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The Book-Hunter in London

INDEX.

Reading edition

Addison, Joseph, 39, 108, 265, 267

Advocates, Library of the College of, 116

Ainsworth, W. Harrison, 83, 288, 289

Alchorne, S., 109

Alcuin, 2, 3, 139

Alde, John, 183

Aldersgate Street, 39

Aldine editions, 129-131, 300, 304

Aldus, 129

Alfred, 3

Allen, Thomas, 31

Almon, J., 250

Althorp Library, the, 50, et seq.

America, book trade with, 189

America, tracts on, 90

Amherst of Hackney, Lord, 309

Anacreon, Stephen edition, 129

Anderson, Adam, 219

Anderson, G. B., 94

Anderson, John, 193

Anglesey, Earl of, 27, 101 note

Angling books, Francis's, 93

Anson, Sir W. R., 305

'Anthologia Græca' (1494), 130

'Apologie pour Herodote,' 314

Arch, J. and A., 186

Archaica Club, 79

Archer, Sir Anthony, 16

'Aristophanes' (1498), 129

Aristotle (1495-98), 130

Arthur, Thomas, 230

Arundel, Henry, Earl of, 15, 16, 18

Ascham, Roger, 307

Ascham's 'Toxophilus,' 120

Ashbee, Mr. H. S., 315

Ashburnham, Lord, 126, 285

Ashmole, Elias, 18

Askew, Dr. A., 41

Askew Sale, the, 128, et seq.

Asperne, James, 186

Athelstan, 3

'Atticus,' 46

Auctions, book, 98, et seq., 210

Aulus Gellius, 'Noctes,' 307

Aylesford, Earl of, 89, 117

Bacon, Francis, 19

Bacon, Roger, 6

Bagford, John, 30, 31, 204, 268

Bagster, S., 235

Bain, James, 240

Baker, Mr. E. E., 91

Baker, H., 249

Baker, Samuel, 100 note, 102, 103, 223

Baker, Thomas, 34

'Balbi Catholicon,' the, 127, 300

Baldwin and Cradock, 210

Bale, John, 13

Bale's 'Image of Both Churches,' 196

Balfour, Mr. A. J., 305

Ballads, 74

Ballard, T. and E., 103

Ballards of Little Britain, 173

Banks, Dr., 219

Bannatyne Club, the, 62 note

Baptist Library at Bristol, 138

Barbican, the, 176, 177

Barclay's 'Ship of Fools,' 120, 121

Barnard, Sir John, 238

Barnfield's 'Encomion of Lady Pecunia,' 41

'Baroccio,' 69

Barrett, Thomas, 35

Barton, Bernard, 76, 296

Bassett, Thomas, 219

Batemans of Little Britain, 171

Bates, Dr., 39

Bath, Marquis of, 304, 305

Bathoe, Sam., 103

Bathoe, W., 234

Baudelaire, 'Les Fleurs de Mal,' 314

Bauduyn (Piers), stationer, 10

Baylis, Alderman, 223

Baynes, W., 211

Beauclerk, Topham, 55 and note, 111

Beckett-Denison, C., 117

Becket, Thomas, 176 note, 236

Beckford, Peter, 49, 297, 298

Beckford, William, 48-50, 256

Bede, the Venerable, 3

Bedford, Francis, 87

Bedford, John, Duke of, 9, 17

Bedford Missal, the, 9, 109

Bedford Street, Strand, 241

Beet, Thomas, 251

Bell and Sons, George, 244

Benedict Biscop, 2, 3

Bennett, T., 187

Bentham, W., 61

Bentley, Dr. R., 116, 195, 196

Benzon, Mrs., 270

Berkeley, Earl of, 25

Bernard, Dr. Francis, 34, 132

Bernard, Sir Thomas, 71

Berthelet, Thomas, 261

Bibles and New Testaments, 136-140, 212, 261, 262, 285, 291, 302, 306

'Biblia Pauperum,' 272

Coverdale's (1535), 72, 89, 138, 263, 268, 302

Cranmer's (1540 and 1553), 72, 302

Cromwell's (1539), 302

Douay (1663), 120

Eliot's Indian, 119

Fust and Schœffer (1462), 126, 300

German, 95

Græca Septuaginta, 192 note

Gutenberg (or Mazarin) (1455), 58, 72, 89, 90, 114, 125, 126, 255, 300

Hayes (1674), 21

Matthew's (1537), 72, 302

Tyndale's (1525-1526, 1533), 89, 137, 138

St. Jerome's MS., 140

Bibliomania, the decay of, 69

Bibliomaniac, A, 78

Bibliomaniac, the 'Library' of a, 200

Bibliophile, A, 78

Bibliophobia, 108

Bindley, James, 43, 66, 108, 109

Birrell, Mr. A., 145, 319

Bishopsgate Churchyard, 161

Black-letter books, 136

Black-letter booksellers, the, 236

Black-letter collectors, 'Father' of, 27 note

Black-letter mania, 59

Blackwell's 'Herbal,' 105

Blake, W., 93

Blandford, Marquis of, 61 note, 109, 124

Block book, 89

Bloomfield, R., 154

Boccaccio, the Valdarfer, 52, 61, 93, 123-125

Boccaccio, 'Les Illustres Malheureux,' 50

Bodleian, the, 23, 67

Bodley, Sir T., 22, 283

Boethius, 'Consolation of Philosophy,' 4

Bohn, H. G., 50, 243, 244, 255

Bohn, James, 243

Bohn, J. H., 243, 244

'Boke of St. Albans,' 136, 322

Bolland, Sir W., 61, 69

Bonaparte, Prince L. L., 95, 96, 254

Bonaventure's 'Life of Christ,' 9

Bond Street, 249, et seq.

Book auctions and sales, 98, et seq.

Book-borrowers, 274, et seq.

Book catalogues, some humours of, 293-298

Booker, John, 18

Book-ghouls, 160

Book-hunting, early, 1

Book-marking, Lamb's notion of, 76

Book-pluralists, 46

Books and their prices, 118, et seq.

'Booksellers,' the, a poem, 193

Booksellers' Row. See Holywell Street

Bookstalls and bookstalling, 149-167

Book-thieves, 274, et seq.

