Sherard, Robert H., biographer of Wilde, [340].
Sheridan, Richard B., [130], [334].
Siddons, Sarah, [130], [194].
Sidney, Sir Philip, Arcadia, Countess of Pembroke’s copy of, [346].
Skelton, John, Poems, [102], [103].
Smith, Adam, [162].
Smith, George D., bookseller, [36] ff., [58], [71], [73], [96], [106], [115].
Smith, Harry B., his “Sentimental Library,” [136];
mentioned, [346].
Smith, Sidney, engraver, [61].
Smith, Sydney, [8].
Smith, Elder & Co., [83].
Smollett, Tobias, [297].
Sotheby’s auction rooms, [101], [354].
Southey, Robert, Life of Nelson, [320];
mentioned, [38], 39 and n., [41], [321].
Southwark, Thrale brewery in, [191], [195].
Spencer, George, Marquis of Blandford, [70].
Spencer, George John, Earl, [70].
Spencer, Walter, bookseller, [27], [28], [53], [54], [66].
Spenser, Edmund, copy of his Works presented to Keats by Severn, [24], [25];
his influence on Keats, [25];
mentioned, [177].
Spoor, J. A., [48].
Stanhope, Philip, pupil to Dr. Dodd, [301].
See Chesterfield, fifth Earl of.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, [5], [64], [185].
Sterne, Laurence, A Sentimental Journey, [81];
mentioned, [298], [304].
Stevenson, Isobel S., [112].
Stevenson, Robert Louis, Inland Voyages, inscribed copy of, [109];
A Child’s Garden of Verses, unique copy of, [109], [110], [111];
prices of first editions of, [110], [112], [113];
The New Arabian Nights, [110];
his popularity, [111];
Penny Whistles, [112];
Widener’s collection of his works, [112], [348], [349];
Vailima Letters (holographs) [348];
Memoirs of Himself (MS.), privately printed by H. E. Widener, [348], [349];
Treasure Island, [348], [349];
mentioned, [7], [185].
Stoke Poges Church Yard, [74].
Stoker, Bram, Dracula, [231].
Stow, John, Survay of London, first edition, [32];
quoted, [274], [275].
Strahan, George, [22].
Streatham Park, the Thrales’ country seat, [192], [194], [195], [196];
life at, described by Fanny Burney, [199] ff.;
closed, [209];
reopened, [215], [216].
Strong, Isobel Stewart, [348].
Subscription books, [55].
Sullivan, Sir Arthur. See Gilbert and Sullivan.
Sunday, “Billy,” [292].
Surtees, R. S., his sporting novels, [49], [77].
Swinburne, Algernon C., Poems and Ballads, first edition, [11];
inscription to, by Rossetti, [106];
Moore’s Modern Love, inscribed to, [121];
mentioned, [262].
Talfourd, Thomas Noon, Final Memorials of Charles Lamb, [37], [38].
Taylor and Hessey, [28], [74].
Temple, Rev. William J., Boswell’s letters to, history of the collection, [157], [158];
extracts from the letters, [158-165];
his letters to B. not preserved, [159];
mentioned, [180].
Temple Bar, in the author’s book-plate, [61];
the western boundary of the “City,” [267];
history of, [274] ff.;
the first structure, [275-279];
the second, built by Wren in 1670 and after, [279-281];
demand for its removal, [281], [282];
iron spikes on, [282];
taverns surrounding, [282], [283];
lessening importance of, [283], [284];
last functions in which it played a part, [284];
removed in 1877, [284];
purchased by Sir H. Meux, and removed to Theobald’s Park, [286];
a visit to, described, [286-290].
Temple, The, [274].
Tennyson, Alfred, sketch of, reading Maud, [26], [27];
mentioned, [283].
Terry, Ellen, [129].
Thackeray, William M., copy of Vanity Fair presented by, to Henry Reed, [19];
sketch for illustration of Vanity Fair, [48], [49];
Vanity Fair, in parts, [78], [251], [252];
sentence written in his copy of Cowper’s The Task, [347];
copy of Henry Esmond, presented by, to Charlotte Brontë, [347];
mentioned, [250], [253].
