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.

Eale, the, 250-251.

Early-Printed Books, 227. —— —— —— authorities on, 164-166.

Early Romances, 227.

Ebrietatis Encomium, 186.

Editions good and bad, 69-70.

Elks, the Hercynian, 250.

Elzeviers, 21 seq., 187.

Engravers and Engraving, authorities on, 167. —— —— books on, 240.

Entomology, books on, 251.

Epicœne or the Silent Woman, 13.

Epitaph of the King of Scotland, the, 11.

Errata, on, 170-171.

Este, Alfonso d', 38 n.

Etymologies, 226.

Euphormionis Lusinini Sat., 11.

Euripides, translations of, 71.

Extra-illustrating, 125.

Fabert, Abraham, 182.

Fabulous Tales of Esope, 12.

Facetiæ, 228.

Farringdon Road, the, 18.

Faust, translations of, 75.

Faustus his book, 254.

Fenn, Sir John, 20.

Fetherstone, Henry, 181.

Fitzgerald's Polonius, 192. —— translations, 73.

Flore et Zephyr, 189.

Forgeries, book, 118-120.

Four Sons of Aymon, the 14, 15.

Freemasonry, books on, 232, 255.

French Revolution, the, 82, 233. —— —— Croker's Collections on the, 233.

Gairdner, James, quoted, 20.

Gardens, books on, 233.

Gavaudan, quoted, 88.

Genealogist, the, 40-42.

Genealogy, books on, 234.

Geology, books on, 251.

Gibbon, Edward, 81.

Gipsies, book on, 229.

Giunta Terence, a, 3-4.

Goeree, William, 182.

Goethe, translations of, 75.

Golden Legend, the, 217.

Goste of Guido, the, 11.

Graesse's Trésor de Livres Rares, 164.

Grail, the Holy, 89, 93, 97. —— —— appears to the Knights, 99, 100.

Grangerising, 122-125.

Graves, the desecration of, 103-105.

Greek, aids to reading, 72, 73. —— Incunabula, 166. —— theatre, 73.

Growoll's Book-Trade Bibliography, 181.

Grudé, François, 155.

Hain's Repertorium, 164.

Hamerton, P. G., on Interruptions, 33. —— on reading the classics, 62.

Harrison, Mr. Frederic, on reading, 59, 60, 67, 79. —— on the classics, 72. —— The Choice of Books, 72.

Hazlitt, W. C., on lost books, 12, 14. —— his Bibliographical Collections, 161-162.

Health, books on preserving, 224.

Heine, translations of, 76.

Heinz, quoted, 31.

Heliodorus, 84.

Henry vii. and Winchester, 98.

Heraldry, books on, 234.

Herbals, 245-247.

Herbert, George, his Jacula Prudentum, 56.

Herbert, Sir Henry, Office Book of, 227.

Herbert, William, lost books described by, 12.

Hilton's Chronograms, 168.

Hinard, Damas, 74.

Historie of Judith, the, 11.

History, books on, 237.

Hoccleve, 90.

Homer, translations of, 71-72.

Hoole's New Discovery, 260; his pupils, ib.

Horace, on translating, 72.

Hospitallers, 200, 214.

Hotel du Lion d'Or, 29.

Housewife, the perfect, 239.

Hozier, Pierre d', 40.

Humphrey, Lawrence, 4.

Humphreys, Mr. A. L., quoted, 67, 69.

Husbandry, books on, 238.

Hyde Abbey, 104.

Hyères, the monk illuminator at, 37.

Hygiasticon, 224.

Illuminator of St. Honorat, the, 37.

Illuminators, the Winchester, 101-102.

Illustrated Books, 240.

Imitatio Christi, 217.

Incunabula, definition of, 167 n. —— see Early-Printed Books.

Interruptions, 33-35.

Jacula Prudentum, 56.

Jaggard, William, 181.

Jall, the, 250-251.