Boone, T. and W., 246, 250

Booth, Lionel, 116

Boswell, James, 108, 229

Boucher, Jonathan, 70

Bourne, Zacharius, 100

Bovey, Mrs., 265

Bowles, Rev. J., 220

Bowyer, Jonah, 216

Bowyer, William, 216

Boydell, Alderman, 251

Bozier's Court, 201

Brabourne, Lord, 93, 107

Bradbury and Evans, 116

Brand, Rev. John, 112, 179, 190, 207

Brassey, Mrs., 271

Bremner, David, 241

Bridges, John, 34, 121, 122

Bright, B. H., 108, 143 note, 302

Brindley, J., 249

Bristol, Earl of, 26, 31

British Museum copies of the classics, 128-131, 139, 166

British Museum, 276

Britten, Mr. James, 151

Britton, Thomas, 172, 173

Broadly, John, 109

Brooke, Lord Warwick, 100

Brown, Mr. J., 200

Brown, 'Old,' 157

Bruck, Cudworth, 193

Bruscambille on 'Long Noses,' 152

Bryant, W., 112

Brydges, Sir Egerton, 47, 59

Buccleuch, Duke of, 90, 305

Buchanan, Mr. T. R., 319

Buckley, Samuel, 174

Buckley, W. E., 94

Bull and Auvache, 206

Bumstead, G., 245

Bunyan, John, 183

Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress,' 145, 146, 312, 320, 321

Burbidge, Prebendary E., 18

Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, 141, 142

Burgess, F., 95

Burghley, Lady M., 264

Burghley, Lord, 306

Burlington, Countess of, 265

Burnet, Bishop, 234

Burnet, Rev. Gilbert, 232

Burney, Dr., 238

Burns, R., 281, 304, 308

Burton, Robert, 23

Butcher Row, 223-225

Bute, Marquis of, 305

Butler, Mr. Charles, 310

Butler's 'Hudibras,' 219

Butterworth, Henry, 217 note

Byng, Mr., 144

Byron, Lord, 109, 316

Byron's 'Childe Harold,' 308

Byron's 'English Bards,' 85

Byron's 'Waltz,' 308

Bywater, Mr. Ingram, 310

Cadell, Thomas, 235

Cadell and Davis, 235

Cæsar's (Sir Julius) Travelling Library, 22, 23, 110

Cæsar's 'Commentaries,' 55

Caldecott, Thomas, 68

Camden, W., 21

Campbell, Mr. Dykes, 107

Canonbury Tower, 72 and note, 73

Carbery, Lord, 31

Caroline, Queen, 268

Casaubon, Dr. M., 25

Cashel, Bishop of, 255

Cassell and Co., 116

Castell, Dr., 100

Catalogues. See Book Catalogues

Cater, W., 193

Caviceo, 'Dialogue,' etc., 93

Cawthorn and Hutt, 208

Caxton, W., 12, 30, 60, 61, 72, 109, 111, 132, 135, 190, 247, 248, 262, 268, 300, 306

'Arthur, King,' 133

'Book called Cathon,' 132, 133 (bis)

'Book of Chivalry,' 136

'Book of Good Manners,' 33

'Chastising of God's Children,' 13, 132

'Christine of Pisa,' 89

Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales,' 136

'Chronicles of England,' 90, 132, 133

Cicero ('De Senectute'), 'Of Old Age,' 89, 132, 133, 313

'Dictes and Sayings,' 90, 132

'Doctrinal of Sapience,' 132, 133

'Faits d'Armes et de Chevalerie,' 13

'Game and Playe of Chesse,' 90, 132, 133, 135

'Godfrey of Bulloigne,' 13, 33, 132

'Golden Legend,' 13, 93, 133, 271, 303

Gower's 'Confessio Amantis,' 133

Higden's 'Description of Britayne,' 90

Higden's 'Polychronicon,' 89, 303

'Historyes of Troy,' 132 (bis)

'History of Blanchardyn and Eglantine,' 133

'History of Jason,' 132, 133 (bis)

