Chapter XIII: Odds and Ends

ODDS and ends! The compiler of a volume of this sort is sure to find plenty of these,--scraps worth putting in somewhere, yet not coming precisely under any particular head. In the first place, 'Portrait' book-plates claim attention. We have seen that they exist, but, alas! that they are so few; for, to any reasonable person, members of the Heralds' College, of course, excepted, a man's features are certainly more interesting than his armorial bearings. In England, Sam. Pepys adopted the style, which was not then unknown on the Continent. Pirckheimer perhaps originated it, by placing, as I have already said, a portrait of himself at the end of the volumes, which contained his now familiar book-plate by Dürer on the front cover; and there are many other early foreign examples. One of the most conspicuous is the bust-portrait of John Vennitzer, of Nuremberg, engraved by Pfann, and dated in 1618, to which I have already alluded (p. 140). Pepys used to place the small variety of his portrait book-plate--that figured opposite--at the commencement of many of his books, and that showing his interwoven initials ('the little plate for my books') at the end. Both his portrait book-plates are by White. I have failed to find any allusion in his _Diary_ to the engraving of these book-plates, though, as we have seen, he refers to the preparation of another (see p. 8). He very likely took the idea of a 'Portrait' book-plate from that which Faithorne, either in or soon after 1670, prepared to place in the volumes left by good Bishop Hacket to Cambridge (see p. 201).

It is possible that we have a portrait in the figure on the book-plate, already noticed, of Louis Bosch, a clergyman of Tamise, near Antwerp; but the head is too small to afford an interesting likeness. The priest sits at a table in his study, the walls of which are lined with volumes, and beneath him is written in Latin: 'A hunt in such a forest never wearies,'--the 'forest being,' as Lord De Tabley observes, 'the rows and ranks of his reverence's books.' In France the 'Portrait' book-plate is not uncommon; that of a French clergyman, Francis Perrault, figured opposite, is a nice piece of work, and bears the date 1764; but portraits, possibly or indeed probably, of the owners occur on French book-plates at an earlier date. In Italy there is an example in 1760, the book-plate of Filippo Linarti.

An instance of the use of the 'Portrait' book-plate in England during the last century is afforded by that of 'Jacobus Gibbs, Architectus, 1736,' which is found in the architectural books bequeathed by the possessor to the Radcliffe Library at Oxford, a building which he designed. James Gibbs was born at Aberdeen in 1674, but came south early in his career, and Londoners may see examples of his work in the churches of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and St. Mary le Strand. He also built the Senate House at Cambridge. He died in 1754. On his book-plate, which is oblong in shape and might well form the head-piece to a preface, the portrait appears in a medallion, surrounded by shell and scroll-work. The engraver, who signs his initials B. B., was Bernard Baron, a Frenchman, who came to England in 1736 and engraved Hogarth's portrait of Gibbs.

The resuscitator of 'Portrait' book-plates in England in recent times was the late Mr. Thoms. That veteran antiquary tells, in a letter to the _Athenæum_, how he came to use, as a book-plate, a photograph of himself taken by Dr. Diamond in the very early days of photography. Beneath this he placed an inscription setting forth that the volume in which it was fastened was for the use of himself and his friends--a repetition of the sentiment on one of the Pirckheimer book-plates, 'Sibi et amicis.' We do not, of course, know how far Pirckheimer meant what he said; but we do know, any of us who ever asked the loan of a volume from Mr. Thoms, that the sentiment was by him really meant. No worthy book-borrower ever met with refusal from that ever courteous literary enthusiast.

After considering 'Portrait' book-plates, the collector may turn his attention to the study of the book-plates that have belonged to interesting men. I have spoken of many of these in reaching this point in my volume, but to the names already mentioned may be added some more: Charles, Earl of Dorset and Middlesex, who, as Lord Buckhurst, was a prominent figure at the dull court of Dutch William, saved Dryden from ruin and introduced Mat Prior to society. Then there is Robert Harley--great minister, great statesman, and underminer of the Whig power; founder of the collection of books and manuscripts which now bears his name. The inscription on his book-plate reads: 'Robert Harley of Brampton Castle in the county of Hereford, Esq^{re}'; it is found in two sizes--one for folio volumes, and another for those of smaller size. Its date may be fixed at the very close of the seventeenth century.

