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INDEX.

Reading edition

A.

Abacus, the, 12

Account book binding, 157

Ackermann, publisher, 129

Æsop’s Fables, 1665 ... 124

“A E I O U,” 197

African symbolic messages, 10

Alcuin of York, 19

Aliamet, line engraver, 122

Alken, H., artist, 124

“All-over” style of binding, 223

All Saints’ Church, Hereford, chained library at, 164

Allanson and Sears, wood engravers, 116

Allen, D., line engraver, 120

Almanacks cut on wood, bone, etc., 7

American loggers’ marks, 9

”wampums, 13

Amulets, 4

Aniline dyes for leather, 180

Anne Boleyn’s New Testament, 144

Anne de Felbrigge, embroidress, 151

Annis, W., mezzotint engraver, 128

Aquatints, 128

Arabic knot, the, 208

”panel stamps, the, 59

Arabic style of binding, the, 55

Armagh, satchel of the book of, 50

Armytage, J. C., line engraver, 121

Ars Moriendi, 90

Art canvas bindings, 156

Ashburnham, Lord, 189

Assyrian bricks and cylinders, 85

Astle, T., keeper of the records in the Tower of London, 189

Avril, P., artist, 138

Ayres, J., calligraphist, 118

Ayrton’s Voyage Round Great Britain, 131

Aze, line engraver, 122.

B.

“B” capital in Mainz Psalter, 103

Babylonian cylinders and bricks, 85

Backing, the, of books, 43

Backs, flat and rounded, 42

Bacon, F., line engraver, 121

Badier, F., bookbinder, 239

Bagford, J., author, 190, 222

Baily, J., aquatint engraver, 131

Baker, R. J., line engraver, 121

Baldwin II., King of Jerusalem, 53

Bamler, J., publisher, 115

Bands of bindings, 36, 44

Bank note of Chinese paper, 1368 ... 64

Barber’s poles, 16

Bark books, 29

Bartholomaeus’ De proprietatibus rerum, 66

Bartolozzi, F., etcher, 125

Baskerville, J., printer, 99

Bateman, John and Abraham, binders, 217

Battas of Sumatra and symbolic messages, 10

Battledores, 166

Bauzonnet, bookbinder, 242

Bedford, F., bookbinder, 231

Beneworth, wood engraver, 116

Bennett, W. F., aquatint engraver, 130

Bernes, Dame Juliana’s, Book of St. Albans, 110

Berthelet, T., printer and binder, 110, 213

Bertonnier, line engraver, 123

Best, A., wood engraver, 114

Bettini’s Monte Santo di Deo, 119

Bewick, T., wood engraver, 108, 110

Biblia Pauperum, 90

Blaew, W. J., mechanician, 94

Blake, W., artist, 109, 124

Blanchard, P., lithographer, 135

Blazes on trees, 9

Blind tooling on bindings, 182

Bloc, bookbinder, 192

Block books, 89

Boards of books, 41

Bollcaert, bookbinder, 192

Bone, markings on, 1, 9

Book edges, 143

Bosse, A., etcher, 125

Bosse, L., line engraver, 122

Bosses on mediæval books, 45

Boule, A., bookbinder, 192

Boydell, publisher, 129

Boydell’s Picturesque Scenery in Norway, 130

Boyet, L. A., bookbinder, 240

Brandard, R., line engraver, 121

Brant’s Narrenschiff, 115

Brevière, H. L., wood engraver, 114

Brim stocks, 7

“Britannia” watermark, 71

Buck, Thomas and John, printers and binders, 154, 220

Buckingham, Marquis of, 189

Buckram bindings, 156

“Bull’s Head” watermark, 69

Burgkmeier, H., artist, 116

Burne-Jones, Sir E., artist, 113

Bylaert, J., artist, 125

Byrthe of Mankind, 119

Byzantine bindings, 46

”diptychs, 22

C.

