In the index on page 328, there is an entry for Thomas à Kempis. His name is not mentioned in the book, but he is the author of "Imitatio Christi" which is discussed in the text on the referenced pages.
In the index, many of the page references were incorrect. Corrections have been made as indicated in the following table.
| Entry | Original Page # | Correct Page # | ||
| Aldine editions, | 128-131 | 129-131 | ||
| Aldus, | 128 | 129 | ||
| Alfred, | 2 | 3 | ||
| Anacreon, Stephen edition, | 128 | 129 | ||
| Anthologia Græca' (1494), | 129 | 130 | ||
| Archaica Club, | 78 | 79 | ||
| 'Aristophanes' (1498), | 128 | 129 | ||
| Aristotle (1495-98), | 129 | 130 | ||
| Askew Sale, the, | 127, et seq. | 128, et seq. | ||
| Bannatyne Club, the, | 62 | 62 note | ||
| Baptist Library at Bristol, | 137 | 138 | ||
| Barbican, the, | 175, 176 | 176, 177 | ||
| Batemans of Little Britain, | 170 | 171 | ||
| Becket, Thomas, | 175 note | 176 note | ||
| Bernard, Dr. Francis, | 131 | 132 | ||
| Bibles and New Testaments | ||||
| Coverdale's (1535), | 113 | 138 | ||
| Græca Septuaginta, | 192 | 192 note | ||
| St. Jerome's MS., | 139, 140 | 140 | ||
| Bishopsgate Churchyard, | 160 | 161 | ||
| Black-letter books, | 135 | 136 | ||
| Blandford, Marquis of, | 61 | 61 note | ||
| Bloomfield, R., | 153 | 154 | ||
| 'Boke of St. Albans,' | 135, 136 | 136 | ||
| Book-ghouls, | 159 | 160 | ||
| Bookstalls and bookstalling, | 148-166 | 149-167 | ||
| Brabourne, Lord, | 106 | 107 | ||
| Britten, Mr. James, | 150 | 151 | ||
| Britton, Thomas, | 171, 172 | 172, 173 | ||
| Brown, 'Old,' | 156 | 157 | ||
| Bruscambille on 'Long Noses,' | 151 | 152 | ||
| Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress,' | 144, 145 | 145, 146 | ||
| Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, | 140, 141 | 141, 142 | ||
| Butterworth, Henry, | 217 | 217 note | ||
| Campbell, Mr. Dykes, | 106 | 107 | ||
| Caxton, W. | 131 | 132 | ||
| 'Arthur, King,' | 132 | 133 | ||
| 'Book called Cathon,' | 131, 132 | 132, 133 | ||
| 'Book of Chivalry,' | 135 | 136 | ||
| 'Chastising of God's Children,' | 131 | 132 | ||
| Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales,' | 135 | 136 | ||
| 'Chronicles of England,' | 131, 132 | 132, 133 | ||
| Cicero ('De Senectute'), 'Of Old Age,' | 90, 131, 132 | 132, 133 | ||
| 'Dictes and Sayings,' | 131 | 132 | ||
| 'Doctrinal of Sapience,' | 131, 132 | 132, 133 | ||
| 'Game and Playe of Chesse,' | 131, 132, 134 | 132, 133, 135 | ||
| 'Godfrey of Bulloigne,' | 131 | 132 | ||
| 'Golden Legend,' | 132 | 133 | ||
| Gower's 'Confessio Amantis,' | 132 | 133 | ||
| Higden's 'Description of Britayne,' | 132 | ? | ||
| Higden's 'Polychronicon,' | 80 | 89 | ||
| 'Historyes of Troy,' | 131 | 132 | ||
| 'History of Blanchardyn and Eglantine,' | 132 | 133 | ||
| 'History of Jason,' | 131, 132 | 132, 133 | ||
| 'Mirrour of the World,' | 132 | 133 | ||
| Russell's 'Propositio,' | 133 | 134 | ||
| 'Troylus and Creside,' | 132 | 133 | ||
| Virgil's 'Æneid,' | 132 | 133 | ||
