"A being not too wise and good
For human nature's daily food."
[84] See "An Attempt to Explain the Origin and Meaning of the Early Interlaced Ornamentation found on the Ancient Sculptured Stones of Scotland, Ireland, and the Isle of Man, by Gilbert J. French of Bolton." Privately printed.
[85] Any one who desires to see the extent to which science can find employment in this arid-looking corner of organic life, may look at a "Memoir on the Spermogones and Pycnides of Filamentous, Fruticulose, and Foliaceous Lichens," by Dr William Lauder Lindsay, in the 22d volume of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
INDEX.
Aberdeen laird, an, described by his wife, [10] et seq.
Adams, Dr Francis, an eminent Greek scholar, [264] et seq.
Adventures of Saints, [396], [397].
Advertisements, reading of, [156] et seq.
—curious historical interest of, [160] et seq.
Aidan and Columba, [383].
Ailbhe, St, and the cranes, [390].
Albania, a poem, reprinted by Leyden, [196].
Alexandrian Library, destruction of, by fire, [211].
Almanacs, as affording profitable reading, [155] et seq.
Amateur book-hunters, [106] et seq.
Ambrosian Library, the, at Milan, [198].
American collections dealing with early American history, [189] et seq.
Americans duplicating old European Libraries, [174]
—in relation to art and letters, ib.
—combating for rarities, [175]
—ransacking and anatomising private collections, [178].
Ancient literature, considerable amount of, lost, [324].
Angelo Maï of the Vatican, [229]
—recovery by him of Institute of Gaius, [326].
Annotating of books a crime and a virtue, [185] et seq.
Antiquarianism known as archæology, [3].
Architecture, Church, of the early British Christians, [372].
Ardsnischen, Pastor of, buying a Greek New Testament, [60].
Armagh, Book of, [388] et seq.
Assessed Taxes Department in relation to decay of libraries, [192].
Astor, John Jacob, the bequest of, [174].
Astorian Library, wealth of the, [176] et seq.
Atticus as a dealer and capitalist publisher, [108] note.
Attorneys in Norwich, in Norfolk, and in Suffolk, [141] et seq.
Auchinleck Press, account of, [294] et seq.
Auctioneers: Carfrae, [60] et seq.
—Evans, [93] et seq.
—anecdote of a Cockney auctioneer, [178].
Auction-haunter different from prowler, [88] et seq.
Authors and compositors, [77] et seq.
Bacon commending brevity of old Scots Acts, [146].
Bailiff, the, and the writ, [136] note.
Baillet, Adrien, librarian and author of Jugemens des Savans, [230] et seq.
Ballad fabricating, [306].
Bannatyne Club, [284] et seq.
—Scott's song for festivities of, [285].
Barclay, Colonel, a Quaker, anecdote of, [9] note.
Bargain hunters and their leanings, [162].
Baskerville, the Birmingham printer, inaccuracy of, [67].
Bede on the Saints, [379].
Bentham, words in one sentence of an Act of Parliament counted by, [144].
Bethune, Rev. Dr, Waltonian Library of, [87] et seq.
Bible, inaccurate editions of, [67] et seq.
—old editions comparatively numerous, [218].
Bibliognoste, definition of, [5] note.
Bibliographe, definition of, [5] note.
Bibliographers, function of, a cruel one, [237] et seq.
—victimising each other, [242].
Bibliographical Decameron, various quotations from, [93], [294] et seq.
Bibliographies, [233] et seq.
—on special subjects, [235]
—those devoted to the best books, [239].
Bibliomane, definition of, [5].
Bibliomania a disease, [13].
"Bibliomania," Dibdin's, quotations from, [18]
—Ferriar's, quotation from, [86], [87] note.
Bibliophile, definition of, [5].
Bibliotaphe, definition of, [5].
Bibliothèque bleue, anecdote connected with the, [50].
Bibliuguiancie discussed by Peignot, [220].
"Bill-books" of compositors, [79] et seq.
Binders, famous, [28].
Bindings, "Inchrule" Brewer's love of, [28]
—bindings as relics, [30].