Calf leather, 171

Callot, etcher, 125

Cambridge bindings, 191

Cameo stamps, 208

“Canevari” stamps, 208

Canvas bindings, 151

Capé, bookbinder, 242

“Caractères de civilité,” 97

Cardinal’s hat, 12

Carolingian Minuscules, 20

Cartwright, T., aquatint engraver, 131

Caslon, W., printer, 99

Casting of type, the, 92

Cathach, of the O’Donnells, the, 50

Cattermole, artist, 132, 134

Caxton’s bindings, 189

”Fifteen Oes, 106

”Myrrour of the Worlde, 108, 109

Cecil, Lord Burleigh’s, book stamp, 216

Cecil, line engraver, 120

Cellarius’ Album Amicorum, 158

Cellulose used in paper, 79

“Chain” lines on paper, 73

Chained books, 163

Chambolle, bookbinder, 242

Chamois leather, 176

Charlemagne’s gospels, 54

”interest in writing, 19

Charles II., portrait on book edges, 147

Charlet, lithographer, 133

Chauveau, F., line engraver, 122

Cheap paper, 77

Chemical wood pulp, 79

Chéret, lithographer, 133

Chevalier, W., line engraver, 121

Chifflart, line engraver, 123

China clay in paper, 80

Chinese books of Jade, 5

”colour blocks, 104

”paper, 63

”types of porcelain, 86

”woodcuts, 103

Choffard, P., line engraver, 122, 125

Christ, arms of, 196

Clasps on mediæval books, 44

Clay-laden papers, 80

Clennell, L., wood engraver, 111

Clint, G., mezzotint engraver, 128

Clog almanacks, 7

Cloth bindings, 155

Cobden-Sanderson, T. J., bookbinder, 231

Cochineal dye for leather, 222

Cockerell, D., bookbinder, 231

Codex Alexandrinus, 102

Cole, T., wood engraver, 111

Collet, M., bookbinder, 153

Collodion as a preservative for Persian bindings, 59

Colonna’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 105

Colour on block books, 90

Coloured printing papers, 73

Combe’s History of the River Thames, 130

”Tour of Dr. Syntax, 130

Commonwealth book stamp, 221

Constable, J., artist, 128

Consular diptychs, 23

Cook, H., stipple engraver, 125

Cooper, J., wood engraver, 112

Coptic binding of the eighth century, 182

Corbould, G., line engraver, 121

Corean paper, 65

Coronation of George IV., 131

Coster, L. J., printer, 90

Costeriana, 90

“Cottage,” style of binding, 222

Cousins, J., line engraver, 121

Cow-hide for bindings, 172

“Crown” watermark, 70

Cruickshank, G., artist, 124

“Crushed” morocco, 177

Cuirbouilli, 50

Cumdachs, 48-50

Cuneiform inscriptions, 3

Cup markings on rocks, 2, 3

Curiously-shaped books, 76

Cut leather work, 197

Cylinders engraved for making designs in book covers, 203

”for printing presses, 95

D.