'Life of St. Katherine,' 220, 221

Lydgate's 'Life of our Lady,' 220

'Lives of the Fathers,' 220

'Mirrour of the World,' 90, 95, 133

'Royal Book, or Book for a King,' 90

Russell's 'Propositio,' 134

'Siege and Conquest of Jerusalem,' 309

'Troylus and Creside,' 133

Virgil's 'Æneid,' 13, 133

Caxton Head Catalogues, 204

Caxton, the highest paid for a, 133

Caxtons, the Althorp, 134

Cecil, Sir Robert, 306

Chadwyck-Healey, Mr. E. H., 320

Chained books at Hereford

Chalmers, George, 69, 70

Champernoun, Mr., 57

Chandler, Dr., 289

Chapman, Henry, 235

Charing Cross, 235-246

Charing Cross Road, 258

Charles I.'s Prayer-Book, 87

Charles II., 21

Charlotte, Queen, as a book-hunter, 215

Charnock, Dr. S., 100

Cheapside, 184, 185

Chetham Library, the, 118

Child, Alderman, 56

Chiswell, R., 33, 100, 213

Chodowiecki, 316

Christ Church (Canterbury), Books at, 7, 9

Christ's Hospital, Newgate Street, 8

Christie, James, 100 note, 103, 117, 291

Christie, Manson and Woods, 117

Christie, Mr. R. C., 297, 303

'Chronicon Nurembergense,' 303

Churchill, A. and J., 210

Cicero, 306. See also Caxton

Cicero, 'Ad Atticum,' 307

Circulating Library, the first, 234

Clare Hall, Cambridge, 260

Clare Market, 232

Clarendon, Earl of, 117

Clarke, W., 135, 251

Classics, their market value, 127-131

Claude's 'Liber Veritatis,' 305

Clavell, Robert, 214

Clement's Inn Passage, 225, 226

Clovio, Giulio, 57

Cochrane, J. G., 113, 221

Cock, auctioneer, 103

Cockaine, Sir Aston, 36

Coke, Sir Edward, 25

Colebrook Row, Islington, 76, 77

Coleridge, S. T., 76-78, 289, 320

Collier's 'Ecclesiastical Library,' 16

Collier, John Payne, 74-76, 230

Collins, Mr. Victor, 95, 96

Collins, W., 185

Columbus letter, the, 94

Comerford, James, 86

Compton, 113

Conant, N., 221

Conway, Lord, 24

Conyers, George, 216

Cooke, R. F., 94

Cook, Sir Robert, 25

Cooper, Mr. A. E., 258

Cooper, William, 99, 100

Copinger, Dr., 97

Corfield, Dr. W. H., 320

Corney, Bolton, 71

Cornhill, 184-186

Cosens, F. W., 93

Cosin, Dr., 24, 26

Cotton, Charles, 36

Cotton, Sir Robert, 21, 22, 283

Courtney, Mr. Leonard, 319

Cowper, W., 215

Coxhead, J., 196

Cracherode, C. M., 64-66, 238

Craig, J. T. Gibson, 88, 89

Cranmer, Archbishop, 16, 18

Crawford, Earl of, 88, 89, 126, 306

Crawford, W. H., 93

Crockford's, 226

Crofts, Rev. Thos., 111

Croker, Thomas C., 81, 82

Crossley, James, 287

Crowinshield, Edward, 115

Crowley, Robert, 191

Crozier, of the Little Turnstile, 202, 203

Cruden, Alexander, 185

Cruikshankiana, 90

Cunning bookseller, the, 250

Curll, Edmund, 219

Currer, Miss R., 268-270

Dalrymple, Alex., 56

Dampier, Dean, 238, 306

Daniell, Mr. E., 107

Daniel, G., 72-74, 141-143, 143 note

Daniel's, 'Delia,' 87

Dante, the Landino edition, 93

Darton and Hodge, 116

Darton, W., 196-198

Davies, Tom, 237

Davis, Arthur, 28

Davis, Charles, 187, 197

Davis, Lockyer, 199, 236

Davis, W., 199

Day and Son, 116

Day's circulating library, 208

Debrett, J., 250

De Bury, Richard, 7

Dee, Dr., 18

Defoe, Daniel, 156

Delafaye, Charles, 219

Denbigh, Lord, 31

Denham, Henry, 210

Denis, John, 181

Dent, J., 61, 62, 68, 69

Derby, Lord, 31

Dering, Sir Edward, 115

Derwentwater, Earl of, 292

Devonshire, Dukes of, 61 note, 124, 133, 141, 142, 173, 305, 306

Dibdin, T. F., 57, 61, 63, 64, 109

Dickens, Charles, 83, 86

Digby, Sir Kenelm, 26, 31, 100, 120

Dilke, C. W., 64, 202, 203

Dilly, C. and E., 183, 184

Dimsdale sale, the, 108

Diodorus Siculus (1539), 130

D'Israeli, Isaac, 71

Dobell, Mr. B., 107, 258

Dobson, Mr. Austin, 45

Dodsley, James, 251

Dodsley, R., 251

Dolben, Sir John E., 56

Dolet, Etienne, 304

Dorset, Earl of, 170

Douce, Francis, 67

Drake, Sir Francis, 19

Dramatic library of F. Burgess, 95

Dramatic library of F. Marshall, 93

Drama, works on the, 68, 291, 306

Drayton, M., 84, 158

Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare, 91

Drummond of Hawthornden, 311

Drummond, Miss, 271

Drummond's 'Forth Fasting,' 86

Drury, H. J. T., 70

Dryden, John, 35

Duck Lane, 175, 176

Duck, Stephen, 219

Duerdin, J., 115

Duke Street, Little Britain, 175, 176

Dulwich College Library, 204

Dunmore, John, 213

Dunton, John, 100-102

Dutens, Rev. L., 117

Dyce, Alexander, 47, 83-85, 289

Dyson, H., 35

Eadburga, Abbess, 260

East End, book-hunting in, 155, et seq.

