The Book: Its History and Development

by Cyril Davenport

Uzanne, O.—La Reliure Moderne. Paris, 1887.

Wheatley, H. B.—Remarkable Bindings in the British Museum. London, 1889.

FOOTNOTE:

[1] Anglo-Saxon Review and Burlington Magazine, July, 1907.

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INDEX.

• A.
• Abacus, the, [12]
• Account book binding, [157]
• Ackermann, publisher, [129]
• Æsop’s Fables, 1665 ... [124]
• “A E I O U,” [197]
• African symbolic messages, [10]
• Alcuin of York, [19]
• Aliamet, line engraver, [122]
• Alken, H., artist, [124]
• “All-over” style of binding, [223]
• All Saints’ Church, Hereford, chained library at, [164]
• Allanson and Sears, wood engravers, [116]
• Allen, D., line engraver, [120]
• Almanacks cut on wood, bone, etc., [7]
• American loggers’ marks, [9]
• ”wampums, [13]
• Amulets, [4]
• Aniline dyes for leather, [180]
• Anne Boleyn’s New Testament, [144]
• Anne de Felbrigge, embroidress, [151]
• Annis, W., mezzotint engraver, [128]
• Aquatints, [128]
• Arabic knot, the, [208]
• ”panel stamps, the, [59]
• Arabic style of binding, the, [55]
• Armagh, satchel of the book of, [50]
• Armytage, J. C., line engraver, [121]
• Ars Moriendi, [90]
• Art canvas bindings, [156]
• Ashburnham, Lord, [189]
• Assyrian bricks and cylinders, [85]
• Astle, T., keeper of the records in the Tower of London, [189]
• Avril, P., artist, [138]
• Ayres, J., calligraphist, [118]
• Ayrton’s Voyage Round Great Britain, [131]
• Aze, line engraver, [122].
• B.
• “B” capital in Mainz Psalter, [103]
• Babylonian cylinders and bricks, [85]
• Backing, the, of books, [43]
• Backs, flat and rounded, [42]
• Bacon, F., line engraver, [121]
• Badier, F., bookbinder, [239]
• Bagford, J., author, [190], [222]
• Baily, J., aquatint engraver, [131]
• Baker, R. J., line engraver, [121]
• Baldwin II., King of Jerusalem, [53]
• Bamler, J., publisher, [115]
• Bands of bindings, [36], [44]
• Bank note of Chinese paper, 1368 ... [64]
• Barber’s poles, [16]
• Bark books, [29]
• Bartholomaeus’ De proprietatibus rerum, [66]
• Bartolozzi, F., etcher, [125]
• Baskerville, J., printer, [99]
• Bateman, John and Abraham, binders, [217]
• Battas of Sumatra and symbolic messages, [10]
• Battledores, [166]
• Bauzonnet, bookbinder, [242]
• Bedford, F., bookbinder, [231]
• Beneworth, wood engraver, [116]
• Bennett, W. F., aquatint engraver, [130]
• Bernes, Dame Juliana’s, Book of St. Albans, [110]
• Berthelet, T., printer and binder, [110], [213]
• Bertonnier, line engraver, [123]
• Best, A., wood engraver, [114]
• Bettini’s Monte Santo di Deo, [119]
• Bewick, T., wood engraver, [108], [110]
• Biblia Pauperum, [90]
• Blaew, W. J., mechanician, [94]
• Blake, W., artist, [109], [124]
• Blanchard, P., lithographer, [135]
• Blazes on trees, [9]
• Blind tooling on bindings, [182]
• Bloc, bookbinder, [192]
• Block books, [89]
• Boards of books, [41]
• Bollcaert, bookbinder, [192]
• Bone, markings on, [1], [9]
• Book edges, [143]
• Bosse, A., etcher, [125]
• Bosse, L., line engraver, [122]
• Bosses on mediæval books, [45]
• Boule, A., bookbinder, [192]
• Boydell, publisher, [129]
• Boydell’s Picturesque Scenery in Norway, [130]
• Boyet, L. A., bookbinder, [240]
• Brandard, R., line engraver, [121]
• Brant’s Narrenschiff, [115]
• Brevière, H. L., wood engraver, [114]
• Brim stocks, [7]
• “Britannia” watermark, [71]
• Buck, Thomas and John, printers and binders, [154], [220]
• Buckingham, Marquis of, [189]
• Buckram bindings, [156]
• “Bull’s Head” watermark, [69]
• Burgkmeier, H., artist, [116]
• Burne-Jones, Sir E., artist, [113]
• Bylaert, J., artist, [125]
• Byrthe of Mankind, [119]
• Byzantine bindings, [46]
• ”diptychs, [22]

• C.