Dalziels, the, wood engravers, 112

Dambrun, J., line engraver, 122

Daniel, W., aquatint engraver, 131

Dated binding, 1475 ... 199

Daughters of Louis XV., bindings made for, 237

Daumier, H., lithographer, 133

Davenport, S., line engraver, 121

Dawe, H., mezzotint engraver, 128

Day, J., printer, 213

Dean, stipple engraver, 125

De Coverly, R., bookbinder, 237

Deer-skin bindings, 189

Delacroix, E., artist, 133

De Launay, R., line engraver, 120, 123

“De l’Etoile,” French order, 236

Delignon, J. L., line engraver, 122

De Longueil, line engraver, 122

Delvaux, line engraver, 122

“Dentelle” bindings, 240

“Dentelles à l’oiseau,” 242

Derome le Jeune, bookbinder, 241

De Sauty, A., bookbinder, 231

De Thou, J. A., book collector, 236

Deveria, A., lithographer, 133

De Villiers, line engraver, 122

Diamond engraved, 5

Diane de Poictiers, bindings made for, 234

”edges of her books, 145

”faience, 86

Dimma’s book, 50

Diptychs, 20

Donatus’ grammars, 91

Double board bindings, 55, 214

Doublures by R. Payne, 228

Doyle, etcher, 124

Druet, line engraver, 119

Du Bosc, line engraver, 120

Duclos, H. J., line engraver, 122

Dudley, R., Earl of Leicester, book stamp, 216

Duff, G., author, 187

Du Maurier, G., artist, 113

Dunchad, Irish binder, 49

Dunkarton, R., mezzotint engraver, 127, 128

Duodecimos, 75

Dupont, H., line engraver, 123

Dupréel, line engraver, 122

Dürer, A., artist, 115

Durham bindings, 185

Duru, bookbinder, 242

Dutch printing, 92

E.

Easter Island inscriptions, 9

Eastling, J. C., mezzotint engraver, 128

Ecclesiastical diptychs, 24

Edwards, J., bookbinder, 147, 171, 201, 202

”J. C., line engraver, 121

Edy, J. W., aquatint engraver, 130

Egerton of Tatton, Earl, his silver horn book, 166

Egyptian mummy cloth paper, 63

”papyrus rolls, 26

Eisen, C., artist, 122

Eliot and Chapman, bookbinders, 225

Elizabeth, Queen, embroidered books, 152

”golden book, 160

Elizabeth, Queen, velvet books, 151

Ellis, aquatint engraver, 130

Elstrack, R., line engraver, 119

Elyot’s Image of Governance, 170

Embroidered books, 150

Enamelled bindings, 47, 162

End papers, 157, 229

Engleheart, F. C. and T. S., line engravers, 120

English blind tooled bindings, 184

”coronation book, 188

”panel stamped bindings, 193

”paper, 66

”psalter of the twelfth century, 187

Engraved metal blocks, 107

Engraving on wood, 106

Etching, 123

”soft ground, 124

“Etruscan” bindings, 201

European early paper, 65

Evangelistic emblems on the cover of the Molaise gospels, 50

Eve, C., bookbinder, 236

”N.,”236

Evelyn’s Sculptura, 127

Exchequer tallies, 8

F.

Faber, mezzotint engraver, 127

“Fanfare” bindings, 236

Fantin-Latour, lithographer, 133

Fashion plates in aquatint, 131

Fazakerly, bookbinder, 231

Ferrar, N., of Little Gidding, 153

Ficquet, line engraver, 122

Fielding, T. H., aquatint engraver, 131

Filigree bindings, 161

Finden, W., line and stipple engraver, 120, 125

Finiguerra, M., artist, 117

Fischer, C., lithographer, 135

Fish-skin bindings, 179

Fishing-rod sign, 16

Flagellation of Christ, engraving, 116

Fletcher, painter of book edges, 146

“Flong,” paper pulp, 96

Folios, 74

Folkard, wood engraver, 112

“Foolscap” watermark, 71

Forage decoration, 143, 146

Forels for books, 50

Foster, B., artist, 113

Foulquier, V., line engraver, 123

Fournier, P. E., type founder, 98

Fragonard, J. H., artist, 122

Fraudulent bindings, 211

Frederick of Austria, binding made for, 198

French blind tooled bindings, 191

Fry, W., line engraver, 121

Fust, J., printer, 91

G.