Editiones Principes, 128-131

Edmonds, Sir Clement, 211

Edward I., 3

Edward IV., 10, 33

Edward VI., 13

Edwards, E., 7, 31

Edwards, James, 117, 249

Egbert, 2

Egerton, T. and J., 113, 236

'Eikon Basilike,' 101 note

Elcho, the Dowager Lady, 270

Eliot's Indian Bible, 119

Elizabethan literature, 301

Elizabeth de Burgh, 260

Elizabeth (Princess), of Hesse-Homburg, 270

Elizabeth, Queen, 17, 18, 260, 262-264

Ellis, Mr. F. S., 35, 245, 246, 286, 300, 301

Ellis, Mr. G. I., 107, 246

Elmsley, Peter, 238, 240

Elton, Mr. C. I., 310

Elyot's 'Castell of Helth,' 166

Erasmus' 'Enchiridion Militis Christiani,' 119

Eshton Hall Library, the, 268-270

Essex, Earl of, 264

Eton College Library, 17

Euripides (1503), 129

Evans, R. H., 109, 110

Evans, Sir John, 305

Evans, Thomas, 110, 216

Evelyn, John, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 37, 212

Evelyn, Sir, 250

Exeter 'Change, 105, 154, 155

Extra-illustrating, 165

Fabyan's 'Chronicle,' 120

Fagel Collection, 111

Fairfax, Bryan, 56

Farmer, Dr. R., 41, 112

Farnese, Cardinal, 57

Farringdon Road, 158, 159

Fathers, the, 120

Faulder, R., 250

Felton, John, 23, 24

Fenestella, 'De Magistratibus,' 263

Fielding, Henry, 44, 45, 94, 108, 196

'Finds,' some book, 149, 150, 229, 230

Finsbury Square, 178, 179-183

Fire, the great, 212, 213

Flatman's 'Poems,' 85

Fleet Street, 216-223

Fleetwood, Bishop, 17

Fletcher, J. and F., 114

Flexney, W., 194

Folkes, Martin, 108

Fonthill, 49

Foote, Samuel, 163

Ford, K. J., 183

Forster, John, 83-85, 202, 203

'Fortsas Catalogue,' the, 315

Foss, Henry, 239

Foster, Birket, Mr., 94

Fountaine Collection, the, 261

Fox's 'Reign of James II.,' 86

Fox, William, 193

Francis, Francis, 93

Franklin, B., 175, 250

Freebairn's sale, 38, 240

Freeling, Francis, 61

Freeling, Henry, 61

French Revolution, 58, 67

Fresnile, John, 8

Froissart's 'Chronicles,' 314

'Fructus Temporum,' 300

Fuller's 'Church History,' 14

Fuller's 'David's Hainous Sinne,' 151

Funnibus, L., 147

Gainsborough, Earl of, 117

Gaisford, Mr. Thomas, 93, 306

Galwey, Mr. J., 234

Gambetta, Leon, 311

Gardner, H. L., 236

Garnett, Dr. R., 166

Garrick, D., 85

Garth, Samuel, 176

Gataker, Dr. Thos., 100

Genlis, Madame de, 286

Gennadius, M. J., 320-322

George and Sons, E., 187-189

George III., 53, 54, 130, 135, 141

Gibbon, E., 44, 240

Gibbs, Mr. H. H., 301, 302

Gifford, Dr., 139, 140

Gilbert and Field, 186, 187

Gilbert, S. and T., 187

Gilliflower, M., 248

Gladding, R., 187, 188

Gladstone, W. E., 86, 95, 254, 314, 315

Glashier, George, 202

Glasse's 'Art of Cookery,' 150

Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of, 9, 10

Goldsmid, Sir Julian, 320

Goldsmith, Oliver, 44

Goldsmith's 'The Haunch of Venison,' 308

Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village,' 308

Goldsmith's 'Traveller,' 308

Goldsmith's 'Vicar of Wakefield,' 94, 146

Gomme, Mr. G. L., 151

Goodhugh, W., 206

Gordon, Sir Robert, 113

Gosford, Earl of, 114

Gosset, Dr. Isaac, 70

Gough, R., 67, 103

Gower, Lord, 61, 62

Grafton, Duke of, 109

Grafton, R., 74

Grangerizing, 165, 316

Gravelot's print of Westminster Hall, 247, 248

Gray, Mr. H., 114

Gray's Inn Gate and Road, 191, 192, 273

Gray's MSS., 81, 146, 308

Gray, T., 84, 85, 319

Green, Mr. J. Arnold, 272

Greenhill, Rev. W., 100

Grenville, Thos., 69, 75, 238

Greville, C. F., 117

Griffith, W., 216

Griffiths, Ralph, 210

Grolier, 65, 309

Grose, Francis, 238

Grub Street Journal, 241 note

Gryphius, S., 304

Guilford, Earl of, 109

Guilford, Francis, Baron, 31

Gulston, Joseph, 113

Guy de Beauchamp, 6

Guy, Thomas, 184

Gwillim's 'Display of Heraldry,' 156

Gyles, Fletcher, 123

Hailstone, Edward, 93

Halifax, Lord, 31

Hall, Virtue, and Co., 116

Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O., 71, 74, 90-92

Hamilton, Dukes of, 48, 50

Hamilton, Sir W., 117

Hammers, auctioneers, 100 and note

Hannay's 'Nightingale,' 70

Hanrott, 71

Harcourt, Lady F. V., 270

Harding and Lepard, 183

Harding's 'Chronicle,' 121

Hardouyn, G., 17

Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor, 89

Hardy, Sir William, 88

Harleian Library, The, 192

Harley, Earl of Oxford, 31, 34, 38

Hartley, L. L., 87, 114

Harvey, Gabriel, 19

Harvey, Mr. F., 165

Harwood, Dr., 128-131

Hatchards, 252-254

Hawkins, Rev. W. B. L., 117

Hawkins, Sir John, 193, 238

Hawtrey, Dr., 71

Hayes, John, 193, 199

Hayes, Samuel, 199

Hazlewood, Joseph, 61, 63, 64

Hazlitt MSS., The, 94

Hazlitt, William, 77

Hearle of Holywell Street, 228

Hearne, Thomas, 27 note, 34, 35, 122, 283

Heath, Benjamin, 122, 123

Heathcote, Robert, 68

Heber, Richard, 45-48, 61, 62, 108, 110, 268

Heber, Thomas C., 61

Heliconia Club, 79

Henderson, the actor, 291

Henry, Prince, 20, 21

Henry IV., 9

Henry V., 9, 260

Henry VI., 9, 10

Henry VII., 12, 13

Henry VIII., 13, 17, 261, 309

Herbert, Isaac, 199

Heriot, George, 264

Herodotus (1502), 129

Heydinger, C., 236

Hibbert-Wade, Dr., 289

Highest price paid for a book, 126

Hill, Mr. H. R., 231

Hill, Thomas, 78-80, 110

Hindley, Mr. C., 107, 231

Hoare, Richard, 28

Hodge, Mr. E. Grose, 105, 107

Hodgson and Co., 116, 146, 162-164

Hogarth, W., 234

