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Books and bidders

Chapter 11: INDEX
By A. S. W. Rosenbach
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A memoiristic account by a passionate bibliophile recalling early fascination with rare volumes, friendships with dealers and collectors, and vivid auction-room episodes. The author surveys manuscript treasures, literary autographs, notable forgeries, and distinctive categories such as children's books and early Bibles, explaining market forces that move books across the Atlantic and offering practical guidance for collectors. Interwoven are personal anecdotes of discoveries, cataloging, and prized acquisitions that illuminate the material history of texts and the social world of book buying. The tone combines reminiscence, practical insight, and connoisseurship aimed at readers interested in the life and business of collecting.

INDEX

  • Adam, R. B., 161.
  • Adonais, 25.
  • Agnesi, Baptista, 274.
  • Agriculture of Argyll County, 21.
  • Alexander, forged letter of, 121.
  • Althorp, Lord, 90, 91, 263.
  • Ambrosian Library (Milan), 271.
  • Amenities of Book Collecting (Newton), 47.
  • America, History of (Robertson), 20.
  • American Tract Society, 184.
  • Americana, 45, 53-58, 172-177, 253, 265-299.
  • See also Franklin and Washington.
  • Amore di Florio e di Bianchafiore (Boccaccio), 29.
  • Amoretti (Spenser), 148, 149, 150.
  • Anderson Galleries sales, 53, 95, 219, 286.
  • André, Major, forged letter of, 99, 100.
  • “Annabel Lee,” MS. of, 164, 166, 167.
  • Arcadia (Sidney), 61.
  • Arnold, Benedict, letter of, 172, 173, 174.
  • Articles of Confederation (U. S. A.), 176, 177.
  • Asquith, Margot, 43.
  • Autographs, A Book about, 119.
  • Avery, Mary, 188.
  • Ayer, Edward E., 252.
  • Babes in the Wood, 195.
  • Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 197, 198.
  • Bacon’s Essays, 46, 50.
  • Badeau, Gen. Adam, 299.
  • Bancroft, George, 6.
  • “Bannockburn,” original MS. of Burns’s, 162.
  • Barker, Robert, 237.
  • Barmudas, Discovery of the, etc., 265.
  • Barnes (Berners), Dame Juliana, 30.
  • Battle Abbey Cartularies, 257, 258.
  • Baxter, Richard, 43, 79.
  • Beatty, A. Chester, 225.
  • Beauregard, Gen. Pierre Gustave
  • Toutant, 292, 293;
  • letter of Lee to, 295, 296.
  • Beauties of the Primer, 199.
  • Bellomont, Earl of, 64.
  • Bement, Clarence S., 8, 18, 239.
  • Bennett, Arnold, MS. of, 262.
  • Berners (Barnes), Dame Juliana, 30.
  • Bible, Aitken, 242.
  • Bible, Bamberg (Pfister), 220, 221, 229.
  • Bible, Baskett’s, 242.
  • Bible, Breeches (Genevan), 239, 240, 241.
  • Bible, Bug, 241.
  • Bible, Conqueror, 222.
  • Bible, Coverdale, 234, 236, 237.
  • Bible, Eggestyn, 231.
  • Bible, Eliot Indian, 78, 242.
  • Bible, Genevan (Breeches), 239, 240, 241.
  • Bible, Great, 231, 237.
  • Bible, Great French, 231.
  • Bible, Gutenberg, 17, 28, 83, 84, 89;
  • in Mazarin Library, 211, 214, 215;
  • the Melk copy of, 212;
  • production of, 212, 213, 214;
  • identification by De Bure, 214, 215;
  • perfecting the types for, 216;
  • copy in Eton College library, 217, 218;
  • from the Vulgate MS., 218;
  • copies bought by Dr. Rosenbach, 218, 219, 220;
  • bought by James Lenox, 244.
  • Bible, He, 237, 239.
  • Bible, Jenson, 231.
  • Bible, King James (Authorized), 237, 238, 239.
  • Bible, Mainz (of 1462), 221.
  • Bible, Mazarin. See Gutenberg Bible.
  • Bible, Pfister (Bamberg), 220, 221, 229.
  • Bible, “R”, 231.
  • Bible, Saur, 242.
  • Bible, She, 237.
  • Bible, Strasburg, 231.
  • Bible, Sweynheym and Pannartz, 231.
  • Bible, Vinegar, 241, 242.
  • Bible, Wicked, 241, 242.
  • Bible for the Poor, 228, 229.
  • Bible in English, 232-242.
  • Bible MSS., Codex Vaticanus, 221;
  • Codex Alexandrinus, 221;
  • Codex Sinaiticus, 221, 222;
  • illuminated copies, 222, 223, 224, 225;
  • Four Gospels, ninth century, 223;
  • Liesborn Gospels, 223, 224;
  • Historiated Bible of fourteenth century, 224;
  • early Hebrew copy, 224.
  • Bibles, Thumb, 205.
  • Biblia Pauperum, 228, 229.
  • Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), 215, 229, 245.
  • Bigelow, John, 141, 142.
  • Bixby, William K., 40.
  • Black Giles, 195.
  • Blandford, Marquis of, 90, 91, 128.
  • Block books, 226, 227, 228, 229.
  • Boccaccio, Giovanni, 29, 90.
  • Boker, George H., 6.
  • Book of Hunting and Hawking, The, 30.
  • Boswell, James, 14, 47, 126, 127, 128.
  • Botticelli, Sandro, 229.
  • Bowden, A. J., 81, 82.
  • Boyle, Elizabeth, Faerie Queene presented to, 148, 149, 150.
  • Bradford, Thomas, 206.