Theobald’s Park, Temple Bar now set up at, [286] ff.
Thomson, James, The Seasons, copy of, presented by Lord Byron to F. W. Webster, [29].
Thrale, Henry, marries Hester L. Salusbury, [191];
their ménage, [191] ff.;
parties at Streatham, [194],
the brewery, [195];
described by his wife, [196], [197];
elected to Parliament, [197];
his table among the best in London, [198];
business troubles, [202];
advised by Johnson, [202], [203];
death, [203];
mentioned, [186], [189].
See Thrale-Piozzi, Hester Lynch.
Thrale, Hester Lynch. See Thrale-Piozzi.
Thrale, “Queenie,” [198].
Thrale-Piozzi, Hester Lynch, Lyford Redivivus (MS.), [16], [17];
Psalmanazar’s Memoirs inscribed by Johnson to, [31], [32];
her copy of the Dictionary, [63], [202];
Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson, [174], [214];
and Boswell’s Johnson, [178], [179];
her qualities, in general, [187], [188];
her pedigree, [188], [189];
birth, early years and education, [189], [190];
marries Thrale, [191];
their ménage, [191] ff.;
her one duty, [192];
Johnson introduced to, [192];
beginning of their long-enduring familiar intercourse, [193], [194];
relations with Thrale, [196], [197];
her numerous progeny, [197];
business ability, [197], [204];
life at Streatham, [199] ff.;
Johnson’s verses to, [201];
coexecutor with Johnson of Thrale’s estate, [203];
sells the brewery, [204], [205];
acquaintance with Piozzi, [207], [209];
verses to Piozzi, [210];
engaged to him, [210];
Johnson’s violent letter to, and her reply, [211], [212];
marries Piozzi, [212], [213];
effect of Johnson’s death on, [213], [214];
Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, [215];
other works published by, [216];
Baretti’s attack on, [216];
builds Brynbella, [217];
busy with her pen, [218];
Thraliana, [218];
Journal of a Tour in Wales, MS. of, [218-221];
Macaulay’s “silly phrase” concerning, [221];
modern opinion of, [221];
her influence on Johnson, [221];
literary taste, [222];
her copy of Boswell’s Johnson, [222];
death of Piozzi, [223];
last days, at Bath, [223], [224];
death and burial, [224];
last words on, [224], [225];
mentioned, [155], [161], [181].
Thurlow, Edward, Lord, [162].
Tinker, Chauncey B., Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney, dedication copy, [62];
mentioned, [42], [158], [210].
Titanic, steamship, loss of, [343], [344], [355].
Tregaskis, James, bookseller, [30-32].
Trent, William P., [100].
Trollope, Anthony, quoted, [75];
The MacDermots of Ballycloran, and The Kellys and the O’Kellys, [111], [124];
his novels considered, [111], [112], [251] ff., [257] ff.;
later criticism of, [249], [250];
his simplicity, [253];
his autobiography, quoted, [253], [265];
his plots, [255];
Can You Forgive Her?, [255];
Orley Farm, [255], [256], [257];
Phineas Redux, [255];
the photographer par excellence of his time, [260];
his clerical gallery, [260];
Mrs. Proudie, [261], [262];
his autobiography, [262];
suggested order of reading his novels, [263];
a typical Englishman, [264];
effect of the war on the England he wrote of, [266].
Trollope, Henry M., [262].
Tyburn, execution of Dodd at, [315-317].
United States, book-shops in, [36] ff.
“Unspeakable Scot, The,” The First Stone, [51].
Van Antwerp, William C., [86], [93], [96], [106], [346].
Vanbrugh, Irene, [337].
Victoria, Princess Royal, [284].
Victoria, Queen, inscribed copy of Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort presented by, to Gen. Sir A. Gordon, [33], [34];
mentioned, [284].
Wainewright, T. G., [333].
Wales, Prince of (afterward George IV), [232].
Wales, Prince of (afterward Edward VII), [284].
Waller, Lewis, [336].
Walpole, Horace, The Castle of Otranto, [231];
mentioned, [181], [299].