Holborn, 191-208

Holford, Captain, 146, 320

Holgate, W., 71

Holinshed's 'Chronicle,' 33

Holland's 'Heröologia,' 118

Holland House Library, 322

Holland, Lord, 86, 322

Hollingbury Copse, 91

Holywell Street, 153, 154, 215, 227-231

Homer, the editio princeps (1488), 119, 128

Homer, 120, 311

Homer, the Foulis edition, 129

Hone, W., 216

Hood, Tom, 184

Hookham, T., 250

Hopetoun, Earl of, 126

Hopetoun House Library, 90

Horace, editio princeps, 130

Horæ, 261

Horne's 'Orion,' 229

Horsfield, R., 214, 215

Hotten, J. C., 115

Houghton, Earl of, 309

Hume, David, 44, 230

Hunter, Mr., 130

Hunt, Leigh, 149

Hutchinson, Joshua H., 94

Huth, Mr. A. H., 301

Huth, H., 254, 300, 301

Hutt, Charles, 225

Hutt, Mr. F. H., 225

Hutton, George, 204

'Imitatio Christi,' the, 96, 97, 302

Ina, King of the West Saxons, 3

Inglis, C. B., 108

Irving (Washington), 'Abbotsford,' 308

Islington, cattle market at, 164

Isocrates (1493), 129

Isted, G., 61

Jackson, Mr. B. Daydon, 297

Jackson, 17

Jackson, Andrew, 232

Jacobean literature, 301

James, Haughton, 68

James I., 20

James II., 20

Jameson, Mrs., 271

Janin, Jules, 286

Jarvis (J. W.) and Son, 194, 245

Jeffrey, Edward, 113

Jerrold, Douglas, 71

Jersey, Earl of, 56, 133

Johnson, Dr., 23, 44, 117, 237

Johnson and Osborne, 192 and note

Johnson, Joseph, 214, 215

John of Boston, 8, 9

Johnston, William, 215, 216

Jolley, Thomas, 143 note

Jones and Co., 180

Jones, Owen, 116

Jones, Richard, 191

Jonson, Ben, 19, 84

Juvenal and Persius (1469), 131

Keats, John, 94, 179, 319

Kempis, Thomas à, 96, 97

Kettlewell, Robert, 199

Kidner, Thomas, 100

King, John, 178

King, Thomas, 111-113, 178

King and Lochée, 56, 112

King of Mansfield Street, 239

Kirton, Joshua, 212

Knaptons, the, 214

Knight, Charles, 116

Knight, J. P., 117

Knight, Mr. Joseph, 313, 314

Knock-outs, 121, 164, 290-292

Lackington, George, 182, 183

Lackington, James, 179-183, 245

Lactantius, 'Opera,' 307

'Ladies' Library,' the, 265-267

Lakelands Library, 93

Lamb, Charles, 76-78, 176, 177, 207, 288-290, 296

Lamb's 'Beauty and the Beast,' 150

Lambeth Library, 5, 6

Landor, Walter Savage, 317

Lang, Mr. Andrew, 310

Lang, R., 61

Langford, auctioneer, 103, 111, 139

Lansdowne, Marquis of, 58, 108, 111

Lant, R., 210

Larking, John W., 94

Larrons, 'L'Histoire des,' 282

Laud, Archbishop, 23

Lauderdale, Duke of, 27, 28, 289

Law books, printers of, 217

Lawler, Mr. John, 99, 100, 102, 119, 258

Lawrence, E. H., 94

Lazarus, Mrs., 231

Leacroft, S., 236

Le Gallienne, Mr. R., 318

'Legenda Aurea' (1503), 291

Leigh, George, 103, 104

Leighton, Mr., 107

Leland, John, 15

Lemoine, Henry, 161

'Leontes,' 66

Lepruik, Robert, 313

Lever, Charles, 83

Lewis, L. A., 223

Libraries and book-thieves, 284, 285

Library, the Sunderland, 36-38

Libri Collection, the, 114, 263, 285

Lilly, John, 18

Lilly, Joseph, 74, 244, 245, 301

Lintot, B., 219

Lisburne, Lord, 129

Little Britain, 33, 99, 167-175

Littleton's 'Tenures,' 217

Liverpool, Earl of, 117

Livy, the Sweynheim and Pannartz, 69

Localities, some book-hunting, 166

Locke, John, 85, 320

Locker-Lampson, F., 107, 311-313

Lodge's 'Rosalynd,' 86

London House, Aldersgate Street, 39

Longman and Co., 80, 210

Longueville, Lord, 31

Lovelace's 'Lucasta,' 145

Lowndes, W., 235

Lowndes's 'Bibliographer's Manual,' 244

Low, Sampson, and Co., 116, 208

Loyalty, the 'repository' of, 250

Ludgate Hill, 215

Lumley, Lord, 16, 21

Luttrell, N., 22

Lydgate's 'Bochas,' 232

Lydgate's 'Hystory, Sege, and Destruccion of Troye,' 9

Lysons, D. and S., 110

Lytton, Lord, 150

Macaulay, Lord, 71, 149, 202, 228, 229

Mackenzie, J. Mansfield, 90

Mackinlay, I., 241

Macpherson, F., 195

Macready, W., 117

Maddison, John, 112

Magdalen College, 29, 30

Maitland, Lord, 27

Malone, E., 41, 43, 67, 108, 238

Manley, Richard, 215

Mann, John, 122

Mansion House, the old, 185, 186

Manson, J. P., 207

Manton, Dr. Thomas, 100

Manuscript, the textual value of a, 128

Markland, J. H., 61

Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus,' 202 note

Marlowe's 'Tragedie of Richard, Duke of York,' 70

Marriot, Richard, 218

Marsh, Charles, 232

Marshall, Frank, 93

Martial's 'Epigrammata,' 132

Martyr (Peter), 'De Sacramento Eucharistiæ,' 307

Mary of Este, 17

Mary, Queen, 261

Mason, George, 53

Mather, Increase, 151

Mathews, J., 234

Mathias, 'Pursuits of Literature,' 238

Matthew of Westminster, 'Flores,' 17

Matthews, Charles, 74

Maty, Dr. M., 220

Mawman, Joseph, 184

Maximilian, Emperor, 115

Mayhew, Henry, 161

Mazarin Bible. See Bible

Mazzoni, G., 201

McCarthy, Count, 108

Mead, Dr. R., 40, 105, 127, 292

Menken, Mr. E., 205, 206, 282, 315

Mews Gate, the, 238-240

Middle Row, Holborn, 194-196

Middleton, Conyers, 223

Millan, J., 235

Millar, Andrew, 235

Millington, E., 100 note, 101 and note, 170

Milton, J., 81, 95

Milton's 'Comus,' 303

Milton's 'Eikonoklastes,' 303

Milton's 'Lycidas,' 303

Milton's 'Paradise Lost,' 41, 120, 145, 170, 232, 286, 287, 303

Milton's 'Paradise Regained,' 303

Mitre Tavern, the, 116, 222

Modern Collectors (Some), 299-322

Molini, Mr., 107, 245

Molini, Peter, 249

Monasteries, the dissolution of, 13, et seq.