  • Bradford, William (Governor), 281.
  • Bradford, William (printer), 64, 65.
  • Brailes, W. de, 224, 225.
  • Brant, Sebastian, 22.
  • Brawne, Fanny, letter of Keats to, 95, 96, 97.
  • Brazil, National Library of, 221.
  • Brevoort, James Carson, 267.
  • Brewster, Sir David, 118.
  • Brief and True Relation of the Discovery of the Northern Part of Virginia, A (Brereton), 277.
  • Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (Hariot), 275.
  • Brief Description of New York First Called New Netherlands (Denton), 282.
  • Brigham, Clarence S., 288.
  • Brinley, Dr. George, 19, 267.
  • British Museum library, 50, 157, 221, 226, 244, 245, 246.
  • Britwell Court sale, 52, 77, 257.
  • Brown, Charles Brockden, 5.
  • Brown, John Carter, 243, 244, 267, 272, 275.
  • Brummell, George (“Beau”), letter of, 258.
  • Bry, Théodore de, 275.
  • Bryant, William Cullen, 6.
  • Buccaneers of America, The, 206.
  • Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, 27, 85, 158.
  • Burns, Robert, Glenriddel MSS. of, 160, 161;
  • Adam collection of, 161-164.
  • California, University of Southern, 45.
  • Call to the Unconverted, 43, 44, 79.
  • Cambridge University library, 50, 245.
  • Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 115.
  • Canterbury Tales, The, 29.
  • Capell collection at Trinity College, 52.
  • Carlos V (Lope de Vega), 77.
  • “Carroll, Lewis” (C. L. Dodgson), forged autographs of, 111.
  • Cartier (Jacques) atlas, 275.
  • Carysfort sale, 219, 221.
  • Casas, Bartolomé de las, 275.
  • Catlin, George, 223.
  • Caxton, William, 29, 62;
  • History of Troy, 132;
  • Golden Legend, 232, 233.
  • Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), letter of, 100, 101, 102.
  • Champlain, Samuel de, 66.
  • Charles V, forged letter of, 118;
  • genuine signature of, 269.
  • Chasles, Michel, 117-121.
  • Chatterton, Thomas, 128, 129, 130.
  • Chattin, James, 198.
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey, MSS. of, 252;
  • contemporary portrait of, 252.
  • Church, E. Dwight, 142.
  • Cieza de Leon, Pedro de, 275.
  • Civil Law (Brown), 20.
  • Clarissa Harlowe, 204.
  • Clark, C. W., 256.
  • Clark, William A., Jr., 45, 80.
  • Clemens, Samuel L. (“Mark Twain”), 164, 165.
  • Clements, William L., 45.
  • Cleopatra, forged letter of, 119.
  • Cockerell, Sydney C., 224, 225.
  • Colbert, Jean Baptiste, 21, 24.
  • Colbreath, William, 289.
  • Collections of Treaties (Jenkinson), 20.
  • Columbus, Christopher, 269, 270;
  • letter of, 271, 272.
  • Compleat Angler, The, 30.
  • Condell, Henry, 88, 151.
  • Confederation, Articles of (U. S. A.), 176, 177.
  • Confessio Amantis, 252.
  • Congressional Library, 67, 176, 246.
  • Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court, A, 164.
  • Conrad, Joseph, 143, 144, 145.
  • Cooper, James Fenimore, 6.
  • Cortés, Hernando, 269, 274.
  • Cosmographiæ Introductio, 273.
  • Coster (Koster), Lourens Janszoon, 216.
  • Cotton, Rev. John, 188, 189.
  • Coverdale, Miles, 234, 236.
  • Crane sale (1913), 198, 199.
  • Crawford, Lord, 250.
  • Cries of Philadelphia, The, 195.
  • Dailey Meditations, or Quotidian Preparations for and Consideration of Death and Eternity (Johnson, 1668), 77.
  • Dante (Foligno, 1472), 86.
  • Dare, Virginia, record of birth in Smith’s Virginia, 280.
  • Davies, Sir John, 52.
  • Day, Mahlon, 207.
  • De Bure, Guillaume-François, 214, 215.
  • De Puy, Henry F., 173, 174.
  • Deane, Silas, 176.
  • Decades of the New World (Martyr), 273.
  • Decameron (Boccaccio), 29, 90, 91.
  • Declaration of Independence, Gwinnett a signer of, 53, 54, 286;
  • certified copy of, 176, 288;
  • letter of another signer (Rodney), 288.
  • Defoe, Daniel, 59, 60.
  • Delaware’s signer of the Declaration, 288.
  • Denton, Daniel, 282.
  • Devonshire, Duke of, 89, 248, 256.
  • Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 89, 90, 91.
  • Dickens, Charles, letters about Pickwick Papers, 155, 157;
  • page from the MS., 156;
  • a gift to British Museum, 157;
  • Haunted Man, 158, 159;
  • MS. of his last letter, 160.
  • Discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Isle of Devils (Jourdain), 265.
  • Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (Hakluyt), 275.
  • Dodd, Mead and Company, 81.
  • Dodd, Robert, 81, 82.
  • Don Quixote, 100.
  • Drake, Francis, 275.
  • Dreer, Ferdinand J., 105.
  • Drinkwater, John, 26, 27.
  • Drury Lane Theatre, 14.
  • Dying Sayings of Hannah Hill, Junior, 182, 186, 187.
  • Eames, Dr. Wilberforce, 192, 193.
  • Eaton, John Henry, 6.
  • Edmunds, Charles, 51.
  • Electoral Library, Mainz, 215.
  • Eliot, John, 43, 44, 78.
  • Elizabeth, Queen, dedication of Genevan Bible to, 240.