Galvanic battery used in stereotyping, 96

Gandara, lithographer, 133

Garuda stones, 4

Gaucher, C. S., line engraver, 122

Gauffring of book edges, 144

Gaultier, L., line engraver, 122

Gavarni, artist, 115, 133

Gemälde Galerie des K. Museums in Berlin, 135

Gericault, lithographer, 133

German blind tooled bindings, 198

German book edges, 145

”cut leather work, 197

”panel stamps, 200

Gibson, J., bookbinder, 216

Gigoux, J., lithographer, 133

Gillède, J., bookbinder, 239

Girardet, line engraver, 123

Girolamo della Robbia, artist, 88

Goat leather, 176

“Goddess of Mercy,” woodcut, 103

Godfrey, G., bookbinder, 191, 192

Gold beaters’ sign, 16

Gold tooling in leather, 206

”on velvet, 154

Golden bindings, 159

Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield, 130

Goodall, E., line engraver, 120

Goodyear, F. and J., line engravers, 120

Gould, J., naturalist, 134

Goya, F., artist, 135

Grace, J., traveller, 49

Gray, wood engraver, 112

Greatbach, W., line engraver, 121

Greek engraved gems, 5

Green, wood engraver, 112

Gregory the Great, Pope, 51

Greville, Charles, patron of art, 129

Griggs, W., chromo-lithographer, 134

Grignion, line engraver, 120

Grolier, W., bindings made for, 209

Grover, line engraver, 120

Guerin, P., lithographer, 133

Guerrero, A., lithographer, 135

Guild of Bookbinders in France, 232

Gutenberg, J., printer, 91

Gypsies’ hieroglyphics, 17

H.

Haghe, L., lithographer, 134

Hahn, U., printer, 105

Halbon, L., line engraver, 122

Half bindings, 44

Half-tone blocks, 136

”process, 79

Ham sign, 16

“Hand” watermark, 70

Hard wood for engraving, 114

Harding, J. D., lithographer, 134

Harland, J., author, 8

“Harleian” bindings, 227

Harley, R., Earl of Oxford, 227

Harvey, W., wood engraver, 106, 111

Hassell, aquatint engraver, 130

Hauber, J., lithographer, 134

Havell, D., aquatint engraver, 131

Haydon, B. R., artist, 111

Headbands, 40, 56

Heath, C. and J., line engravers, 121

”Ch., publisher, 120

Heliogravure, 136

Henri II., bindings made for, 86, 145, 233

”faience, 86

Henry III., bindings made for, 235

Henry VII., bindings made for, 148

Henry VIII., bindings made for, 150, 159, 194

Henry, Prince of Wales, bindings made for, 216

Heraldry on bindings, 215

Hereford Cathedral, chained library at, 164

Hering, C., bookbinder, 230

Heriot, G., goldsmith, 160

Herodius, ivory carver, 54

Hewitt, Samuel, etcher, 124

Hiberno-Saxon writing, 19

Hieratic writing, 18

Hiroshige, artist, 105

Hodges’ Select Views in India, 130

Hodgetts, T., mezzotint engraver, 128

Hodgkin’s Rariora, 92

Hokusai, artist, 105

Holbein, artist, 110

Hole, line engraver, 120

Holl, W., stipple engraver, 125

Hollar, W., etcher, 124

Hollis, G., line engraver, 121

Hollow backs, 38

Hop tallies, 8

Horæ of the fifteenth century, 107

Horn books, 165

Houston, mezzotint engraver, 127

Hullmandel, lithographer, 132, 134

Human leather, 180

Humphreys, W., line engraver, 120

Hunt, T., bookbinder, 191

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 105

I.

Ideographs, 16, 17

Illustrations in books, 102, etc.

Imitations of bindings by S. Mearne, 226

Indentures, 9

Indian amulets, 4

Irish bindings, 48

”book satchels, 50

Iroquois League wampum, 14

Isabey, J. B., artist, 133

Italian book stamps used on faience, 87

”wood engravings, 105

Ivory bindings, 47, 53

J.

Jackson, J. B., wood engraver, 112

Jacquemart, J., etcher, 125

Jade books, 5

James I., heraldry of, 218

”Βασιλικον Δωρον, 160

Japanese colour blocks, 105

”paper, 65

”wood blocks, 104

Jenkinson, stipple engraver, 125

Jentzen, F., lithographer, 135

Jewish taleth, 12

Joch, wood engraver, 116

Johannot, line engraver, 122

Jollivet, J., lithographer, 135

Jones’ Plans of the Alhambra, 134

Jordan, B., artist, 116

Junius, A., author, 90

K.

