The Book-Hunter at Home

49. The collecting of old School Books is a branch of our hobby that seldom engages the bibliophile's attention. Doubtless the recollection of many painful hours spent in their company is responsible for their neglect. Yet there is a charm about the early-printed Mentors of our youth which it is impossible to deny, and there is a growing demand for them—as the booksellers will tell you. The number that has disappeared from the ken of bibliographer must be large, for it is difficult to imagine a more unpopular type of book—at least with those who are obliged to use them; and if your taste has altered to such an extent that you now desire them above all things, you may reasonably hope to unearth many a curio.

Our earliest printers were concerned with such works. In 1483 John Anwykyll's Latin Grammar was printed at Oxford, and we must not forget Caxton's 'Stans Puer ad Mensam,' put forth in 1478. Pynson issued a 'Promptorium Puerorum sive Medulla Grammaticæ' in 1499, and De Worde printed others. Most of the productions of the famous St. Albans press were school books, to the annoyance of the boys at the Grammar School there. Hoole's 'New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching School' is understood to have been a most unpopular discovery among his scholars. It was first printed at London in 1660, and was reprinted in facsimile at the University Press, Liverpool, in 1913. At the end of this reprint is a useful bibliography of ancient school books, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century.

Hoole's pupils must have been somewhat out of the ordinary. 'N.B.,' he remarks in 'The Usher's Duty,' 'Those children that are more industriously willing to thrive, may advantage themselves very much by perusal of Gerards Meditations, Thomas de Kempis, St. Augustins Soliloquies, or his Meditations, or the like pious and profitable Books, which they may buy both in English and Latine, and continually bear about in their pockets, to read on at spare times.' Upon enquiry at one of our larger public schools, however, I find that the number of children—even those who are more industriously willing to thrive—who advantage themselves by continually bearing these pious books in their pockets is not large.

50. The next heading in our list, Sports, Games, and Pastimes, naturally comprises a large number of sub-headings. The term 'sport' may be confined[88] conveniently to those subjects which have to do with animals, such as Angling, Coaching, Cock-fighting, Coursing, Falconry, Hunting, Horses, Racing, Steeplechasing, and Shooting. Other subjects, chiefly of an outdoor nature, may be classed as Pastimes, such as Archery, Boxing, Fencing, Mountaineering, Skating, and Yachting. Then there are the diversions of short duration governed by rules, which we call games, such as Cricket, Curling, Bowls, Football, Cards, Chess, etc. There are bibliographies of almost all these, which you will find in Mr. Courtney's work. If you are fond of hunting you will enjoy Mr. Baillie-Grohman's edition of the famous 'Livre de Chasse' of Gaston Phœbus, Comte de Foix. It was translated into English by Edward, Duke of York, between 1406 and 1413, under the title 'The Master of Game'; and to this reprint of 1909 is added a list of old hunting books, and a valuable glossary of ancient hunting terms and phrases. 'La Chasse de Loup,' a small quarto printed at Paris in 1576, is a scarce work. It consists of but 22 folios, and has 14 large woodcuts, and it is by Jean de Clamorgan, Seigneur de Saane. But you will find this treatise in La Maison Rustique.

Books on cock-fighting are not very numerous, nor of frequent occurrence. A number of such works are mentioned by Mr. Harrison Weir in that part of 'Our Poultry' which deals with game-fowl. 'The Royal Pastime of Cockfighting,' by R. H. (i.e. Robert Howlet), a duodecimo printed at London in 1709, is now very scarce and valuable; but a facsimile reprint (100 copies) was issued in 1899. 'The Cocker,' by 'W. Sketchly, gent.,' is of fairly frequent appearance, though a copy will cost you four or five pounds. But it has been reprinted at least twice. A small volume entitled 'Cocking and its Votaries' by S. A. T[aylor] was put forth in 1880, but our book-hunter has not yet been so fortunate as to come across a copy.[89] It was, I believe, privately printed. Old Roger Ascham was a keen devotee of this sport, and wrote a volume entitled 'The Book of the Cockpit'; but no copy of this work is known (at least to bibliographers) to exist at the present day. 'But of all kinds of pastimes fit for a Gentleman,' he writes in 'The Scholemaster,' 'I will, God willing, in a fitter place more at large declare fully, in my Book of the Cockpit; which I do write to satisfy some.' From which it seems that he was actually engaged upon the book. Apparently there is no record of its publication, though an old devotee of the sport once told Mr. Harrison Weir that he had seen a copy. 'The Commendation of Cockes and Cock-fighting; Wherein is shewed, that Cocke-fighting was before the comming of Christ,' by George Wilson, the sporting Vicar of Wretton, was printed in black letter by Henry Tomes 'over against Graies Inne Gate, in Holbourne,' in 1607. I wish you luck, brother collector, but I cannot be sanguine that you will ever come across a copy though it was many times reprinted. The tenth edition is dated 1655.

