writes Epilogue to Godwin’s Antonio, 235;
describes its first performance and damnation, 236, 237;
his copy of the play-bill, with comments, 237;
on Mrs. Godwin, 239, 240;
bon mots of, 241;
mentioned, 7, 48, 89, 112, 122, 129, 222, 239, 330.
See Kelly, Frances Maria.
Lamb, Charles and Mary, Tales from Shakespeare, 7, 239.
Lamb, Mary, and her brother’s courtship of Miss Kelly, 136, 138, 141, 142;
mentioned, 38, 53, 239.
Lambert, William H., sale of his collection, 48.
Lambton, Sir Hedworth, assumes name of Meux and inherits Lady Meux’s estates, 288, 289;
on active service in the late war, 291 and n.
See Temple Bar.
Lee, Harriet, courted by Godwin, 234.
Leech, John, illustration for A Christmas Carol, 116; 78.
Levasseur, Thérèse, 165.
Lewes, George Henry, 176.
Lincoln, Abraham, 333.
Linnell, John, his Blake collection, 82.
Lippincott’s Magazine, 329.
Livingston, Luther S., 48, 49, 75, 97, 103.
Lloyd, Constance, Marries Wilde, 328.
Lobo, Father, his Abyssinia translated by Dr. Johnson, 125.
Locke, John, 91.
Locke, William J., The Belovèd Vagabond, 91.
Locker-Lampson, Frederick, his copy of the first folio of Shakespeare, 93;
and of the Compleat Angler, first edition, 96;
mentioned, 346.
London, the great market of the world for collectors’ books, 8 ff.;
and Dickens, 10;
bookshops of, 13 ff.;
Stow’s Survay of, 32, 274, 275;
changes in, 66, 268, 269;
preëminence of, as a book-market, passing to New York? 71;
Aggas’s pictorial map of, 274;
the plague and the great fire, 279.
London, a poem, 32.
London County Council, 10.
Lowell, Amy, 222.
Lowell, James Russell, 7, 154, 185.
Lowther, Katherine, and Gen. Wolfe’s copy of Gray’s Elegy, 107.
Lucas, Edmund V., 132, 133.
Lud Gate, 277.

Macaulay, Hannah More, 146.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord, his essay on Boswell’s Johnson criticized, 145 ff.
Maclise, Daniel, presentation copy of Dickens’s The Haunted Man, to, 116.
Macpherson, James, 211.
Macready, William C., presentation copies to, of Oliver Twist, 44, 46, 47,
American Notes, 116,
and The Cricket on the Hearth, 116.
Macrobius, Saturnalia, 90.
Madison, James, 58.
Magdalen House, Dodd chaplain at, 298, 299.
Maggs, the Brothers, booksellers, 66, 103.
Mangin, Edward, Piozziana, quoted, 17.
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 307.
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, 278.
Marshall, Archibald, 251.
Marshall, John, 58.
Marshall, Joshua, 281.
Martin, Sir Theodore, Life of the Prince Consort, inscribed presentation copy of, to Gen. Sir A. Gordon, 33, 34.
Martin, Mrs., Letter of Mrs. Browning to, 26.
Mary, Queen of George V, 267, 270.
Mason, Stuart, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde, 114.
Mason, William, Elfrida, Boswell’s copy of, 159, 163.
Mathew, Caroline, 25.
Mathew, George Felton, poem of Keats addressed to, 25; 106 n.
Matthews, Brander, Ballads of Books, 69.
Meirs, Richard Waln, 68.
Melmoth, Sebastian, name assumed by Wilde in Paris, 340.
Meredith, George, Modern Loves, inscribed to Swinburne, 121;
mentioned, 250.
Meux, Sir Hedworth. See Lambton, Sir Hedworth.
Meux, Lady Henry, makes Sir H. Lambton her heir, 288, 289.
Meux, Sir Henry, buys Temple Bar and sets it up at Theobald’s Park, 286.
Millard, Evelyn, 337.
Millett, Maude, 336.
Milton, John, Paradise Lost, first edition, with first title-page, 5 and n., 6, 87, 102, 103;
Lycidas, 103, 354.
Montagu, Elizabeth, 194, 200, 204.
Montgomerie, Margaret. See Boswell, Margaret.
Moore, George, Memoirs of My Dead Life, proof-sheets of, 49, 50;
Literature at Nurse, and Pagan Poems, presentation copies of, 49, 51;
Flowers of Passion, 87;
quoted, on the Griffin, 285.
Moran, E. R., 347.
More, Hannah, 153, 154, 194.
Morgan, John Pierpont, acquires Boswell’s letters to Temple, 158;
mentioned, 71, 98, 351, 352.
Morley, Christopher, 150 n.
Morris, William, 331.
Mudie’s Lending Library, 49.
Murphy, Arthur, introduces Johnson to the Thrales, 192, 193.