Moore, Dr. John, 27 and note, 30, 283

Moore, Tom, 81

Moorfields, 168, 177-179

More, Sir Thos., 15, 96, 97

Morgan, Lady, 270

Morpeth, Lord, 61

Moxon and Co., 116

MSS., the Hamilton, 50

Muggletonian tracts, 228

Murray, J., ambassador, 250

Murray, John of Sacomb, 138, 139

Murray, Mr. C. F., 320

Murray, Mr. John, 307, 308

Musgrave, Dr. S., 250

Musæus (1494), 130

'My Novel,' extract from, 201

Napoleon I., 108

Napoleon of booksellers, the, 256

Nash, Tom, 19, 20

Neligan, Dr., 107

Nelson, Viscount, 117

Newbery, John, 213

New Cut, the, 157

Newton, Isaac, 85

Newton, W., 174

Nicholas de Lira, 8

Nicol, George, 59, 110, 124, 126, 251, 252

Noble, Francis, 194

Noble, Theophilus, 225, 226

Norgate, Mr. F., 110

Norman, Mr. Hy., 318

Nornaville and Fell, 250

North, Francis, 170

North, Dr. John, 31, 32

North, Roger, 32, 170

Notary, Julian, 211, 291

Notes and Queries, 88

Nourse, John, 236

Novimagus, Society of, 83

Ogilby, David, 196

Oldys, W., 192, 237

Orange Street, Red Lion Square, 202

'Orlando,' 57

Osborne, Tom, 34, 55, 191-193, 241 note

Ossian's 'Poems,' 229, 230

Osterley Park Library, 56

Otridge, W., 236

Ottley, W. Y., 71

Ouvry, Frederick, 86, 87

Ovid (1471), 131

Oxford, Anne Cecil, Countess of, 265

Oxford, Books at, 7, 9

Oxford, Edward, Earl of, 52, 122, 124, 139, 173, 192, 193

Oxford Street, 199-202

Pall Mall, 113, 249, 251

Pamphlets, Dr. Johnson on, 23

Pamphlet shops, 155

Papillon, David, 55, 56

Parker, Archbishop, 'De Antiquitate,' 264

Parker, Archbishop, 17, 19

Parker, Mr. R. J., 205

Parker, John, 249

Parker, Samuel, 251

Parr, Catherine, 261

Parr, Dr., 244

Parsons the Jesuit, 119

Passavant, Speyr, 140

'Pastissier François,' Le, 229

Paternoster Row, 209, et seq.

Paterson, S., 23, 55 note, 103, 110, 111

Patmore, Thomas, 16

'Paul Pry,' 78

Payne, James, 241

Payne, John, and Foss, 239

Payne, Thomas, 110, 237-240, 252, 306

Peacham's 'Compleat Gentleman,' 24

Peacham's 'Valley of Varietie,' 46

Pellet, Thomas, 105, 155

Pembroke, Lord, 31, 173

Penn, W., 115

Pepys, Samuel, 25, 29, 120, 212, 248

Perkins, Frederick, 92

Perkins, Henry, 71, 126, 256

Perry, James, 66, 74, 80, 126, 133

Petheram, John, 194

Phelps, J. D., 61

Phillipps, Sir Thomas, 87, 242

Piccadilly, 249, et seq.

Pickering, Basil M., 255

Pickering, W., 253

Pickering and Chatto, 194, 255

'Piers Plowman's Vision,' 120, 191

Piggott, J. H. Smyth, 71

'Pilgrim's Progress.' See Bunyan

Pindar, Elizabeth, 267, 268

Pinelli, M., 111, 249

Pitt, Moses, 100

Plato, 130

Pliny, 'Historia Naturalis,' 131

Poetry, old English, 145

Poet's Gallery, the, 116, 222

Ponder, Nathaniel, 183

'Pontevallo,' 69

Ponton, T., 61

Pope, Alexander, 44, 151, 230, 308, 311

Porson, 238

Pote, J., 236

Poultry, the, 183

Powell, W., 217

Praed, W. M., 250

Prayer Books, 87, 302

Price, the highest paid for a book, 126

Price's 'Historiæ Britannicæ,' 120, 121

Pridden, John, 215

Prince, J. H., 194

'Prospero,' 67

Psalmorum Codex, 126, 127

Pulteney, Sir James, 117

Purcell, of Red Lion Passage, 165

Purcell's 'Orpheus Britannicus,' 35

Purchas, 'His Pilgrims,' 118, 120, 234

Puritan divines, books of, 119

Puttenham's 'Art of English Poesie,' 145

Puttick and Simpson, 112, 113-115

Pye, John, stationer, 10

Pynson, R., 217, 218, 301

Quakers, the bibliographer of, 189

Quaritch, Mr. B., 107, 253, 255-258, 261, 280

Queensberry, Duke of, 108

Rabelais, François, 314

Railton, Mr., 107

Raleigh's 'Prerogative of Parliaments,' 119

Ramirez, Jose F., 115

Rastell's 'Pastyme of the People,' 207

Ratcliffe, John, 132

Rawlinson, T. and R., 39, 40, 122, 136, 213, 283

Reade, Charles, 282

Reader, Mr. A., 202

Redman, R., 217, 218

Reed, Isaac, 42, 112, 145

Reeves and Turner, 226

Reeves, Mr. W., 107, 227

Rewiczki, Count, 51

Reynolds, Sir J., 113

Richard of Peterborough, 4

Richard III., 10

Richardson's 'Remarks on Paradise Lost,' 170

Richmond, Margaret, Countess of, 261

Ridgway, James, 250

Ridler, W., 230

'Rig,' a bookseller's, 101

Rikke, R., 208

Rimbault, E. F., 194

Rimell, Mr. J., 107, 206

Ritson, Joseph, 108

Rivington and Cochrane, 241

Rivington, F. C., 213

Robins, 113

'Robinson Crusoe,' 89

Robinson, George, 216

Robinson's 'Handefull of Pleasant Delites,' 145

Robson, James, 249, 250

Robson, Mr., 107

Roche, Mr. J., 107, 206

Rodd, Thomas, 74, 75, 242

Rogers, Samuel, 80-82, 87

Roper, Abel, 219

Rosebery, Earl of, 304

Rossetti, D. G., 317

Rowfant Library, the, 311

Rowlandson, Thomas, 108

Rowsell, Joel, 245

Roxburghe Club, the, 61-64, 299, et seq.