• Calf leather, [171]
• Callot, etcher, [125]
• Cambridge bindings, [191]
• Cameo stamps, [208]
• “Canevari” stamps, [208]
• Canvas bindings, [151]
• Capé, bookbinder, [242]
• “Caractères de civilité,” [97]
• Cardinal’s hat, [12]
• Carolingian Minuscules, [20]
• Cartwright, T., aquatint engraver, [131]
• Caslon, W., printer, [99]
• Casting of type, the, [92]
• Cathach, of the O’Donnells, the, [50]
• Cattermole, artist, [132], [134]
• Caxton’s bindings, [189]
• ”Fifteen Oes, [106]
• ”Myrrour of the Worlde, [108], [109]
• Cecil, Lord Burleigh’s, book stamp, [216]
• Cecil, line engraver, [120]
• Cellarius’ Album Amicorum, [158]
• Cellulose used in paper, [79]
• “Chain” lines on paper, [73]
• Chained books, [163]
• Chambolle, bookbinder, [242]
• Chamois leather, [176]
• Charlemagne’s gospels, [54]
• ”interest in writing, [19]
• Charles II., portrait on book edges, [147]
• Charlet, lithographer, [133]
• Chauveau, F., line engraver, [122]
• Cheap paper, [77]
• Chemical wood pulp, [79]
• Chéret, lithographer, [133]
• Chevalier, W., line engraver, [121]
• Chifflart, line engraver, [123]
• China clay in paper, [80]
• Chinese books of Jade, [5]
• ”colour blocks, [104]
• ”paper, [63]
• ”types of porcelain, [86]
• ”woodcuts, [103]
• Choffard, P., line engraver, [122], [125]
• Christ, arms of, [196]
• Clasps on mediæval books, [44]
• Clay-laden papers, [80]
• Clennell, L., wood engraver, [111]
• Clint, G., mezzotint engraver, [128]
• Clog almanacks, [7]
• Cloth bindings, [155]
• Cobden-Sanderson, T. J., bookbinder, [231]
• Cochineal dye for leather, [222]
• Cockerell, D., bookbinder, [231]
• Codex Alexandrinus, [102]
• Cole, T., wood engraver, [111]
• Collet, M., bookbinder, [153]
• Collodion as a preservative for Persian bindings, [59]
• Colonna’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, [105]
• Colour on block books, [90]
• Coloured printing papers, [73]
• Combe’s History of the River Thames, [130]
• ”Tour of Dr. Syntax, [130]
• Commonwealth book stamp, [221]
• Constable, J., artist, [128]
• Consular diptychs, [23]
• Cook, H., stipple engraver, [125]
• Cooper, J., wood engraver, [112]
• Coptic binding of the eighth century, [182]
• Corbould, G., line engraver, [121]
• Corean paper, [65]
• Coronation of George IV., [131]
• Coster, L. J., printer, [90]
• Costeriana, [90]
• “Cottage,” style of binding, [222]
• Cousins, J., line engraver, [121]
• Cow-hide for bindings, [172]
• “Crown” watermark, [70]
• Cruickshank, G., artist, [124]
• “Crushed” morocco, [177]
• Cuirbouilli, [50]
• Cumdachs, [48-50]
• Cuneiform inscriptions, [3]
• Cup markings on rocks, [2], [3]
• Curiously-shaped books, [76]
• Cut leather work, [197]
• Cylinders engraved for making designs in book covers, [203]
• ”for printing presses, [95]
• D.
