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Part 4 — INDEX.

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Abingdon, chained books in St. Helen’s Church, 29.

All Hallows’ Church, Lombard Street, chained books in, 59.

Appleby Church, chained books in, 30.

Arreton Church, chained books in, 31.

Barber-Surgeons’ Hall, chained books at, 31.

Barcheston Church, chained books in, 34.

Bercula (Who was)? xxviii.

Berthelet (Thomas), supposed to be Bercula, xxviii.

Bibliographical Miscellanies, xxxv, 1-122.

Bibliography, scientific method in, 85.

Binding expenses at Eton, 20.

Bingley Church, chained books in, 34.

Blades (William), his busy life, ix;

his earliest work, x;

his Life of Caxton, x;

his contributions to bibliography considered under four headings:

(i) Work on Caxton, xii-xvi;

Caxton Exhibition, xiv;

proposed Caxton Publication Society, xv;

(ii) Invention of Printing, xvi-xix;

(iii) Types, xix-xxvii;

Plantin Museum, xxii;

Type specimen books, xxiv;

(iv) Miscellaneous, xxvii-xxxviii;

Who was Bercula? xxviii;

pictorial representations of the first Printing-Press in England, xxviii, 209;

Nicholson the inventor of the steam press, xxix;

Numismata Typographica, xxxi;

Shakspere and typography, xxxiii;

Enemies of Books, xxxiii;

German morality-play, xxxiii;

Watermarks, xxxiv;

Bibliographical Miscellanies, xxxv, 1-122;

Pentateuch of Printing, xxxvi;

at the Library Association Meetings, xxxvii.

Bolton-in-the-Moors Grammar School, chained books in, 35.

Books in Chains, 1-81.

Borden Church, chained books in, 36.

Bowness Church, chained books in, 37.

Bridlington Church, chained books in, 37.

Bristol, Redcliffe Church, lectern with chain, 38.

Bromsgrove Church, chained book, 38.

Cambridge, application of the University for Greek types of the Royal Printing Office, Paris, 201-205.

—— chains for books in the College libraries, 4.

Canterbury Cathedral, chained Bible there formerly, 38.

Cartmel Church, chained books in, 39.

Caslon (William), specimens of his types, xxv.

Caxton (William), Life and Typography of, x.

Caxton (William), Blades’s researches on the history of his press, xiv.

—— signatures in his books, 94.

Caxton Exhibition, xiii.

Caxton Publication Society, proposed, xv.

Chained books, 1-81.

Cheddar Church, chained book formerly there, 39.

Chelsea Old Church, chained books in, 40.

Chesterton Church, chained book formerly there, 40.

Chetham (Humphrey), chained books left by him to the Parish Church of Bolton-in-the-Moors, 35;

to Gorton Chapel, 46;

to Jesus Chapel, 65;

to Turton Chapel, 73;

to Walmsley Chapel, 75.

Chetham Library, Manchester, books formerly chained, 65.

Chew Magna Church, chained book in, 40.

Chirbury Parish School-room, chained books in, 41.

Cirencester Church, chained books formerly there, 41.

Colard Mansion at Bruges, 127.

Conway (W. M.) on the wood-cutters of the Netherlands, 144.

Cornelis, assistant to Coster, 154, 188.

Corsellis, supposed Oxford printer, 87.

Coster’s claims to be the inventor of printing, 126, 134.

Coster v. Gutenberg, 171-191.

Costeriana, 157, 180.

Cumnor Church, chained Bible in, 42.

Denchworth Church, chained books in the vicar’s library, 42.

De Vinne (Theodore) on the invention of printing, 139.

Donatuses in Holland, 151, 177, 180.

Doyle’s (J. E.) painting of the printing-press, 209.

East Winch Church, chained Bible at, 44.

Easton-in-Gordano Church, chained book formerly in, 43.

Ecclesfield Church, chained books formerly there, 44.

Enschedé Type Foundry, xxvi.

Enemies of Books, xxxiii.

Florence, chained books in the Laurentian Library, 26.

Foxe’s Book of Martyrs common among chained books, 19.

Frampton Cotterell Church, chained book in, 45.

Fuhrmann (G. L.), specimens of his types, xxvi.

Gloucester (Humphrey, Duke of), honoured by book-lovers, 19.

Gorton Church schools, chained books, 47.

Grantham Church, chained books in, 48.

Great Durnford Church, chained book in, 48.

Greek Types of the Royal Printing Office, Paris, 201-205.

Gutenberg, his name does not appear in any production of his press, 153.

—— v. Coster, 192-200.

Hales Owen Church, chained books formerly there, 49.

Hanmer Church, chained books burnt in 1889, 49.

Hereford, All Saints’ Church, chained library in, 50.

—— Cathedral, chained books in, 5, 52.

Hessels (J. H.), translated Van der Linde’s Haarlem Legend, xvi.

—— Gutenberg: was he the Inventor of Printing? xviii.

—— Haarlem the Birth-place of Printing, not Mentz, xviii, 179.

Hull, Holy Trinity Church, Foxe’s Martyrs formerly there, 54.

Impington Church, chained books in, 54.