Walton, Izaak, The Compleat Angler, [7], [95], [96], [98], [248];
his Lives of Donne, etc., [96];
mentioned, [286], [287].
Watts, Isaac, [190].
Webster, Frances W., copy of Thomson’s The Seasons presented by Lord Byron to, [29].
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, [284].
Wells, Gabriel, bookseller, [51], [52], [110], [166].
Westcote, Lord, [194].
Whistler, James, Pennell collection of his works, [94];
and Wilde, [324], [328].
White, W. A., [72], [75].
Widener, George D., [344], [345].
Widener, Mrs. George D. See Rice, Mrs. Hamilton.
Widener, Harry Elkins, his collection given to Harvard University by his mother, [48];
sketch of his life, [343], [345];
lost on the Titanic, [344], [355];
devotion to, and knowledge of, books, [344], [345];
as a book-collector, [345], [346];
some of his treasures, [346] ff.;
Stevenson collection, [348];
personality and characteristics, [348], [349];
and the Grolier Club, [350];
his ambition to be remembered in connection with a great library, [352], [353];
at the Huth sale, [354];
his last purchase, Bacon’s Essaies, [354], [355];
mentioned, [19], [73], [75], [86].
Widener, Peter A. B., [350].
Widener Memorial Library, [93], [112], [353].
Wilde, Constance, [328].
Wilde, Oscar, on poetry and Pope, [10];
presentation copy of Moore’s Pagan Poems to, [49], [51];
advancing value of first editions of, [49];
multiplicity of books about him, [49], [51];
The Importance of Being Earnest, [89], [334], [337];
bibliography of, [114];
Beardsley’s caricature of, [114], [319];
lectures in U.S., [318], [325], [327];
personal appearance, [318];
difficulties of discussing him, [320];
his place in literature as influenced by his character, [321], [322];
Dorian Gray, [322], [329-331];
early life, [322], [323];
leads the “æsthetic cult,” [323], [324];
at Oxford, and in London, [323], [324];
Poems (1881), [324], [325];
The Duchess of Padua, [327];
The Woman’s World, [329];
fairy tales, [331];
The Soul of Man under Socialism, [332], [333];
Pen, Pencil, and Poison, [333];
his poems, [333], [334];
his dramatic works—Lady Windermere’s Fan, [335];
A Woman of No Importance, [335], [336];
An Ideal Husband, [336], [337];
Salome, [337];
success of the plays, [338];
his downfall, [338], [339];
in prison, [338];
De Profundis, [338], [339];
effect of his reputation on his works, [339], [340];
in Paris under assumed name, [340];
The Ballad of Reading Gaol, [340];
death, [341];
Robert Ross and, [341], [342];
mentioned, [292].
Wilde, Oscar, Three Times Tried, [49].
Wilde, Willie, [49].
Wilde, Lady (“Speranza”), [322].
Wilkes, John, [179].
Wilson, Woodrow, Constitutional History of the United States, with inscription, [125], [126].
Winchester Cathedral, [95].
Wolfe, General James, sale of his copy of Gray’s Elegy, [107], [108].
Wollstonecraft, Mary, becomes Godwin’s mistress, [232], [233];
marries him, [233], [228].
See Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft.
Woodhouse, James, [192], [193].
Wordsworth, William, his copy of Endymion, [7], [29], [106];
mentioned, [38], [133].
Wren, Christopher, builds new Temple Bar, [279], [280].
Wykeham, William of, [95].
Wynne, Maurice, of Gwydir, [189].
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] The facsimile ([page 6]) is from the first edition, with the first title-page. From the Hagen collection. Mr. Hagen has written on the fly-leaf, “Rebound from original calf binding which was too far gone to repair.” In the process of binding it was seen that the title-page was part of a signature and not a separate leaf as in the case of the issue with the “Second” title, 1667, which would seem to settle the priority of these two titles.
[2] See infra, chapter III, [p. 104], where the further adventures of this book are related, and where its price at the Hagen sale, May 14, 1918, becomes $1950, with A. E. N. as the bidder-up.