• Dalziels, the, wood engravers, [112]
• Dambrun, J., line engraver, [122]
• Daniel, W., aquatint engraver, [131]
• Dated binding, 1475 ... [199]
• Daughters of Louis XV., bindings made for, [237]
• Daumier, H., lithographer, [133]
• Davenport, S., line engraver, [121]
• Dawe, H., mezzotint engraver, [128]
• Day, J., printer, [213]
• Dean, stipple engraver, [125]
• De Coverly, R., bookbinder, [237]
• Deer-skin bindings, [189]
• Delacroix, E., artist, [133]
• De Launay, R., line engraver, [120], [123]
• “De l’Etoile,” French order, [236]
• Delignon, J. L., line engraver, [122]
• De Longueil, line engraver, [122]
• Delvaux, line engraver, [122]
• “Dentelle” bindings, [240]
• “Dentelles à l’oiseau,” [242]
• Derome le Jeune, bookbinder, [241]
• De Sauty, A., bookbinder, [231]
• De Thou, J. A., book collector, [236]
• Deveria, A., lithographer, [133]
• De Villiers, line engraver, [122]
• Diamond engraved, [5]
• Diane de Poictiers, bindings made for, [234]
• ”edges of her books, [145]
• ”faience, [86]
• Dimma’s book, [50]
• Diptychs, [20]
• Donatus’ grammars, [91]
• Double board bindings, [55], [214]
• Doublures by R. Payne, [228]
• Doyle, etcher, [124]
• Druet, line engraver, [119]
• Du Bosc, line engraver, [120]
• Duclos, H. J., line engraver, [122]
• Dudley, R., Earl of Leicester, book stamp, [216]
• Duff, G., author, [187]
• Du Maurier, G., artist, [113]
• Dunchad, Irish binder, [49]
• Dunkarton, R., mezzotint engraver, [127], [128]
• Duodecimos, [75]
• Dupont, H., line engraver, [123]
• Dupréel, line engraver, [122]
• Dürer, A., artist, [115]
• Durham bindings, [185]
• Duru, bookbinder, [242]
• Dutch printing, [92]
• E.
• Easter Island inscriptions, [9]
• Eastling, J. C., mezzotint engraver, [128]
• Ecclesiastical diptychs, [24]
• Edwards, J., bookbinder, [147], [171], [201], [202]
• ”J. C., line engraver, [121]
• Edy, J. W., aquatint engraver, [130]
• Egerton of Tatton, Earl, his silver horn book, [166]
• Egyptian mummy cloth paper, [63]
• ”papyrus rolls, [26]
• Eisen, C., artist, [122]
• Eliot and Chapman, bookbinders, [225]
• Elizabeth, Queen, embroidered books, [152]
• ”golden book, [160]
• Elizabeth, Queen, velvet books, [151]
• Ellis, aquatint engraver, [130]
• Elstrack, R., line engraver, [119]
• Elyot’s Image of Governance, [170]
• Embroidered books, [150]
• Enamelled bindings, [47], [162]
• End papers, [157], [229]
• Engleheart, F. C. and T. S., line engravers, [120]
• English blind tooled bindings, [184]
• ”coronation book, [188]
• ”panel stamped bindings, [193]
• ”paper, [66]
• ”psalter of the twelfth century, [187]
• Engraved metal blocks, [107]
• Engraving on wood, [106]
• Etching, [123]
• ”soft ground, [124]
• “Etruscan” bindings, [201]
• European early paper, [65]
• Evangelistic emblems on the cover of the Molaise gospels, [50]
• Eve, C., bookbinder, [236]
• ”N.,”[236]
• Evelyn’s Sculptura, [127]
• Exchequer tallies, [8]
• F.
• Faber, mezzotint engraver, [127]
• “Fanfare” bindings, [236]
• Fantin-Latour, lithographer, [133]
• Fashion plates in aquatint, [131]
• Fazakerly, bookbinder, [231]
• Ferrar, N., of Little Gidding, [153]
• Ficquet, line engraver, [122]
• Fielding, T. H., aquatint engraver, [131]
• Filigree bindings, [161]
• Finden, W., line and stipple engraver, [120], [125]
• Finiguerra, M., artist, [117]
• Fischer, C., lithographer, [135]
• Fish-skin bindings, [179]
• Fishing-rod sign, [16]
• Flagellation of Christ, engraving, [116]
• Fletcher, painter of book edges, [146]
• “Flong,” paper pulp, [96]
• Folios, [74]
• Folkard, wood engraver, [112]
• “Foolscap” watermark, [71]
• Forage decoration, [143], [146]
• Forels for books, [50]
• Foster, B., artist, [113]
• Foulquier, V., line engraver, [123]
• Fournier, P. E., type founder, [98]
• Fragonard, J. H., artist, [122]
• Fraudulent bindings, [211]
• Frederick of Austria, binding made for, [198]
• French blind tooled bindings, [191]
• Fry, W., line engraver, [121]
• Fust, J., printer, [91]
• G.