  • Elizabethan Club library, 50, 255.
  • Elkins, William M., 202.
  • Ellsworth, James W., 219, 273.
  • Emancipation Proclamation, first draft of, 291.
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Whitman’s tribute to, 152, 153, 154.
  • English Historical Manuscripts Commission, 258.
  • Enough is as good as a Feast (Wagner), reprint of, 256.
  • Epigrams and Elegies, 52.
  • “Epimanes,” (Poe), 167, 168, 169.
  • Epistles for the Ladies, 20.
  • Estrées, Gabrielle d’, 68, 70, 72, 74.
  • Eton College library, 217, 218.
  • Faerie Queene, The, 148-151.
  • Fall of Princes (Lydgate), 252.
  • Fenwick, T. FitzRoy, 223.
  • Fielding, Henry, 37.
  • Fillon, Benjamin, 100.
  • First folio Shakespeare, points on, 86;
  • printing of, 88, 89.
  • First Laws of New York, 64.
  • Fitzgerald, Edward, 175.
  • “Fitzvictor” (Shelley), 55.
  • Fleet, T. and J., 201.
  • Fletcher, John, letter to Countess of Huntingdon, 146.
  • Fogel, Johann, 218.
  • Folger, H. C., 53, 88, 256.
  • Forgeries, 98-133.
  • Forman, J. Buxton, 42, 95.
  • Fortescue, Hon. John, 217.
  • Fortune’s Lottery (Paice), 77.
  • Foster, John, 281.
  • Fox, George, 191.
  • Fox, Joseph M., 18, 74.
  • Franklin, Benjamin, epitaph of, 66, 67;
  • letter of, 135;
  • work book of his printing business, 136-139;
  • MS. of his Autobiography, 142;
  • signature to the Declaration, 176;
  • children’s books, 189, 190, 191;
  • Story of a Whistle, 195, 196;
  • New England Primer, 196;
  • Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth, 196, 197;
  • letter to Jonathan Williams, 197, 198.
  • Frederick the Great, 176, 177.
  • Frederickson sale, 40.
  • French National Library, 215, 229, 245.
  • Freneau, Philip, 20.
  • Frick, Henry C., 80.
  • Fust, Johann, 216, 217, 221.
  • Garrick, David, Prologue recited by, 14;
  • letter of Dr. Johnson to, 48, 49.
  • General Advertiser (London), 14.
  • General Historie of Virginia (Smith), 267, 278;
  • dedication of, 278, 279;
  • extracts from, 280.
  • General Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts, collected out of the Records of the General Court (1648), 63, 64.
  • Gentleman’s Magazine, 14.
  • George the Third, 246.
  • Gerson, Johannes, 28.
  • Glass of Whiskey, The, title and page of, 193, 194, 195.
  • Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, 40.
  • Golden Legend (Caxton), 232, 233.
  • Goldsmith, Oliver, 202, 203.
  • Goodspeed, Charles, 66, 67.
  • Goody Two Shoes, 202.
  • Gower, John, 252.
  • Grammar, Lindley Murray’s, 6.
  • Grant, Gen. Ulysses S., letter to his father (1861), 297;
  • telegram announcing Lee’s surrender, 298, 299.
  • Gratz, Simon, 119.
  • Gray, Thomas, 13, 130, 217.
  • Green, Bartholomew, 200.
  • Green, T. (New Haven, 1740), 200, 201.
  • Greene, Belle da Costa, 217.
  • Greene, Robert, 146.
  • Grenville, Hon. Thomas, 246.
  • Gribbel, John, 160.
  • Grolier, Jean, 21, 22.
  • Grolier Club library, 50.
  • Gundulph, Bishop of Rochester, Bible of, 222.
  • Gutenberg, Johann, 213, 214, 216, 220.
  • Gwinnett, Button, autographs, 53, 54, 286.
  • Gwynne, Edward, 88.
  • Hakluyt, Richard, 275.
  • Hall, David, 139, 196.
  • Halsey, Rosalie V., 198, 204.
  • Hamlet, forged pages of, 126, 127, 128.
  • Hancock, John, Washington letter to, 9, 10, 11.
  • Handel, George Frederick, manuscript music of, 69.
  • Hans Breitmann’s Party, and Other Ballads, 6.
  • Hariot, Thomas, 275.
  • Harkness, Mrs. E. S., 220.
  • Harkness, Mrs. Stephen V., 220.
  • Harmsworth, Sir R. L., 256, 261, 299.
  • Harper, Lathrop C., 192, 193.
  • Harvard University, Widener Library, 45, 46, 66, 85.
  • Harvey, Gabriel, book given by Spenser to, 149.
  • Hathaway, Anne, forged letter to, 126.
  • Haunted Man, The (Dickens), 158, 159.
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 26;
  • MS. title-page of Wonder Book, 180;
  • his copy of Hubbard’s history of Indian wars, 280, 281.
  • Hawthorne, William, 281.
  • Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 41.
  • Heavenly Spirits for Youthful Minds, 193, 194.
  • Heber, Richard, 61, 62, 248, 252, 257.
  • Heminge, John, 88, 151.
  • Henkels, Stan V., 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 68, 80, 81.
  • Henry, Prince, Bible of, 239.
  • Herrick, Robert, 255.
  • Hesperides (Herrick), 255.
  • Heywood, Thomas, 256.
  • Hispanic Society Library, 275.
  • Historie of New England (Winthrop), 281.
  • Historie of Plimouth Plantation (Bradford), 281, 282.
  • History of America (Robertson), 20.
  • History of America abridged for the use of Children of all Denominations, 206, 207.
