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The Book-Collector / A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

Chapter 33: Footnotes
By William Carew Hazlitt
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A wide-ranging survey of book-collecting that combines historical overview, practical guidance, and anecdote. It treats printed books and manuscripts as distinct fields, compares strategies for modest and wealthy collectors, and outlines market mechanisms such as auctions and the concentration of rare volumes in urban centers. Chapters address libraries, bindings, special copies, inscriptions, and methods for sourcing and assessing items, while appended notes and an index supply further bibliographical detail. The writer leverages long practical experience to offer recommendations, case studies, and reflections aimed at readers who wish to form, catalogue, or better understand private and public collections.

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[10] Owing to circumstances for which neither the writer nor the printers are responsible, some sheets were worked, before the corrections had been carried out.

 

INDEX

  • Acton, Lord, 57-58
  • Adam Bel, 121
  • Addington, S., 45
  • Advice in the formation of a catalogue, 277
  • Advice in the formation of a library, 275-276
  • Advice to collectors, 255-256, 282
  • Aldenham, Lord (H. H. Gibbs), 56-57, 58
  • Alexander de Villâ Dei (Ville Dieu), 217
  • Alleyn, Edward, 32
  • Althorp Library, 48
  • Amateur binding, 249-250, 340
  • American laws, bibliography of, 279
  • American libraries, 34, 36, 341
  • American literature, 72-73
  • American market, 13, 36, 70-72, 145, 151, 158-160, 213, 257, 304-307
  • American reprints of English books, 158
  • Amherst, Hon. Alicia, 25
  • Anathema against book-thieves, 30
  • Ancient bindings, 209-210
  • Anglo-American literature, 158
  • Anglo-French collectors, 27, 173, 192-194
  • Anne, Queen, 39
  • Arthur, Romance of, printed by Caxton, 301, 305
  • Arundel Books and MSS., 4, 55
  • Ashburnham Library, 5, 47, 49-51, 275, 328, 330
  • Ashburton, Lord, 27
  • Aubrey, John, 19
  • Auctions, 141-142, 310 et seqq., 5, 323, 342
  • Auctions, catalogues of, 318, 332
  • Auctions, provincial, 315
  • Aulus Gellius, 104, 337
  • Autographs in books, 195 et seqq.
  • Autographs in French books, 210-211
  • Aymon, Four Sons of, 338
  • Bagford, John, 24, 122, 322
  • Baker, Thomas, 221
  • Ballads, 45, 78
  • Bamborough Castle, 336
  • Barclay's Ship of Fools, 222
  • Bargains, 20, 287
  • Barnard, Sir F., 38
  • Barretts of Lee, 9
  • Bay Psalm Book, 159
  • Bayle's Dictionary, 94
  • Beckford, W., 56, 208-209
  • Bedford Missal, 248
  • Bewick, W., 184
  • Bibles, 68-69, 199, 204, 223, 299-301, 304
  • Biblioclasts, 123-124
  • Bibliomania, 19-20
  • Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris, 29, 38
  • Biddings, low, 324-325
  • Binding, 220 et seqq., 338, 340
  • Blanchardine and Eglantine, 35
  • Blenheim Palace library, 43
  • Blount's Jocular Tenures, 215
  • Bolingbroke, Lord, 205
  • Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, 57
  • Book of St. Albans, 303
  • Book-Clubs, 7, 257, 280