Then we have the book-plate of Sir Thomas Hanmer, the Speaker, a bold piece of work, in the 'Simple Armorial' style, dated 1707. Hanmer was born in 1676, so that his book-plate was executed when he was in his thirty-first year--that is, six years prior to his first entry of the House of Commons, and probably before he had made much use of the library with which his name was afterwards associated, when towards the close of his life he ceased to be a man of politics and became a man of letters. He died in 1746, leaving, completed, his edition of Shakespeare's works in half a dozen volumes.

With the book-plate of Sir Thomas Hanmer we may, appropriately, consider that of Sir Paul Methuen, the soldier and minister of Anne and George I., with whom Hanmer must have been frequently brought in contact. Methuen's book-plate is altogether more exceptional in style than Hanmer's; the mantling, after being blown about by a strong wind, ends regularly in tassels; curious creatures figure in the design, and the bracket, on which rests the shield, is upheld by a male and a female angel.

Methuen's book-plate was engraved about 1720. Five years later we find that of John, Lord Boyle, who, though by means of the quarrel with his father he was robbed of the Boyle library, had, whilst yet a young man, a sufficient stock of volumes of his own to necessitate the use of a distinguishing mark for them. His book-plate is by John Hulett, an indifferent engraver.

Matthew Prior's book-plate now claims attention; indeed, if these book-plates of celebrities were taken in strictly chronological order, it should have been considered before that of Sir Paul Methuen. In style it is early Jacobean, so that we may date it at, say, 1718, though there is nothing in the inscription--'Matthew Prior, Esq.'--to show to what particular period in the 'thin hollow-looked' man's life it belongs. But it is tempting to place it at the close of his career as a diplomatist, when he was settling down on the small country property that Harley had bought for him, and was rich on the proceeds of the subscription to his huge volume of _Occasional Poems_.

After Prior's book-plate we do not meet with another of a celebrity for a considerable number of years. One appears at last in that engraved--probably by a Scotch engraver, about the year 1740--for the luckless Lord Lovat, who lost his head on Tower Hill after the second Scotch rebellion. The inscription deserves consideration, because it is characteristic of the man: 'The Right Honourable Simon Lord Fraser of Lovat, Chief of the Ancient Clan of the Frasers, Governor of Inverness,' etc. Mark the way in which he emphasises his headship of the clan! Can he, in those early days, have heard whisperings of a story that he had an elder brother who was in hiding lest the law should mete out to him its penalty for murder? Anyhow, it is a fine bold book-plate, more in the style of English book-plates of a dozen years earlier; a heavy ermine-lined mantle of estate falls from the back of the helmet and encloses both shield and supporters.

John Wilkes had three book-plates, and what is remarkable, they all make display of the Wilkes armorial bearings. One would fancy that the great demagogue would, at least in the decoration of the shield, display bombs, kegs of gunpowder, Phrygian caps, or other emblems of the manifestation and enjoyment of liberty; but it is not so. Lawrence Sterne's book-plate is certainly more appropriate. Here we have the bust of a young man, whom Lord de Tabley considers to be either Juvenal or Martial, placed on a slab, on either side of which are closed volumes, one inscribed, 'Alas! poor Yorick,' and the other, 'Tristram Shandy.' No doubt this book-plate was engraved in or about the year 1761, when Sterne had bought--as he told a correspondent--seven hundred books, 'dog cheap, and many good,' which he was then busy arranging in the 'best room at Coxwould.' Samuel Rogers's book-plate is in the 'wreath and ribbon' style. William Cowper's is a little later, and shows us a plain shield without the festoon-decoration. His must become a scarce book-plate, for he had but few books--only 177 at his death, and the book-plate does not appear in all; perhaps he began to insert it, but was stopped by loss of reason. Mr. Bolton suggests that the book-plate may be the work of Thomas Park, an engraver who, he reminds us, offered to do anything for Cowper in the way of his art as a labour of love, so much did he appreciate the poet's writings. Byron's book-plate, alluded to elsewhere, is without one remarkable feature; whether or not it is that sent him by the fair admirer already referred to (p. 16) one cannot say. Thomas Carlyle's book-plate was engraved, in 1853, by H. P. Walker.