  • History of Ann Lively and her Bible, 184.
  • History of Little Fannie, etc., 209.
  • History of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Epitomized; for the Use of Children in the South Parish at Andover, 184, 185.
  • Hoe, Robert, 99, 176.
  • Hoe sales, 30, 77, 83, 176, 218.
  • Hogarth, Samuel Johnson’s epitaph for, 48, 49.
  • Holford, Robert Stayner, 248.
  • Holford, Sir George, 31, 53, 86, 249.
  • Holkham MSS., 222.
  • Hubbard, William, on the Indian wars in New England, 26, 280, 281.
  • Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of, 187.
  • Hunt, Leigh, 171.
  • Huntington, Archer M., 100, 275.
  • Huntington, Henry E., The Book of Hunting and Hawking, 30;
  • devotion to book-collecting, 33;
  • Queen Mab, 42;
  • collection open to the public, 44, 45;
  • Bacon’s Essays, 50;
  • Venus and Adonis, 52;
  • method of buying, 82, 83;
  • first folio Shakespeare, 89;
  • MS. of Franklin’s Autobiography, 142;
  • Arnold letter, 174;
  • the Royal Primer, 198, 199;
  • the Conqueror Bible, 222;
  • block books, 228;
  • Coverdale Bible, 236;
  • quoted, 252;
  • his collection, 253;
  • Hamlet, second edition, 255;
  • Columbus letter, 271, 272;
  • Cartier atlas, 275.
  • Huth sales (1912), 46, 50;
  • (1911), 238.
  • Independence, Declaration of, 53, 54, 176, 286, 288.
  • Independence Hall and Square, sale of, 177.
  • Indian wars in New England, William Hubbard’s story of the, 26, 280, 281.
  • Inland Navigation (Brown), 20.
  • Instructions for Right Spelling, 191, 192.
  • Ireland, William Henry, 122-128.
  • Ives, Gen. Brayton, 40, 99, 267.
  • Jack Juggler, title page of, 247.
  • Jaggard, Isaac, 88.
  • Jaggard, William, 88.
  • Janeway, Rev. James, 189, 190.
  • Jansen, Reinier, 191.
  • Jennings, Samuel, attack on, 65.
  • Jersey, Earl of, 29.
  • Johnson, Jacob, 5, 183.
  • Johnson, Marmaduke, 77.
  • Johnson, Samuel, Prologue for Drury-Lane Theatre, 14;
  • A. Edward Newton’s enthusiasm for, 47;
  • Boswell’s Life, 47;
  • letter suggesting epitaph for Hogarth, 48, 49.
  • Johnson, W., 208.
  • Johnson and Warner, 183.
  • Jones, H. V., 269, 272.
  • Jones, John Paul, Life of, 206.
  • Jonson, Ben, verses on Shakespeare, 88, 89.
  • Jordan, Mrs. (Dolly), 127, 128.
  • Jourdain, Sylvester, 265.
  • Journal of the most Material Occurrences proceeding the Seige of Fort Schuyler (Colbreath), 289.
  • Joyce, James, MS. of, 171.
  • “Judith and Holofernes” (woodcut), 233.
  • Kane, Grenville, 272.
  • Keats, John, Amy Lowell on, 39, 40;
  • his copy of Shakespeare, 40;
  • MS. of sonnet to Haydon, 41;
  • Shelley letter referring to, 42;
  • Wilde’s sonnet on sale of his love letters, 94;
  • Morley’s sonnet on sale of one letter to Dr. Rosenbach, 95;
  • MS. letter to Fanny Brawne, 96, 97;
  • advancing value of, 181.
  • Kemble, John Philip, 127, 128.
  • Kennerley, Mitchell, 65, 66.
  • Kern, Jerome D., 42.
  • Killigrew, Thomas, 259.
  • King Edward IV (Heywood), reprint of, 256.
  • King Lear, forged copy of, 126, 128.
  • King-Hamy chart, 273.
  • Kingsborough, Lord, 223.
  • Kirby, Thomas E., 80.
  • Koster (Coster), Lourens Janszoon, 216.
  • Lamport Hall, seat of Ishams, discoveries at, 51.
  • Laud (William), Archbishop, 242.
  • Lawler, Percy E., 136-139.
  • Laws of New York (Bradford, 1694), 19.
  • Lazarus, forged letter of, 120.
  • Lee, Gen. Robert Edward, letter resigning commission in U. S. Army, 294, 295;
  • letter after close of the war, 295, 296;
  • Grant’s announcement of his surrender, 298, 299.
  • Legacy for Children, being Some of the Last Expressions and Dying Sayings of Hannah Hill, Junr., etc., 186, 187.
  • Leicester, Earl of, 222.
  • Leland, Charles Godfrey, 6.
  • Leningrad Library, 221.
  • Lenox, James, 84, 243, 244, 267, 271, 272.
  • Leonard, Zenas, 284.
  • Lessons for Children from Two to Five Years Old, 197.
  • Library, Ambrosian, 271;
  • British Museum, 50, 157, 221, 226, 244, 245, 246;
  • Cambridge University, 50, 245;
  • Congressional, 67, 176, 246;
  • Electoral (Mainz), 215;
  • Elizabethan Club (Yale), 50, 255;
  • Eton College, 217, 218;
  • French National, 215, 229, 245;
  • Grolier Club, 50;
  • Hispanic Society, 275;
  • Leningrad, 221;
  • Mazarin, 24, 211, 212, 214, 215;
  • National, of Brazil, 221;
  • New York Public, 84, 228, 236, 237, 271;
  • Newberry, 253;
  • Philadelphia Free, 237, 250;
  • Record Office, London, 146, 259;
  • Somerset House, 146;
  • Sorbonne, 23;
  • Spanish National, 100;
  • University of Michigan, 45;
  • University of Pennsylvania, 197;
  • University of Southern California, 45;
  • Vatican, 221;
  • Widener (Harvard), 45, 46, 66, 85;
  • Windsor Castle, 217;
  • Yale University, 220.