• Galvanic battery used in stereotyping, [96]
• Gandara, lithographer, [133]
• Garuda stones, [4]
• Gaucher, C. S., line engraver, [122]
• Gauffring of book edges, [144]
• Gaultier, L., line engraver, [122]
• Gavarni, artist, [115], [133]
• Gemälde Galerie des K. Museums in Berlin, [135]
• Gericault, lithographer, [133]
• German blind tooled bindings, [198]
• German book edges, [145]
• ”cut leather work, [197]
• ”panel stamps, [200]
• Gibson, J., bookbinder, [216]
• Gigoux, J., lithographer, [133]
• Gillède, J., bookbinder, [239]
• Girardet, line engraver, [123]
• Girolamo della Robbia, artist, [88]
• Goat leather, [176]
• “Goddess of Mercy,” woodcut, [103]
• Godfrey, G., bookbinder, [191], [192]
• Gold beaters’ sign, [16]
• Gold tooling in leather, [206]
• ”on velvet, [154]
• Golden bindings, [159]
• Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield, [130]
• Goodall, E., line engraver, [120]
• Goodyear, F. and J., line engravers, [120]
• Gould, J., naturalist, [134]
• Goya, F., artist, [135]
• Grace, J., traveller, [49]
• Gray, wood engraver, [112]
• Greatbach, W., line engraver, [121]
• Greek engraved gems, [5]
• Green, wood engraver, [112]
• Gregory the Great, Pope, [51]
• Greville, Charles, patron of art, [129]
• Griggs, W., chromo-lithographer, [134]
• Grignion, line engraver, [120]
• Grolier, W., bindings made for, [209]
• Grover, line engraver, [120]
• Guerin, P., lithographer, [133]
• Guerrero, A., lithographer, [135]
• Guild of Bookbinders in France, [232]
• Gutenberg, J., printer, [91]
• Gypsies’ hieroglyphics, [17]
• H.
• Haghe, L., lithographer, [134]
• Hahn, U., printer, [105]
• Halbon, L., line engraver, [122]
• Half bindings, [44]
• Half-tone blocks, [136]
• ”process, [79]
• Ham sign, [16]
• “Hand” watermark, [70]
• Hard wood for engraving, [114]
• Harding, J. D., lithographer, [134]
• Harland, J., author, [8]
• “Harleian” bindings, [227]
• Harley, R., Earl of Oxford, [227]
• Harvey, W., wood engraver, [106], [111]
• Hassell, aquatint engraver, [130]
• Hauber, J., lithographer, [134]
• Havell, D., aquatint engraver, [131]
• Haydon, B. R., artist, [111]
• Headbands, [40], [56]
• Heath, C. and J., line engravers, [121]
• ”Ch., publisher, [120]
• Heliogravure, [136]
• Henri II., bindings made for, [86], [145], [233]
• ”faience, [86]
• Henry III., bindings made for, [235]
• Henry VII., bindings made for, [148]
• Henry VIII., bindings made for, [150], [159], [194]
• Henry, Prince of Wales, bindings made for, [216]
• Heraldry on bindings, [215]
• Hereford Cathedral, chained library at, [164]
• Hering, C., bookbinder, [230]
• Heriot, G., goldsmith, [160]
• Herodius, ivory carver, [54]
• Hewitt, Samuel, etcher, [124]
• Hiberno-Saxon writing, [19]
• Hieratic writing, [18]
• Hiroshige, artist, [105]
• Hodges’ Select Views in India, [130]
• Hodgetts, T., mezzotint engraver, [128]
• Hodgkin’s Rariora, [92]
• Hokusai, artist, [105]
• Holbein, artist, [110]
• Hole, line engraver, [120]
• Holl, W., stipple engraver, [125]
• Hollar, W., etcher, [124]
• Hollis, G., line engraver, [121]
• Hollow backs, [38]
• Hop tallies, [8]
• Horæ of the fifteenth century, [107]
• Horn books, [165]
• Houston, mezzotint engraver, [127]
• Hullmandel, lithographer, [132], [134]
• Human leather, [180]
• Humphreys, W., line engraver, [120]
• Hunt, T., bookbinder, [191]
• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, [105]
• I.
• Ideographs, [16], [17]
• Illustrations in books, [102], etc.
• Imitations of bindings by S. Mearne, [226]
• Indentures, [9]
• Indian amulets, [4]
• Irish bindings, [48]
• ”book satchels, [50]
• Iroquois League wampum, [14]
• Isabey, J. B., artist, [133]
• Italian book stamps used on faience, [87]
• ”wood engravings, [105]
• Ivory bindings, [47], [53]
• J.
• Jackson, J. B., wood engraver, [112]
• Jacquemart, J., etcher, [125]
• Jade books, [5]
• James I., heraldry of, [218]
• ”Βασιλικον Δωρον, [160]
• Japanese colour blocks, [105]
• ”paper, [65]
• ”wood blocks, [104]
• Jenkinson, stipple engraver, [125]
• Jentzen, F., lithographer, [135]
• Jewish taleth, [12]
• Joch, wood engraver, [116]
• Johannot, line engraver, [122]
• Jollivet, J., lithographer, [135]
• Jones’ Plans of the Alhambra, [134]
• Jordan, B., artist, [116]
• Junius, A., author, [90]
• K.