| Caxton, the highest paid for a, | 132 | 133 | ||
| Caxtons, the Althorp, | 133 | 134 | ||
| Chained books at Hereford, | 274 | ? | ||
| Chandler, Dr., | 287 | 289 | ||
| Clarke, W., | 134 | 135 | ||
| Daniel, G., | 140-142 | 141-143 | ||
| Daniell, Mr. E., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Day's circulating library, | 207, 208 | 208 | ||
| Defoe, Daniel, | 155 | 156 | ||
| Devonshire, Dukes of, | 61, 132, 140, 141, 172 | 61 note, 133, 141, 142, 173 | ||
| Diodorus Siculus (1539), | 129 | 130 | ||
| Dobell, Mr. B., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Dorset, Earl of, | 169 | 170 | ||
| Drayton, M., | 157 | 158 | ||
| Duck Lane, | 174, 175 | 175, 176 | ||
| Duke Street, Little Britain, | 174, 175 | 175, 176 | ||
| East End, book-hunting in, | 154, et seq. | 155, et seq. | ||
| Editiones Principes, | 127-131 | 128-131 | ||
| Ellis, Mr. G. I., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Elyot's 'Castell of Helth,' | 165 | 166 | ||
| Euripides (1503), | 128 | 129 | ||
| Exeter 'Change, | 153, 154 | 154, 155 | ||
| Extra-illustrating, | 164 | 165 | ||
| Farringdon Road, | 157, 158 | 158, 159 | ||
| Finsbury Square, | 177 | 178 | ||
| Foote, Samuel, | 162 | 163 | ||
| Franklin, B., | 174 | 175 | ||
| Fuller's 'David's Hainous Sinne,' | 150 | 151 | ||
| Funnibus, L., | 146 | 147 | ||
| Garnett, Dr. R., | 165 | 166 | ||
| Garth, Samuel, | 175 | 176 | ||
| George III., | 129, 134, 140 | 130, 135, 141 | ||
| Gifford, Dr., | 138, 139 | 139, 140 | ||
| Glasse's 'Art of Cookery,' | 149 | 150 | ||
| Goldsmith's 'Vicar of Wakefield,' | 145 | 146 | ||
| Gomme, Mr. G. L., | 150 | 151 | ||
| Grangerizing, | 164 | 165 | ||
| Gray's MSS., | 145 | 146 | ||
| Gwillim's 'Display of Heraldry,' | 155 | 156 | ||
| Harleian Library, The, | 193 | 192 | ||
| Harvey, Mr. F., | 164 | 165 | ||
| Harwood, Dr., | 127-130 | 128-131 | ||
| Hatchards, | 253, 254 | 252-254 | ||
| Heliconia Club, | 78 | 79 | ||
| Herodotus (1502), | 128 | 129 | ||
| Hindley, Mr. C., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Hodge, Mr. E. Grose, | 106 | 107 | ||
| Hodgson and Co., | 145, 161-163 | 146, 162-164 | ||
| Holford, Captain, | 145 | 146 | ||
| Holywell Street, | 152, 153 | 153, 154 | ||
| Homer, the Foulis edition, | 128 | 129 | ||
| Horace, editio princeps, | 129 | 130 | ||
| Hunter, Mr., | 129 | 130 | ||
| Hunt, Leigh, | 148 | 149 | ||
| Islington, cattle market at, | 163 | 164 | ||
| Isocrates (1493), | 128 | 129 | ||
| Jeffrey, Edward, | 112 | 113 | ||
| Jersey, Earl of, | 132 | 133 | ||
| Johnson, Dr., | 257 | 237 | ||
| Jolley, Thomas, | 142 note | 143 note | ||
| Juvenal and Persius (1469), | 130 | 131 | ||
| King, John, | 177 | 178 | ||
| King, Thomas, | 177 | 178 | ||
| Knock-outs, | 163 | 164 | ||
| Lamb, Charles, | 175, 176 | 176, 177 | ||
| Lamb's 'Beauty and the Beast,' | 149 | 150 | ||
| Langford, auctioneer, | 138 | 139 | ||
| Leighton, Mr., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Lemoine, Henry, | 160 | 161 | ||
| Lisburne, Lord, | 128 | 129 | ||