Kalthœber, C., bookbinder, 230

Kangaroo leather, 179

Karabacek, J., Professor, 63

Katherine of Arragon, Queen, bindings made for, 195

Keepsake, the, 120

Kernot, J. H., line engraver, 121

Knife for engraving soft wood, 113

Knight, C., stipple engraver, 125

Koenig, printing press maker, 95

Korean wood cuts, 104

Korin, artist, 105

Kretschmar, E., wood engraver, 116

Kristeller, P., author, 106

L.

La Costes, wood engravers, 114

“Laid” lines on paper, 73

Landells, the, wood engravers, 112

Lant, R., bookbinder, 192

Lasteyrie, lithographer, 133

Latroo’s English Rogue, 124

Latten, panel stamps cut in, 196

Laurentian library, 164

Lawson, C., artist, 113

Leathers used for binding, 169

Le Blon’s Coloritto, 126

Leclerc, S., line engraver, 122

Lefebre, line engraver, 122

Le Gascon, bookbinder, 145, 239

Leighton, A., bookbinder, 155

”Lord, artist, 113

Lelio, Lucretio, of Treviso, 105

Le Mire, N., line engraver, 122

Le Monnier, J., bookbinder, 241

Le Prince, J. B., aquatint engraver, 128

Leroux, line engraver, 122

Levant morocco, 176

Lewis the Pious, Emperor, 52

”C., bookbinder, 230

”F. C., mezzotint engraver, 128

”T. C., line engraver, 120

Libri, Count G., collector, 211

Lindau gospels, binding of the, 51

Line engraving, 116

Lingée, C. L., line engraver, 122

Linotype, the, machine, 93

Linton, W. J., wood engraver, 112

Lipton, T., mezzotint engraver, 128

Lithography, 132

Lithotint, 132

Little Gidding, 153

”bindings made at, 202, 219

Loggers’ marks, 9

Lombards signs, 16

Longepierre, Baron de, bindings made for, 240

Lortic, bookbinder, 242

Lucas, D., mezzotint engraver, 128

Lucretia, 110

Lupton, T. G., mezzotint engraver, 128

Lyons bindings, 214

M.

MacColl, Miss E., bookbinder, 231

Macé, R., bookbinder, 192

Madan, F., author, 18

Madox, T., historiographer, 189

Madrazo’s Collection Lithographica, etc., 135

Mainz Psalter, 91, 103

Maioli, T., collector, 177

Marbled calf, 201

”morocco, 237

”papers, 158

Marillier, J. P., line engraver, 123

Marius-Michel, bookbinder, 242

Marr, C., stipple engraver, 125

Marshall, line engraver, 120

Maximilian, Triumph of, 116

Mazarine Bible, 91

Mazot, F., line engraver, 119

Mearne, S., bookbinder, 146, 221

Mechanical wood pulp papers, 78

Medici coat of arms, 16

Medland, T., aquatint engraver, 130

Meissonnier, artist, 115

Melissenda, psalter of, 53

Menzel, A., artist, 135

Messe dag staves, 7

Metal bindings, 52, 159

”blocks engraved, 107

”inscriptions, 5

Mezzotints, 126

Miles, E., bookbinder, 191

Millais, Sir J., artist, 113

Miller, W., line engraver, 121

Mitan, J., line engraver, 121

Mittenleiter, J. M., lithographer, 134

Mitterer, H. J., professor of drawing, 133, 134

Modern ideographs, 16, 17

Molaise gospels, 50

Monnier, H., lithographer, 133

Monoline machine, the, 98

Monotype machine, the, 93

Monza, binding at, 51

Moreau, P., line engraver, 119

Morrell & Co., bookbinders, 231

Morocco leather, 176

Morris, W., printer, 99

Mottet, line engraver, 122

Moulin, J., bookbinder, 192

Mulready, artist, 112

Musgrave, Sir G., collector, 167

Musulman amulets, 4

N.