Roxburghe, John, Duke of, 52, 53, 124, 141

Rubric posts, 176 and note, 237

Ruskin, Mr. John, 279

Rylands, Mrs., 50, 146, 270, 271, 272

Rymer's 'Fœdera,' 8

Sacheverell, Dr. Henry, 251

Sala, Mr. G. A., 150, 157

Sainte-Beuve's 'Livre d'Amour,' 315

Salisbury, Mr. J., 211

Salisbury, Marquis of, 264, 306

Salkeld, Mr. John, 202, 203

Salmon, Dr., 31

Salting, Mr. G., 320

Sancho, W., 240

Sandars, Mr. S., 320

Sandell and Smith, 187

Sanderson, Bishop, 171

Saunders, Robert, 116

Savage, 'Author to Let,' 239

Saville, Sir Henry, 25, 283

Scarborough, Sir Charles, 37

Scotland Yard, 113

Scott, Dr. John, 194

Scott, R., 120, 173

Scott's, Sir Walter, MSS., 87, 89, 290, 308

Scott's 'Vision of Don Roderick,' 150

Scotus Erigena, 3

Scriptorium, 2

Seile, Henry, 24

Selden, John, 23, 30

Selsey, Lord, 133

Seneca, 'Tragœdiæ' (1475), 131

Severne, F. E., 57

Sewell, John, 176 note, 186

Shakespeare, W., 19, 70, 72, 74, 75, 91, 92, 93, 141-143

First Folio (1623), 42, 72, 87, 92, 95, 114, 141, 222, 291, 303, 311, 322

Second Folio (1632), 42, 75, 87, 95, 120, 141-143, 221, 303

Third Folio (1664), 42, 87, 95, 141-143, 303

Fourth Folio (1685), 42, 87, 95, 141-143, 221, 303

Quarto editions, 72, 90, 92, 93, 311

'Hamlet,' 143

'2 Henry IV.,' 92, 143

'Henry V.,' 92, 143, 301

'Henry VI.,' 143

'Lear,' 95, 143, 211

'Love's Labour Lost,' 93, 143

'Merchant of Venice,' 92, 93 (bis), 95, 143, 211, 301

'Merry Wives of Windsor,' 93, 143, 211, 301

'Midsummer Night's Dream,' 70, 95, 143, 308

'Much Ado About Nothing,' 93, 143

'Othello,' 143, 301

'Pericles,' 143, 301

'Poems,' 93, 143

'Rape of Lucrece,' 69, 93, 143, 211

'Richard II.,' 143, 211, 301

'Richard III.,' 143, 211, 301

'Romeo and Juliet,' 92, 143, 217 note, 301

'Sonnets,' 70, 143 and note

'Titus Andronicus,' 301

'Troilus and Cressida,' 143, 211

'Venus and Adonis,' 143 and note, 211

Shandy, Mr., 152

Shattock, Mr. T. F., 320

Shelburne, Earl of, 111

Sheldon, Ralph, 291

Shelley, P. B., 316

Shelley's copy of Ossian's Poems, 229

Shenstone, W., 237

Sheridan, R. B., 85

Sherley's 'Wits New Dyall,' 167

Shoreditch, 155

Shorter, Mr. C. K., 317, 318

Shropshire, Walter, 251

Sidney's 'Arcadia,' 89

Silius Italicus, 131

Simpson, Mr. W., 114

Singer, S. W., 71

Skeat, of King William Street, 287

Slater, Mr. J. H., 150

Slater, Mr. Walter, 316, 317

Sloane, Sir Hans, 30, 31, 172

Smith, Horace, 78, 80

Smith's, Captain John, 'History of Virginia,' 20

Smith, Joseph, English Consul, 41, 250

Smith, Joseph, bookseller, 187

Smith, or Smyth, Richard, 32, 33

Smollett, Tobias, 44

Smyth, Sir Thomas, 119

Snowden, Mr. G. S., 107

'Snuffy Davy,' 135

Soho, 207

Solly, Edward, 46, 88, 202

Somers, Lord, 31, 172

Somerset, Duke of, 284

Sophocles (1502), 129

Sotheby, John, 103, 104

Sotheby, Samuel, 103, 104

Sotheby, S. Leigh, 104, 105

Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, 103-108, and passim

Sotheran and Co., Messrs., 97, 233, 246, 272, 281

Sotheran, Mr. H., 107

Southampton Row, 314

Southey, Robert, 76, 308

Spectator, the, 175, 265

Spelman, Edward, 250

Spelman, Sir Henry, 21

Spence, Joseph, 220

Spencer, Earl, 50-52, 53, 61, 109, 124, 238, 272

Spencer, W. T., 205

Spenser's 'Faërie Queene,' 87, 145

Spenser, E., 35

Spon, of Cheapside, 184

St. Albans, Abbot of, 7

St. Albans, books printed at, 136, 137, 268, 301

St. Alban's Tavern, 61

St. Augustine, 'De Arte Predicandi,' 302

St. Augustine, 'De Civitate Dei,' 307, 308

St. Bernard's Seal, 43

St. Dunstan, 3

St. Francis, 6

St. Paul's Cathedral, 4

St. Paul's Churchyard, 153, 168, 208-216

Stanley, Colonel, 110, 239

Staple Inn, 42

Stapleton, A. G., 252

Stark, J. M., 245

Steele, Richard, 84, 265

Steevens, George, 42, 112, 220, 238

Stephens, J., 224

Sterne, L., 236

Stevens, Henry, 107, 115

Stewart, Charles J., 245, 268

Stewart, founder of Puttick's, 112, 114

Stibbs, E. W., 107, 200

Stock, Mr. Elliot, 96, 187

Stormont, Lord, 238

Stow's 'Survey,' 8

Strand, the, 153, 223-235

Strange, John, 111

Strickland, Agnes, 270

Suckling and Galloway, 234

Sullivan, Sir E., 92, 93

Sunderland Library sale, 114, 256

Sunderland, Earl of, 31, 36, 52, 124, 173

Sunderlin, Lord, 68

Sussex, Duke of, 109, 126, 264

Sutton, Henry, 210

Swift, Jonathan, 85, 172, 176

Swift, MS. of Scott's 'Life' of, 87

Sydenham Tusculum, Hill's, 79

Sydney, Sir Robert, 142

Sykes, Lady Mark, 270

Sykes, Sir M. M., 58, 61 note, 110, 310

Syston Park Library, 126

Talleyrand, Prince, 108

Taylor, Watson, 133

Taylor, William, 210

Tebbs, Mr. H. V., 320

Tegg, Thomas, 186

Temple Bar, 223

'Temple of the Muses,' the, 182

Tenison, Archbishop, 39

Testament. See Bible

Thackeray, W. M., 83

Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, 3

Theocritus (1495), 130

Thompson, Mr. H. Yates, 320

Thoms, W. J., 88, 156, 202, 228

Thoresby, Ralph, 178, 238

Thorpe, Thomas, 64 and note, 241, 242, 250

Thorold, Sir John, 126

Thurlow, Lord, 112

Tilt, Charles, 221, 253

Tisdale, John, 191

Tite, Sir William, 74, 256

Tobin, Sir J., 109

Tomes, H., 191

'Tom Folio,' 39

Tom's Coffee-house, 102

Tonson, Jacob, 35, 192, 219, 234