One might extend a list of celebrities who have used book-plates _ad infinitum_; but there is no need to attempt that process here, though it might be as well to point out that certain book-plates, inscribed with the names of celebrities, which have induced collectors to speak of them as the book-plates of these distinguished persons, cannot really have been made for them. There is, for instance, an early Chippendale book-plate inscribed 'William Wilberforce,' which is, or perhaps I should say, used to be, constantly spoken of as the book-plate of the famous man who was bold enough to suggest that England's colonies could get on very well without the presence of slavery. Now this book-plate is very little, if any, later than 1750, and the great emancipator was not born till 1759; as a matter of fact it was probably engraved for his grandfather, William Wilberforce of Hull. A great many specimens bear his signature written at the top of the book-plate. Then, to give one more instance, there is the book-plate inscribed 'Capt. Cook,' and in this you are told to see the mark of ownership which the once popular hero placed in the volumes that composed his library; but, so far as the evidence of this book-plate goes, Captain Cook may never have had a library at all. It bears arms highly appropriate to a navigator; but they were not granted to the Cook family till 1785, and, as every reader of travel knows, Captain Cook was murdered in 1779. In all probability this book-plate was engraved for the navigator's son, James Cook, who, in 1793, attained to the rank of commander in the Navy; 1793, be it said, is--to judge from its style and decoration--about the date of the book-plate.

Book-plates of English parish libraries and institutions deserve some notice for several reasons. In these days, when enthusiasm for the erection of free libraries is so great, it is curious to be reminded of the past and long-forgotten efforts of our ancestors to civilise their neighbours by the use of books. Gloomy affairs most of these 'parish' libraries are now! You still sometimes find them locked in a damp vestry, or in a country vicarage, where their existence is a secret to the parishioners, and, indeed, to most other people. The book-plates of some of them are interesting. There is a neat design in the Jacobean style, which shows us the shield divided, and contains on the sinister side two crossed keys, and on the dexter two crossed swords. This is inscribed 'Swaffham Library. T. Dalton, F. Rayner, churchwardens, 1737.' At least two designs for these parish book-plates are by Simon Gribelin. In one, we have St. John in the isle of Patmos; and in the other, an unidentifiable figure kneeling in prayer. To each the artist has placed his initials, 'S. G.,' and both belong to about the same date--1723.

A great many of these parochial libraries were founded early in the last century by Dr. Thomas Bray, during his lifetime, and by a body calling themselves the 'Associates of Dr. Bray,' after his death. It was at Bray's instance that the Act of 7 Anne, 'for the better Preservation of Parochial Libraries,' was passed by Parliament. One of the earliest of the foundations under it was in 1720.

It is probable that the 'Associates' issued book-plates for placing in the volumes of the different libraries established; for there is, in the design, a space left blank for the insertion, with pen and ink, of the name of the particular library using the book-plate. These book-plates generally bear texts or some appropriate words, such as, 'Accipe librum et devora illum' (Rev. x. 9), the scene depicted being St. John, in the isle of Patmos, receiving the book from the angel; or sometimes a reminder to the borrower that he needs to do more than borrow the volume in order to profit by its contents, such as _Tolle, Lege_, which appears on the book-plate of the parish library of Weobley!

Grotesque heraldry is not often met with in England on genuine book-plates. We have seen that on many examples the decorative accessories of the shield have a certain appropriateness to the owner; besides this, the arms borne have frequently a direct reference to the bearer's name. But grotesque heraldry, such as that which Hogarth was so fond of designing, is certainly rare in engravings prepared for book-plates. There is, however, one example of such heraldry on an English book-plate, which is worth referring to--I mean the very interesting example figured on p. 229. This belonged to the shoemaker-poet, Robert Bloomfield, and certainly the arms upon it are both grotesque and appropriate to the owner, since they commemorate his only really successful literary effort, _The Farmer's Boy_. Look for a moment at the details, for they repay inspection. A figure on cow-back holding a shoe on the end of a stick, does duty as a crest, two ploughmen act as supporters, whilst the bearings on the shield represent every variety of agricultural implement, every occupant of a farm-yard ordinarily met with, and various tools connected with the owner's craft; besides, on the sinister half of the shield, is a cobbler in an attitude suggestive of his having done full justice to a feast in honour of St. Crispin--not conducted on total abstinence principles. The quarterings also include three open volumes, and across the pages of one is printed 'Farmer's Boy.' The whole--even to its motto, 'A fig for the Heralds'--is most characteristic of Bloomfield, and was engraved for him, in 1813--ten years before his death--by a Cheapside engraver.

