This is a common trouble to large book collectors, who cannot find the books they know they possess. The late Mr. Crossley had his books stacked away in heaps, and he was often unable to lay his hands upon books of which he had several copies.
FOOTNOTES:
[4] Narcissus Marsh, Archbishop of Armagh, is said to have given £2500 for Bishop Stillingfleet's Library.
[5] Reliquiæ Hearnianæ, by Bliss, 2nd edition, 1869, vol. ii. p. 14.
[6] Edwards, Libraries and Founders of Libraries, p. 115.
[7] Edwards, Libraries and Founders, p. 136.
[8] Correspondance de Napoleon Ier, IV. pp. 37, 38, quoted by Edwards, Libraries and Founders, p. 130.
[9] Edwards, Libraries and Founders, p. 133.
[10] Edwards, Libraries and Founders, p. 135.