The Book-Hunter at Home

by P. B. M. Allan

[88] Lord Lovat's definition of 'Sport' was as follows: 'Sport is the fair, difficult, exciting, perhaps dangerous pursuit of a wild animal that has the odds in its favour, whose courage, speed, strength and cunning are more or less a match for our own, and whose death, being of service, is justifiable.' But this seems to apply more to hunting than anything else; it certainly precludes coaching, cock-fighting, racing, and steeplechasing.

[89] The copy in the Pittar sale at Sotheby's in November 1918 was extra-illustrated and finely bound. It fetched £9, 15s.

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INDEX

• Achademios, Skelton's, [11].
• Aeschylus, translations of, [71].
• Aesop, the Fabulous Tales of, [12].
• Aethiopica, the, [86].
• Africa, books on, [206], [209].
• Agincourt Expedition, the, [50].
• Agriculture, books on, [238].
• A Kempis, Thomas, [217].
• Alaric's grave, [104].
• Alchemy, books on, [245], [256].
• Alfred, king, [101].
  • —— his tomb, [104].
• Allibone's Critical Dictionary, [163].
• Americana, [210].
• Ames' Typographical Antiquities, [7], [8], [169].
• Amyot, Père, [86].
• Ancillon, Charles, [81].
• Andrada, Tomaso de, [155].
• Anjou, René duc d', [87].
• Antiphonaries, Spanish, [129].
• Aquinas, Thomas, [37].
• Arabian Nights, the, [77].
• Arber's Term Catalogues, [162].
• Architecture, books on, [211].
• Arctic and Antarctic, books on, [206].
• Aristophanes, translations of, [71].
• Armorial bindings, [115 n].
• Arthur, King, his character, [89].
• Ascham, Roger, on books of Chivalry, [87].
  • —— on Cambridge, [38].
  • —— his Book of the Cockpit, [262].
• Association books, [172].
• Astrology, books on, [253]-[256].
• Astronomy, books on, [244].
• Attic Theatre, the, [73].
• Auctions, the history of book-, [187].
• Auction Records, Book-, [191].
• Augustine, St., on Varro, [154].
• Austen, Jane, her Mansfield Park, [113].
  • —— on novels, [63].
• Australia, books on, [207].
• Aymon, the Four Sons of, [14], [15].

• Balin and Balan, [95].
• Ballads, [220].
• Ballatis, Gude and Godlie, [13].
• Bankes's IX. Drunkardes, [257].
• Barbary, books on, [209]-[210].
• Barbier's Ouvrages Anonymes, [169].
• Barbier, Louis, [154].
• Barclay's Euphormionis, [11].
• Barocci, Giacomo, his library, [181].
• Barrow, a desecrated, [103].
• Barton, Elizabeth, her book, [13].
• Bassé, Nicholas of Frankfort, [178].
• Beckmann, Johann, on catalogues, [176]-[178], [180], [188].
• Belvedere, motto at, [38 n].
• Bernard, Dr. Francis, [13 n].
• Bewick, books on, [168].
• Bibles, [212].
• Bibliographica, [167].
• Bibliographies of Bibliographies, [170].
  • —— some early, [154]-[156].
• Bibliography, [150]-[156], [160]-[170].
  • —— compiling a, [151]-[153], [156].
  • —— examples of great industry in, [154].
  • —— the objects of, [150].
• Bibliography, Mr. Courtney's Register of National, [170], [205].
  • —— Growoll's English Book Trade, [181].
• Bigmore and Wyman's Bibliography of Printing, [167].
• Bill, John, [181].
• Binding, see Bookbinding.
• Biographies, [213].
  • —— Dictionaries of, [217].
• Bishop, a Tudor, his town house, [19].
• Black Prince, the, [90], [92].
  • —— his household book, [18].
• Blackie, Professor, quoted, [59].
• Blades' Life of Caxton, [165].
• Blagrave's Manor-house, [244 n].
• Block-Books, Sotheby on, [166].
• Boccaccio, on translating, [73].
• Bonaventura, [37].
• Book-Auction Records, [191].
• Book of Curtesye, the [223].
• Book of Good Manners, the, [14].
• Bookhunter, Burton's, [21].
• Book-Prices Current, [191].
• Books Printed Abroad, English, [242].
• Books, the care of, [126].
  • —— the charm of old, [106]-[108].
  • —— cleaning, [145]-[149].
  • —— English printed abroad, [242].
  • —— the five classes of, [120]-[122].
  • —— imperfect, [112], [116]-[120].
  • —— lost, [10]-[21].
  • —— repairing, see Bookbinding.
  • —— travel far afield, [17].
• Bookbinders, London, [139].
• Bookbinding, [135]-[140].
  • —— books on, [135], [136].
  • —— leathers, [137], [138].
  • —— prescription for, [137], [139]-[140].
• Bookbindings, Armorial, [115 n].
  • —— collecting, [203].
  • —— old, their value, [113]-[115].
  • —— paper, [116], [141]-[145].
  • —— polishing old, [141].
  • —— preservative for, [141].
  • —— repairing, [109]-[115], [141]-[145].
• Bookcases, [128]-[134].
• Book-collectors, the Doctor, [42].
  • —— the Genealogist, [40]-[42].
  • —— the Sailor, [43].
  • —— the Soldier, [49].
  • —— the Traveller, [44]-[48].
• Bookplates, works on, [115 n].
• Booksellers, books upon, [182 n].
  • —— Mr. McKerrow's Dictionary of, [183].
• Bookshelves, making, [128]-[134].
  • —— staining, [131], [132].
• Botany, early, [245]-[247].
• Boucicault, Marshal Jean, [213]-[214].
• Bouillon, Godfrey de, [89].
• Bourchier, Sir Henry, [181].
• Box, an old, [18].
• British Museum Catalogue, [163].
  • —— —— talking in the Reading Room of the, [34].
• Brittany, old books in, [28].
  • —— old hostel in, [29].
• Britwell Court Library, [210].
• Broadsides, [220], [228].
• Browne, Sir Thomas, [52].
  • —— quoted, [104], [233].
• Bruce, King Robert, [93].
• Brunet, J. C., [22].
  • —— his Manuel de Libraire, [163].
• Brydges' British Bibliographer, [162].
• Buckram for shelves, [132].
• Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, [66].
• Burney, Admiral James, [208].
• Burns' Poems, value of, [190].
  • —— —— a unique copy of, [173].
• Burton, John Hill, quoted, [59].
  • —— his Bookhunter, [21].
• Burton's Arabian Nights, [78 n].
• Bury, Richard of, quoted, [65].
• Byron's English Bards, [190].
  • —— Poems, [189].
• Byron, J., Wreck of the Wager, [47].