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With this gathering together of scraps and clippings I will bring my volume to a close. Most of what I have said, and a very great deal besides, is well known to the students of book-plates; but to them, I fancy, this work is not intended to appeal. It is meant for the public at large, to the majority of whom book-plates are unconsidered trifles. To promote wholesale book-plate _collecting_ in albums and portfolios is certainly not my intention. If it were, it would be a very undesirable intention, for so far as it succeeded it would unquestionably lead to the wholesale disfigurement and destruction of books, without regard to their value. What I have aimed at is to awaken a wider interest in book-plates, and a wider observation of them in their abiding places, by those who either possess them already, or acquire them hereafter. If I have succeeded in doing this, my work will, I am vain enough to believe, be not altogether unsuccessful; for book-plates possess really an artistic and general interest, which will be heightened the more our stock of knowledge concerning them is increased.

INDEX

ACLAND, FRANCES ANNE, 196.
Adams, John, 157.
Adamson, Benjamin, 208, 210.
Adderley, John, 178.
Adramytteum, Suffragan-Bishop of, 127.
Æsculapius, represented on a book-plate, 84, 128.
Affleck, J. H., 112.
Allegory, in English book-plates, 34, 36, 72, 97, 190, 200.
----, wildness of on French book-plates, 142.
----, ---- on American book-plates, 159, 160.
Allen, ---- 107.
---- Charles Dexter, 150, 156, 159, 160.
---- George, 106.
American book-plates, 150-161.
Amman, Jost, 124, 125, 126.
Ancestry, pride in, expressed on book-plates, 179.
Anderson, 154.
---- John, 112.
Anson, Thomas, 91.
Apthorpe, East, 60.
'Armorial style,' the, 52.
Atkinson, Buddle, 112.
Avranches, Bishop of, 138.

B., B., 220.
Bacon, Sir Francis, 26.
Bacon, Sir Nicholas, 26-28, 135.
Bagford, John, his collections, 2, 26, 28, 188.
Bailey, J. E., 23.
Baldrey, John, 76.
Barber, Joseph, 12-14.
Barlow, Charles, 57.
Baron, Bernard, 220.
Barberini, Maffeo, 148.
Bartolozzi, F., 15, 72, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 112, 214, 215.
---- his receipt for engraving Lady Bessborough's book-plate, 94.
Bath, Countess-Dowager of, 28, 38, 39, 188.
---- Earl of, 38.
---- book-plate engravers at, 203-212.
'Bath Oliver' biscuits, 86.
Bavaria, Ducal, library of, at Munich, 132.
Beaufort, Duke and Duchess of, 188.
Beilby, Ralph, 109.
Bell, Anning, 190.
---- Thomas, 109.
Bengough, James, 52.
Bennet, R. H. Alexander, 88.
Bentley, engraver, 106.
Berry, Agnes, 96, 196.
---- Mary, 177, 196.
---- Robert, 196.
Bessborough, Earl of, 92.
Bessborough, Lady, 92.
Bewick, Thomas, 108-113, 177, 189, 214, 215.
---- book-plates engraved on copper by, 112.
Bielke, Thure, 146.
Bigges, Mr., 112.
Birnie of Broomhill, 70.
Bisse, Dr. Philip, 59.
Blackstone, C., 213.
Blazon, heraldic, method of representing, 22-24.
----, ---- expressed by initials, 40.
----, ---- verbal, 30.
Bloomfield, Robert, 227-228.
Blosséville, Viscomte de, 136.
Boetius, 128.
Bolton, William, 224.
Bonner, engraver, 177.
Book-plate, antiquity of the name, 6.
---- appropriateness of the name, 5.
---- collecting, early days of, 1-5.
---- ----, morality of, 54.
---- the largest English, 50.
Book-plates, dates on, 42-47.
---- the earliest, 17.
---- ---- English, 18.
---- ---- French, 18
---- ---- Italian, 18.
---- ---- Swedish, 18.
---- ---- Swiss, 18.
---- early use of in England, 20-47.
---- necessity for the use of, 17.
---- sizes of, 19, 121.
---- where to be sought for in a volume, 18.
---- English, prominent engravers of, 200-215.
---- first used in Germany, 114.
---- of famous people, 221-228.
Book-stealing or spoiling, condemned on book-plates, 162-175.
Books represented in book-plates, 99-102.
Borbon-Busset, Viscount de, 141.
Bosch, Lewis, 177, 218.
Boston Public Library, the, 153.
Bosworth, Dr. John, 70.
Bouchart, A., 136.
Bouchot, Henri, 23, 144.
Bouttats family, the, 148, 203.
Bowles, Henry, 213.
Boyle, John, Lord, 222.
Brackstone, John, 62.
Bradshaw, Henry, 76.
Brampton, 190.
Brand, the Antiquary, 109.
Brandenburg family, arms of, 114.
---- Hildebrande, 114.
Bransby, J. H., 107, 108.
Bray, Dr. Thomas, 226.
Bree, Martin, 46.
Breiner, Count M. L., 122.
Bridgeman, Henry Toye, 208, 210.
Brownlowe, Dame Alice, 50.
---- Sir William, 50.
Brydges, the Hon. James, 50.
Burghers, Michael, 34, 73, 74, 200.
Burke, Sir Bernard, 2, _note_.
Burnet, Bishop, 3, 5.
---- John, 155.
Burton, Dr. John, 78.
Buxheim, 116.
Byron, Lord, 16.
Byrd, William, 152.
Bysshe, Sir Edward, 31, 33.