Jest Books, 228. —— —— some early, 16.

Jonson, Ben, lost works of, 13.

Judith, the Famous Historie of, 11.

Karslake's Notes from Sotheby's, 162.

Keats' Endymion, 113.

Keeper of the Abbey muniments, 54 n.

Kempis, Thomas à, 217.

Kennet, Bishop White, 210.

King Glumpus, 189.

Koberger, Anton, 176.

L'Abbé's Bibliotheca, 155.

La Colombière, books by, 235-236.

La Fontaine, Jean de, 39.

La Marche, Olivier de, 215.

La Monnoye, Bernard de, 154.

Lang, Andrew, on Elzeviers, 21. —— his imperfect books, 112.

Large Copper, story of a, 116-117.

Large Paper copies, 203.

Law, books on, 240.

Lawler's Book-Auctions, 187.

Lesclarcissement de la Langue Francoyse, 15.

Library, the, by A. Lang, 21.

Library, 'laying down a,' 230.

Libraries, two old country, 19-20.

Lion d'Or, the, 29.

Liturgies, books on, 241.

Locally-Printed Books, 241.

London, books hidden in, 18.

Londonderry, medal of the siege of, 253.

Long Meg of Westminster, 16.

Lost books, 10-21.

Louis ix (St.) and the Saracens, 90.

Louis xiv., his monument, 253.

Louvre library, the, 134.

Lovelace's Lucasta, 120.

Lowndes' Bibliographer's Manual, 161.

Lycanthropy, books on, 255.

Mackenzie, Sir G., quoted, 192.

Magic, books on, 253-256.

Maid of Kent, the, 13.

Maimbourg, Louis, 186.

Malory, Sir Thomas, 95-99. —— his Morte d'Arthur, 13, 88, 95-101. —— and Caxton, 98, 99.

Malta, the Knights of, 200-201, 214.

Manners, books on, 223.

Manners, the Book of Good, 14.

Mansfield Park, 113.

Margaret of Scotland, 17.

Markham's housewife, 239. —— Thyrsis and Daphne, 13.

Mariner's Mirror, the, 252.

Marmol, Luis del, 209-210.

Marprelate Tracts, 256.

Mathematics, books on, 243.

Masques, books on, 226, 232.

Maunsell, Andrew, 181.

Medical Books, 245. —— —— a collector of, 42.

Meg of Westminster, 16.

Melanchthon, Philip, 59.

Memoirs, 213.

Menestrier's Louis le Grand, 252.

Military Books, 247.

Milton, quotations from, 88, 94, 95, 105, 127, 193. —— his Comus, 191.

Minstrels, books on, 232.

Miracle Plays, books on, 232.

Modern Authors, valuable works of, 188-193. —— —— bibliographies of, 231-232.

Monastic rules, 34.

Monsters, books on, 255.

Montluc, Blaise de, 110-111.

Montmorency, Henri, duc de, 215.

Moon Lore, 255.

Moralities, books on, 232.

More's Defence of Women, 16.

Morte d'Arthur, see Malory.

Mouse, the painted, 196.

Music, books on, 248.

Myriobiblon, 55.

Mysteries, books on, 232.

Napoleon, books on, 249-250.

Natural History, books on, 250.

Nautical Books, 251.

Neuf Preux, le Triomphe des, 89, 216, 228.

New England Canaan, 211.

Newspapers, on reading, 64.

Newton, Sir I., bibliography of, 244.

Nightingale, Miss, on interruptions, 33.

Night working, 35.

Nigramansir, the, 11.

Normandy, Robert of, 201.

Notes, editors', 70.

Novels, on reading, 63. —— the first, 84-85.

Numismatics, books on, 252.

Occleve, 90.

Occult, books on the, 253.

Olaf, King, 201.

Optimates, by L. Humphrey, 4.

Ordnance, mediæval, 49.

Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, 190.

Ormsby, John, on romances, 86.

Osorio's De Gloria, 4.