  • Book-collecting centres (old), 33
  • Book-lovers, 15-17, 88, 94
  • Book-market (1810-1870), 46
  • Book-recipients, 90
  • Book trade, 293
  • Books of reference, 262-263
  • Books, which are books, 94-108
  • Bradshaw, Henry, 52, 158
  • Breton, Nicholas, 80, 149-151
  • Bridgewater library, 56, 58, 272
  • Bright, B. H., 5, 47
  • Bristol, 335
  • Bristol booksellers, 10, 336
  • British Museum, 4, 31, 42, 53, 121, 263, 270, 341
  • Britton, Thomas, 320
  • Britwell Library, 25-26, 41-43, 277
  • Brooke, Thomas, 203
  • Brown, Tom, 316
  • Brydges, Sir Egerton, 335
  • Bunburys of Bury, 9
  • Burneys, the, 208
  • Burns, R., 305
  • Bury, 8-9, 335
  • Bute, Earls and Marquises of, 56
  • Cæsar, Sir Julius, 323
  • Calendaries' Gild at Bristol, 335
  • Cambridge, 10-11, 30-33, 65, 77, 201, 275, 316, 336
  • Capell's Shakespeariana, 275
  • Capital books, 296, 338
  • Carew MSS., 5
  • Carleton, Sir Dudley, 151
  • Catalogues of libraries, 46, 57-58, 310
  • Caveat Emptor, 282
  • Cavendish, Henry, 57
  • Caxton, W., 21, 24, 77, 201, 232, 301, 328
  • Cervantes, 113
  • Chained books, 34
  • Chamberlain, John, 150
  • Changes of taste, 135, 139
  • Chap-books, 76
  • Characters, books of, 65
  • Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, printed by Caxton, 5, 301, 306
  • Cheap literature, 111
  • Chetham, Humphrey, 33, 205
  • Church libraries, 33
  • Circulating libraries, 6-7, 335
  • City Companies, 200, 204
  • Civil War tracts, 65
  • Classification of libraries, 59-91
  • Colchester, 336
  • Coleridge, S. T., 15, 207
  • Collections, English, 54
  • Collectors of MSS., 4-5
  • Collier, John Payne, 41, 57, 270
  • Collins, William, 8
  • Colonial (North American) literature, 158-160
  • Combe, Thomas, 337
  • Commission system, 307-309
  • Concubranus, 221, 343
  • Continental libraries, 34
  • Cooper, William, 319
  • Copper-plates, 182
  • Copyright, 176
  • Correction of the press, 177
  • Corser, Rev. Thomas, 14, 47, 273
  • Cotton, Sir Robert, 4
  • Counterfeit bindings, 256
  • Crawford, Earl of, 274
  • Crichton, James, 68
  • Cuisinier François, 22
  • Cunliffe, Henry, 47
  • Currer, Miss Richardson, 25, 47-48
  • Danby, Lord Treasurer, 205
  • Daniel, George, 20, 42, 45-47, 272
  • Daniel, Samuel, 20, 28, 45-47
  • Davenant, Sir W., 215
  • Davies, Sir Thomas, 207
  • Day, Stephen, printer at Cambridge (N.E.), 159
  • Dedications, 214-215
  • D'Eon, Chevalier, 21-24
  • Derings of Surrenden, 5
  • Destruction of books, 18, 125, 338
  • Devonshire, Duke of, 41, 57
  • Diane de Poitiers bindings, 231
  • Dickens, Charles, 7
  • Dilettanti, 82
  • Doran, Dr., 89
  • Dorat, 187-188
  • Drayton, Michael, 202, 205, 338
  • Driffield, Thomas, 336
  • Dryden, John, 201-202
  • Dulwich College, 32
  • Dunfermline, 335
  • Dunton, John, 7, 319
  • Durham and Winchester bindings, 222
  • Dyce, Rev. A., 40, 54, 79
  • Earle, Mrs., 24
  • Earliest productions of the press, 18
  • Early English literature, 144 et seqq.
  • East Anglia, 9, 335-336
  • Edge-painting, 248
  • Edinburgh, 335
  • Edition de Luxe, 191
  • Edwards of Halifax, 244, 248
  • Elements of interest in books, 296
  • Elizabeth's (Queen) Prayer Book, 249
  • Elizabethan literature, 143 et seqq.