| Locker-Lampson, F., | 106 | 107 | ||
| London House, Aldersgate Street, | 40 | 39 | ||
| Longman and Co., | 79, 80 | 80 | ||
| Lovelace's 'Lucasta,' | 144 | 145 | ||
| Lytton, Lord, | 149 | 150 | ||
| Macaulay, Lord, | 148 | 149 | ||
| Manuscript, the textual value of a, | 127 | 128 | ||
| Martial's 'Epigrammata,' | 131 | 132 | ||
| Mather, Increase, | 150 | 151 | ||
| Mayhew, Henry, | 160 | 161 | ||
| Millington, E. | 169 | 170 | ||
| Milton's 'Paradise Lost,' | 144, 169 | 145, 170 | ||
| Molini, Mr., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Moorfields, | 167, 176-179 | 168, 177-179 | ||
| Murray, John of Sacomb, | 137, 138 | 138, 139 | ||
| Musæus (1494), | 129 | 130 | ||
| Neligan, Dr., | 106 | 107 | ||
| New Cut, the, | 156, 157 | 157 | ||
| Newton, W., | 173 | 174 | ||
| Nicol, George, | 127 | 126 | ||
| North, Francis, | 169 | 170 | ||
| North, Roger, | 169 | 170 | ||
| Novimagus, Society of, | 82 | 83 | ||
| Ovid (1471), | 130 | 131 | ||
| Oxford, Edward, Earl of, | 138, 172 | 139, 173 | ||
| Pamphlet shops, | 154 | 155 | ||
| Passavant, Speyr, | 139 | 140 | ||
| Pellet, Thomas, | 154 | 155 | ||
| Pembroke, Lord, | 172 | 173 | ||
| Pepys, Samuel, | 249 | 248 | ||
| Perry, James, | 132 | 133 | ||
| Plato, | 129 | 130 | ||
| Pliny, 'Historia Naturalis,' | 130 | 131 | ||
| Poetry, old English, | 144 | 145 | ||
| Pope, Alexander, | 150 | 151 | ||
| Purcell, of Red Lion Passage, | 164 | 165 | ||
| Puttenham's 'Art of English Poesie,' | 144 | 145 | ||
| Quaritch, Mr. B., | 106, 281 | 106, 280 | ||
| Railton, Mr., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Ratcliffe, John, | 131 | 132 | ||
| Rawlinson, T. and R., | 135 | 136 | ||
| Reed, Isaac, | 144 | 145 | ||
| Reeves, Mr. W., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Richardson's 'Remarks on Paradise Lost,' | 169 | 170 | ||
| Rimell, Mr. J., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Robinson's 'Handefull of Pleasant Delites,' | 144 | 145 | ||
| Robson, Mr., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Roche, Mr. J., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Rogers, Samuel, | 79-82 | 80-82 | ||
| Roxburghe, John, Duke of, | 140 | 141 | ||
| Rubric posts, | 175 | 176 | ||
| Rylands, Mrs., | 145 | 146 | ||
| Sacheverell, Dr. Henry, | 257 | 251 | ||
| Sala, Mr. G. A., | 149, 156 | 150, 157 | ||
| Salisbury, Mr. J., | 209, 211 | 211 | ||
| Sanderson, Bishop, | 170 | 171 | ||
| Scott, R., | 172 | 173 | ||
| Scott's 'Vision of Don Roderick,' | 149 | 150 | ||
| Scriptorium, | 1, 2 | 2 | ||
| Selsey, Lord, | 132 | 133 | ||
| Seneca, 'Tragœdiæ' (1475), | 130 | 131 | ||
| Sewell, John, | 175 | 176 note | ||
| Shakespeare, W., | 140-142 | 141-143 | ||
| First Folio (1623), | 140 | 141 | ||
| Second Folio (1632), | 140-142 | 141-143 | ||
| Third Folio (1664), | 140-142 | 141-143 | ||
| Fourth Folio (1685), | 140-142 | 141-143 | ||
| Quarto editions | ||||