Under this heading also are included books on Dogs, Cats and Bees (!) though the inclusion of the latter reminds one of the story of the imported tortoise, which the customs officials (after much debate) decided was an insect, and therefore not liable to quarantine! Then there are books of sporting memoirs, sporting dictionaries, sport in particular countries, as well as works which treat of Maypoles and Mumming, Festivals, and old English pastimes.

Books upon Dancing, Cards, Chess, and other games all have their devotees. 'A Bibliography of Works in English on Playing Cards and Gaming,' by Mr. Frederic Jessel, appeared in 1905, octavo. The library of M. Preti of Paris, a well-known chess-player who devoted his attention to the history of the game, was sold at Sotheby's early in 1909. It included 362 lots, comprising some 1600 volumes; but the entire collection realised only £355. The sale catalogue is a useful one—if you are so fortunate as to come across it. But there is a numerous bibliography and you will find a list of such volumes in Mr. W. P. Courtney's 'Register of National Bibliography.'

51. Theology and the Lives of the Fathers of the Early Christian Church is a field of such magnitude that we may divide it conveniently into periods or countries or controversies. Books on the Council of Trent engage the attentions of some, others are attracted by the history of the Waldenses or the Byzantine Churches. Some again specialise in the writings of certain great characters, such as Bonaventura, Augustine, or Erasmus. A 'Bibliotheca Erasmiana, ou Repertoire des Œuvres d'Erasme' appeared at Ghent in 1893 and was followed four years later by a new edition. Similarly there are now accounts of the writings of almost all the great Churchmen, such as Cranmer, Latimer, Tindale, Laud, Ken, etc. The only bibliography of Knox with which I am acquainted is that appended to the six volumes of Laing's edition of his works, published at Edinburgh 1846-64.

52. Tobacco is a cheery subject for the book-collector, and somehow the very word conjures up a vision of warmth and comfort.

What book-collector, I do not mean book-speculator, does not smoke a pipe? I refuse to believe that any book-lover could possibly sit in an easy chair before the fire and pore over Browne's 'Hydriotaphia,' Sidney's 'Arcadia,' More's 'Utopia,' or Cotton's 'Montluc' (all in folio, please) without a pipe in his mouth. Why, it is unthinkable. Yet the books which treat of tobacco are not all couched in that tranquil tone which is induced by the soothing weed. 'The whole output of literature on tobacco,' writes Professor Routh, 'is eminently characteristic of the age in its elaborate titles, far-fetched conceits, and bitter invective. The spirit of criticism is so strong that even the partisans of the weed satirise the habits of the smoker.' King James's 'Counter Blaste to Tobacco,' first issued in 1604, Braithwaite's 'The Smoaking Age,' 1617, and Barclay's 'Nepenthes, or, the Vertues of Tobacco,' 1614, have all been reprinted of late years. Bragge's 'Bibliotheca Nicotiana' was printed at Birmingham in 1880.

53. Topography and County Histories need not detain us. Anderson's 'Book of British Topography' is a list of County Histories, etc., that had appeared up to 1881; and Mr. A. L. Humphrey's 'Handbook to County Bibliography' amplifies and carries the record down to 1917. With this heading we can include the collection of Atlases and Maps. Sir H. G. Fordham's 'Studies in Carto-Bibliography, British and French, and in the Bibliography of Itineraries and Road Books' contains a useful bibliography of this subject. It was published by the Clarendon Press in 1914.

54. Books on Trades should form an interesting series for the collector. Works on 'Dialling' and Clock-making are frequent enough, but I do not remember to have come across very many books which treat of the locksmith's art or coach-making, though such volumes appear from time to time in the catalogues. There must be treatises on almost every trade under the sun; our book-hunter possesses a small volume which deals with the making of sealing-wax and wafers. Old treatises on brewing must be plentiful, as doubtless are volumes on all the larger and more important industries; but are there manuals for the loriner, the patten-maker, the umbrella-manufacturer? Doubtless there are, though they must be few in number, and scarce too, since those for whom they were intended probably would not be the best preservers of books. Only about a century ago a small manual was put forth for the use of those whose business was the heraldic decoration of carriage-panels. It was very popular in the trade, but is now scarcely to be had, and when found is invariably filthy and dilapidated. Like the little 'Pastissier François,' such practical treatises soon go the way of all superseded books.

55 and 56. Travel books and Voyages have already been discussed under the heading 'Foreign Parts'—the first subject with which I have dealt in detail. Most globe-trotters nowadays are members of the Royal Geographical Society, and the Library Catalogue of that institution is a valuable one for reference. It was printed in 1895, under the care of Mr. H. R. Mill.