• Cæsar, the Elzevier, [21]-[22], [24].
• Calderon, translations of, [73].
• Cambridge and Roger Ascham, [38].
  • —— books, Mr. Sayle on, [165].
• Camelot, [95], [97], [98].
• Campbell, Thomas, quoted, [47].
• Card Games, books on, [262].
• Castiglione, Baldassare, [19].
• Cataloguer, an Abbey, [54].
• Catalogues, bound at the end of books, [183]-[187].
  • —— early booksellers', [174]-[181].
  • —— a Restoration one, [184].
  • —— of Nicholas Bassé, [178].
  • ——  John Bill, [181].
  • ——  Johan Cless, [180].
  • ——  George Draud, [180].
  • ——  William Jaggard, [181].
  • ——  Andrew Maunsell, [181].
  • ——  Sweynheim and Pannartz, [179].
  • ——  Christian Wechel, [178].
• Caxton, his advertisement, [175].
  • —— binding by, [20].
  • —— book by, [20].
  • —— his Book of Good Manners, [14], [223].
  • —— on Chivalry, quoted, [90].
  • —— his Four Sons of Aymon, [14], [15].
  • —— The Life of, by Blades, [165].
  • —— a lost book by, [11].
  • —— and Malory, [98], [99].
  • —— his Metamorphoses of Ovid, [11].
  • —— on rebinding a, [114].
  • —— his Recueil des Histoires, [99].
  • —— his Speculum, [14].
• Cervantes' Don Quixote, [66], [74].
• 'Chafynghowys,' the, [34].
• Chance, [201].
• Chapbooks, [220], [228].
• Charlemagne, a story of, [196].
• Chasse de Loup, La, [261].
• Chaucer, quotations from, [1], [56], [94].
• Cheke, Sir John, [132].
• Chess, books on, [262].
• Chivalry, books on, [234].
  • —— a collector of books on, [200].
  • —— England the home of, [92].
  • —— romances of, [86]-[90], [227], [228].
  • —— and 'Sport,' [91].
• Chronograms, Hilton's, [168].
• Civil War, books on the, [221].
• Classics, the, [61], [70]-[73].
  • —— collecting the, [222].
• Claudin, M. Anatole, works by, [166].
• Cleaning books, [145]-[149].
• Clement's Bibliothèque Curieuse, [164].
• Clerkenwell, books bought in, [3], [18].
• Cless, Johan of Frankfort, [180].
• Cockfighting, books on, [261].
• Collating, [119], [152]-[153].
• Collectors, see Book-collectors.
• Collins, William, of Chichester, [11], [12].
• Colombière, La, books by, [235]-[236].
• Commonplace Books, [54]-[57].
• Commonwealth, books on the, [221].
• Companions to Greek and Latin Studies, [73].
• Conon, lost books by, [55].
• Cook, Captain, [207]-[208].
• Cookery Books, [222].
• Cooper's Thesaurus, [226].
• Coronation Books, [235].
• Cortigiano, Il, [19 n].
• Corvinus, Matthias, [86].
• Costume, books on, [224].
• Cotton, Sir Robert, his library, [133].
• Cotton's Typographical Gazetteer, [168].
• Courtney's Register of National Bibliography, [170], [205].
• Crabbe, quotation from, [31].
• Cranmer on the Maid of Kent, [13].
• Crawford, the Earl of, his Bibliotheca Lindesiana, [220], [221].
• Crimes, books on, [225].
• Croix du Maine, F. de la, [155].
• Croker's French Revolution collections, [233].
• Cromwell, Thomas, [15], [19].
• Curiosa, [228].
• Curll, Edmund, [185]-[186].
  • —— his edition of Prior, [9], [10].
• Curtesye, the Book of, [223].

• Dante, translations of, [75].
• David's book-stall, [3].
• Defence of Women, the, [16].
• De Gloria et Nobilitate, [4].
• Demonology, books on, [255].
• De Re Heraldica, [8].
• Despeisses, Anthony, [51].
• De Studio Militari, [5]-[8].
• Dibdin's works, [169].
• Dictionaries, [226].
• Digressions, [51]-[54].
• Disraeli, Isaac, quoted, [37].
• Don, story of a, [79].
• Don Quixote, [66], [74].
• Drama, books on the, [226].
• Draud, George of Frankfort, [180].
• Dress, books on, [224].
• Drinking-horns, [102].
• Dryden's Aeneid, [72].
• Duelling, books on, [248].
• Duff, Mr. E. G., books by, [161], [166], [183], [242].
  • —— quoted, [12], [13], [14], [16].
• Du Fresnoy, Lenglet, [108].
• Du Guesclin, Bertrand, [92], [216 n].
• Dumas, Alexandre, [22]-[24].