Ovid's Metamorphoses, by Caxton, 11.

Oxford Books, by Mr. F. Madan, 165.

Pageants, books on, 226.

Painted Mouse, a, 196.

Palmerin d'Olive, 205.

Palsgrave, John, 15.

Pamphlets and Tracts, 256.

Panzer's Annalen, 165.

Pappe with an Hatchet, 256.

Passionate Pilgrim, the, 10.

Pastissier François, le, 21-28. —— —— prices of, 21, 24, 25.

Paston Letters, the, 20.

Pedigree hunting, 40.

'Pegs,' 102.

Perceforest, quotation from, 92. —— description of, 93 n.

'Peregrine' volumes, 242.

Peron, the, 95-97.

Philosophy, books on, 258.

Photius, 55.

Pilgrim's Progress, the, 66.

Pinson, Gheerart, 243.

Place des Victoires, monument in the, 253.

Plays, books on old, 226.

Pliny on Seclusion, 36.

Poetry, 258.

Poems by Two Brothers, 189. —— on Various Occasions, 189.

Pollard, Mr. A. W.'s Fifteenth-Century Books, 165-166.

Pollio, Asinius, 133.

Pope on Curll, 185. —— quotation from, 68.

Portugal, a convent in, 17.

Prayer Books, works on, 241.

Precentor, the, 33 n.

Prescriptions, some early, 246.

Presses, celebrated, 219.

Prices of Books, 189-192, 227-228. —— —— some early, 179. —— —— on determining, 171-173.

Prices of Books, Wheatley's, 173-174.

Printers' marks, books on, 169-170.

Printers, Mr. McKerrow's Dictionary of, 183.

Prior, his pirated Poems, 9, 10.

Prisons, books on, 225.

Privately-printed Books, 203-204, 259.

Proclamations, 221.

Proctor's Early Printed Books, 165.

Prophecies, a book of, 255.

Provence, a monk of, 37.

Pseudonyms, books on, 168.

Pynson, Richard, 11, 14, 15.

Quaritch's General Catalogue, 162.

Quérard's Supercheries Littéraires, 169.

Quotations, doubtful origin of, 56, 57. —— wrongly assigned, 57 n.

Rabelais, translations of, 76.

Racine and Heliodorus, 86.

Rainman, John, 177.

Ratdolt, Erhart, 176.

Reading, the art of, 59-70, 78, 81-83. —— wide, 79-81.

Rebellion Tracts, 221, 222.

Rebinding, 109-116.

Recommending books, 59.

Regnault, François, 181.

René d'Anjou, 87.

Revolution, the French, 82, 233.

Rigging, an authority upon, 43.

Roguery, books on, 225.

Romances of Chivalry, 86-90, 227, 228.

Romance, the spirit of, 94-95, 102.

Rosicrucians, books on the, 255.

Rouen, an old inn at, 26.

Round Table at Winchester, the, 100, 101.

Rowlands' Tracts, 225.

Roydon Hall, 20.

St. Amand, Gerard de, 52.

St. Augustine on Varro, 154.

St. Bernard on Solitude, 35.

St. Honorat, the monk of, 37.

St. Katherin of Siena, 21.

St. Louis and the Saracens, 90.

St. Margaret's Devotional, 17. —— —— Life, by Pynson, 11.

Sallengre's L'Elogie de l'Ivresse, 186.

Sanchez's Bibliografia Aragonesa, 170.

Saracenic literature, 209.

Savaron, Jean, 248.

Savonarola's Compendium, 255.

Sawyer, Tom, The Adventures of, 66.

Sayle's Books at Cambridge, 165.

Schiller, translations of, 76.

Schoeffer's catalogue, 174.

School Books, Old, 259.

Scipio Africanus, quoted, 38, 57 n.

Scott, Dr. E. J. L., 54 n.

Scott's Last Expedition, 69.

Sea, books on the, 251-252.