And so I bid you farewell, brother book-hunter. There is no subject with which I have dealt but could have had a volume to itself: my aim throughout has been to strike the happy medium between a tedious list of titles and editions and a description too brief to be of interest. Thank you for your patience and sympathy (of the latter indeed I was assured at the outset, for we book-hunters are a class that knows no other feeling when reading about our beloved books), and allow me to express the sincere wish that good fortune may attend you on your expeditions. May your 'finds' be frequent, cheap, clean, tall, perfect, and broad of margin, and may you never suffer from borrowers, bookworms, acid-tanned leathers, clumsy letterers and insecure shelf-fastenings. May good scribbling paper, sharp pencils, uncrossed nibs, clean ink and blotting-paper be ever at your hand, and may your days be passed in wholesome leisure, in the divine fellowship of books. Vale.

The End.

INDEX

• Achademios, Skelton's, 11.
• Aeschylus, translations of, 71.
• Aesop, the Fabulous Tales of, 12.
• Aethiopica, the, 86.
• Africa, books on, 206, 209.
• Agincourt Expedition, the, 50.
• Agriculture, books on, 238.
• A Kempis, Thomas, 217.
• Alaric's grave, 104.
• Alchemy, books on, 245, 256.
• Alfred, king, 101.
  • —— his tomb, 104.
• Allibone's Critical Dictionary, 163.
• Americana, 210.
• Ames' Typographical Antiquities, 7, 8, 169.
• Amyot, Père, 86.
• Ancillon, Charles, 81.
• Andrada, Tomaso de, 155.
• Anjou, René duc d', 87.
• Antiphonaries, Spanish, 129.
• Aquinas, Thomas, 37.
• Arabian Nights, the, 77.
• Arber's Term Catalogues, 162.
• Architecture, books on, 211.
• Arctic and Antarctic, books on, 206.
• Aristophanes, translations of, 71.
• Armorial bindings, 115 n.
• Arthur, King, his character, 89.
• Ascham, Roger, on books of Chivalry, 87.
  • —— on Cambridge, 38.
  • —— his Book of the Cockpit, 262.
• Association books, 172.
• Astrology, books on, 253-256.
• Astronomy, books on, 244.
• Attic Theatre, the, 73.
• Auctions, the history of book-, 187.
• Auction Records, Book-, 191.
• Augustine, St., on Varro, 154.
• Austen, Jane, her Mansfield Park, 113.
  • —— on novels, 63.
• Australia, books on, 207.
• Aymon, the Four Sons of, 14, 15.