  • Ellenbog, Udalric, 226
  • Elliott's Brewery at Pimlico, 42
  • Emblems, Books of, 64-65, 337
  • English and foreign presses, 67-68, 153
  • English binders, 201, 208, 220 et seqq., 242, et seqq., 340
  • English books abroad, 35
  • English collectors, 4-5, 8-9, 11, 14-16, 54-58
  • English lists of, 244, 246
  • English presses, 153-154
  • English series, 149
  • Enscheden collection at Haarlem, 35
  • Ephemeral schools of writers, 173
  • Esprit in binding, 228
  • Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 205
  • Evelyn, John, 9, 312, 315
  • Eves, the two, 251
  • Fanshawe, Sir R., 202
  • Farrer of Little Gidding, 247
  • Fenn, Sir John, 9, 123, 151, 295, 332
  • Fictitious imprints, 153-154
  • First editions, 174-176, 178
  • FitzGerald, Edward, 88
  • Flockton, bookseller at Canterbury, 335
  • Florio, John, 202, 205, 214, 339
  • Foljambe, Sir F., 202
  • Foreign liveries for English books, 249
  • Foreign presses for the same, 153
  • Forster, John, 54, 65
  • Fountaine Collection, 196, 336
  • Four Sons of Aymon, 122, 338
  • Fragments of books, 115-119, 122, 338
  • Franklin, Benjamin, 335
  • Franks, Sir Wollaston, 214
  • Fraser of Lovat, 336
  • Free libraries, 7, 161-163
  • French binders, 234, 236, 238, 251, et seqq., 341
  • French list of, 252
  • French books, 186-187, 192-194
  • French collectors, 22, 192-194
  • French taste in collecting, 36
  • French works of reference, 278
  • Frere sale, 295, 332
  • Freres, The, 9
  • Garlands, 77
  • George III., 40
  • Gilding of books, 234
  • Goffering, 340
  • Gold binding, 214
  • Grenville, Thomas, 15, 46, 271
  • Grolier bindings, 226, 230-231
  • Grolier Club, 257
  • Guarini, B., 203
  • Illuminated MSS., 335
  • Illustrated Books, 178 et seqq., 278, 339
  • Illustrated copies, 189-191
  • Imitatio Christi, 64, 111
  • Imperfect books, 134
  • Incanto, 313
  • Inch of candle, 314, 341
  • Inglis library, 54, 56
  • Inns of Court, 11
  • Irish collectors, 158
  • Irish presses, 157
  • Irish series, 156-158
  • Jenynges, Edward, 338
  • Jermyn, Henry, 215
  • Johnson, Dr., 38, 55, 103, 339
  • Johnsons of Spalding, 19, 51-53
  • Jolley, Thomas, 81
  • Jonson, Benjamin, 202
  • Josephine, the Empress, 211
  • Jubinal, Achille, 29
  • Judith, History of, 1565, 338
  • Keir Library, 191
  • Kentish collectors, 9
  • Killigrew, T., 205
  • Kinloss Abbey, 204
  • Kirkman, F., 311
  • Knight, Charles, 7
  • Kressen, Anton, of Nürnberg, 210
  • Laing, David, 11
  • Lamb, Charles, 6, 15, 88, 139, 158, 207, 209, 240
  • Lambeth Library, 5
  • Lambton, Henry, 202
  • Langbaine, Gerard, 339
  • Langland, Andrew, 204
  • Laycock, W., 79
  • Lee-Warlys, the, 9
  • Leigh, George, auctioneer, 24, 208
  • Le Houx, Jean, 112-113
  • Le Neve, P., 5
  • Le Stranges of Hunstanton, 335
  • Levant morocco, 225, 250
  • Libraries, Cathedral, 33
  • Libraries, College, 31
  • Libraries, Foreign, 34
  • Libraries, National, 31
  • Libraries, Provincial, 336
  • Libraries compared, 15-17, 38
  • Lichfield, William, 121
  • Limited market for rarer books, 138
  • Lincoln Cathedral, 33, 336
  • Lincoln Nosegay, 269
  • Lincolnshire, two give-away sales in, 133
  • Little Gidding bindings, 247
  • Liturgies, 63, 68
  • Locker-Lampson, F., 45, 58
  • Longleat library, 56
  • Lost books, 120-128, 130, 133
  • Louis XV., 230
  • Louis XVI., 211
  • Lounging Books of a Gentleman, 1788, 326
  • Lovelace's Lucasta, 129
  • Luttrell, Narcissus, 21, 77
  • Lydgate's Troy-Book, 35-36
  • Lyonnese calf, 225, 249
  • Macaulay, Lord, 6
  • M'Culloch, J. R., 3-4
  • Maidment, James, 11
  • Maioli bindings, 231
  • Maitland, Lord, 312
  • Malone, Edmond, 21, 339
  • Manesse Liderbuch, 304
  • Manuscript Notes in Books, 206, 339
  • Manuscripts, 4-5
  • Marie Antoinette, 36, 187, 211
  • Marler, Anthony, 200
  • Marlowe, Christopher, 35, 89, 284, 336
  • Maroquin de Constantinople, 225
  • Martin of Palgrave, T., 5, 9, 123
  • Massinger, Philip, 202
  • Materials in which books have been bound, 223 et seqq.