Nash’s Mansions of England, 134

Nayler’s, Sir G., Coronation of George IV., 131

Nesbit, wood engraver, 112

Nicene Creed cut in silver, 6

Nicholls and Bosse, wood engravers, 116

Nicholson, W., inventor, 95

Niedrée, bookbinder, 242

Niello work on bindings, 161

Nivet, wood engraver, 114

Norms, J., bookbinder, 192

Northcote’s Fables, 112

Notches cut in wood, 6, 7, 8

Nuremberg, arms of, 145

”Chronicle, 106, 115

Nuzelmann, wood engraver, 116

O.

Octavos, 75

O’Donnell’s cathach, 50

Ogham inscriptions, 6

Oiron ware, 86

Open backs, 38

Openworked vellum, 202

Opus Anglicanum, 151

Oriental bindings with flaps, 59

”palm leaf books, 15

”panel stamps, 59

Orihons, 29

Orme’s Twelve Views of Places in the Kingdom of Mysore, 130

Osterwald, G., artist, 116

Oxford bindings, 191

P.

Padeloup le Jeune, bookbinder, 240

Painted bindings, 58

Panel stamps, 192

Paper, 62, 66, 73

”pulp, 96

Papillon, J. M., wood engraver, 112

Papyrus, 62

”Prisse, 18

Parchment, 29, 30

Parker, J., stipple engraver, 125

Parr, Queen Katharine, embroidress, 152

Paste boards, 56

Patas, J. B., line engraver, 122

Pauquet, line engraver, 122

Payne, R., bookbinder, 177, 227

Pegs on panel stamps, 196

Penn, W., and the wampum belt, 14

Pennant’s Account of London, 124

Persian bindings, 58, 59

Peruvian records, 11

Petit, L., line engraver, 123

Peupin, wood engraver, 116

Pfeiffer, stipple engraver, 126

Pflanzmann, J., publisher, 115

Photographic facsimiles, 98

Photogravure, 136

Pierced vellum, 171

Pig-skin, 173

Pigouchet, printer, 107

“Pin-head” grained morocco, 178

Pinart, D., bookbinder, 191

Pine, J., line engraver, 118

Pisa’s, R. de, Pantheologia, 197

Pleydenwurff, W., wood engraver, 115

Pointillé engraving, 107

Polia, of Treviso, 105

Pompeian diptychs, 20

Porcelain types, 86

Porrett, wood engraver, 114

Portbury, E. and R. J., line engravers, 121

Portraits in watermarks, 72

“Post” watermark, 72

“Pot” watermark, 72

Prayer wheels, 27

Prehistoric caves, 2

Prevost, line engraver, 122

Prideaux, Miss S., bookbinder, 231

Prime staves, 7

Printing in Europe, 90

”on Babylonian cylinders and bricks, 85

”press, 93, 95

Printing paper in colour, 73

Proctor, R., author, 98

Prout, S., artist, 120

Pudsey, Bishop, library of, 185

Pugillaria, 20

Pye, J., line engraver, 120

Pyne’s History of the Royal Residences, 130

Pynson, R., bookbinder, 110, 193, 197

Q.

Quartos, 74

Quaternions, 32, 33

Quinternions, 31

Quipus of Peru, 11

Quires, 32

R.