Boccaccio, editio princeps of, [91]
—cause of its extreme rarity, [92]
—sold at the Roxburghe Library sale, [94] et seq.
Bodleian Library, origin of, [198].
Bohemian of literature, [108] et seq.
Bohun, Edmond, a Jacobite and last English licenser, [208].
Bollandus, his great work on the Saints, [355] et seq.
—the persistent labours of his successors, [356].
Book-caterers, [20] et seq.
Book-clubs, [243] et seq.
—their structure, [251]
—advantages of, [255] et seq.
—confining their attention to books of non-members, [257]
—the Sydenham Club, [265]
—the Roxburghe Club, ib. et seq., &c.
—their gradual growth, [266] et seq.
—Dibdin's description of the origin of the Roxburghe Club, [267]
—their secrecy, [271]
—the Bannatyne Club, [284] et seq.
—book-club men, ib. et seq.
—character of their editors, [307], [315]
—value of such clubs to history, [309]
—their literature, [311]
—Camden Club, ib.
—Chetham Club, [312]
—Surtees Club, ib.
—Maitland Club, ib.
—Spalding Club, ib.
—Irish Archæological and other Clubs, ib. et seq.
—purity of text of book-club literature, and consequent historical value, [322] et seq., [327]
—as art unions, [404] et seq.
Book-hunters as creators of libraries, [168] et seq., [197]
—as preservers of literature, [205] et seq.
—as chiffoniers, [219]
—as discoverers of valuable and curious books, [224]
—as librarians, [227] et seq.
—their clubs, [243] et seq.
—various titles of, [5], [6]
—vision of mighty book-hunters, [14]
—book-hunters as bibliothaptes and bibliolytes, [54] et seq.
—classification of, [64] et seq.
—as Rubricists, [63]
—as aspirants after large paper copies, [86]
—their place in the dispensations of Providence, [101] et seq.
—the harmlessness and advantages of their disease, [102] et seq.
—book-hunters and dealers, [104]
—in relation to other hobby-riders, [105]
—their lack of mercenary spirit, ib. et seq.
—in the amateur phase, [106] et seq.
—their freedom from low company, [109]
—their intellectual advantages, ib. et seq.
—from their pursuit readers and scholars, [114]
—their delight in a new toy, [123].
Books, annotating of, a crime and a virtue, [185] et seq.
—their decay from natural causes, [211] et seq.
—books, large and solid, factors in the acquisition of fame, [215]
—such only fitted for authors and students, [252]
—books, small and fragile, preserved by book-hunters, [215]
—rarity of old school-books, ib. et seq.
—importance of any kind of old books, [217]
—rare books printed by early English printers, [218] et seq.
—David Clement on rare books, [224] et seq.
—rare books not always rare, [225]
—books as introducers of books, [233]
—reproduction of old and rare books by book-clubs, [246] et seq.
—books used in Ireland in sixth century, [388].
Boswell, Sir Alexander, as a book-club man, [292] et seq.
—his reprints, [293]
—his Auchinleck Press, [294]
—his character and writings, [295] et seq.
Botfield, Beriah, his work, [194] note.
Bourdaloue, favourite reading of, [112].
Brewer, "Inchrule," as a mighty book-hunter, [25] et seq.
—origin of his name, [26]
—his love of bindings, [28]
—his satellites, [31] et seq.
British Museum, deposits of books in, [194] note
—origin of library, [197] et seq.
Brunet as an "Inchruler," [26]
—his description of an Elzevir Cæsar, ib. note.
Buckle, historical researches of, [342].
"Bulls," Irish, in unlikely books, [132] et seq.
—specimen of an index "bull," [133].
Burton, Mr, private library of, [182] et seq.
Butler, poetical remains of, discovered by the antiquary Thyer, [326].
Camden Club, purpose of, [311]
—a curious volume of, [315] et seq.
"Canadian," mistaken use of, for Candian, [74].
Carfrae, the auctioneer, [60] et seq.
—selling fragments of early English poetry, [61].