• Balin and Balan, 95.
• Ballads, 220.
• Ballatis, Gude and Godlie, 13.
• Bankes's IX. Drunkardes, 257.
• Barbary, books on, 209-210.
• Barbier's Ouvrages Anonymes, 169.
• Barbier, Louis, 154.
• Barclay's Euphormionis, 11.
• Barocci, Giacomo, his library, 181.
• Barrow, a desecrated, 103.
• Barton, Elizabeth, her book, 13.
• Bassé, Nicholas of Frankfort, 178.
• Beckmann, Johann, on catalogues, 176-178, 180, 188.
• Belvedere, motto at, 38 n.
• Bernard, Dr. Francis, 13 n.
• Bewick, books on, 168.
• Bibles, 212.
• Bibliographica, 167.
• Bibliographies of Bibliographies, 170.
  • —— some early, 154-156.
• Bibliography, 150-156, 160-170.
  • —— compiling a, 151-153, 156.
  • —— examples of great industry in, 154.
  • —— the objects of, 150.
• Bibliography, Mr. Courtney's Register of National, 170, 205.
  • —— Growoll's English Book Trade, 181.
• Bigmore and Wyman's Bibliography of Printing, 167.
• Bill, John, 181.
• Binding, see Bookbinding.
• Biographies, 213.
  • —— Dictionaries of, 217.
• Bishop, a Tudor, his town house, 19.
• Black Prince, the, 90, 92.
  • —— his household book, 18.
• Blackie, Professor, quoted, 59.
• Blades' Life of Caxton, 165.
• Blagrave's Manor-house, 244 n.
• Block-Books, Sotheby on, 166.
• Boccaccio, on translating, 73.
• Bonaventura, 37.
• Book-Auction Records, 191.
• Book of Curtesye, the 223.
• Book of Good Manners, the, 14.
• Bookhunter, Burton's, 21.
• Book-Prices Current, 191.
• Books Printed Abroad, English, 242.
• Books, the care of, 126.
  • —— the charm of old, 106-108.
  • —— cleaning, 145-149.
  • —— English printed abroad, 242.
  • —— the five classes of, 120-122.
  • —— imperfect, 112, 116-120.
  • —— lost, 10-21.
  • —— repairing, see Bookbinding.
  • —— travel far afield, 17.
• Bookbinders, London, 139.
• Bookbinding, 135-140.
  • —— books on, 135, 136.
  • —— leathers, 137, 138.
  • —— prescription for, 137, 139-140.
• Bookbindings, Armorial, 115 n.
  • —— collecting, 203.
  • —— old, their value, 113-115.
  • —— paper, 116, 141-145.
  • —— polishing old, 141.
  • —— preservative for, 141.
  • —— repairing, 109-115, 141-145.
• Bookcases, 128-134.
• Book-collectors, the Doctor, 42.
  • —— the Genealogist, 40-42.
  • —— the Sailor, 43.
  • —— the Soldier, 49.
  • —— the Traveller, 44-48.
• Bookplates, works on, 115 n.
• Booksellers, books upon, 182 n.
  • —— Mr. McKerrow's Dictionary of, 183.
• Bookshelves, making, 128-134.
  • —— staining, 131, 132.
• Botany, early, 245-247.
• Boucicault, Marshal Jean, 213-214.
• Bouillon, Godfrey de, 89.
• Bourchier, Sir Henry, 181.
• Box, an old, 18.
• British Museum Catalogue, 163.
  • —— —— talking in the Reading Room of the, 34.
• Brittany, old books in, 28.
  • —— old hostel in, 29.
• Britwell Court Library, 210.
• Broadsides, 220, 228.
• Browne, Sir Thomas, 52.
  • —— quoted, 104, 233.
• Bruce, King Robert, 93.
• Brunet, J. C., 22.
  • —— his Manuel de Libraire, 163.
• Brydges' British Bibliographer, 162.
• Buckram for shelves, 132.
• Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 66.
• Burney, Admiral James, 208.
• Burns' Poems, value of, 190.
  • —— —— a unique copy of, 173.
• Burton, John Hill, quoted, 59.
  • —— his Bookhunter, 21.
• Burton's Arabian Nights, 78 n.
• Bury, Richard of, quoted, 65.
• Byron's English Bards, 190.
  • —— Poems, 189.
• Byron, J., Wreck of the Wager, 47.

• Cæsar, the Elzevier, 21-22, 24.
• Calderon, translations of, 73.
• Cambridge and Roger Ascham, 38.
  • —— books, Mr. Sayle on, 165.
• Camelot, 95, 97, 98.
• Campbell, Thomas, quoted, 47.
• Card Games, books on, 262.
• Castiglione, Baldassare, 19.
• Cataloguer, an Abbey, 54.
• Catalogues, bound at the end of books, 183-187.
  • —— early booksellers', 174-181.
  • —— a Restoration one, 184.
  • —— of Nicholas Bassé, 178.
  • ——  John Bill, 181.
  • ——  Johan Cless, 180.
  • ——  George Draud, 180.
  • ——  William Jaggard, 181.
  • ——  Andrew Maunsell, 181.
  • ——  Sweynheim and Pannartz, 179.
  • ——  Christian Wechel, 178.
• Caxton, his advertisement, 175.
  • —— binding by, 20.
  • —— book by, 20.
  • —— his Book of Good Manners, 14, 223.
  • —— on Chivalry, quoted, 90.
  • —— his Four Sons of Aymon, 14, 15.
  • —— The Life of, by Blades, 165.
  • —— a lost book by, 11.
  • —— and Malory, 98, 99.
  • —— his Metamorphoses of Ovid, 11.
  • —— on rebinding a, 114.
  • —— his Recueil des Histoires, 99.
  • —— his Speculum, 14.
• Cervantes' Don Quixote, 66, 74.
• 'Chafynghowys,' the, 34.
• Chance, 201.
• Chapbooks, 220, 228.
• Charlemagne, a story of, 196.
• Chasse de Loup, La, 261.
• Chaucer, quotations from, 1, 56, 94.
• Cheke, Sir John, 132.
• Chess, books on, 262.
• Chivalry, books on, 234.
  • —— a collector of books on, 200.
  • —— England the home of, 92.
  • —— romances of, 86-90, 227, 228.
  • —— and 'Sport,' 91.
• Chronograms, Hilton's, 168.
• Civil War, books on the, 221.
• Classics, the, 61, 70-73.
  • —— collecting the, 222.
• Claudin, M. Anatole, works by, 166.
• Cleaning books, 145-149.
• Clement's Bibliothèque Curieuse, 164.
• Clerkenwell, books bought in, 3, 18.
• Cless, Johan of Frankfort, 180.
• Cockfighting, books on, 261.
• Collating, 119, 152-153.
• Collectors, see Book-collectors.
• Collins, William, of Chichester, 11, 12.
• Colombière, La, books by, 235-236.
• Commonplace Books, 54-57.
• Commonwealth, books on the, 221.
• Companions to Greek and Latin Studies, 73.
• Conon, lost books by, 55.
• Cook, Captain, 207-208.
• Cookery Books, 222.
• Cooper's Thesaurus, 226.
• Coronation Books, 235.
• Cortigiano, Il, 19 n.
• Corvinus, Matthias, 86.
• Costume, books on, 224.
• Cotton, Sir Robert, his library, 133.
• Cotton's Typographical Gazetteer, 168.
• Courtney's Register of National Bibliography, 170, 205.
• Crabbe, quotation from, 31.
• Cranmer on the Maid of Kent, 13.
• Crawford, the Earl of, his Bibliotheca Lindesiana, 220, 221.
• Crimes, books on, 225.
• Croix du Maine, F. de la, 155.
• Croker's French Revolution collections, 233.
• Cromwell, Thomas, 15, 19.
• Curiosa, 228.
• Curll, Edmund, 185-186.
  • —— his edition of Prior, 9, 10.
• Curtesye, the Book of, 223.