• Kalthœber, C., bookbinder, [230]
• Kangaroo leather, [179]
• Karabacek, J., Professor, [63]
• Katherine of Arragon, Queen, bindings made for, [195]
• Keepsake, the, [120]
• Kernot, J. H., line engraver, [121]
• Knife for engraving soft wood, [113]
• Knight, C., stipple engraver, [125]
• Koenig, printing press maker, [95]
• Korean wood cuts, [104]
• Korin, artist, [105]
• Kretschmar, E., wood engraver, [116]
• Kristeller, P., author, [106]
• L.
• La Costes, wood engravers, [114]
• “Laid” lines on paper, [73]
• Landells, the, wood engravers, [112]
• Lant, R., bookbinder, [192]
• Lasteyrie, lithographer, [133]
• Latroo’s English Rogue, [124]
• Latten, panel stamps cut in, [196]
• Laurentian library, [164]
• Lawson, C., artist, [113]
• Leathers used for binding, [169]
• Le Blon’s Coloritto, [126]
• Leclerc, S., line engraver, [122]
• Lefebre, line engraver, [122]
• Le Gascon, bookbinder, [145], [239]
• Leighton, A., bookbinder, [155]
• ”Lord, artist, [113]
• Lelio, Lucretio, of Treviso, [105]
• Le Mire, N., line engraver, [122]
• Le Monnier, J., bookbinder, [241]
• Le Prince, J. B., aquatint engraver, [128]
• Leroux, line engraver, [122]
• Levant morocco, [176]
• Lewis the Pious, Emperor, [52]
• ”C., bookbinder, [230]
• ”F. C., mezzotint engraver, [128]
• ”T. C., line engraver, [120]
• Libri, Count G., collector, [211]
• Lindau gospels, binding of the, [51]
• Line engraving, [116]
• Lingée, C. L., line engraver, [122]
• Linotype, the, machine, [93]
• Linton, W. J., wood engraver, [112]
• Lipton, T., mezzotint engraver, [128]
• Lithography, [132]
• Lithotint, [132]
• Little Gidding, [153]
• ”bindings made at, [202], [219]
• Loggers’ marks, [9]
• Lombards signs, [16]
• Longepierre, Baron de, bindings made for, [240]
• Lortic, bookbinder, [242]
• Lucas, D., mezzotint engraver, [128]
• Lucretia, [110]
• Lupton, T. G., mezzotint engraver, [128]
• Lyons bindings, [214]
• M.
• MacColl, Miss E., bookbinder, [231]
• Macé, R., bookbinder, [192]
• Madan, F., author, [18]
• Madox, T., historiographer, [189]
• Madrazo’s Collection Lithographica, etc., [135]
• Mainz Psalter, [91], [103]
• Maioli, T., collector, [177]
• Marbled calf, [201]
• ”morocco, [237]
• ”papers, [158]
• Marillier, J. P., line engraver, [123]
• Marius-Michel, bookbinder, [242]
• Marr, C., stipple engraver, [125]
• Marshall, line engraver, [120]
• Maximilian, Triumph of, [116]
• Mazarine Bible, [91]
• Mazot, F., line engraver, [119]
• Mearne, S., bookbinder, [146], [221]
• Mechanical wood pulp papers, [78]
• Medici coat of arms, [16]
• Medland, T., aquatint engraver, [130]
• Meissonnier, artist, [115]
• Melissenda, psalter of, [53]
• Menzel, A., artist, [135]
• Messe dag staves, [7]
• Metal bindings, [52], [159]
• ”blocks engraved, [107]
• ”inscriptions, [5]
• Mezzotints, [126]
• Miles, E., bookbinder, [191]
• Millais, Sir J., artist, [113]
• Miller, W., line engraver, [121]
• Mitan, J., line engraver, [121]
• Mittenleiter, J. M., lithographer, [134]
• Mitterer, H. J., professor of drawing, [133], [134]
• Modern ideographs, [16], [17]
• Molaise gospels, [50]
• Monnier, H., lithographer, [133]
• Monoline machine, the, [98]
• Monotype machine, the, [93]
• Monza, binding at, [51]
• Moreau, P., line engraver, [119]
• Morrell & Co., bookbinders, [231]
• Morocco leather, [176]
• Morris, W., printer, [99]
• Mottet, line engraver, [122]
• Moulin, J., bookbinder, [192]
• Mulready, artist, [112]
• Musgrave, Sir G., collector, [167]
• Musulman amulets, [4]
• N.