"Causes Célèbres," records of French and German crime, [149] et seq.
—their fitness for novel-making, [150].
Celtic Christianity, [369] et seq., [377] et seq.
Chetham Club, purpose of, [312].
Church architecture of early British Christians, [372] et seq.
Classical literature, incompleteness of, [324]
—recent discoveries in, of paltry value, [325] et seq.
Classification of book-hunters, [62].
Clement, David, illustrious French bibliographer, [224].
Clubs in general, [243] et seq.
Cogswell, Dr, first librarian of the Astorian Library, [174] et seq.
Collectors and their satellites, [30] et seq.
—as book-readers, [113] et seq.
—in relation to the scholar, [115].
Columba, St Adamnan's life of, [374]
—among the Picts, [377]
—settling succession of Aidan, [383]
—anecdotes of, [387], [389], [403], &c.
—Columba fishing, [395].
Compositors, characteristics of, [76] et seq.
—their reasons for interest in an author's work, [77] et seq.
—"bill-books" of, [79]
—their professional apathy, [81].
Copyright Act, value of, [191].
"Course of reading," a so-called, [110].
Creation of libraries, [168] et seq.
Criminal trials, attractive interest of, [148]
—"illustrating" of, [150].
Cuthbert, St, and the solan-geese, [390] et seq.
Dame aux Camélias quoted, [10] note.
Dealers in their relations to book-buyers, [107].
Decay of books, [211] et seq.
De Quincey on the Society of Friends, [8], [9].
Desultory reader, or Bohemian of literature, [108] et seq.
Devices of old printers, collection of, [64] et seq.
Dibdin, quotation from his Bibliomania, [18]
—known as "Foggy Dibdin," [89]
—at the Roxburghe sale, [91]
—as a book-hunter, [165]
—on the cradle of the book-club system, [267]
—his "Library Companion," [280] et seq.
"Didot" Horace, in the Junot Library, [63].
Dietrich, collection of theses by, [64].
Diogenes, the so-called tub of, [120] note.
Directory of a city, the, as affording profitable reading, [155].
Douglas, Francis, anecdote told in his description of the east coast of Scotland, [9] note.
"Dragon" as a book-hunter, vide "Vampire."
Drunkenness of a former age, [11].
Duplicates, first buying of, [16]
—most virulent form of bibliomania, [173].
Early Northern Saints, [352] et seq.
Ecchellensis, Abraham, his controversy with Flavigny, [67].
Ecclesiastical architecture, [372] et seq.
Ecclesiologist, the, as editor of book-club literature, [321].
Editions of the Classics, typographical blunders in, [68].
"Editio princeps," advantages of possessing an, [167]
—of Boccaccio, [91].
Elzevir Cæsar, Brunet's measurement of, [26]
—origin of its rarity, [66].
Elzevirs, reason of their not being rare at present, [225].
Errors in the various editions of the Bible, [67] et seq.
Evans, the auctioneer, [93].
Exchequer bill, curious specimen of, [134] et seq.
Facsimiles, extensive manufacture of, [27].
Farmer, Dr Richard, and Johnson, [130] et seq.
Feuerbach's German collection of causes célèbres, [149].
Ferrier's Bibliomania, quotation from, [86] note.
Fires in libraries, [210] et seq.
Fisher, Rev. John, Bishop of Rochester, originator of Library of St John's, [204] et seq.
Flavigny's controversy with Abraham Ecchellensis, [67].
Fountains, religious controversies connected with, [401] et seq.
French causes célèbres, [149] et seq.
French novels, the morals of, [10].
Friends, Society of, greatest criminals found among, [8]
—De Quincey's testimony to the same effect, ib. et seq.
Furniture, old, [192].
Fustian, curious statute of Henry VII. concerning, [142] et seq.
Game of Chess, by Caxton, captured in Holland by Snuffy Davie, [222].
Genealogist, a, as editor of book-club literature, [316] et seq.
—his influence and genius, [318].
Genealogy, Scottish peculiarities in, [317]
—extract on, from the Liber de Antiquis Legibus, [318].