Neilson, Julia, 336.
Nelson, Horatio, Lord, 320, 321.
New York, and the rare-book market, 71.
Newton, A. Edward, book-plate of, 60, 61;
visit to Auchinleck, 181-184;
imaginary meeting with Dr. Johnson, 273, 274;
visit to Theobald’s Park (Temple Bar), 286-290.
North, Ernest D., bookseller, 46, 52.

Oration in Carpenter’s Hall (Philadelphia), 58.
Original London Post, Robinson Crusoe published serially in, 101.
Osbourne, S. Lloyd, 112.
Osgood, Charles G., 60, 61, 176, 177.

Paine, Thomas, 229, 230, 231.
Paoli, Pascal, 156, 165, 166, 169, 170.
Pater, Walter, quoted, on Wilde’s comedies, 334.
Patissier, François, Le, 88.
Patterson, John M., 168.
Paul, C. Kegan, 247.
Pearson, Mr., bookseller, 21-23.
Pembroke, Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of, 346.
Pembroke College (Oxford), 22.
Penn, William, 58.
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, Our House, presentation copy of, to the author, 32, 94, 328.
Pennell, Joseph, 94, 328.
Pepys, Samuel, 158.
Percy, Hugh (Bishop), 179.
Percy, Mrs., presentation copy of Rasselas to, 125.
Perkins, Mary. See Dodd, Mary.
Phelps, William Lyon, on Trollope, 250, 251, 258.
Pickwick, Mr., Seymour’s original drawing of, 346.
Pinero, Sir A., 335.
Piozzi, Gabriel, copy of Johnson’s Prince of Abissinia (Rasselas) presented to, by Mrs. Thrale, 206, 207;
his acquaintance with Mrs. T., 207-209;
becomes engaged to her, 210;
their marriage, 212, 213;
his death, 223;
mentioned, 194, 214, 217.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. See Thrale-Piozzi, Hester Lynch.
Plague, The, in London, 279.
Pope, Alexander, his Homer, 9;
Dr. Johnson, and O. Wilde, on, 10;
mentioned, 89.
Presentation books, 107.
Princeton University, 68.
Prints, collecting, 4;
inlaying, 57.
Psalmanazar, George, Memoirs, association
copy of, 31;
Johnson and, 31, 32.
Punch, 120, 335.
Pynson, Richard, 91.

Quaritch, Bernard, the Napoleon of booksellers, 15;
his catalogues, 87 ff.;
mentioned, 7, 76.
Quaritch, Bernard Alfred, a worthy son of his father, 15;
on Widener, 353, 354;
mentioned, 8, 71, 98, 103.
Quin, James, 190.

Radcliffe, Ann, 253.
Ralph Roister Doister, 89.
Ransome, Arthur, Oscar Wilde, 49.
Reade, Charles, 253.
Redway, W. E., manager of Hollings’s, 33.
Reed, Henry, Copy of Vanity Fair presented to, by Thackeray, 19.
Rembrandt, H. van Rijn, 152.
Reveley, Mrs., 232.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, dedication copy of Boswell’s Johnson to, 18;
mentioned, 153, 156, 181, 184 n., 194, 200, 347.
Rice, Mrs. Hamilton, builds Widener Memorial Library, 353;
mentioned, 48, 112, 346.
Roberts, The Holy Land, 5.
Robinson, Mary Darby (“Perdita”), 232.
Robinson, Henry Crabbe, 37.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 329.
Rosenbach, A. S. W. (“Rosy”), bookseller, 41-44;
quoted, on Widener, 348;
his catalogue of Widener’s Stevenson collection, 348;
mentioned, 71, 75, 80, 106, 109.
Ross, Robert, quoted, 114;
and Wilde, 341, 342.
Rossetti, Dante G., his sketch of Tennyson reading Maud, 26, 27;
inscription to Swinburne, 106.
Rossetti, W. M., 26.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 165.
Rudd, Margaret, Anecdotes of the Life and Transactions of, 81.
Rug-collecting, 3, 4.
Ruskin, John, 323, 331.
Russell, E. F., 110.

