TABLE OF CONTENTS

[I.] Book-Collecting Abroad[1]
[II.] Book-Collecting at Home[36]
[III.] Old Catalogues and New Prices[65]
[IV.] “Association” Books and First Editions[107]
[V.] “What Might Have Been”[129]
[VI.] James Boswell—His Book[145]
[VII.] A Light-Blue Stocking[186]
[VIII.] A Ridiculous Philosopher[226]
[IX.] A Great Victorian[249]
[X.] Temple Bar Then and Now[267]
[XI.] A Macaroni Parson[292]
[XII.] Oscar Wilde[318]
[XIII.] A Word in Memory[343]
[INDEX:][A],[B],[C],[D],[E],[F],[G],[H],[I],[J],[K],[L],[M],[N],[O],[P],[Q],[R],[S],[T],[U],[V],[W].

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Caricature of Two Great Victorians[Frontispiece in Color]

W. M. Thackeray and Charles Dickens

Title of “Paradise Lost.” First Edition[6]
Title of Franklin’s Edition of Cicero’s “Cato Major”[9]
Letter of Thomas Hardy to his First Publisher, “Old Tinsley”[12]
Page of Original MS. of Hardy’s “Far from the Madding Crowd”[14]
Bernard Quaritch[14]
Title of MS. of “Lyford Redivivus”[16]
Bernard Alfred Quaritch[16]
Samuel Johnson[20]

Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds about 1770, for Johnson’s Step-Daughter, Lucy Porter. Engraved by Watson

Page of Prayer in Dr. Johnson’s Autograph[23]
Title of Keats’s Copy of Spenser’s Works[24]
Portrait of Tennyson Reading “Maud” to the Brownings, by Rossetti[26]
Dr. Johnson’s Church, St. Clement Danes[31]

From a pen-and-ink sketch by Charles G. Osgood

Inscription to Mrs. Thrale in Dr. Johnson’s Hand[32]
Inscription to General Sir A. Gordon in Queen Victoria’s Hand[35]
George D. Smith[36]

Photographed by Genthe

Autograph MS. of Lamb’s Poem, “Elegy on a Quid of Tobacco”[40]
Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach[42]

Photographed by Genthe

Title of “Robinson Crusoe.” First Edition[45]
Title of “Oliver Twist”[47]

Presentation Copy to W. C. Macready

Original Illustration for “Vanity Fair”[48]

Becky Sharp throwing Dr. Johnson’s “Dixonary” out of the carriagewindow, as she leaves Miss Pinkerton’s School

From the first pen-and-ink sketch, by Thackeray, afterwards elaborated

Specimen Proof-Sheet of George Moore’s “Memoirs of My Dead Life”[50]
Title of George Moore’s “Pagan Poems”[51]

Presentation Copy to Oscar Wilde

Title of Blake’s “Marriage of Heaven and Hell”[52]
Charles Lamb’s House at Enfield[54]
Inscription by Joseph Conrad in a Copy of “The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’”[56]
The Author’s Book-Plate[60]
Henry E. Huntington[72]
Stoke Poges Church[74]

A fine example of fore-edge painting

Title of Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and Experience”[80]
“A Leaf from an Unopened Volume”[82]

Specimen page of an unpublished manuscript of Charlotte Brontë

Title of the Kilmarnock Edition of Burns’s Poems[85]
Fifteenth-Century English MS. on Vellum: Boëthius’s “De Consolatione Philosophiæ”[90]
Title of George Herbert’s “The Temple.” First Edition[97]
First Page of a Rare Edition of “Robinson Crusoe”[102]
Autograph MS. of a Poem by Keats—“To the Misses M—— at Hastings”[105]
Inscription to Swinburne from Dante Rossetti[106]
Autograph Inscription by Stevenson, in a Copy of his “Inland Voyage”[109]
Title of a Unique Copy of Stevenson’s “Child’s Garden of Verses”[110]
New Building of the Grolier Club[114]
Inscription to Charles Dickens, Junior, from Charles Dickens[116]
Illustration, “The Last of the Spirits,” by John Leech For Dickens’s “Christmas Carol”[116]

From the original water-color drawing

Autograph Dedication to Dickens’s “The Village Coquettes”[118]
Title of Meredith’s “Modern Love,” with Autograph Inscription to Swinburne[121]
Inscription by Dr. Johnson in a Copy of “Rasselas”[125]
Inscription by Woodrow Wilson, in a Copy of his “Constitutional Government of the United States”[126]
Inscription by James Whitcomb Riley[128]
Charles Lamb[130]
Frances Maria Kelly[132]
Miss Kelly in Various Characters[136]
MS. Dedication of Lamb’s Works to Miss Kelly[137]
Autograph Letter of Lamb to Miss Kelly[139]
Charles and Mary Lamb[144]
James Boswell of Auchinleck, Esqr.[146]

Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones

Samuel Johnson in a Tie-Wig[150]

Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by Zobel

Inscription to Rev. William J. Temple, from James Boswell[159]
Title of Mason’s “Elfrida.” First Edition[163]
MS. of Boswell’s Agreement with Mr. Dilly, reciting the Terms agreed on for the Publication of “Corsica”[167]
MS. Indorsement by Boswell on the First Paper drawn by him as an Advocate[168]
Dr. Johnson in Traveling Dress, as described in Boswell’s “Tour”[174]

Engraved by Trotter

Inscription to James Boswell, Junior, from James Boswell[176]
Samuel Johnson[184]

Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by Heath

Inscription to Edmund Burke, by James Boswell[185]
Mrs. Piozzi[186]

Engraved by Ridley from a miniature

Extract from MS. Letter of Mrs. Thrale[191]
Title of Miss Burney’s “Evelina.” First Edition[199]
Mrs. Thrale’s Breakfast-Table[200]
Samuel Johnson. The “Streatham Portrait”[204]

Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by Doughty

MS. Inscriptions by Mrs. Thrale[206]
Title of “The Prince of Abissinia” (“Rasselas”). First Edition[207]
MS. of the Last Page of Mrs. Thrale’s “Journal of a Tour in Wales”[219]
Miss Amy Lowell, of Boston[222]
Samuel Johnson[225]
William Godwin, the Ridiculous Philosopher[227]
Charles Lamb’s Play-Bill of Godwin’s “Antonio”[236]
MS. Letter from William Godwin[241]
Anthony Trollope[250]

From a photograph by Elliot and Fry

Temple Bar as it is To-day[268]
Old Temple Bar: Demolished in 1666[276]
Temple Bar in Dr. Johnson’s Time[280]
Temple Bar[291]
First Page of Dr. Johnson’s Petition to the King on Behalf of Dr. Dodd[306]
Mr. Allen’s Copy of the Last Letter Dr. Dodd sent Dr. Johnson[312]
Caricature of Oscar Wilde[319]

From an original drawing by Aubrey Beardsley

“Our Oscar” as he was when we loaned him to America[326]

From a contemporary English caricature

MS. Inscription to J. E. Dickinson, from Oscar Wilde[342]
Harry Elkins Widener[344]
Title of Stevenson’s “Memoirs of Himself”[349]

Printed for private distribution only, by Mr. Widener

Beverly Chew[350]
Henry E. Huntington among his Books[352]

Photographed by Genthe

Harry Elkins Widener’s Book-Plate[355]

THE AMENITIES OF BOOK-COLLECTING
AND
KINDRED AFFECTIONS