Genius, rewards of, unequally distributed, [258].
Glasgow, the shield argent of, [393] et seq.
Gleaner, the, and his harvest, [124] et seq.
"Good reader," a, the bore of a house, [113].
Gordon, Sir Robert, collector of Gordonstoun Library, [97] et seq.
Government and public libraries, [191].
Graham, Mr Lorimer, collection by, [186] et seq.
Grandison, Sir Charles, his perfection a defect, [8].
"Grangerites," peculiar glory of, [82] et seq.
—origin of name, ib.
—their mode of proceeding, [83] et seq.
Greek nomenclature, abuses and merits of, [2].
Grollier, a princely collector, [48].
Hagiology, [353].
Hallervord, John, Bibliotheca Curiosa of, [241].
Harvard Library, loss of old, [190].
Havelok the Dane reprinted by Roxburghe Club, [279].
Hazlewood, Joseph, a black sheep in the Roxburghe Club, [272]
—description of his treasures, ib. et seq.
—title of one of his reprints, [273]
—description of another of his reprints, ib. note
—fate of his History, [274].
Heathenism in the British Isles, [400] et seq.
Heber, Richard, origin of his library, [98] et seq.
—Dibdin and Heber, [99]
—duplicating his collection, [173].
Hierology of Greece, [359].
Highland springs, pilgrimages to, [299].
Historical literature, reprints of, [327]
—in manuscript, ib. et seq.
Histrio-Mastix of Prynne, its unfortunate history, [129] et seq.
Hobby, the, of book-hunting, [101] et seq.
Hortensius, [267].
Illustrating of criminal trials, [150]
—its advantages to posterity, ib. et seq.
—at its height, [180] note.
—illustrating a folio copy of Shakespeare, ib. note.
Illustrators of books, the, known as "Grangerites," [82]
—their mode of proceeding, [83] et seq.
Imperfect copies, completion of, [27].
Index Expurgatorius of Charles Lamb, [152] note.
Inlaying, process of, [219].
Iona, the saints of, [382].
Ireland, history of, in early times fabulous, [362];
Keating's History, ib. et seq.
Ireland, primitive church in, [368] et seq.
Irish Archæological and other Clubs, [312] et seq.
Irish "bulls," instances of, [132].
Irish statutes and Irish history, [146] et seq.
Jöcher, Allgemeines Gelehrten Lexicon of, [235].
Johnson and Dr Richard Farmer, [130] et seq.
Johnston, Captain, his Lives of Highwaymen and Pirates, [149].
Jolly, Bishop Robert, [244]
—as a book-hunter, [245].
"Jolly" Club, the, [246].
Jones, Sir William, reading Cicero, [111].
Junot, the library of, [63].
Keating, Jeffrey, D.D., his History of Ireland, [363] et seq.
Kent, Chancellor, collection of, [184] et seq.
Kentigern, St, anecdotes of, [392] et seq.
Knox, Vicesimus, Spirit of Despotism by, [197].
Lamb, Charles, Index Expurgatorius of, [152] note.
Large-paper copies, aspirants after, [86].
Laurentian Library at Florence, [198].
Law books, composition of, [118].
Law maxims, absurd book on, [138] note.
Law papers as furnishing humorous reading, [135] et seq.
Law technicalities, vagaries of, [136] et seq.
Levant monks, apathy of, with reference to priceless books, [209].
Librarians recruited from the ranks of book-hunters, [227]
—disadvantages of "Cerberus" librarians, [228] et seq.
—Angelo Maï of the Vatican, [229]
—Magliabecchi, ib. et seq.
—Adrien Baillet, [230] et seq.
—librarians as scholars, [231] et seq.
Libraries as stimulants to intellectual culture, [115] et seq.
—growth of great libraries, [169]
—impossibility of their being improvised, ib. et seq.
—their gradual accumulation, [170] et seq.
—Imperial Library at Paris, [176], [205], &c.
—size of American libraries, Harvard, Astorian, Library of Congress, Boston Athenæum, [176]
—their large number in the States, ib.
