À Becket, Gilbert, Comic History of Rome, 78;
Comic History of England, 78.
Adam, Robert B., 184 n.
Adams, John, 58.
Advertisements, importance of, in verifying first editions of certain books, 79.
Ainsworth, W. H., 346.
Albert, Prince Consort. See Martin, Sir Theodore.
Albert Memorial, 285.
Alderson, Amelia (Mrs. Opie), 232.
Aldines, 5, 88.
Alexandra, Princess of Wales, 284.
Alken, Henry, Analysis of the Hunting Field, and Life of John Mytton, illustrated by, 77.
Allan, John, 83, 84, 85.
Allen, Edmund, 21, 307 ff.
Allen, John, Memorial of, 57.
Allis, William E., 115, 116.
American Book Prices Current, 103.
Anderson, Mary, 327.
Anderson’s Auction Rooms, 103, 354.
Andrews, William Loring, Gossip about Book-collecting, 51.
Anne, Queen, 278.
Anne of Denmark, Queen of James I, 280.
Arblay, Madame d’. See Burney, Fanny.
Argyle, Archibald Campbell, Duke of, 150.
Arnold, William Harris, Record of Books and Letters, 18, 103-106;
First Report of a Book-collector, 101, 102.
Association books 1, 107 ff.
Athenæum, The, 106 n.
Auchinleck, Alexander Boswell, Lord, his Death, 173;
mentioned, 150, 165, 166, 172.
Auchinleck, Boswell’s birthplace, the author’s visit to, 181-184.
Auction catalogues, 30.
Auction sales, 59, 60.
Audubon, John J., Birds of North America, 5.
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticæ, 90.
Austen, Jane, 186, 187, 253.

Bacon, Francis, Lord, quoted, 7;
and Shakespeare, 92;
Essaies (1598), Widener’s last purchase, 354, 355.
Bagehot, Walter, 272.
Bangs & Co., 104.
Bank of North America, History of the, 57, 58.
Barclay, Alexander, 91.
Barclay and Perkins’s, 195.
Baretti, Giuseppe M. A., attacks Mrs. Piozzi, 216;
mentioned, 194, 198.
Barham, Thomas, Ingoldsby Legends, unique presentation copy of first edition, 347.
Barrett, Lawrence, 327.
Barrie, Sir James M., What Every Woman Knows, 196.
Bartlett, Henrietta, 72.
Barton, Bernard, 135.
Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of. See Disraeli.
Beard, Tom, presentation copy of A Christmas Carol to, 116.
Beardsley, Aubrey, caricature of O. Wilde, 114, 319.
Beauclerk, Lady Diana, 179.
Beckford, William, presentation copy of Disraeli’s Henrietta Temple to, 29.
Bell, Currer, Ellis, and Acton, Poems, 83. See Brontë Sisters.
Bement, Clarence S., 89.
Berayne, Katherine Tudor de (“Mam y Cymry”), 189.
Bernhardt, Sarah, 337.
Bible, the, Shakespeare “cryptogram” in, 92, 117. See Gutenberg Bible.
Bibliographies, 113 ff.
Biddle, Nicholas, Memoirs of, 58.
Bindings, 54, 55, 74.
Birrell, Augustine, quoted, 33, 151.
Bixby, William K., 72, 352.
Blair, Miss, 161.
Blake, William, Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 52, 82;
Poetical Sketches, 81, 82;
Songs of Innocence and Experience, 81, 82;
Linnell collection, sale of, 82.
Blandford, Marquis of. See Spencer, George.
Blount, Edward, 93.
“Blue-Stockings, The”, 194.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, the Decameron, 70.
Boehm, Sir J. E., 285, 286.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (MS.), 90, 91.
Boleyn, Anne, 275.
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 177.
Bonnell, H. H., 83.
Book Auction Records, 103.
Book Prices Current, 72.
Book-collecting, delights of, 2 ff.;
changing fashions in, 5.
Book-plates, 60, 61.
Books, “as originally published,” 54, 55;
advancing prices of, 66 ff., 70 ff. See Association Books, Bindings, Extra-illustrated Books, Presentation Books, Subscription Books.
Booksellers, Second-hand, catalogues of, 30 ff.
Boscawen, Mrs. Edward, 179.