  • See also names of individual collectors.
  • Life of Samuel Johnson, 14, 47.
  • Lincoln, Abraham, autographs of, 290;
  • first draft of Emancipation Proclamation, 291;
  • of Baltimore address, 291;
  • other addresses and letters of, 291, 292;
  • account of his death, 294.
  • Little Truths, 206.
  • Lives of Highwaymen, 206.
  • Lives of Pirates, 206.
  • Lives of the Twelve Cæsars, 206.
  • Lord Jim (Conrad), MS. page of, 145.
  • Louÿs, Pierre, 116.
  • Lovelace, Richard, 255.
  • Lowell, Amy, 39, 40.
  • Lucas, Vrain, 117-121.
  • Lucasta (Lovelace), 255.
  • Lufft, Hans, 236.
  • Luther, Martin, 235.
  • Lydgate, John, 252.
  • McCarty and Davis, 6, 183.
  • MacDonald, Ramsay, 246.
  • MacGeorge, Bernard Buchanan, 87.
  • Malone, Edmund, 127.
  • Malory, Sir Thomas, 29.
  • Manutius, Aldus, 21.
  • “Mark Twain,” 164, 165.
  • Marlowe, Christopher, 52, 146, 261.
  • Martyr, Peter, 273.
  • “Marvel, Ik” (Donald G. Mitchell), 6.
  • Mary Magdalene, forged letter of, 120, 121.
  • Mason, William, 130.
  • Mason, William S., 67, 196.
  • Massingham, H. W., 142, 143.
  • Mather, Cotton, 185, 190, 191.
  • Mazarin, Cardinal (Jules), 21, 23, 211.
  • Mazarin Library, 24, 211, 212, 214, 215.
  • “Meistersinger, Die,” MS. page of, 73.
  • Melville, Herman, 6, 26.
  • Mentelin, 231.
  • Menzies, William, 267.
  • “Messiah, The” (Handel), MS. page of, 69.
  • Michigan, University of, 45.
  • Millar, Eric G., 225.
  • Milne, A. A., 28.
  • Milton, John, 259.
  • Mitchell, Donald G., 6.
  • Moby Dick, first edition, 26;
  • presentation copy, 26, 27.
  • Molière (Boucher, 1734), 85, 86.
  • Moll Flanders, 206.
  • Morgan, J. Pierpont, 238, 239, 245.
  • See also Morgan Library.
  • Morgan, Junius Spencer, 238.
  • Morgan, Pierpont, Library, letter of George Washington, 10;
  • Malory’s Morte d’Arthur (Caxton), 29;
  • collection open to public, 45, 263;
  • Vespucci letter and commonplace book, 56, 57;
  • librarian of, 217;
  • MS. Bibles, 222;
  • Holkham MSS., 222;
  • block books, 228;
  • Lufft Bible, 236;
  • Coverdale Bible, 236;
  • He Bible, 239.
  • Morley, Christopher, sonnet on Dr. Rosenbach’s purchase of Keats’s love letter, 95, 96, 97.
  • Morrison, Alfred, 100.
  • Morrison sale, 55.
  • Morte d’Arthur, Le, 29.
  • Mostyn, Lord, 256.
  • Mother Goose’s Melodies, 203.
  • Motherless Mary, a Young and Friendless Orphan, etc., 206.
  • Mourt, George, 282.
  • “Murders in the Rue Morgue, The,” 93.
  • Murphy, Henry C., 267.
  • Murray, Lindley, 6.
  • Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England (Hubbard), 26, 280, 281.
  • Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, MS. page of, 251.
  • New England Magazine, Poe’s letter to, 170.
  • New England Primer, 196.
  • New England’s Prospect (Wood), 282.
  • New York Cries, 207, 208.
  • New York Public Library, 84, 228, 236, 237, 271, 272.
  • Newbery, John, 202.
  • Newberry Library, 253.
  • Newton, A. Edward, 47, 67, 237.
  • Nichols, Charles L., 288.
  • North, Lord (Frederick), Benedict Arnold’s letter to, 172, 173, 174.
  • Occleve, Thomas, Poems of, 252.
  • Ockanickon, an Indian King, The Dying Words of, 81, 82.
  • Odes, Gray’s, 13.
  • Old Dame Trudge and Her Parrot, 209.
  • Omar Khayyám, MS. of, 175.
  • Paice’s Fortune’s Lottery, 77.
  • Paine, Philip, Dailey Meditations, 77.
  • Pallinganius’s Zodyacke of Lyfe, 77.
  • Palmart, Lamberto, 37.
  • Pamela, 204.
  • Paraphrastical Exposition, etc. (1693), 65.
  • Parker, James, 139.
  • Pascal, forged letter of, 118.
  • Passionate Pilgrim, The, 52.
  • Patty Primrose, 187.
  • Pellechet, Mademoiselle, 217.
  • Penn, William, 282, 283.
  • Pennsylvania, University of, 197.
  • Pennypacker, Samuel W., 8, 9, 10, 11, 91.
  • Penrod, 187.
  • Pentateuch, forged text of, 225, 226;
  • the Tyndale translation, 236.
  • Pepys, Samuel, 259.
  • Perry, Marsden J., 87, 128.
  • Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation, 208, 209.
  • Pforzheimer, Carl H., 159, 219, 237.