Raffet, artist, 115, 133

Rag paper of Samarkand, 63

Rainer, Archduke, 64

Ratdolt, E., printer, 105

Ratisbon, Irish monastery at, 49

Raynald’s Byrthe of Mankind, 119

“Rectangular” style of binding, 223

Redon, O., lithographer, 133

Reeve, R., aquatint engraver, 130

Repton’s Sketches of Landscape Gardening, 130

Retroussage, 124

“Rex in Æternum vive” on book edges, 143, 144

Reynes, J., bookbinder, 192

Reynolds, S. W., mezzotint engraver, 128

Rhodes, R., line engraver, 121

Ribault, J. F., line engraver, 123

Richenbach, J., bookbinder, 199

Richter, A., artist, 116

Rinaldo and Armida, 112

Ring markings, 2, 3

Rivett-Carnac, Col. H. J., 3

Rivière & Son, bookbinders, 231

Roan leather, 175

Robins, H., line engraver, 121

Robinson, H., stipple engraver, 125

”J. H., line engraver, 120

Roberts’ Holy Land, 134

Roce, D., bookbinder, 192

Rock markings, 2

Roffet, E., bookbinder, 232

Rogers’, S., Italy and Poems, 120

”Pleasures of Memory, 112

Rolls, C., line engraver, 120

Rolt’s Lives of the Reformers, 127

Roman diptychs, 20

”engraved gems, 5

”name brands, 5

Romney, Lord, 160

Rood, T., bookbinder, 191

Rosaries, 12

Rosetta stone, 3

Rossetti, D. G., artist, 113

Rouget, wood engraver, 114

Rough side of calf leather, 202

Rounded backs of books, 43

Roux, wood engraver, 114

Rowlandson, artist, 130

Royal Irish Academy, 49

Ruette, M., bookbinder, 240

Rune staves, 7

Runic inscriptions, 6

Rupert, Prince, mezzotint engraver, 127

Russia leather, 172

S.

Saddharmapundarika Sutra, 103

St. Christopher, woodcut, 89

St. Cuthbert’s gospels, 185

St. Esprit, French order of the, 236

St. John Latran, bookbinders’ guild, 232

St. Maurice D’Agaune, church of, 55

St. Michel, French order of, 236

St. Porchaire, Faience de, 87

St. Wallberg, church of, 164

Samarkand, paper made at, 63

Sandby, P., aquatint engraver, 129

Sandys, F., artist, 113

Sangorsky, F., bookbinder, 231

Sangster, S., line engraver, 121

Satchels for books, 50

Satin bindings, 152

”printing on, 73

Sauné, J., line engraver, 122

Savart, P., line engraver, 123

“Sawn in” backs, 39

Say, W., mezzotint engraver, 128

Schöffer, P., printer, 91

Schrödter, A., artist, 116

Scotin, line engraver, 120

Scott, J. L., of the British Museum, 144

Scrive knife, 113

Sea lion leather, 179

Seal leather, 179

Sears, wood engraver, 114

Semis, 215, 218

Sen, tablet of, 4

Send hieroglyphic, 18

Senefelder, A., lithographer, 132

Sewing frames for binders, 34

Sewing of books, the, 35

Sharpe, J., line engraver, 121

Sheep leather, 174

Shot silk effect in half-tone prints, 137

Siberch, J., bookbinder, 191

Siegen, L. von, mezzotint engraver, 126

“Signatures” in printed books, 73

Silk bindings, 152, 156

”paper, 62

”printing on, 73

Silver bindings, 161

Simounet, J. B., line engraver, 122

Simpson, Sir J., antiquary, 3

Sion, in the Rhone valley, 55

“Six Nations” wampum, 13

Sizes of printed books, 76

“Skiver” leather, 175

Small metal bindings, 161

Smith, D. and W. R., line engravers, 120

”O., wood engraver, 114

Smooth morocco, 177

Société des Amis des Livres, 137

Society of Arts Committee on Paper, 1898 ... 77

Soft wood engravings, 113

Soyer, S., wood engraver, 114

Speculum, Humanæ Salvationis, 90

Spierinck, N., bookbinder, 191

Split sheep-skin, 175

Sprinkled calf, 201

Stabbed bindings, 31

Stadler, J. C., aquatint engraver, 130

Staffordshire clog almanacks, 7

Staggemeier, bookbinder, 234

Stanfield, artist, 134

Stanhope, C., Earl, 94

“Star” watermark, 65

Steam printing press, 1814 ... 95

Steel engraving, 122

Stencil plates for colouring prints, 108

Stephanoff, F. and J., artists, 131

Stereotyping, 96

Stipple engraving, 125

Stothard, artist, 120

Stowe House, library at, 189

”missal, 48

“Straight grained” morocco, 178

Sturt, J., line engraver, 118

Styles for writing on wax, 20, 21

Sullivan, Sir E., bookbinder, 231

Sulphuric acid in leather, 180

Sumatran bark books, 29

”calendars, 7

”symbolic messages, 10

Sutcliffe, G., bookbinder, 231

Sutherland, T., aquatint engraver, 130, 131

Swain, wood engraver, 112

Symbolic messages, 10

”signs on rocks, 3

T.

