TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Reading edition
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]
page xv: necessarily a learned man.[original is missing period]
page 24: 1 Peers pennylesse supplication[original has supplicatiō to indicate there wasn't room for the final n]
page 33: the '[opening quote is missing in original]Godfrey of Bulloigne' selling for 18s.
page 40: early age of forty-four[original has fourty-four]
page 74: duplicate of my wooden leg."[original has extraneous single quote]
page 81: the MSS. of Gray, in their perfect calligraphy[original has caligraphy]
page 142: Rowfant[original has Rowfont] Library
page 146: where a sale of books was in progress[original has progess]
page 147: on the Banks of Lake Liman, near Geneva,"[ending quotation mark missing in original]
page 194: For Billingsgate, quit Flexney, and be wise.'[ending quotation mark missing in original]
page 232: like another Magliabecchi,[removed extraneous quotation mark after Magliabecchi]
page 260: Countess of Westmoreland[original has Westmorland]
page 264: We give facsimiles[original has facsimilies]
page 294: '[quotation mark missing in original]Jokely, very interesting
page 295: 'The Rose and the Ring by R. Browing.'[original has comma]
page 303: catalogue raisonné[original has raisonnée]
page 310: 'The Death Wake' (1831),[original has period]
page 322: Princess Marie Liechtenstein[original has Leichtenstein]
page 323: Arch, J. and A.[original has J.]
page 323: Bannatyne[original has Bannantyne] Club, the,
page 324: under Bibles and New Testaments entry:
Fust and Schoeffer (1462) was out of alphabetical order in the original
in the Gutenberg sub-entry, the pages numbers were out of order in the original
page 324: Brooke[original has Brook], Lord Warwick, 100
page 325: under Caxton—
'Book of Good Manners,'[comma missing in original]
Godfrey of Bulloigne[original has Bulloyne]
Higden's 'Polychronicon[original has Polycronicon]
History of Blanchardyn[original has Blanchardin]
'Troylus and Creside,'[ending quote missing in original and spelling is Cressid]
Virgil's 'Æneid'[original has Ænid]
page 326: Drummond's 'Forth[original has Fourth] Fasting,' 86
page 327: Finsbury Square, 177, 179-183[removed extraneous period]
page 327: Glashier,[comma missing in original] George, 202
page 327: Guilford[original has Guildford], Earl of
page 327: Guilford[original has Guildford], Francis, Baron
page 328: Johnson, Joseph[original has John], 214, 215
page 328: Johnston[original has Johnstone], William
page 328: Kempis, Thomas à[original has á]
page 330: Nornaville[original has Nornanville] and Fell
page 330: Nourse[original has Nowise], John, 236
page 331: Rewiczki[original has Rewicski], Count
page 331: Loyalty[original has Royalty--entry has been moved to maintain alphabetical order], the 'repository' of, 250
page 332: Stibbs[original has Stibbes], E. W.
page 332: Thackeray, W. M., 83[out of alphabetical order in original]
page 332: Tyndale[original has Tyndall], John, 16
page 332: Tyson, Dr. E., 176[out of alphabetical order in original]
page 333: Vérard[original has Verard], Antoine
page 333: entries for Walford, Cornelius, Walford, Mr. E., Walker, John, Warde, Roger, and Ward, Mr. W., were out of alphabetical order in the original
page 333: Weskett,[comma missing in original] 'On Insurances,' 151
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.