  • Pfister, Albrecht, 220, 221, 229.
  • Philadelphia Free Library, 237, 250.
  • Philes, George P., 3.
  • Philley, John, 65.
  • Phillips, Samuel, 184, 185.
  • Phillipps, Sir Thomas, 222, 223.
  • Pickwick Papers, The, 155-159.
  • Pilgrim’s Progress, The, 31, 32, 33.
  • Pirates, a Tale for Youth, The, 206.
  • Pizarro, Francisco, chart used by, 274, 275.
  • Poe, Edgar Allan, 3, 4, 6, 93;
  • MS. of “Annabel Lee,” 164, 166, 167;
  • letters, 168, 170;
  • MS. page of “Epimanes,” 169;
  • advancing value of, 181.
  • Poitiers, Diane de, 57, 58.
  • Political State of Europe, The, 20.
  • Pollard, Alfred W., 245, 255.
  • Polock, Moses, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 18, 19, 35, 36, 37, 104, 105, 181-184, 264, 265, 266.
  • Poor, Henry W., 79.
  • Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson (Shelley), 55.
  • Primer Improved, 199.
  • Pretty Book for Children, A, 203.
  • Prize for Youthful Obedience, The, 206.
  • Proceedings of the Convention, 1775, Washington’s copy of, 288.
  • Prodigal Daughter, or a strange and wonderful relation, etc., 202.
  • Progressive Primer, 199.
  • Prologue (Johnson) for opening Drury Lane Theatre, 14.
  • Prophecies That Remain To Be Fulfilled (Winchester), 20.
  • Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania, 196, 197.
  • Prose Romances (Poe), 93, 95.
  • Psalter of Fust and Schöffer, 217.
  • Ptolemy’s Geography, 58.
  • Pudd’nhead Wilson, 164.
  • Pug’s Visit to Mr. Punch, 209.
  • Putnam, Herbert, 246.
  • Quaritch, Alfred, 63, 64, 84, 85, 218, 238.
  • Quaritch, Bernard, 99.
  • Queen Mab, 40, 42.
  • Quentel, Peter, 235, 236.
  • Quinn sale (1924), 143.
  • Record Office, London Public, 146, 259.
  • Redgrave, G. R., 255.
  • Reed, John Watson, 89.
  • Relation or Journal of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation settled at Plimouth in New England (Mourt), 282.
  • Republican Party, Lincoln’s MS. speech about formation of, 291, 292.
  • Revere, Paul, 287.
  • Reynard the Fox, 11.
  • Ricci, Seymour de, 174.
  • Richelieu, Cardinal (Armand Jean du Plessia), 21, 22, 23.
  • Richmond, George H., and Company, 81.
  • Rio de Janeiro, national library at, 221.
  • Robertson, William, 20.
  • Robinson Crusoe, 59, 60.
  • Rodney, Cæsar, 288.
  • Rosenbach, A. S. W., purchase of a Washington letter, 10, 11;
  • Reynard the Fox, 11, 12;
  • Gray’s Odes, 13, 14;
  • Johnson’s Drury Lane Prologue, 14, 15;
  • Gutenberg Bible, 17;
  • inheritance from Moses Polock, 19;
  • books from Washington’s library, 20;
  • first edition Adonais, 25;
  • Moby Dick, 26, 27;
  • Shakespeare first folio, 27;
  • The Book of Hunting and Hawking, 30;
  • Pilgrim’s Progress, 31, 32, 33;
  • Keats’s copy of Shakespeare, 40;
  • Shelley’s own copy of Queen Mab, 40;
  • Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted in Indian language, 43;
  • letter of Dr. Johnson to Garrick, 48, 49;
  • second edition Venus and Adonis, 53;
  • signature of Button Gwinnett, 53, 54;
  • letter of Amerigo Vespucci, 55, 56;
  • commonplace book of Giorgio Vespucci, 56, 57;
  • first edition Robinson Crusoe, 59, 60, 61;
  • book from Lamb’s library, 61;
  • Bradford’s First Laws of New York, 64;
  • first book printed in New York, 65;
  • Franklin’s first draft of his own epitaph, 66, 67;
  • Missal of Gabrielle d’Estrées, 68, 70, 71, 72, 74;
  • MS. of Handel’s
  • “Messiah,” 69;
  • MS. of Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger,” 73;
  • Lope de Vega’s Carlos V, 77;
  • first volume of verse printed in North America, 77, 78, 79;
  • Unpublishable Memoirs, 82;
  • first folio Shakespeare, 84, 85;
  • the Holford first folio, 86;
  • four folios from the Perry sale, 87;
  • volume of nine Shakespeare plays, 88;
  • Poe’s Prose Romances, 93;
  • MS. sonnet by Oscar Wilde on sale of Keats’s love letters, 94;
  • letter of Keats to Fanny Brawne, 95, 96, 97;
  • autograph letter of Cervantes, 100, 101, 102;
  • letter written by George Washington, 106, 107;
  • illustrated MS. letter of Thackeray, 110;
  • MS. of Wilde’s Salomé, 112, 113, 114, 116;
  • MS. dedication of Wilde’s Sphinx, 115;
  • forgery of a Shakespeare MS. by Ireland, 123;
  • Ireland’s confession, 128;
  • autograph letter of Franklin, 135;
  • Franklin’s work book of his press, 138, 139;
  • MSS. of Bernard Shaw, 142, 143;
  • MS. of Conrad’s Victory, 143, 144;
  • of Lord Jim, 145;
  • Shakespeare’s Troylus and Cresseida, 147;
  • presentation copy, first edition of The Faerie Queene, 148, 149, 150;
  • book given by Spenser to Gabriel Harvey, 149;
  • MS. of Walt Whitman’s “By Emerson’s Grave,” 152, 153, 154;
  • Dickens’s letter about beginning Pickwick, 155, 157;