—The Private Libraries of New York, by James Wynne, M.D., [177]
—specimen of a New York interior, [182]
—library of Chancellor Kent, [184] et seq.
—of Mr Lorimer Graham, [186]
—of Rev. Dr Magoon, [187] et seq.
—of Mr Menzies, [189] note
—Harvard Library, [190]
—Government and public libraries, [191]
—privileged libraries and the Copyright Act, [193] note
—British Museum Library, [197] et seq.
—Ambrosian Library at Milan, [198]
—Laurentian Library at Florence, ib.
—Bodleian Library, ib.
—Memoirs of Libraries, by Edward Edwards, [199] note
—Durham College Library, nucleus of Trinity of Oxford, [203]
—burning of Alexandrian Library, [211].
Licensing, abolition of, in England, [208].
Limiting number of impressions, [281] et seq.
Literary forgeries, moral code of, [303] et seq.
Long Parliament, proceedings of, [328] et seq.
Lucullus, Magnus, of Grand Priory, [46] et seq.
Lycanthropy, [279].
Magi, in their conflicts with saints, [401] et seq.
Magliabecchi, the librarian, [229] et seq.
Magoon, Rev. Dr, library of, [187] et seq.
Maitland Club, [312].
Margaret, Queen of Scotland, as a saint, [355].
Meadow, Archdeacon, description of as a mighty book-hunter, [14]
—at an auction, [15]
—a portion of his collection sold, [17]
—reputed to read his own books, [18]
—his learning, [19].
Medici, library of the, [198] et seq.
Men of the Time, printers' blunders in, [75].
Menzies, Mr, valuable American collection of, [189] note.
Metaphysics, origin of name, [127].
Monkbarns as a book-hunter, [165] et seq.
—his description of Snuffy Davie's prowlings, [221] et seq.
Nathalan, St, anecdote of, [395].
Newgate Calendar, interest of, [148].
New York, private libraries of, [177] et seq.
Nomenclature, Greek, abuses and merits of, [2].
Noy, Attorney-General, and the Histrio-Mastix, [130].
Oelrichs, John Charles Conrad, rare work by, [207].
Old writers, their careful disclaiming of original ideas, [117].
Olio, Grose's, extract from, [54] note.
Onslow, Mr, and naming of members of Parliament, [131].
Owen's Parallelograms, the nature of, [13]
—biographical notice of Owen in Men of the Time, [75] et seq.
Oxford, Bishop of, biographical notice of, in Men of the Time, [75].
Palæographist, meaning of the name, [3].
Palimpsest, meaning of, [3].
Pamphlets, careful preservation of, enforced, [339].
Panel, meaning of, in England and in Scotland, [138].
Papaverius, Thomas, [32] et seq.
—his unpunctuality, [33]
—his costume, ib. et seq.
—his eloquence, [35], [36]
—on vagrancy, [38]
—his irresponsibility in pecuniary matters, [39]
—his charity, [41]
—as a philosopher of human nature, [42]
—as a book-hunter, ib. et seq.
—as a borrower of books, [43] et seq.
—his acute sensibility, [45].
Peignot, his Dictionnaire de Bibliologie, [127] note, [207]
—his dictionary of condemned books, [208]
—as a vagabond bibliographer, [239] et seq.
Philobiblion of Richard of Bury, [199]
—extract from, [220] note.
Photius, curious history of the Bibliotheca of, [236].
Picts, St Columba among the, [377].
Pinkerton, John, description of, [285].
Playbills, collection of, a phase of bibliomania, [64].
Poems and plays as relics of pure literature, [217] et seq.
Popular authors objects of competition among publishers, [260] et seq.
Preservation of literature, [205] et seq.
—politics and religion, with reference to, [208]
—wars and revolutions with reference to, [209]
—books in the midst of fire, [210].
Pretenders, [161] et seq.
—generally bargain-hunters, [162]
—their devices, [163].
Printers' blunders serviceable to literature, [71] et seq.
—laughable examples of, [72] et seq.