• Dante, translations of, 75.
• David's book-stall, 3.
• Defence of Women, the, 16.
• De Gloria et Nobilitate, 4.
• Demonology, books on, 255.
• De Re Heraldica, 8.
• Despeisses, Anthony, 51.
• De Studio Militari, 5-8.
• Dibdin's works, 169.
• Dictionaries, 226.
• Digressions, 51-54.
• Disraeli, Isaac, quoted, 37.
• Don, story of a, 79.
• Don Quixote, 66, 74.
• Drama, books on the, 226.
• Draud, George of Frankfort, 180.
• Dress, books on, 224.
• Drinking-horns, 102.
• Dryden's Aeneid, 72.
• Duelling, books on, 248.
• Duff, Mr. E. G., books by, 161, 166, 183, 242.
  • —— quoted, 12, 13, 14, 16.
• Du Fresnoy, Lenglet, 108.
• Du Guesclin, Bertrand, 92, 216 n.
• Dumas, Alexandre, 22-24.

• Eale, the, 250-251.
• Early-Printed Books, 227.
  • —— —— —— authorities on, 164-166.
• Early Romances, 227.
• Ebrietatis Encomium, 186.
• Editions good and bad, 69-70.
• Elks, the Hercynian, 250.
• Elzeviers, 21 seq., 187.
• Engravers and Engraving, authorities on, 167.
  • —— —— books on, 240.
• Entomology, books on, 251.
• Epicœne or the Silent Woman, 13.
• Epitaph of the King of Scotland, the, 11.
• Errata, on, 170-171.
• Este, Alfonso d', 38 n.
• Etymologies, 226.
• Euphormionis Lusinini Sat., 11.
• Euripides, translations of, 71.
• Extra-illustrating, 125.

• Fabert, Abraham, 182.
• Fabulous Tales of Esope, 12.
• Facetiæ, 228.
• Farringdon Road, the, 18.
• Faust, translations of, 75.
• Faustus his book, 254.
• Fenn, Sir John, 20.
• Fetherstone, Henry, 181.
• Fitzgerald's Polonius, 192.
  • —— translations, 73.
• Flore et Zephyr, 189.
• Forgeries, book, 118-120.
• Four Sons of Aymon, the 14, 15.
• Freemasonry, books on, 232, 255.
• French Revolution, the, 82, 233.
  • —— —— Croker's Collections on the, 233.

• Gairdner, James, quoted, 20.
• Gardens, books on, 233.
• Gavaudan, quoted, 88.
• Genealogist, the, 40-42.
• Genealogy, books on, 234.
• Geology, books on, 251.
• Gibbon, Edward, 81.
• Gipsies, book on, 229.
• Giunta Terence, a, 3-4.
• Goeree, William, 182.
• Goethe, translations of, 75.
• Golden Legend, the, 217.
• Goste of Guido, the, 11.
• Graesse's Trésor de Livres Rares, 164.
• Grail, the Holy, 89, 93, 97.
  • —— —— appears to the Knights, 99, 100.
• Grangerising, 122-125.
• Graves, the desecration of, 103-105.
• Greek, aids to reading, 72, 73.
  • —— Incunabula, 166.
  • —— theatre, 73.
• Growoll's Book-Trade Bibliography, 181.
• Grudé, François, 155.