Boswell, James, quoted, on London, 13;
Macaulay’s characterization of, refuted, 148, 149;
early years, 149, 150;
first meeting with Johnson, 150, 151;
his style, 151;
portraiture of Johnson, 152;
devotion to Johnson, 152;
not very much in Johnson’s company, 153;
qualities as a biographer, 153, 154;
weaknesses considered, 154 ff., 159 ff.;
Carlyle on, 154;
conversational powers, 156;
Life of Johnson, largely his own autobiography, 156, 157;
letters to Temple, 157 ff.;
last days and death, 164, 165, 180;
wanderings about Europe, 165, 166;
letter to Dilly, 166;
first paper drawn by, as an advocate, 168;
“press notices” of himself, 170-172;
marries Margaret Montgomerie, 172;
continued interest in Johnson, 172, 173;
death of his father, 173;
financial difficulties, 173;
effect of Johnson’s death on, 173;
publishes the Journal of the Tour to the Hebrides, 174;
its success encourages him to undertake Johnson’s life, 174;
the Life published (1791), 175, 176;
wife’s death, 174;
thinks of running for Parliament, 175;
contemporary opinions of, 181;
Johnson on, 181;
mentioned, 21, 30, 174, 201, 214, 226.
Life of Samuel Johnson, dedication copy, to Sir Joshua Reynolds, 18, 19, 347;
divers editions of, 64;
Macaulay’s essay on, considered and criticized, 145 ff.;
merits of, in general, 153;
its success, 175;
presentation copy of, to James Boswell, Jr., 176;
effect of its publication, 178-180;
almost universally praised, 184, 185;
the great English epic, 185;
Mrs. Thrale’s copy of, 222;
mentioned, 61, 98, 307, 308, 309.
An Account of Corsica, 166-170, 172;
presentation copy of, 59.
Boswell, James, Jr., 176, 180.
Boswell, Mrs. Margaret, her bon mot on Johnson, 173;
her death, 174;
mentioned, 154, 164, 172.
Bowden, A. J., 75.
Bradford Club, 57.
Brandt, Sebastian, The Ship of Fools, 91, 92.
Bristol, Bishop of, 317.
British Museum, 43, 101, 111.
Broadley, A. M., published Mrs. Thrale’s Journal of a Tour in Wales, 218, 221.
Brontë, Charlotte, presentation copy of Henry Esmond to, 347;
mentioned, 83.
Brontë, Emily, 187.
Brontë Museum, 83.
Brontë Sisters, 186, 187. See Bell, Currer, etc.
Brooks, Edmund D., bookseller, 53, 54, 83.
Brough, Fanny, 336.
Browning, Arabel, 26.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, letter of, 26, 27;
mentioned, 186, 187.
Browning, Robert, Pauline, 103;
mentioned, 26, 27, 91, 228.
Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward, 253.
Bunbury, Henry W., 32.
Burke, Edmund, inscription to, from Boswell, 185;
mentioned, 151, 181, 187, 188, 194, 221.
Burney, Dr. Charles, 194, 208.
Burney, Fanny (Madame d’Arblay), Evelina, 46, 127, 199, 200;
her Diary, quoted, on life at Streatham Park, 199 ff.;
mentioned, 186, 187, 204, 209, 221.
Burns, Robert, Poems, first Edinburgh edition, 83, 84;
Kilmarnock edition, 83-86, 103.
Burns Museum, 86.
Bushnell, John, 281.
Butler, Samuel, The Way of all Flesh, 124.
Byron, Allegra, 238, 244.
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, copy of Thomson’s Seasons presented by, to Frances W. Webster, 29;
mentioned, 238.

Caine, Hall, 268.
Carlton Hotel, London, 268.
Carlyle, Thomas, presentation copy of Dickens’s American Notes to, 115;
on Boswell, 154;
mentioned, 185, 293.
Carnegie, Andrew, Triumphant Democracy, quoted, 271.
Cassatt, A. J., 54.
Catalogues of second-hand books, 30 ff., 65 ff.;
amusing blunders in, 62, 113.
Caxton, William, his books in general, 8, 72;
his edition of Tully, his Treatises on Old Age and Friendship, 22;
mentioned, 91.
Caxton Head, Sign of the, 30.
Chaffanbrass, Mr., 256, 264.
Chapman, George, translation of Homer, 102.
Charing Cross, 268.
Charing Cross Road, the book-lover’s happy hunting-ground, 15, 16.
Charles I, 278, 281.
Charles II, 278, 282.
Charlotte, Queen of George III, Dodd’s letter to, 309;
mentioned, 21, 306.
Chatham, William Pitt, Earl of, 246.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Works, 102.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of, 21, 301.
Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, fifth Earl of, 305, 306.
Chew, Beverly, 7, 75, 87, 102, 103, 351.
Christ Church, History of, 58.
Christ’s Hospital, 53.
Cicero, Cato Major, Franklin’s edition of, 9;
Treatises of Old Age and Friendship (Caxton), 22.
“City” of London, royal visit to, 266 ff.;
physical boundaries and jurisdiction of, 277.
Clairmont, Mrs. M. J., Godwin’s second wife, 237. See Godwin, Mrs. M. J.
Clairmont, Mary Jane (Claire), Lord Byron’s mistress, 238, 242, 243, 244.
Clarke, Charles Cowden, 18.
Clarke, Mary Cowden, 18.
Classics, The, collectors’ waning interest in, 5.
Clough, Sir Richard, 189.
Cock (tavern), The, 283.
Coggeshall, Edwin W., sale of his Dickens collection, 78, 79, 115, 116.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 111, 222.
Collier, Jane, 38.
Collier, John Payne, 37, 38, 39, 41.
Collins, W. Wilkie, The Moonstone, 226, 255.
Colman, George, Jr., 231.
Common Prayer, Book of, 117.
Congreve, William, 44.
Conrad, Joseph, inscription in The Nigger of the Narcissus, 56.
Contributions to English Bibliography, 113.
Conway, W. A., and Mrs. Thrale-Piozzi, 23, 224.
Corsica, Boswell’s visit To, and its results, 165, 166.
Coryat, Thomas, Coryat’s Crudities, 90, 91.
Cosens, F. W., his Lamb and Southey MSS., 38-41.
Costello, Dudley, 115.
Cottle, Joseph, Annual Anthology, 38, 39 and n., 41.
Cowper, William, The Task, Thackeray’s copy of, with inscription, 346, 347.
“Crawford, Mrs.,” 134, 135.
Croker, John Wilson, his edition of Boswell’s Life and Macaulay, 146, 147.
Cromwell, Oliver, 278.
Cruikshank, George, 68.

Daly, Augustin, 41.
Davies, Thomas, bookseller, 30, 150, 151, 165.
Davies, Mrs. Thomas, 31, 151.
Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe, first edition, 43, 44, 99-101, 102;
rare newspaper edition of, 101;
mentioned, 122, 126.
Devil Tavern, The, 282, 283.
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 5.
Dickens, Charles, disappearance of his London, 10;
the author’s presentation copies of various works of, 46;
Eckel’s First Editions of Charles Dickens, 55, 79, 114, 115;
value of presentation copies of, 73;
Coggeshall collection of his works, 78, 115, 116;
why prices of early editions continue to advance, 117;
and Miss Kelly, 130;
mentioned, 66, 152, 250, 251, 252, 253, 261.
A Christmas Carol, first edition, 10, 11;
presentation copies of, 116.
The Cricket on the Hearth, manuscript of, 27, 53, 54;
presentation copy of, to Macready, 116.
Oliver Twist, presentation copy of, to Macready, 44, 46.
Pickwick Papers, in parts (Coggeshall copy), 78-80;
copy of, inscribed to Mary Hogarth, 80, 81;
fourth in circulation among printed books, 117;
“in parts as published,” 346;
presentation copy of, to W. H. Ainsworth, 346; 255.
Bleak House, presentation copy of, to D. Costello, 115.
American Notes, presentation copies of, to Carlyle, 115,
and to Macready, 116.
The Haunted Man, presentation copy of, to Maclise, 116.
The Chimes, presentation copy of, to C. Dickens, Jr., 116.
The Village Coquette, dedication of, 118.
A Tale of Two Cities, 255.
Dickens, Charles, Jr., presentation copy of The Chimes to, 116.
Dickinson, John Ehret, inscription from O. Wilde to, 342.
Dilly, Charles, publisher of Corsica,
letter of Boswell to, 166, 167;
publishes the Life of Johnson, 175, 176.
Disraeli, Benjamin, Henrietta Temple, presentation copy of, to W. Beckford, 29;
mentioned, 253, 324.
Dobell, Bertram, Bookseller, 28 and n., 29.
Dobson, Austin, quatrain by, 266;
quoted, 293.
Dodd, Mrs. Mary, 295, 301, 302, 306, 309.
Dodd, Robert, 48.
Dodd, William (the “Macaroni Parson”), the Johnson-Dodd letters, 19-21, 306 ff.;
his history, 294 ff.;
Beauties of Shakespeare, 296, 297;