CAIRNES, SIR ALEXANDER, 73.
---- Lady, 73.
Callot, the works of, 6.
Callowhill, Hannah, 152, _note_.
Callendar, an American book-plate engraver, 154.
Cambridge University, 26, 75.
---- George I.'s gift to, 75, 202.
Carew, Sir Nicholas, 11.
Carington, Francis, 206, 208.
Carlander, Herr, 146.
Carlyle, Thomas, 224.
Carr, Anne, 181.
---- Thomas, 112.
---- William, 181.
Cassano-Serra, Duke of, 148.
Carter, Thomas, 43.
Castle, Egerton, 143.
---- Hedingham, 104.
Cartwright, J. J., 182.
Caryer, Richard, 65.
'Celestial' style, the, 68.
Ceys, A. T., 143.
Charles I., statue of, at Charing Cross, 12.
Charles XIII., book-plate of, 147.
'Charlie, Prince,' 87.
Charlton, Charles, 110.
Chetwynd, Walter, 40.
Chinese Mandarin, figured on a book-plate, 143.
Chippendale style, the, 59-65.
Chodowiecki, D. N., 127.
Chorley, W. B., 177.
Cipriani, 90, 92.
Clapham, A., 112.
Clark, Charles, 172.
Clayton, Sir Robert, 44.
Clonfert, Bishop of, 57.
Cobbe, R. C., 213.
College book-plates, 54, 57.
Collet, John, 183.
---- Thomas, 183.
---- William, 183.
Collins, S. J., 213.
Colonial book-plates, 151.
Columbine, Francis, 52.
Conway, Field-Marshal, 195.
Conyers, John, 204.
Cook, Captain, 225.
---- James, 225.
Cornwallis, Lord, 52.
Cotes, Rev. H., 110.
Courtney, William, 30.
Cowper, William, 214.
Cranach, Lucas, 124, 125.
Crewe, Nathanael, Bishop of Durham, 52.
Cunliffe, Foster, 91.
---- Sir Foster, 90, 91.
---- Sir Robert H., 90, 99.
Cunningham, Allan, 82.
Currer, Danson Richardson, 88.
---- John, 88.
Custos, Dominick, 127.

DALTON, T., 226.
Damer, Anne Seymour, 96, 193, 195, 196.
---- Hon. John, 195, _note_.
Dawkins, Henry, 154.
Darlington, view of, 106.
Dartmouth College, 159.
Dasent, Sir George, 148.
Dates on book-plates, 42-47.
De Fleurieu, Chevalier, 143.
Delafaye, Charles, 64, 208.
Delphin edition, the, 138.
De La Colombière, Vulsson, 23.
De La Vallée, Melchior, 136.
De Malherbe, Francis, 23, 140, 142.
De Maridat, Peter, 175.
De Menezes, Isabel, 94, 185.
Derby, James, Earl of, 49-50.
Dering, Sir Edward, 31, 180.
---- Thomas, 154, 155.
De Sales, Charles, 137.
De Tabley, Lord, 1, 7, 48, 54, 60, 74, 75, 86, 88, 128, 131, 137, 148,
164, 168, 174, 183, 202, 203, 213, 218, 224.
Diamond, Dr., 220.
Dickens, Fr., 46.
Dinwiddie, Robert, 155, 156.
Dobson, Rev. I., 210.
Doctors of Medicine, represented on a book-plate, 84.
Doeg, Alexander, 112.
Doolittle, Amos, 154.
Dorset and Middlesex, Charles, Earl of, 221.
Douglas, Dr., 15.
Drummond, Dr. Thomas, 87, 214.
Dual ownership of book-plates, 198.
Dubarry, Countess, 140.
Duché, Rev. Jacob, 158.
Du Guernier, Louis, 73, 74.
Duick, John, 86.
Dürer, Albert, 17, 117, 118, 121.
Duthy, John, 213.