Tooke, Benjamin, 219

Tooke, John Horne, 54, 112

Toovey, B., 249

Toovey, J., 107, 142, 253-255, 322

Tottell, R., 217 and note

Towneley, J., 57, 61, 110, 239

Townsend, Marquis of, 108

Tradescant, Mrs., 18

Tregaskis, Mr. and Mrs., 204, 205

Triphook, R., 183, 268

Truelove, E., 200

Turberville's 'Epitaphs,' 210

Turnbull, Mr. E., 201, 202

Turner, Dawson, 114

Turner, R. S., 89

Turnstiles, Holborn, 202-204

Tunstall, James, 219

Tusser's 'Good Husbandry,' 232

Tyndale, John, 16

Tyndale's 'Practyse of Prelates,' 119

Tyrill, Sir T., 26

Tyson, Dr. E., 176

Tyssen, Samuel, 108, 111

Udal, Nicholas, 74

Upcott, W., 27, 70

Usher, Archbishop, 26

Usher, Bishop, 212

Utterson, E. V., 61

Uvedale, Robert, 236

Vaillant, Paul, 240

Valdarfer Boccaccio, the, 52, 61, 93, 123-125

Valerius Maximus (1471), 131

Valesius, 25

Van de Weyer, Col. V. W. Bates, 309

Vérard, Antoine, 13

Vernor and Hood, 184

Vespucci, 'Mundus Novus,' 94

Vossius, Isaac 25

Wakefield, 238

Walford, Cornelius, 88, 151, 152

Walford, Mr. E., 107

Walker, John, 112, 113

Wallden, a Carmelite Friar, 8

Waller, Mr. John, 281

Walpole, Horace, 284, 292

Walter, John, of the Times, 235

Walton Hall library, 93

Walton, Izaak, 35, 36, 85, 171

Walton's 'Compleat Angler,' 144, 145, 218, 234, 322

Wanley, Humfrey, 34, 38, 122

Ward, Mr. W., 107

Warde, Roger, 191

Wardour Street, 206

Ware, Richard, 215

Warner's 'Syrinx' (1597), 288

Warwick, Earl of, 107

Waterton, E., 96, 97

Watson, Dr. T., 100

Weskett, 'On Insurances,' 152

Wesley, Charles, 35

Wesley and Sons, 234

West, James, 59, 60, 111, 179

Westell, Mr. J., 107, 200, 201

Westminster Hall, 247-249

Westmoreland, Countess of, 9, 260

Wheare's 'Method and Order of Reading Histories,' 85

Wheatley, Benjamin, 69, 114

Wheatley, Mr. H. B., 100 note, 293

Wheldon, John, 211

Whethamstede, 10

Whiston, John, 103, 219

Whitechapel, 155, 187, 188

White, Benjamin (Sr. and Jr.), 219-221

White, Gilbert, 221

White, John, 221

White, Joseph, 194

White Knights Library, 109

Whittington, Sir Richard, 8

Whytforde's 'Lyfe of Perfection,' 309

Wilbraham, R., 61

Wilcox, Thomas, 103

Wilkes, John, 54, 55, 108, 183, 311

Wilkinson, John, 105

Williams, Dr. David, 39

Willis, G., 246

Willoughby, Lord, 31, 193

Willoughby, Sir H., 84

Wills, John, 219

Wilson's 'Art of Logic,' 74

Wimpole Library, the, 89, 90

Winchelsea, Earl of, 173

Wingrave, F., 236

Winstanley's 'Views of Audley End,' 292

Wise, Mr. T. J., 316, 317

Wodhull, Michael, 57, 58, 128

Women as book-collectors, 259-273

Women as book-thieves, 279-280, 285

Wood, Anthony à, 8, 21, 32

Wordsworth, W., 76, 78

Worsley, Dr. B., 100, 213

Wulfseg, Bishop of London, 3

Wyndham, 238

Wynkyn de Worde, 54, 111, 119, 216, 301, 306

Yates's 'Castell of Courtesie,' 222

York, Duke of, 108

Zouche, Lord, 304

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Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · In Hearne's 'Diary,' published by the Oxford Historical Society, there is a very quaint note about the Duke of Lauderdale, who is described Note 2 · At the Cambridge University Library there are some very interesting diaries of this famous book-lover, styled 'Father of Black Letter CollecNote 2 · The library of Beauclerk (who is better remembered as an intimate friend of Dr. Johnson than as a book-collector) comprised 30,000 volumes, Note 3 · Among the absentees were his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, who was prevented attending the anniversary by indisposition, the Marquis of BlanNote 4 · The name really employed was Bannatyne.Note 5 · Thorpe suspected this, and secured the volume, thinking to do his friends of the Roxburghe Club a good turn. Writing to Dibdin, Thorpe said:Note 7 · This famous old place possesses a literary history which would fill a fairly long chapter. Among those who have lived here we may mention EpNote 1 · Cooper's hammer was of boxwood. Millington applies to his own the Homeric line, δεινὴ δὲκλαγγὴ γενετ' ἀργνρέοιο βιοῖο, which anyone is quiteNote 2 · In 1686 Millington was selling the library of the deceased Lord Anglesey. Putting up a copy of 'Eikon Basilike,' there were but few bidders,Note 9 · Thomas Jolley picked up a volume which contained a first edition of both 'Venus and Adonis' and the 'Sonnets,' for less than 3s. 6d. in LancNote 1 · Sewell, Cornhill, and Becket and De Hondt, Strand, were among the last to use these curious trade signs.Note 2 · The identical book with which Johnson knocked down Osborne, 'Biblia Græca Septuaginta,' folio, 1594, Frankfort, was at Cambridge in FebruaryNote 5 · It was in one of these alleys or tributaries that a lawyer's clerk, returning from his office, carried home in triumph to Camden Town a copyNote 6 · Concerning the Hande and Starre, Fleet Street, and the renowned Richard Tottell, 'printer by special Patentes of the bokes of the Common LawNote 3 · Not quite so unprecedented as Mr. Dibdin thought. The Grub Street Journal of February 3, 1731, contained an entire page devoted to the books
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