• Nash’s Mansions of England, [134]
• Nayler’s, Sir G., Coronation of George IV., [131]
• Nesbit, wood engraver, [112]
• Nicene Creed cut in silver, [6]
• Nicholls and Bosse, wood engravers, [116]
• Nicholson, W., inventor, [95]
• Niedrée, bookbinder, [242]
• Niello work on bindings, [161]
• Nivet, wood engraver, [114]
• Norms, J., bookbinder, [192]
• Northcote’s Fables, [112]
• Notches cut in wood, [6], [7], [8]
• Nuremberg, arms of, [145]
• ”Chronicle, [106], [115]
• Nuzelmann, wood engraver, [116]
• O.
• Octavos, [75]
• O’Donnell’s cathach, [50]
• Ogham inscriptions, [6]
• Oiron ware, [86]
• Open backs, [38]
• Openworked vellum, [202]
• Opus Anglicanum, [151]
• Oriental bindings with flaps, [59]
• ”palm leaf books, [15]
• ”panel stamps, [59]
• Orihons, [29]
• Orme’s Twelve Views of Places in the Kingdom of Mysore, [130]
• Osterwald, G., artist, [116]
• Oxford bindings, [191]
• P.
• Padeloup le Jeune, bookbinder, [240]
• Painted bindings, [58]
• Panel stamps, [192]
• Paper, [62], [66], [73]
• ”pulp, [96]
• Papillon, J. M., wood engraver, [112]
• Papyrus, [62]
• ”Prisse, [18]
• Parchment, [29], [30]
• Parker, J., stipple engraver, [125]
• Parr, Queen Katharine, embroidress, [152]
• Paste boards, [56]
• Patas, J. B., line engraver, [122]
• Pauquet, line engraver, [122]
• Payne, R., bookbinder, [177], [227]
• Pegs on panel stamps, [196]
• Penn, W., and the wampum belt, [14]
• Pennant’s Account of London, [124]
• Persian bindings, [58], [59]
• Peruvian records, [11]
• Petit, L., line engraver, [123]
• Peupin, wood engraver, [116]
• Pfeiffer, stipple engraver, [126]
• Pflanzmann, J., publisher, [115]
• Photographic facsimiles, [98]
• Photogravure, [136]
• Pierced vellum, [171]
• Pig-skin, [173]
• Pigouchet, printer, [107]
• “Pin-head” grained morocco, [178]
• Pinart, D., bookbinder, [191]
• Pine, J., line engraver, [118]
• Pisa’s, R. de, Pantheologia, [197]
• Pleydenwurff, W., wood engraver, [115]
• Pointillé engraving, [107]
• Polia, of Treviso, [105]
• Pompeian diptychs, [20]
• Porcelain types, [86]
• Porrett, wood engraver, [114]
• Portbury, E. and R. J., line engravers, [121]
• Portraits in watermarks, [72]
• “Post” watermark, [72]
• “Pot” watermark, [72]
• Prayer wheels, [27]
• Prehistoric caves, [2]
• Prevost, line engraver, [122]
• Prideaux, Miss S., bookbinder, [231]
• Prime staves, [7]
• Printing in Europe, [90]
• ”on Babylonian cylinders and bricks, [85]
• ”press, [93], [95]
• Printing paper in colour, [73]
• Proctor, R., author, [98]
• Prout, S., artist, [120]
• Pudsey, Bishop, library of, [185]
• Pugillaria, [20]
• Pye, J., line engraver, [120]
• Pyne’s History of the Royal Residences, [130]
• Pynson, R., bookbinder, [110], [193], [197]
• Q.
• Quartos, [74]
• Quaternions, [32], [33]
• Quinternions, [31]
• Quipus of Peru, [11]
• Quires, [32]
• R.