Jewel’s (Bishop) works common among chained books, 19.

Junius on the Dutch invention of printing, 185.

Kettering Church, chained books formerly there, 55.

Kidderminster Church, chained book in, 55.

King’s Lynn, St. Mary’s Church, chained Bible in, 55.

Kinver Church, chained books in, 56.

Koenig (F.), introducer of the steam press, xxix.

Lessingham Church, chained book in, 57.

Leyden, chained books in the University Library, 25.

Leyland Church, chained books in, 57.

Library Association Meetings, xxxvii.

Lincoln Cathedral, chained books formerly in the Chapter Library, 58.

Linde (Van der), Haarlem Legend, xvi, 168.

Llanbadarn Church, chained books formerly there, 59.

Luton Church, chained books in, 63.

Maclise’s (D.) painting of the printing-press, 212.

Madden (J. P. A.) on Gutenberg, 140;

on Coster, 190.

Malvern Abbey, chained books in, 63.

Mancetter Church, chained books in, 64.

Manchester, Jesus Chapel Collegiate Church, chained books formerly there, 65.

Manuscripts with written signatures at the foot of the page, 89, 96.

Margate Church, chained books in, 66.

Medals connected with printing, xxxi.

Meurs (P. Van), his answer to Dr. Van der Linde, 138.

Minster Church, chained Bible from Margate, 66.

Montgomery Castle, chained library formerly there, 67.

Morality-play (German), xxxiii.

Moxon (Joseph), Proves of Letters cast by him, xxv.

Newport Pagnell Church, chained books in, 67.

Nicholson (John), the inventor of the steam press, xxix.

Northwold Church, chained Bible formerly there, 67.

Numismata Typographica, xxxii.

Oldfield (Humphrey), 69.

Ortu (De) Typographiæ, 163-200.

Oxford, first printing-press at, xix.

—— St. Mary’s Church, chained books formerly there, 68.

Paper, use of, for books, 117.

Pentateuch of Printing, xxxvi.

Plantin Museum, Blades’s account of, xxi.

Prestwich Church, chained book formerly there, 68.

Printing, Blades’s researches on the history of the invention of, xvi.

—— common typographical errors, xxxii.

—— De Ortu Typographiæ, 163-200.

—— Early Greek Types of the Royal Printing Office, Paris, 201-205.

—— Early Schools of Typography, 123-130.

—— invention of the steam press, xxix.

—— List of Books on the Invention of Printing published since 1868, 159.

—— medals connected with, xxxi.

—— proposed Bibliotheca Typographica, xxxii.

—— Type specimen books, xxiv.

—— Who was the Inventor of, present aspect of the question, 131-162.

Printing-Press, the first in England, as pictorially presented, 209-221.

Quatt Church, 68.

Reed (Talbot B.), his Memoir of Blades, xiii (note).

Richmond (Margaret, Countess of), patron of Caxton, 6.

Rochester, St. Nicholas Church, chained book in, 69.

St. Albans, Typography of, in the fifteenth century, xx.

St. Andrew Undershaft Church, chained books in, 61.

St. Clement’s, Eastcheap Church, chained books in, 62.

Salford Free Library, chained books, 69.

Salisbury Cathedral, chained books in, 69.

Selden’s books in the Bodleian, 25.

Shakspere and Typography, xxxiii.

Signatures in Books, Use and Development of, 83-122.

—— idea of books without, a bibliographical delusion, 96.

—— (written) in manuscripts, 90, 96.

—— in early printed books, 92, 100.

—— (manuscript and printed) in the same book, 106.

—— stamped in with separate types, 108.

—— not stamped in but printed at the same time as the text, 112.

—— (normal) printed in the line just beneath the text, 115.

Sittingbourne Church, 70.

Southampton, St. Michael’s Church, chained books in, 70.

Standon Church, chained book in, 71.

Stevens (Henry), his answer to the question “Who was Bercula?” xxviii.

Stratford-on-Avon Church, chained Bible in, 71.

Suckley Church, 72.

Survival of the fittest in the study of bibliography, 85.

Tavistock Church, chained book in, 72.

Turton Church, chained books in, 73.

Type specimen books, xxiv.

Types, Blades’s researches on the history of, xix.

Typography, Early Schools of, 123-130 (see also Printing).

Walmsley Church, 75.

Wantage Church, chained books formerly there, 76.

Watermarks, Blades’s researches on, xxxiv.

Wehnert’s (E. H.) painting of the printing-press, 211.

Wells Cathedral, chained books in, 76,

Whissonsett Church, 76.

Whitchurch, Little Stanmore, 77.

Wiggenhall Church, chained books in, 77.

Wigtoft Church, 78.

Wimborne Minster, chained library, 1-16, 78.

Windsor, St. George’s Chapel, chained Bible formerly there, 78.

Wisbeach, chained books at, 79.

Wolverley Church, chained book in, 79.

Wootton Wawen Church, chained books in, 80.

Worcester, All Saints’ Church, chained Bible in, 80.

Wrington Church, chained books in, 81.

York, St. Crux Church, chained book, 81.

Zutphen, chained books in the Church of St. Wallberg, 27.

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