—tragic results of, [75]
—examples of, in Men of the Time, [76].
Printing press, private, an appalling form of bibliomania, [293]
—possession of, by Sir Alexander Boswell, [294].
Professional dealer, the, [107].
Prowler different from auction-haunter, [88] et seq.
Prynne and his Histrio-Mastix, [129] et seq.
Publishers and good literature, [262].
Quaker collector of paintings, a, anecdote of, [103].
Queen Cadyow and St Kentigern, [394].
Rambles in search of sculptured stones, [411] et seq.
Rarity, the comparative, of certain books, [170] et seq.
—Americans and the rarity of books, [173] et seq.
—rarity of works of early English printers, [218] et seq.
—rarity increased by increased number of copies, [282].
Ratcliffe, Dr, a physician, [69] note.
Reading of books by book-hunters and possessors of libraries, [109]
—impossible in certain cases, [110]
—ought to be desultory, ib. et seq.
"Reading with the fingers" a test of scholarship, [116].
Religion and politics in reference to the preservation of literature, [208].
Religious hypocrites, uncharitableness and intolerance of, [7]
—their development into criminals, [8].
Reminiscences of a book-hunting life, [59] et seq.
"Remnants," or broken books, [254].
Rent-paying in Scotland, [140] note.
Resuscitated literature, peculiar value of, [324]
—objected to in hagiology, [359].
Richard of Bury, Bishop of Durham, as a private collector, [199] et seq.
—as a benefactor of posterity, [200] et seq.
—originator of Durham College Library, the nucleus of Trinity of Oxford, [203]
—on the treatment of manuscripts (quotation from the Philobiblion), [220] note.
Ritson, Joseph, opponent of John Pinkerton, [287] et seq.
—his peculiarities, [288] et seq.
Robespierre, draft of decree before, concerning the public libraries of Paris, [209].
Romans as introducers of Christianity into Great Britain, [360], [379]
—as slighters of history, [360] et seq.
Rout upon Rout, by Felix Nixon, [57].
Roxburghe Club, [97], [265] et seq.
—its origin, [268]
—its dinner and toasts, [269]
—its members, [270]
—its "revels," [275]
—Hazlewood's connection with, ib. and note et seq.
—reprinting by, of ancient books, [278] et seq.
—its first serious efforts, [279]
—Dibdin as its master, [280]
—under the care of the scholarly Botfield, [281]
—its proffer of membership to Sir Walter Scott, [283] et seq.
Roxburghe, Duke of, as a book-hunter, [90], [164]
—origin of his bibliomania, [90] et seq.
Roxburghe Library, sale of, [89] et seq.
—scenes at the auction, [92] et seq.
—Earl Spencer present, [93] et seq.
Rubricists, book-hunters as, [63].
Rule, Gilbert, ghost-story concerning, [346] et seq.
"Runic Knot," the, [409].
Saints, the early Northern, [352] et seq.
—the making of, [353]
—festival days of, [354] et seq.
—Bollandus and his successors on saints, [355] et seq.
—value in history of saint literature, [358] et seq.
—vestiges of the peculiar characteristics of early Northern saints, [371] et seq.
—their church architecture, [372]
—saints of Irish origin innumerable, [375]
—independent of Rome, [381]
—mostly all obscure, ib. et seq.
—as prophesiers of death, [383]
—personal habits of, [389]
—fishing and marine anecdotes of, [395] et seq.
Scholars in relation to collectors, [115] et seq.
School-books, rarity of old, [215] et seq.
Schoolboy life, reminiscences of, conjured up by an advertisement, [157] et seq.
Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence, a curious book, [240].
Scots Acts, brevity of, [146].
Scott, Sir Walter, as a book-club man, [283]
—his admission to the Roxburghe Club, ib. et seq.
—writing a song for the Bannatyne Club, [285]
—his reprint of a trial for murder, [290] et seq.
—imposed on by Robert Surtees, [300] et seq.
—first idea of Waverley suggested to him by Surtees, [306].
Sculptured stones in Scotland, [405] et seq.