• Raffet, artist, [115], [133]
• Rag paper of Samarkand, [63]
• Rainer, Archduke, [64]
• Ratdolt, E., printer, [105]
• Ratisbon, Irish monastery at, [49]
• Raynald’s Byrthe of Mankind, [119]
• “Rectangular” style of binding, [223]
• Redon, O., lithographer, [133]
• Reeve, R., aquatint engraver, [130]
• Repton’s Sketches of Landscape Gardening, [130]
• Retroussage, [124]
• “Rex in Æternum vive” on book edges, [143], [144]
• Reynes, J., bookbinder, [192]
• Reynolds, S. W., mezzotint engraver, [128]
• Rhodes, R., line engraver, [121]
• Ribault, J. F., line engraver, [123]
• Richenbach, J., bookbinder, [199]
• Richter, A., artist, [116]
• Rinaldo and Armida, [112]
• Ring markings, [2], [3]
• Rivett-Carnac, Col. H. J., [3]
• Rivière & Son, bookbinders, [231]
• Roan leather, [175]
• Robins, H., line engraver, [121]
• Robinson, H., stipple engraver, [125]
• ”J. H., line engraver, [120]
• Roberts’ Holy Land, [134]
• Roce, D., bookbinder, [192]
• Rock markings, [2]
• Roffet, E., bookbinder, [232]
• Rogers’, S., Italy and Poems, [120]
• ”Pleasures of Memory, [112]
• Rolls, C., line engraver, [120]
• Rolt’s Lives of the Reformers, [127]
• Roman diptychs, [20]
• ”engraved gems, [5]
• ”name brands, [5]
• Romney, Lord, [160]
• Rood, T., bookbinder, [191]
• Rosaries, [12]
• Rosetta stone, [3]
• Rossetti, D. G., artist, [113]
• Rouget, wood engraver, [114]
• Rough side of calf leather, [202]
• Rounded backs of books, [43]
• Roux, wood engraver, [114]
• Rowlandson, artist, [130]
• Royal Irish Academy, [49]
• Ruette, M., bookbinder, [240]
• Rune staves, [7]
• Runic inscriptions, [6]
• Rupert, Prince, mezzotint engraver, [127]
• Russia leather, [172]
• S.
• Saddharmapundarika Sutra, [103]
• St. Christopher, woodcut, [89]
• St. Cuthbert’s gospels, [185]
• St. Esprit, French order of the, [236]
• St. John Latran, bookbinders’ guild, [232]
• St. Maurice D’Agaune, church of, [55]
• St. Michel, French order of, [236]
• St. Porchaire, Faience de, [87]
• St. Wallberg, church of, [164]
• Samarkand, paper made at, [63]
• Sandby, P., aquatint engraver, [129]
• Sandys, F., artist, [113]
• Sangorsky, F., bookbinder, [231]
• Sangster, S., line engraver, [121]
• Satchels for books, [50]
• Satin bindings, [152]
• ”printing on, [73]
• Sauné, J., line engraver, [122]
• Savart, P., line engraver, [123]
• “Sawn in” backs, [39]
• Say, W., mezzotint engraver, [128]
• Schöffer, P., printer, [91]
• Schrödter, A., artist, [116]
• Scotin, line engraver, [120]
• Scott, J. L., of the British Museum, [144]
• Scrive knife, [113]
• Sea lion leather, [179]
• Seal leather, [179]
• Sears, wood engraver, [114]
• Semis, [215], [218]
• Sen, tablet of, [4]
• Send hieroglyphic, [18]
• Senefelder, A., lithographer, [132]
• Sewing frames for binders, [34]
• Sewing of books, the, [35]
• Sharpe, J., line engraver, [121]
• Sheep leather, [174]
• Shot silk effect in half-tone prints, [137]
• Siberch, J., bookbinder, [191]
• Siegen, L. von, mezzotint engraver, [126]
• “Signatures” in printed books, [73]
• Silk bindings, [152], [156]
• ”paper, [62]
• ”printing on, [73]
• Silver bindings, [161]
• Simounet, J. B., line engraver, [122]
• Simpson, Sir J., antiquary, [3]
• Sion, in the Rhone valley, [55]
• “Six Nations” wampum, [13]
• Sizes of printed books, [76]
• “Skiver” leather, [175]
• Small metal bindings, [161]
• Smith, D. and W. R., line engravers, [120]
• ”O., wood engraver, [114]
• Smooth morocco, [177]
• Société des Amis des Livres, [137]
• Society of Arts Committee on Paper, 1898 ... [77]
• Soft wood engravings, [113]
• Soyer, S., wood engraver, [114]
• Speculum, Humanæ Salvationis, [90]
• Spierinck, N., bookbinder, [191]
• Split sheep-skin, [175]
• Sprinkled calf, [201]
• Stabbed bindings, [31]
• Stadler, J. C., aquatint engraver, [130]
• Staffordshire clog almanacks, [7]
• Staggemeier, bookbinder, [234]
• Stanfield, artist, [134]
• Stanhope, C., Earl, [94]
• “Star” watermark, [65]
• Steam printing press, 1814 ... [95]
• Steel engraving, [122]
• Stencil plates for colouring prints, [108]
• Stephanoff, F. and J., artists, [131]
• Stereotyping, [96]
• Stipple engraving, [125]
• Stothard, artist, [120]
• Stowe House, library at, [189]
• ”missal, [48]
• “Straight grained” morocco, [178]
• Sturt, J., line engraver, [118]
• Styles for writing on wax, [20], [21]
• Sullivan, Sir E., bookbinder, [231]
• Sulphuric acid in leather, [180]
• Sumatran bark books, [29]
• ”calendars, [7]
• ”symbolic messages, [10]
• Sutcliffe, G., bookbinder, [231]
• Sutherland, T., aquatint engraver, [130], [131]
• Swain, wood engraver, [112]
• Symbolic messages, [10]
• ”signs on rocks, [3]

• T.