EBNER, HIERONIMUS, 117.
Edinburgh, book-plate engravers at, 69.
Egerton, Randolph, 40, 181.
Elliston, Robert, 152.
Elton, C. I., 117.
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 57.
Erasmus, 121.
Eve, C., 65.
_Ex Libris_ Society, the, 1.
---- appropriateness of the words for book-plates, 6-8.
Eynes or Haynes, 34.

FABER, JOHN, Bishop of Vienna, 164.
Faithorne, William, 36, 200, 218.
'Farmer's Boy,' the, 227, 228.
Farmington Library, the, 159, 160.
Fenwick, John, 184, 185.
'Festoon Style,' the, 65.
Fincham, H. W., 2, 102.
Fitzherbert, Thomas, 208.
Fleming, Francis, 210.
---- Sir William, 202.
Flemish book-plates, 148-149.
Fletcher, W. Y., 188.
Foote, Benjamin Hatley, 65.
Ford, H., engraver, 90.
Fox, Charles James, 15, 44-46.
---- Sir Stephen, 15.
Franks, Sir A. Wollaston, 30, 46, 79, 106, 118, 121, 124, 136, 148,
204, 210.
French book-plates, 97, 135-146.
---- their chief interest, 138-139.
---- styles in, 141-142.
---- Revolution, effects of the, displayed on French book-plates, 141.
Froben's press, 121.
Fuhr, John William, 208.
Fust, Sir Francis, 43.

G., S., 226.
Gage, Sir Thomas, 95.
Gainsborough, anecdote of, 82.
Garrick, David, 168-170.
Gascoigne, T., 88, 90.
Gaultier, Léonard, 136.
George I., his gift to Cambridge University, 76, 202.
George III., arms of, by Bartolozzi, 91.
Germain, Lady Betty, 194.
---- Sir William, 194.
German book-plates, 114-134.
Gibbs, James, 218, 219.
Gift book-plates, 26, 28, 30, 36, 38, 39.
Godfrey, John, 52.
Goodford, Samuel, 59.
Gore, Edward, 213.
---- Thomas, 34, 73, 200.
Gosden, Thomas, 103.
Gould, Sir Nathaniel, 73.
Græme, Elizabeth, 157-8.
---- Dr. Thomas, 157.
Gravelot, 78.
Gray's Inn Library, the, 100.
Greene, John, 33.
---- T. W., 104.
Gribelin, Simon, 189, 203, 226.
Gricourt, Abbé de, 143.
Grimston, Sir Samuel, 39.
Grotesque heraldry on book-plates, 227.
Gueullette, Thomas, 143.
Gusthart, Dr. Robert, 210.

H., W., 79, 143, 213.
Hacket, Bishop, 36, 200, 218.
Haistwell, Edward, 59.
Hamilton, Walter, 22, 141, 144.
Hanmer, Sir Thomas, 221.
Hanover, House of, Oxford's suspected disloyalty to, 78.
Hare, Sir Thomas, 59.
Harington, Gostlet, 52.
Harleian Collections, the, 192.
Harley, Robert, 221, 222.
Harrewyn, J., 149.
Harrison, W., 213.
Harrold, Countess of, 58.
Harvard College, 153, 154, 159.
Hasty Pudding Society, the, 159.
Haviland, Thomas, 208.
Haynes or Eynes, 34.
Hedio, Andrew, 166.
Hénault, M., 142.
Henshaw, the engraver, 96.
Hesketh family, arms of, 50.
Hewer, William, 100.
Hibbart, William, 79, 213.
Hibbins, Lucius Henry, 59.
Hillary, William, 208.
Hoadly, Dr. John, 213.
Hoare, arms of, 95.
---- Frances Ann, 196.
---- Richard, 95, 196.
---- Sir Richard Colt, 95, 196.
Hogarth, William, 6, 14, 56, 75, 79, 92, 112, 213, 220, 227.
Holbein, drawings by, 91.
Holcombe, John, 68.
Holland, John, 79.
Hollar's armorial work, 33.
Holles, Henrietta Cavendish, 192.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 161.
Holzschuher family, 125, 126.
Hommeau, C. F., 168.
Howard, Dr. Jackson, 2, 30, 32.
Huet, Dr. P. D., 138.
Hughes, John, 208.
Hulett, John, 222.
Hungerford, Sir George, 36.
Hunloke, Sir Henry, 40.
---- Henry, 179.
Huntingdon, Selina, Countess of, 194.
Hurd, Nathaniel, 154.
Hustler, James, 59.
---- Sir William, 52.