  • MS. pages of Pickwick, 156, 157;
  • Dickens’s note in verse, 158, 159;
  • his last written letter, 160;
  • MS. poems of Burns, 161, 162, 163, 164;
  • MSS. of Mark Twain, 164, 165;
  • Poe’s “Annabel Lee” and “Epimanes,” 166, 167, 168, 169, 170;
  • MS. page of Joyce’s Ulysses, 171;
  • letter of Benedict Arnold, 172, 173, 174;
  • MS. page of the Rubáiyát, 175;
  • contemporary certified copies Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation (U.S.), 176, 177;
  • MS. title page of Hawthorne’s Wonder Book, 180;
  • collection of old-fashioned books for children, 182-209;
  • Gutenberg Bibles, 212, 213, 218, 219, 220;
  • Pfister (Bamberg) Bible, 220, 221;
  • the 1462 Bible (Mainz), 221;
  • MS. Bible of eleventh century, 222;
  • Gospels of ninth century, 223, 224;
  • French illustrated Bible of fourteenth century, 224;
  • early English Bible pictures, 224, 225;
  • ancient block books, 227, 228;
  • Jenson Bible (1479), 231;
  • Caxton books, 232, 233;
  • annotated He Bible (1611), 239;
  • Jack Juggler (1555), 247;
  • MS. of White’s Selborne, 251;
  • MSS. of Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and Occleve, 252;
  • the Battle Abbey Cartularies, 257, 258;
  • letter of Beau Brummell, 258;
  • MS. of Arnold Bennett, 262;
  • a tea-ship broadside, 266;
  • old Spanish MS. concerning Cortés, signed by Charles V, 268, 269;
  • Columbus letter (1493), German edition, 271, 272;
  • the King-Hamy chart, 273;
  • charts used by Cortés and Pizarro, 274, 275;
  • tailor’s bill to De Soto, 276;
  • first work of Captain John Smith, 277, 278;
  • Washington’s autographed copy of Proceedings of the Convention (Richmond, 1775), 285;
  • signature of Button Gwinnett, 286;
  • pass for Paul Revere, signed by Joseph Warren, 287, 288;
  • Cæsar Rodney letter about signing of the Declaration, 288;
  • Lincoln letters, 290;
  • first draft of Emancipation Proclamation, 291;
  • Lincoln’s Baltimore address, 291;
  • his speech on formation of Republican Party, 291, 292;
  • his letter about the flag, 292;
  • Walker letters about Confederate flag, 292, 293;
  • notebook describing Lincoln’s death, 294;
  • Lee’s resignation of commission in U. S. Army, 294, 295;
  • letter to Beauregard; after the surrender, 295, 296;
  • letter of Grant to his father, 297;
  • telegram of Grant to Stanton, announcing Lee’s surrender, 298, 299.
  • Rosenbach, Philip H., 85, 112, 172, 176, 177, 268, 269.
  • Rosenbach, Rebecca, 183, 184.
  • Rosier, James, 277.
  • Rowley, Thomas (Chatterton), 129, 130.
  • Roxburghe, Duke of, 89, 90, 248.
  • Royal Battledoor, The, 203.
  • Royal Primer, 198, 199.
  • Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The, 175.
  • Rule of the New-Creature. To be Practiced every day in all the Particulars of which are Ten, 188.
  • Rutland, Duke of, 259.
  • Rylands (John) Memorial Library, 229, 245, 263.
  • Santangel, Luis de, Columbus
  • letters to, 270, 271, 272.
  • Sassoon, David, 224.
  • Sauvages, Des (Champlain, 1603), 66.
  • Savonarola, Girolamo, 229.
  • Scarlet Letter, The (quoted), 281.
  • Schelling, Felix E., 259.
  • Schöffer, Peter, 216, 217, 221, 236.
  • School of Good Manners Composed for the Help of Parents, etc., 201.
  • Schoolmaster Printer, the, 30.
  • Scolenberg, Baron von, 177.
  • Scotch Rogue, The, 206.
  • Scott, Sir Walter (quoted), 252.
  • Scott, Gen. Winfield, Lee’s letter to, resigning commission, 294, 295.
  • Search after Happiness, The, 206.
  • Second Part of the Tragedy of Amboyna, 282.
  • Sedgwick, Theodore, 54.
  • Shakespeare, first folio, 27, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88;
  • second folio, 35;
  • Keats’s copy of, 40;
  • Venus and Adonis, 51, 52;
  • The Passionate Pilgrim, 52;
  • Poems, 87;
  • history of folios, 87, 88, 89;
  • Jonson’s verses in, 88, 89;
  • early sales of, 89;
  • forged MSS. of, 122-128;
  • Vortigern and Rowena (forged), 127, 128;
  • Troylus and Cresseida, 147;
  • editorial comment on his MSS., 151, 152;
  • Trowbridge set of the four folios, 219;
  • earliest American purchase of a first folio, 244;
  • Hamlet, second edition, 255, 256;
  • The Tempest, 265.
  • Shapira, ----, 225, 226.
  • Shaw, George Bernard, 142, 143.
  • Shelley, Adonais, 25;
  • Queen Mab, 40, 42;
  • personal correspondence, 42;
  • notes, 42;
  • Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson, 55;
  • advancing value of, 181.
  • Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 128.
  • Ship of Fools, The, 22.
  • Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1475-1640, 255.
  • Singularitez de la France Antartique, autrement nommée Amérique, 58.