| 'Hamlet,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| '2 Henry IV.,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Henry V.,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Henry VI.,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Lear,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Love's Labour Lost,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Merchant of Venice,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Merry Wives of Windsor,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Much Ado About Nothing,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Othello,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Pericles,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Poems,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Rape of Lucrece,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Richard II.,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Richard III.,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Romeo and Juliet,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Sonnets,' | 142, 143 note | 143 and note | ||
| 'Troilus and Cressida,' | 142 | 143 | ||
| 'Venus and Adonis,' | 142, 143 note | 143 and note | ||
| Shandy, Mr., | 151 | 152 | ||
| Sherley's 'Wits New Dyall,' | 166 | 167 | ||
| Shoreditch, | 154 | 155 | ||
| Silius Italicus, | 130 | 131 | ||
| Slater, Mr. J. H., | 149 | 150 | ||
| Sloane, Sir Hans, | 171 | 172 | ||
| Snowden, Mr. G. S., | 106 | 107 | ||
| 'Snuffy Davy,' | 134 | 135 | ||
| Solly, Edward, | 47 | 46 | ||
| Somers, Lord, | 171 | 172 | ||
| Sophocles (1502), | 128 | 129 | ||
| Sotheran, Mr. H., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Spectator, the, | 174 | 175 | ||
| Spenser's 'Faërie Queene,' | 144 | 145 | ||
| St. Albans, books printed at, | 135, 136 | 136, 137 | ||
| St. Paul's Churchyard, | 152 | 153 | ||
| Staple Inn, | 43 | 42 | ||
| Stevens, Henry, | 106 | 107 | ||
| Stibbs, E. W., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Strand, the, | 152 | 153 | ||
| Sunderland, Earl of, | 172 | 173 | ||
| Swift, Jonathan, | 171, 175 | 172, 176 | ||
| Sydenham Tusculum, Hill's, | 78 | 79 | ||
| Sydney, Sir Robert, | 141 | 142 | ||
| Sykes, Sir M. M., | 61 | 61 note | ||
| Taylor, Watson, | 132 | 133 | ||
| Theocritus (1495), | 129 | 130 | ||
| Thoms, W. J., | 155, 156 | 156 | ||
| Thoresby, Ralph, | 177 | 178 | ||
| Toovey, J., | 106, 141, 145 | 107, 142 | ||
| Tyson, Dr. E., | 175 | 176 | ||
| Valerius Maximus (1471), | 130 | 131 | ||
| Vérard, Antoine, | 12 | 13 | ||
| Walford, Mr. E., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Walton, Izaak, | 170 | 171 | ||
| Walton's 'Compleat Angler,' | 143, 144 | 144, 145 | ||
| Walford, Cornelius, | 150, 151 | 151, 152 | ||
| Walker, John, | 114 | 113 | ||
| Ward, Mr. W., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Warwick, Earl of, | 106 | 107 | ||
| Weskett, 'On Insurances,' | 151 | 152 | ||
| Westell, Mr. J., | 106 | 107 | ||
| Whitechapel, | 154 | 155 | ||
| Winchelsea, Earl of, | 172 | 173 | ||
| Women as book-thieves, | 278-280 | 279-280 | ||
| Wynkyn de Worde, | 118 | 111 | ||
Ellipsis are represented as in the original.