• Hain's Repertorium, 164.
• Hamerton, P. G., on Interruptions, 33.
  • —— on reading the classics, 62.
• Harrison, Mr. Frederic, on reading, 59, 60, 67, 79.
  • —— on the classics, 72.
  • —— The Choice of Books, 72.
• Hazlitt, W. C., on lost books, 12, 14.
  • —— his Bibliographical Collections, 161-162.
• Health, books on preserving, 224.
• Heine, translations of, 76.
• Heinz, quoted, 31.
• Heliodorus, 84.
• Henry vii. and Winchester, 98.
• Heraldry, books on, 234.
• Herbals, 245-247.
• Herbert, George, his Jacula Prudentum, 56.
• Herbert, Sir Henry, Office Book of, 227.
• Herbert, William, lost books described by, 12.
• Hilton's Chronograms, 168.
• Hinard, Damas, 74.
• Historie of Judith, the, 11.
• History, books on, 237.
• Hoccleve, 90.
• Homer, translations of, 71-72.
• Hoole's New Discovery, 260; his pupils, ib.
• Horace, on translating, 72.
• Hospitallers, 200, 214.
• Hotel du Lion d'Or, 29.
• Housewife, the perfect, 239.
• Hozier, Pierre d', 40.
• Humphrey, Lawrence, 4.
• Humphreys, Mr. A. L., quoted, 67, 69.
• Husbandry, books on, 238.
• Hyde Abbey, 104.
• Hyères, the monk illuminator at, 37.
• Hygiasticon, 224.

• Illuminator of St. Honorat, the, 37.
• Illuminators, the Winchester, 101-102.
• Illustrated Books, 240.
• Imitatio Christi, 217.
• Incunabula, definition of, 167 n.
  • —— see Early-Printed Books.
• Interruptions, 33-35.

• Jacula Prudentum, 56.
• Jaggard, William, 181.
• Jall, the, 250-251.
• Jest Books, 228.
  • —— —— some early, 16.
• Jonson, Ben, lost works of, 13.
• Judith, the Famous Historie of, 11.

• Karslake's Notes from Sotheby's, 162.
• Keats' Endymion, 113.
• Keeper of the Abbey muniments, 54 n.
• Kempis, Thomas à, 217.
• Kennet, Bishop White, 210.
• King Glumpus, 189.
• Koberger, Anton, 176.

• L'Abbé's Bibliotheca, 155.
• La Colombière, books by, 235-236.
• La Fontaine, Jean de, 39.
• La Marche, Olivier de, 215.
• La Monnoye, Bernard de, 154.
• Lang, Andrew, on Elzeviers, 21.
  • —— his imperfect books, 112.
• Large Copper, story of a, 116-117.
• Large Paper copies, 203.
• Law, books on, 240.
• Lawler's Book-Auctions, 187.
• Lesclarcissement de la Langue Francoyse, 15.
• Library, the, by A. Lang, 21.
• Library, 'laying down a,' 230.
• Libraries, two old country, 19-20.
• Lion d'Or, the, 29.
• Liturgies, books on, 241.
• Locally-Printed Books, 241.
• London, books hidden in, 18.
• Londonderry, medal of the siege of, 253.
• Long Meg of Westminster, 16.
• Lost books, 10-21.
• Louis ix (St.) and the Saracens, 90.
• Louis xiv., his monument, 253.
• Louvre library, the, 134.
• Lovelace's Lucasta, 120.
• Lowndes' Bibliographer's Manual, 161.
• Lycanthropy, books on, 255.

• Mackenzie, Sir G., quoted, 192.
• Magic, books on, 253-256.
• Maid of Kent, the, 13.
• Maimbourg, Louis, 186.
• Malory, Sir Thomas, 95-99.
  • —— his Morte d'Arthur, 13, 88, 95-101.
  • —— and Caxton, 98, 99.
• Malta, the Knights of, 200-201, 214.
• Manners, books on, 223.
• Manners, the Book of Good, 14.
• Mansfield Park, 113.
• Margaret of Scotland, 17.
• Markham's housewife, 239.
  • —— Thyrsis and Daphne, 13.
• Mariner's Mirror, the, 252.
• Marmol, Luis del, 209-210.
• Marprelate Tracts, 256.
• Mathematics, books on, 243.
• Masques, books on, 226, 232.
• Maunsell, Andrew, 181.
• Medical Books, 245.
  • —— —— a collector of, 42.
• Meg of Westminster, 16.
• Melanchthon, Philip, 59.
• Memoirs, 213.
• Menestrier's Louis le Grand, 252.
• Military Books, 247.
• Milton, quotations from, 88, 94, 95, 105, 127, 193.
  • —— his Comus, 191.
• Minstrels, books on, 232.
• Miracle Plays, books on, 232.
• Modern Authors, valuable works of, 188-193.
  • —— —— bibliographies of, 231-232.
• Monastic rules, 34.
• Monsters, books on, 255.
• Montluc, Blaise de, 110-111.
• Montmorency, Henri, duc de, 215.
• Moon Lore, 255.
• Moralities, books on, 232.
• More's Defence of Women, 16.
• Morte d'Arthur, see Malory.
• Mouse, the painted, 196.
• Music, books on, 248.
• Myriobiblon, 55.
• Mysteries, books on, 232.