Taleth fringes, 11

Talismans, 5

Tallies, 5

Tasselled ecclesiastical hats, 13

Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata, 112

Tate, J., printer, 66

Taylor’s, I., History of the Alphabet, 18

Taylor, W. D., line engraver, 121

Test for clay paper, 82

Theodelinda, Queen of the Lombards, 51

Thibetan prayer wheels, 27

Thiebault, wood engraver, 114

Thompson, Sir E. M., Manual of Greek and Roman Palæography, 18

”J., wood engraver, 112

Thouvenin, bookbinder, 242

Three-colour process, 137

Tillard, J. B., line engraver, 122

The Times of 20th November, 1814 ... 95

Title-page engraved on wood, 66

Torres Straits, tallies used in the, 9

Tortoiseshell bindings, 161, 163

Tory, G., artist, 97, 233

Tours, conference at, 19

Transparent vellum, 171, 202

Trautz, bookbinder, 242

Tree marbled calf, 201

Trench along the edges of book boards, 56

Trière, P., line engraver, 122

Tudor badges, 191, 195

Tuerlinckoe, lithographer, 135

Turner, C., mezzotint engraver, 128

”J. M. W., artist, 120, 127, 128

Turrecremata, Meditations, 105

Type casting, 92

”founding in England, 99

”metal, 92

”specimen sheets, 97

U.

Utamaro, K., artist, 105

Uzanne, O., author, 137

V.

Vander Meulen, lithographer, 135

Vangelisty, stipple engraver, 126

Van Loo, lithographer, 135

Vellum bindings, 36, 169, 202

”pierced, 171, 202

”preparation of, 30

”printing on, 73

”rolls, 27, 28

”transparent, 171, 202

Velvet bindings, 149

Venetian bindings, 206

Verard, A., printer, 108

Vernet, H., artist, 115, 133

Villa Dei, A. de, Doctrinale, 91

Villerey, line engraver, 123

Vogel, A., artist, 116

W.

Wagstaffe, C., stipple engraver, 125

Walker, F., artist, 113

Wallis, H., and R., line engravers, 120

Walther, bookbinder, 230

Wampum belts, 13

Warren, C., line engraver, 121

Watermarks, 64, 68

Weale, W. H. J., author, 183

Webber’s Views in the South Seas, 130

Whimper, wood engraver, 112

Whistler, J. M., artist, 132

Whitaker, J., bookbinder, 201

“White line” engraving, 110

Whymper, J. W., wood engraver, 112

Wick rotary type-casting machine, 92

Wier, R., bookbinder, 229

Wiesner, J., Professor, 63

Willett, lithographer, 133

Williams, M. A., S., and T., wood engravers, 114

”T. J., line engraver, 121

Willmore, T., line engraver, 121

Wilson, J. L., bookbinder, 155

Wimborne Minster, chained library at, 164

Winchester Domesday Book, 185

Wohlgemuth, M., wood engraver, 115

Wood-cut illustrations, 103

Wood pulp used for paper, 77

Wooden types, 86, 88

Woolrich, Miss N. E., bookbinder, 231

Wordsworth, Mrs., amateur bookbinder, 153

Woven book, 73

Wright, wood engraver, 112

X.

Xylographs, 89

Y.

Young, J., mezzotint engraver, 127

Z.

Zaehnsdorf, bookbinder, 231

Zainer, G., publisher, 115

Zinc blocks, 136

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