• Taleth fringes, [11]
• Talismans, [5]
• Tallies, [5]
• Tasselled ecclesiastical hats, [13]
• Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata, [112]
• Tate, J., printer, [66]
• Taylor’s, I., History of the Alphabet, [18]
• Taylor, W. D., line engraver, [121]
• Test for clay paper, [82]
• Theodelinda, Queen of the Lombards, [51]
• Thibetan prayer wheels, [27]
• Thiebault, wood engraver, [114]
• Thompson, Sir E. M., Manual of Greek and Roman Palæography, [18]
• ”J., wood engraver, [112]
• Thouvenin, bookbinder, [242]
• Three-colour process, [137]
• Tillard, J. B., line engraver, [122]
• The Times of 20th November, 1814 ... [95]
• Title-page engraved on wood, [66]
• Torres Straits, tallies used in the, [9]
• Tortoiseshell bindings, [161], [163]
• Tory, G., artist, [97], [233]
• Tours, conference at, [19]
• Transparent vellum, [171], [202]
• Trautz, bookbinder, [242]
• Tree marbled calf, [201]
• Trench along the edges of book boards, [56]
• Trière, P., line engraver, [122]
• Tudor badges, [191], [195]
• Tuerlinckoe, lithographer, [135]
• Turner, C., mezzotint engraver, [128]
• ”J. M. W., artist, [120], [127], [128]
• Turrecremata, Meditations, [105]
• Type casting, [92]
• ”founding in England, [99]
• ”metal, [92]
• ”specimen sheets, [97]
• U.
• Utamaro, K., artist, [105]
• Uzanne, O., author, [137]
• V.
• Vander Meulen, lithographer, [135]
• Vangelisty, stipple engraver, [126]
• Van Loo, lithographer, [135]
• Vellum bindings, [36], [169], [202]
• ”pierced, [171], [202]
• ”preparation of, [30]
• ”printing on, [73]
• ”rolls, [27], [28]
• ”transparent, [171], [202]
• Velvet bindings, [149]
• Venetian bindings, [206]
• Verard, A., printer, [108]
• Vernet, H., artist, [115], [133]
• Villa Dei, A. de, Doctrinale, [91]
• Villerey, line engraver, [123]
• Vogel, A., artist, [116]
• W.
• Wagstaffe, C., stipple engraver, [125]
• Walker, F., artist, [113]
• Wallis, H., and R., line engravers, [120]
• Walther, bookbinder, [230]
• Wampum belts, [13]
• Warren, C., line engraver, [121]
• Watermarks, [64], [68]
• Weale, W. H. J., author, [183]
• Webber’s Views in the South Seas, [130]
• Whimper, wood engraver, [112]
• Whistler, J. M., artist, [132]
• Whitaker, J., bookbinder, [201]
• “White line” engraving, [110]
• Whymper, J. W., wood engraver, [112]
• Wick rotary type-casting machine, [92]
• Wier, R., bookbinder, [229]
• Wiesner, J., Professor, [63]
• Willett, lithographer, [133]
• Williams, M. A., S., and T., wood engravers, [114]
• ”T. J., line engraver, [121]
• Willmore, T., line engraver, [121]
• Wilson, J. L., bookbinder, [155]
• Wimborne Minster, chained library at, [164]
• Winchester Domesday Book, [185]
• Wohlgemuth, M., wood engraver, [115]
• Wood-cut illustrations, [103]
• Wood pulp used for paper, [77]
• Wooden types, [86], [88]
• Woolrich, Miss N. E., bookbinder, [231]
• Wordsworth, Mrs., amateur bookbinder, [153]
• Woven book, [73]
• Wright, wood engraver, [112]
• X.
• Xylographs, [89]
• Y.
• Young, J., mezzotint engraver, [127]
• Z.
• Zaehnsdorf, bookbinder, [231]
• Zainer, G., publisher, [115]
• Zinc blocks, [136]