—description of one, [406]
—their character, [407] et seq.
—Mr John Stuart's transcripts of, [410]
—ramble in search of, [411] et seq.
—one of them at Lochcolissor, ib.
—others in various parts, [412] et seq.
Seneca commending literary moderation, [119] note.
Serf, St, and his robin, [392].
Shakespearian criticism a branch of knowledge, [69] et seq.
—valuable to literature, [71].
Sheepfolds, Ruskin on the construction of, [125].
Sloane, Sir Hans, originator of British Museum Library, [197].
Smart, Fitzpatrick, as a mighty book-hunter, [19]
—his peculiar line known as the "Fitzpatrick Smart Walk," [20]
—his fancy ill to please, [21]
—his household gods, [22]
—his dress, [23]
—his wonderful genius, [25]
—fate of his collection, ib.
Smithsonian Institution, origin of, [174].
Snuffy Davie, a prince of book-hunters, [166]
—his capture of the Game of Chess, [222].
Societies, book and other, [247] et seq.
—the transactions of learned, an outlet for genius, [262] et seq.
Spalding Club, [312]
—as an art-union, [404].
Spalding, John, value of his literary remains, [330] et seq.
—quotation from his "Memorials," [333] et seq.
—characteristics of his writings, [337].
Spencer, Earl, at the Roxburghe Library sale, [93] et seq.
—his skirmish for the Caxtons, [123].
Spottiswoode Society, purpose of the, [247].
State trials replete with romance, [148].
Stated-task reader, the, [113].
Statute-making, pleasantry in, [143].
Stuart, Mr John, and the sculptured stones in Scotland, [410].
Superstitions, a book on, replete with errors in language, [153] et seq.
Surtees Club, [312].
Surtees, Robert, the historian of Durham, as a book-club man, [298]
—anecdotes of, ib. et seq.
—imposing on Sir Walter Scott, [300] et seq.
—his contributions to Scott's Minstrelsy, [304]
—suggesting Waverley to Scott, [306].
Sydenham Club, [265].
Thomson, James, and his books, [29]
—his uncle's criticism on "Winter," ib.
Thomson, Rev. William, character of, [67] et seq.
—his translation of Cunningham's Latin History of Britain, [68] note.
Title of an English Act, [145].
Title-page, a, no distinct intimation of contents of book, [124]
—framing of exhaustive title-page, [126] et seq.
—specimen of lengthy title-page, [127]
—advantages of such, [128].
Toy literature, [216] note.
Transactions of learned societies, [262].
Trinity Library, Oxford, origin of, [203].
Types of Guttenberg and Faust, beauty of, [218].
Types, MacEwen on the, its fate at an auction, [125].
Typographical blunders, [71] et seq.
United States well stocked with libraries, [176]
—its citizens as book-hunters, [177].
"Vampire" as a book-hunter, [55]
—his collection, [56] et seq.
—his policy at auctions, [57] et seq.
Vellum books, [63].
Verney, Sir Ralph, noting proceedings of the Long Parliament, [328] et seq.
Vision, a, of mighty book-hunters, [14] et seq.
Vulgate of Sixtus V., multitude of errors in, [67].
Waltonian Library, the, of Rev. Dr Bethune, [87] et seq.
Wars and revolutions, factors in the destruction of libraries, [209].
Watt, Dr, his bibliography, [234].
Watts, Isaac, and the "Grangerites," [83] et seq.
Wells dedicated to saints, [397] et seq.
Wilberforce, Samuel, Bishop of Oxford, humorous blunder in a biographical notice concerning, [76].
Wilbrod, St, and the Frisian Prince, [376].
William and the Wer Wolf reprinted by Roxburghe Club, [279] et seq.
Wodrow, Rev. Robert, his literary remains and collections, [338]
—his private note-books, [340]
—extracts from his note-books concerning "special providences," [343] et seq.
—his ghost and witch stories, [346] et seq.
—anecdote concerning the devil's sermon, [349] et seq.
"Ye" and "the," common delusion concerning, [270] note.