  • Materials on which books have been printed, 137, 216-220, 339
  • Mazarin or Gutenberg Bible, 44-45, 69, 300-301
  • Medical literature, 73
  • Mentelin, Johann, 209
  • Mesdames de France, 230
  • Middle-Hill Library, 80
  • Millers of Craigentinny, 42-43, 337
  • Millington, Edward, 316, 319
  • Milton, John, 201
  • Miscellaneous collectors, 80
  • Missæ Speciales, 299
  • Mitford, Rev. John, 9
  • Modern side in collecting, 161 et seqq.
  • Molière, 254
  • Monastic binding, 221
  • Monastic writers, 66
  • Monographs, 279
  • Montague, R., 340
  • Montaigne, 29, 101, 106, 109, 111, 200, 339
  • Moore, John, Bishop of Ely, 123
  • More, Sir T., 204
  • Morgan, Pierpont, 341-342
  • Morocco bindings (early), 223, 253
  • Motives for selling libraries, 325
  • Murray, Regent, 204
  • Napoleon, 211-212
  • Nash, Richard, 206
  • Newcastle, Duchess of, 15
  • Newton, Sir Isaac, 215
  • Norfolk, Duke of, library given to Royal Society, 55
  • North family, 316
  • Northcote family, 204
  • Obsolete books of reference, 263-265, 266-267
  • Occult Literature, 74
  • Ogilby, John, 315
  • Oldys, W., 339
  • Old-fashioned English libraries, 38
  • Orestes, 1567, 338
  • Osterley Park library, 55, 301
  • Over-production of books (former), 13
  • Oxford, 4-5, 11, 30-32, 65, 77, 114, 153, 275, 335
  • Oxford Harleys, Earls of, 37-38
  • Oxindens of Barham, 9, 335
  • Palsgrave, John, 178
  • Parkhurst, Thomas, 318
  • Parr family, 199
  • Parzival and Titurell, 330
  • Paston Letters, 332
  • Patmore, Coventry, 218
  • Paul's Head Tavern in Carter Lane, 320
  • Pennant, Thomas, 337
  • Pepys, S., 24, 33, 76-77, 208, 215, 284, 286, 312, 315
  • Peterborough Cathedral, 336
  • Petre, Lord, 9
  • Petrarch, 209-210
  • Phillipps, Sir T., 5, 81
  • Picas of Salisbury use, 77
  • Pilgrim Fathers, 72, 159
  • Pirkheimer Library, 55
  • Plantin Museum, 35
  • Playing-cards, 279
  • Plymouth, 338
  • Pope, A., 205
  • Porter, Endymion, 215
  • Prices of books, 20-21, 170-171, 285 et seqq.
