TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Illustrations have been placed as close as possible to their textual descriptions. Pages 106 and 107 contain full-page illustrations. These page numbers follow page 108.
Variations in spelling have been left as in the original. Examples include the following:
| Crede | Creede | |
| Creside | Cressida | |
| Faerie | Faërie | |
| Magliabecchi | Magliabechi | |
| Polychronicon | Policronicon | |
| Schoeffer's | Schoëffer | Schœffer |
| Sweynheim | Sweynheym | |
| Troilus | Troylus | |
| Zarothum | Zarothus |
The following words appear with and without hyphens. They have been left as in the original.
| book-buyer | bookbuyer |
| book-buying | bookbuying |
| book-case | bookcase |
| book-plate | bookplate |
| book-selling | bookselling |
| Coffee-house | Coffeehouse |
| sale-room | saleroom |
| waste-paper | wastepaper |
The following corrections have been made to the text:
page xiv: Purcell (p. 165)[original has 164]