• Napoleon, books on, 249-250.
• Natural History, books on, 250.
• Nautical Books, 251.
• Neuf Preux, le Triomphe des, 89, 216, 228.
• New England Canaan, 211.
• Newspapers, on reading, 64.
• Newton, Sir I., bibliography of, 244.
• Nightingale, Miss, on interruptions, 33.
• Night working, 35.
• Nigramansir, the, 11.
• Normandy, Robert of, 201.
• Notes, editors', 70.
• Novels, on reading, 63.
  • —— the first, 84-85.
• Numismatics, books on, 252.

• Occleve, 90.
• Occult, books on the, 253.
• Olaf, King, 201.
• Optimates, by L. Humphrey, 4.
• Ordnance, mediæval, 49.
• Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, 190.
• Ormsby, John, on romances, 86.
• Osorio's De Gloria, 4.
• Ovid's Metamorphoses, by Caxton, 11.
• Oxford Books, by Mr. F. Madan, 165.

• Pageants, books on, 226.
• Painted Mouse, a, 196.
• Palmerin d'Olive, 205.
• Palsgrave, John, 15.
• Pamphlets and Tracts, 256.
• Panzer's Annalen, 165.
• Pappe with an Hatchet, 256.
• Passionate Pilgrim, the, 10.
• Pastissier François, le, 21-28.
  • —— —— prices of, 21, 24, 25.
• Paston Letters, the, 20.
• Pedigree hunting, 40.
• 'Pegs,' 102.
• Perceforest, quotation from, 92.
  • —— description of, 93 n.
• 'Peregrine' volumes, 242.
• Peron, the, 95-97.
• Philosophy, books on, 258.
• Photius, 55.
• Pilgrim's Progress, the, 66.
• Pinson, Gheerart, 243.
• Place des Victoires, monument in the, 253.
• Plays, books on old, 226.
• Pliny on Seclusion, 36.
• Poetry, 258.
• Poems by Two Brothers, 189.
  • —— on Various Occasions, 189.
• Pollard, Mr. A. W.'s Fifteenth-Century Books, 165-166.
• Pollio, Asinius, 133.
• Pope on Curll, 185.
  • —— quotation from, 68.
• Portugal, a convent in, 17.
• Prayer Books, works on, 241.
• Precentor, the, 33 n.
• Prescriptions, some early, 246.
• Presses, celebrated, 219.
• Prices of Books, 189-192, 227-228.
  • —— —— some early, 179.
  • —— —— on determining, 171-173.
• Prices of Books, Wheatley's, 173-174.
• Printers' marks, books on, 169-170.
• Printers, Mr. McKerrow's Dictionary of, 183.
• Prior, his pirated Poems, 9, 10.
• Prisons, books on, 225.
• Privately-printed Books, 203-204, 259.
• Proclamations, 221.
• Proctor's Early Printed Books, 165.
• Prophecies, a book of, 255.
• Provence, a monk of, 37.
• Pseudonyms, books on, 168.
• Pynson, Richard, 11, 14, 15.

• Quaritch's General Catalogue, 162.
• Quérard's Supercheries Littéraires, 169.
• Quotations, doubtful origin of, 56, 57.
  • —— wrongly assigned, 57 n.

• Rabelais, translations of, 76.
• Racine and Heliodorus, 86.
• Rainman, John, 177.
• Ratdolt, Erhart, 176.
• Reading, the art of, 59-70, 78, 81-83.
  • —— wide, 79-81.
• Rebellion Tracts, 221, 222.
• Rebinding, 109-116.
• Recommending books, 59.
• Regnault, François, 181.
• René d'Anjou, 87.
• Revolution, the French, 82, 233.
• Rigging, an authority upon, 43.
• Roguery, books on, 225.
• Romances of Chivalry, 86-90, 227, 228.
• Romance, the spirit of, 94-95, 102.
• Rosicrucians, books on the, 255.
• Rouen, an old inn at, 26.
• Round Table at Winchester, the, 100, 101.
• Rowlands' Tracts, 225.
• Roydon Hall, 20.