Seals, books on, 236.

Seillière, Baron A., the library of, 22 n, 227.

Seymour, Richard, Esq., 187.

Shakespeareana, 218, 219.

Shakespeare's Passionate Pilgrim, 10, 228 n. —— Plays, 14, 17. —— Titus Andronicus, 17.

Sharon Turner on digressions, 52. —— on Romances, 88.

Shelley, quotation from, 38. —— Adonais and Queen Mab, 189, 190. —— Original Poetry, 190.

Shelves, 128-134.

Ships, an authority upon old, 43.

'Shorn lamb' proverb, 56.

Skelton, John, lost books by, 11.

Slater's Early Editions, 191.

Solitude, 35-39.

Sophocles, translations of, 71.

Sotheby on block-books, 166.

South Seas, books on the, 207.

Southcote Manor-house, 244 n.

Spanish folios, 129.

Specialism, the advantages of, 194 seq.

Specialists, subjects of, 202-203.

Speculum, Caxton's, 14.

Speculum Principis, Skelton's, 11.

Spenser, quoted, 31.

Sport, books on, 260. —— definition of, 260 n.

Staël, Madame de, 52.

Staining bookshelves, 131, 132. —— leaves of books, 149.

Stains, removing, 146-149.

'Stationers,' 177.

Sterne, Laurence, 56.

Sweynheim and Pannartz, 179.

Syon College library, 12, 21.

Taylor, Bayard, 75.

Tennyson, A. and C., 189. —— Helen's Tower, 192.

Terence, a Giunta, 3, 4.

Thackeray's Flore et Zephyr, 189. —— King Glumpus, 189.

Theagenes and Chariclea, 85.

Theology, 263.

Thesaurus Cornucopiæ, 171-172.

Thomas Aquinas, 37.

Thomas à Kempis, 217.

Thomason, George, 257.

Thyrsis and Daphne, 13.

Titles, some curious, 256-257.

Titus Andronicus, 17.

Tobacco, books on, 263.

Tombs, the desecration of, 103-105.

Topography, books on, 264.

Tracts, 256.

Trades, books on, 264.

Traveller, the library, 44-48.

Trials, books on, 225.

Triomphe des Neuf Preux, le, 89, 216, 228.

Tristram on a white horse, 88.

Trunk, an old, 18.

Trusler's Honours of the Table, 223.

Turner, Sharon, on Digressions, 52. —— on Romances, 88.

University Don, a widely read, 79-81.

Upton, Nicholas, 5-8.

Urquhart, Sir Thomas, 76.

Varro, St. Augustine on, 154.

Vaughan, Stephen, 15, 16.

Vellum, brown, 138. —— perishable, 138.

Venus and Adonis, 14, 228 n.

'Venus de Milo,' 133 n.

Verard, Antoine, 166, 176.

'Victor and Cazire,' 190.

Vincent's True Relation, 211.

Virgil, translations of, 72.

Voragine, Jacobus de, 217.

Wace, quoted, 93.

Wager, H.M.S., the loss of, 47.

'Wagstaffe, Theophile,' 189.

Walloon printer, a, 243.

Walton's Compleat Angler, 191, 192.

'Wargus,' 105.

Warton, Thomas, 11.

Washing and cleaning, 146-149.

Wechel, Christian, 178-179.

Werewolves, books on, 255.

Westminster Abbey muniments, 54 n.

Wheatley's Prices of Books, 173-174.

Willems, Alphonse, 24, 187.

Willer, George, 177, 178.

William the Conqueror, 201.

Winchester, 95-102. —— ancient customs of, 102. —— Castle hall at, 100, 101.

Witchcraft, books on, 255.

Wolvesey Castle, 101.

Worde, Wynkyn de, 13, 14, 15, 21.

Wordsworth, quoted, 36, 77, 95.

Ximenes, Cardinal, 36, 37.

Yale, the, 250-251.

Zoology, books on, 250.