  • Prices of binding, 171, 338
  • Prideaux, Miss, 250, 340
  • Provincial bindings, 247
  • Provincial booksellers, 8-11
  • Psalters of 1457 and 1459, 299-300, 304
  • Public libraries, 29-36
  • Pyne, Henry, 70, 89-90
  • Quaritch's catalogue of bindings, 1888, 257
  • Quaritch's General catalogue, 255-256
  • Rabirius, Junius, 313
  • Randolph, Thomas, 147
  • Rarities in early English series, 149
  • Rawlinson, Thomas, 320
  • Rea or Rede, Francis, bookbinder, 201
  • Reed, Isaac, 89, 335
  • Reference books, 165, 259 et seqq., 292
  • Reference libraries, 7
  • Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 3, 206
  • Richard Cœur de Lion, 1509, 49
  • Richards, John, a Dorsetshire farmer, 7
  • Richardson, Edmond, 208, 340
  • Rig, the, 333-334
  • Rimbault, Dr., 80
  • Risks of realisation, 140-142
  • Robert of Leicester, 336
  • Robespierre, 211, 339
  • Rodd, Thomas, 20
  • Rolle of Hampole, Richard, 205
  • Rolls of collectors, Hazlitt's, 6, 25, 37, 86, 90, 336
  • Romish literature, 67
  • Roxburghe, John, Earl of, 39
  • Roxburghe Library, 11, 39, 40, 46, 335
  • Royal books, 198-200
  • Rylands, Mrs., 25, 48
  • Sandars, Samuel, 32, 54, 336
  • Sanderson, Cobden, 250
  • Savile family, 204
  • Schreiber, Lady Charlotte, 48
  • Scotland, 7, 11, 19, 149, 204
  • Scotish binders, 244-246
  • Scotish collectors, 11, 19, 155, 204, 229, 336
  • Scotish presses, 155
  • Scotish series, 149
  • Scott, Robert, 319
  • Seaman, Lazarus, 315, 317, 342
  • Separation of sets of books, 235
  • Service-books, 63, 148
  • Shakespear, W., 13, 20-21, 22, 35, 38, 80, 100, 170, 205, 207, 214, 233, 275, 302-303, 339
  • Ship of Fools, 222
  • Simeon, Sir John, 81
  • Sion College, 32, 335
  • Skene of Skene, 19
  • Slatyer's Palæalbion, 1621, 339
  • Smith, George, 274
  • Smith, Richard, 316
  • Smollett, T., 246
  • Solly, Edward, 81
  • Somers Tracts, 79
  • Southey's Cottonian Library, 249
  • Spanish binding, 230, 267-268
  • Special collections in public libraries, 33
  • Special copies of books, 200
  • Specialists, 60 et seqq., 79-80
  • Spencer, Lord, 49, 271
  • Spenser, Edmund, 128, 201, 233, 241
  • Spoliation of public libraries, 29, 336
  • Steevens, George, 89, 335
  • Stirling-Maxwell, Sir W., 191, 339
  • Subjects or Lines, choice of, for libraries, 59-91
  • Sullivan, Sir Edward, 250, 340
  • Superabundance of books, 13
  • Surrey collectors, 9
  • Swinton, General, 11
  • Sydneys of Penshurst, 9
  • Taylor, John, 202
  • Technical treatises, 75
  • Thomason the stationer, 65, 194
  • Thomas Limner of Bury, 335
  • Thorold, Sir John, 56
  • Thorpe, Thomas, 45
  • Thought or mind in binding, 228
  • "Three-halfpenny ware," 150
  • Tite, Sir W., 43
  • Toledo Missal, 303
  • Tollemaches, the, 9, 45
  • Tom's coffee-house, 320
  • Tonson, Jacob, 201
  • Translations, 109-114, 337
  • Turbervile, George, 233
  • Turner, Dawson, 9
  • Turner, J. M. W., 181
  • Turner, R. S., 27
  • Twopenny biddings, 325
  • Twysden, Mary, 205
  • Types of collectors, 88-91
  • Tyrrwhitt, Lady Elizabeth, 214
  • Unique books, 338, 341
  • Unique English books abroad, 35
  • Universities, 10-11, 65, 77, 336
  • Usher, Archbishop, 205
  • Vaux de Vire, 112-113
  • Venetian school of binding, 246, 340
  • Venice, 34
  • Verard, Antoine, 335
  • Vocabulary of auctions, 330
  • Voyages and travels, 70
  • Walton, Isaak, 203, 213, 233
  • Warton, Thomas, 8, 20
  • Weale, Jacobus, 53, 64
  • West of England, 10, 336, 338
  • Westminster Abbey, 34
  • Westmorland, Earl of, 339
  • White, Gilbert, 108, 337
  • Williams, Lord-Keeper, 34
  • Willoughby family, 204
  • Wodhull, Michael, 208
  • Wolfreston books, 323
  • Wycherley, W., 204-205
  • Wynns of Peniarth, 57