  • Skinner, Abraham, Washington letter to, 9, 10.
  • Smith, George D., 52, 83, 198, 199.
  • Smith, Harry B., 40, 155.
  • Smith, John, 267, 277, 278, 279, 280.
  • Some Excellent Verses for the Education of Youth, 200.
  • Somerset House, 146.
  • Sorbonne, library of the, and Richelieu collection, 23.
  • Sotheby sales, 31, 32, 33, 52, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91.
  • Soto, Hermando de, 276.
  • Spanish National Library, 100.
  • Spencer, Earl, 90, 91, 245, 248, 263.
  • Spenser, Edmund, 148-151.
  • Sphinx, The (Wilde), dedication of, 115.
  • Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes. In either England: Drawn out of the breasts of both Testaments, etc. (1684), 188, 189.
  • Spitzer chart, 275.
  • Spring, Robert, 105, 106.
  • Stanton, Edwin M., 298, 299.
  • Stevens, Henry, 243, 244.
  • Story of a Whistle, The, 196.
  • Strawberry Hill Press, the, 13.
  • Streeter, Thomas E., 200.
  • Stuart, John T., 290.
  • Sussex, Duke of, 248.
  • Swann, Mrs. Arthur W., 54.
  • Sweynheym and Pannartz, 231.
  • Sykes, Sir Mark, 248.
  • Taft, C. S., 294.
  • Tea-ship broadside, 266.
  • Tempest, The, 265.
  • Thackeray, William M., forged notes of, 109, 111;
  • genuine MS. of, 110.
  • Thomas, Isaiah, 202.
  • Thomas à Becket, 232.
  • Thou, Jacques Auguste de, 21, 24.
  • Token for Children, being an exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives and Joyous Deaths of Several Young Children (1749), 189, 190.
  • Token for the Children of New England or some Examples of Children, in whom the Fear of God was remarkably budding before they died, etc., 190, 191.
  • Tom Jones, 36, 204.
  • Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of, 187.
  • Tom Sawyer Abroad, 164, 165.
  • Tower of London, architect of the, 222.
  • Travers, Clayton L., 191, 192.
  • Treasure Island, 122, 187.
  • Treaties, Collections of (Jenkinson), 20.
  • Troylus and Cresseida, title page (1609), 147.
  • True Relation of such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate as hath hapned in Virginia (Smith), 277.
  • True Relation of the most prosperous Voyage made this present year 1605 in the Discovery of the Land of Virginia, A (Rosier), 277.
  • Tunstall, Bishop Cuthbert, 234, 235.
  • Tyndale, William, 234, 235, 236.
  • Ulysses (Joyce), MS. page of, 171.
  • Unpublishable Memoirs, 82.
  • Utopia (More), 60, 61.
  • Van Antwerp, William C., 84.
  • Vatican library, 221.
  • Vega, Lope Felix de, 77.
  • Venus and Adonis, 51, 52, 53.
  • Verses for Little Children, by a Friend, 200.
  • Vespucci, Amerigo, letter of, 55, 56, 57.
  • Vespucci, Giorgio Antonio, 56, 57.
  • Victory (Conrad), MS. page of, 144.
  • Virginia Journal, 19.
  • Virtuous William, 187.
  • Voyages, De Bry’s, 275.
  • Wagner, Wilhelm Richard, MS. of, 73.
  • Waldseemüller, Martin, 273.
  • Walker, Gen. Leroy P., 292, 293.
  • Walker, Matilda Pope, 293.
  • Wallace, Sir Richard, 248.
  • Walpole, Horace, 13, 14, 130.
  • Walton, Izaak, 30.
  • Warner, Benjamin, 5.
  • Warren, Gen. Joseph, 287.
  • Washington, George, letters of, 9, 10, 11;
  • locket with hair of, 15, 16;
  • books from library of, 19, 20;
  • MS. of, 106, 107;
  • forged correspondence of, 108;
  • autographed copy of Proceedings of the Convention (Richmond, 1775), 285.
  • Washington, Martha, 20, 21;
  • letter written by G. W. for, 106, 107.
  • Webster, Noah, 6, 206.
  • Wehkomaonganoo Asquam Peantogig, 43, 79.
  • West Indian Voyage (Drake), 275.
  • When We Were Very Young, 28.
  • White, Gilbert, MS. of, 251.
  • White, William A., 33, 157, 253.
  • Whitman, Walt, MS. of “By Emerson’s Grave,” 152, 153, 154.
  • Who Killed Cock Robin, 209.
  • Widekind, King, Gospels of, 223, 224.
  • Widener, Harry Elkins, 45, 46, 66, 85.
  • Widener, Joseph, 87, 218.
  • Widener Library (Harvard), 45, 46, 66, 85.
  • Widener, P. A. B., 45, 80, 218.
  • Wilde, Oscar, original and forged MSS. of, 94, 112;
  • Salomé, 112, 113, 114, 116;
  • dedication of The Sphinx to Mrs. Campbell, 115.
  • William Penn’s Conversion from a Gentleman to a Quaker, 282, 283.
  • William the Conqueror, 222, 257.
  • Windsor Castle library, 217.
  • Winnie-the-pooh, 187.
  • Winship, George Parker, 288.
  • Winthrop, John (Governor), 185, 187, 281.
  • Wise, Thomas J., 42, 256.
  • Wolsey (Thomas), Cardinal, 234, 235.
  • Wood, William, 282.
  • Wrigley and Berriman, 206, 207.
  • Wroth, Lawrence C., 288.
  • Wynkyn de Worde, 62.
  • Yale University Library, 220.
  • Young, Owen D., 157.
  • Zodyacke of Life, The, 77.