• St. Amand, Gerard de, 52.
• St. Augustine on Varro, 154.
• St. Bernard on Solitude, 35.
• St. Honorat, the monk of, 37.
• St. Katherin of Siena, 21.
• St. Louis and the Saracens, 90.
• St. Margaret's Devotional, 17.
  • —— —— Life, by Pynson, 11.
• Sallengre's L'Elogie de l'Ivresse, 186.
• Sanchez's Bibliografia Aragonesa, 170.
• Saracenic literature, 209.
• Savaron, Jean, 248.
• Savonarola's Compendium, 255.
• Sawyer, Tom, The Adventures of, 66.
• Sayle's Books at Cambridge, 165.
• Schiller, translations of, 76.
• Schoeffer's catalogue, 174.
• School Books, Old, 259.
• Scipio Africanus, quoted, 38, 57 n.
• Scott, Dr. E. J. L., 54 n.
• Scott's Last Expedition, 69.
• Sea, books on the, 251-252.
• Seals, books on, 236.
• Seillière, Baron A., the library of, 22 n, 227.
• Seymour, Richard, Esq., 187.
• Shakespeareana, 218, 219.
• Shakespeare's Passionate Pilgrim, 10, 228 n.
  • —— Plays, 14, 17.
  • —— Titus Andronicus, 17.
• Sharon Turner on digressions, 52.
  • —— on Romances, 88.
• Shelley, quotation from, 38.
  • —— Adonais and Queen Mab, 189, 190.
  • —— Original Poetry, 190.
• Shelves, 128-134.
• Ships, an authority upon old, 43.
• 'Shorn lamb' proverb, 56.
• Skelton, John, lost books by, 11.
• Slater's Early Editions, 191.
• Solitude, 35-39.
• Sophocles, translations of, 71.
• Sotheby on block-books, 166.
• South Seas, books on the, 207.
• Southcote Manor-house, 244 n.
• Spanish folios, 129.
• Specialism, the advantages of, 194 seq.
• Specialists, subjects of, 202-203.
• Speculum, Caxton's, 14.
• Speculum Principis, Skelton's, 11.
• Spenser, quoted, 31.
• Sport, books on, 260.
  • —— definition of, 260 n.
• Staël, Madame de, 52.
• Staining bookshelves, 131, 132.
  • —— leaves of books, 149.
• Stains, removing, 146-149.
• 'Stationers,' 177.
• Sterne, Laurence, 56.
• Sweynheim and Pannartz, 179.
• Syon College library, 12, 21.

• Taylor, Bayard, 75.
• Tennyson, A. and C., 189.
  • —— Helen's Tower, 192.
• Terence, a Giunta, 3, 4.
• Thackeray's Flore et Zephyr, 189.
  • —— King Glumpus, 189.
• Theagenes and Chariclea, 85.
• Theology, 263.
• Thesaurus Cornucopiæ, 171-172.
• Thomas Aquinas, 37.
• Thomas à Kempis, 217.
• Thomason, George, 257.
• Thyrsis and Daphne, 13.
• Titles, some curious, 256-257.
• Titus Andronicus, 17.
• Tobacco, books on, 263.
• Tombs, the desecration of, 103-105.
• Topography, books on, 264.
• Tracts, 256.
• Trades, books on, 264.
• Traveller, the library, 44-48.
• Trials, books on, 225.
• Triomphe des Neuf Preux, le, 89, 216, 228.
• Tristram on a white horse, 88.
• Trunk, an old, 18.
• Trusler's Honours of the Table, 223.
• Turner, Sharon, on Digressions, 52.
  • —— on Romances, 88.

• University Don, a widely read, 79-81.
• Upton, Nicholas, 5-8.
• Urquhart, Sir Thomas, 76.

• Varro, St. Augustine on, 154.
• Vaughan, Stephen, 15, 16.
• Vellum, brown, 138.
  • —— perishable, 138.
• Venus and Adonis, 14, 228 n.
• 'Venus de Milo,' 133 n.
• Verard, Antoine, 166, 176.
• 'Victor and Cazire,' 190.
• Vincent's True Relation, 211.
• Virgil, translations of, 72.
• Voragine, Jacobus de, 217.

• Wace, quoted, 93.
• Wager, H.M.S., the loss of, 47.
• 'Wagstaffe, Theophile,' 189.
• Walloon printer, a, 243.
• Walton's Compleat Angler, 191, 192.
• 'Wargus,' 105.
• Warton, Thomas, 11.
• Washing and cleaning, 146-149.
• Wechel, Christian, 178-179.
• Werewolves, books on, 255.
• Westminster Abbey muniments, 54 n.
• Wheatley's Prices of Books, 173-174.
• Willems, Alphonse, 24, 187.
• Willer, George, 177, 178.
• William the Conqueror, 201.
• Winchester, 95-102.
  • —— ancient customs of, 102.
  • —— Castle hall at, 100, 101.
• Witchcraft, books on, 255.
• Wolvesey Castle, 101.
• Worde, Wynkyn de, 13, 14, 15, 21.
• Wordsworth, quoted, 36, 77, 95.

• Ximenes, Cardinal, 36, 37.

• Yale, the, 250-251.

• Zoology, books on, 250.