Sabin, Frank, 24, 25.
Sabin, F. T., bookseller, 24, 54, 66, 87.
St. George’s, Hanover Square, 303.
St. Paul’s, London, thanksgiving service in, 267, 268;
rebuilt by Wren after the great fire, 279.
Salusbury, Hester Lynch. See Thrale-Piozzi, Hester Lynch.
Salusbury, Sir John, 189.
Salusbury, Mrs. John, 190.
Salusbury, John Piozzi, 206, 207, 223, 224.
Sandys, Lord, 194.
Saturday Review, quoted, on Wilde’s poetry, 325.
Schelling, Felix, Elizabethan Drama and other books, 62;
mentioned, 296.
Scott, Sir Walter, The Heart of Midlothian, 256;
mentioned, 111.
Sessler, Charles, bookseller, 44, 46, 47, 116.
Severn, Joseph, copy of Spenser’s Works presented by, to Keats, 25.
Seymour, Robert, original drawings for Pickwick Papers, 346.
Shakespeare, William, folios and quartos, 67, 72;
Hamlet, first quartos of, 72;
Venus and Adonis, early editions of, 72;
Titus Andronicus, 72;
the first folio, 92, 93, 346;
Poems written by Wil. Shakespeare, Gent. (1640), 346;
mentioned, 43, 117, 152, 296.
Shaw, G. Bernard, 323, 324.
Shelley, Mrs. Harriet, deserted by Shelley, 242;
her death, 244.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Frankenstein, 231.
See Godwin, Mary W., 2d.
Shelley, Percy B., Queen Mab, presentation copy of, to Mary W. Godwin, 108;
and Godwin, 242;
elopes with Mary W. Godwin, 242;
marries her, 244;
death, 245, 355;
mentioned, 7, 228.
Sherard, Robert H., biographer of Wilde, 340.
Sheridan, Richard B., 130, 334.
Siddons, Sarah, 130, 194.
Sidney, Sir Philip, Arcadia, Countess of Pembroke’s copy of, 346.
Skelton, John, Poems, 102, 103.
Smith, Adam, 162.
Smith, George D., bookseller, 36 ff., 58, 71, 73, 96, 106, 115.
Smith, Harry B., his “Sentimental Library,” 136;
mentioned, 346.
Smith, Sidney, engraver, 61.
Smith, Sydney, 8.
Smith, Elder & Co., 83.
Smollett, Tobias, 297.
Sotheby’s auction rooms, 101, 354.
Southey, Robert, Life of Nelson, 320;
mentioned, 38, 39 and n., 41, 321.
Southwark, Thrale brewery in, 191, 195.
Spencer, George, Marquis of Blandford, 70.
Spencer, George John, Earl, 70.
Spencer, Walter, bookseller, 27, 28, 53, 54, 66.
Spenser, Edmund, copy of his Works presented to Keats by Severn, 24, 25;
his influence on Keats, 25;
mentioned, 177.
Spoor, J. A., 48.
Stanhope, Philip, pupil to Dr. Dodd, 301.
See Chesterfield, fifth Earl of.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, 5, 64, 185.
Sterne, Laurence, A Sentimental Journey, 81;
mentioned, 298, 304.
Stevenson, Isobel S., 112.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, Inland Voyages, inscribed copy of, 109;
A Child’s Garden of Verses, unique copy of, 109, 110, 111;
prices of first editions of, 110, 112, 113;
The New Arabian Nights, 110;
his popularity, 111;
Penny Whistles, 112;
Widener’s collection of his works, 112, 348, 349;
Vailima Letters (holographs) 348;
Memoirs of Himself (MS.), privately printed by H. E. Widener, 348, 349;
Treasure Island, 348, 349;
mentioned, 7, 185.
Stoke Poges Church Yard, 74.
Stoker, Bram, Dracula, 231.
Stow, John, Survay of London, first edition, 32;
quoted, 274, 275.
Strahan, George, 22.
Streatham Park, the Thrales’ country seat, 192, 194, 195, 196;
life at, described by Fanny Burney, 199 ff.;
closed, 209;
reopened, 215, 216.
Strong, Isobel Stewart, 348.
Subscription books, 55.
Sullivan, Sir Arthur. See Gilbert and Sullivan.
Sunday, “Billy,” 292.
Surtees, R. S., his sporting novels, 49, 77.
Swinburne, Algernon C., Poems and Ballads, first edition, 11;
inscription to, by Rossetti, 106;
Moore’s Modern Love, inscribed to, 121;
mentioned, 262.

Talfourd, Thomas Noon, Final Memorials of Charles Lamb, 37, 38.
Taylor and Hessey, 28, 74.
Temple, Rev. William J., Boswell’s letters to, history of the collection, 157, 158;
extracts from the letters, 158-165;
his letters to B. not preserved, 159;