I'ANSON, Sir T. B., 68.
Ingold, Father, 136.
Ireland, John, 6.
Irish book-plates, 69-70.
Isham, Sir Charles, 11.
---- Sir Thomas, 8-11, 200.
Italian MSS., heraldic decoration of, 16.
---- book-plates, 147-8, 218.

JACOB, HERBERT, 176.
Jacobean style, the, 53-59.
Jacobite Life-guards, the, 214.
Jaquéri, Jean Eli, 212.
James II., statue of, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 12.
Jeffreys, Henrietta Louisa, Countess of Pomfret, 193.
Jenkins, Miss, 2.
Jesus College, 57.
Jodrell, Paul, 50.
Johnson, engraver, 154.
Jones, G. L., Bishop of Kilmore, 66.

KENDRICK, DR., 106.
Kennett, White, Bishop of Peterborough, 102.
Kent, Henry, Duke of, 58.
Kerrich, Dr. Samuel, 14.
Kilian, Lucas, 127.
---- Wolffgang, 124, 127.
Kilmore, Bishop of, 66.
Kirby Hall, 104.
Knatchbull, Thomas, 49.
Knight, Hon. Henrietta, 213.
Knöringen, John Giles, 180.
Koler, Susanna, 127.
Kressenstain, J. W., 126.

LABOUCHERE, MISS NORNA, 186, 188, 190, 198.
Ladies' book-plates, 186-199.
Lamballe, Princess de, 198.
Lambart, George, 6, 79.
Landscape book-plates, 103.
Larson, William, 12.
Le Bas, engraver, 214.
'Legacy' book-plates, 28.
Legh, Gerard, 23.
Le Grand, engraver, 140.
Leicester Warren, Hon. J. B., _see_ De Tabley, Lord.
Le Mercier, Father, 141.
Lethieullier, John, 59.
'Library Interiors,' 99, 100, 144, 146.
Libraries, Public, 99.
Lichfield Cathedral, view of, 106.
Lilienthal, Michael, 167.
Linarti, Filippo, 218.
Liverpool Library, the, 99, 100.
Lloyd, Rev. John, 176.
Locker, Capt. William, 103.
Loggan, David, 8-11, 200.
Lombe, Lady, 189.
Lovat, Lord, 223.
Lulin, Amadeus, 146.
Lumisden, Andrew, 11, 87, 214.
Lynch, Philip, 58.
Lyttelton book-plate, 200.
---- Sir Edward, 32.

M., R., 213.
Macciucca, Francesco Vargas, 171, 199.
Macdonald, H., 174.
Malassis, _see_ Poulet-Malassis.
Manchester Circulating Library, the, 99.
---- Subscription Library, the, 99.
Mantling, style of, 52.
Marks, John, 174.
Marlborough, Duchess of, 195.
Marriott book-plate, the, 36.
Marshall, William, 32, 200.
Marsham, John, 33.
Mason, Dame Anna Margaretta, 58, 189.
Massie, Richard, 59.
Massy, Francis, 208.
Maury, Cardinal, 140.
Mavericks, the, engravers, 154.
Mayo, Lady, 190.
Mercator, Daniel, 179.
---- Nicholas, 179, 180.
Methuen, Sir Paul, 222.
Middlesex, Lionel, Earl of, ill-treatment of his wife, by, 38.
Minerva, presented with a tomahawk, 159.
Mitford, John, 96.
Moises, Edward, 112.
Monmouth, James, Duke of, 181.
Moore, Bishop, library of, 75.
---- O, 175.
Morghen, Raphael, 147, 148.
Mottoes, punning, 176.
---- repeated in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, 120.
Moule, Thomas, 6, 12.
Mountaine, Robert, 212-213.
Muilman, Peter, 104.
Musgrave, Sir Christopher, 204.
Myller, Sebastian, 127.
Mynde, H., 103.

NACK, J. B., 7, 8.
'Name Tickets,' 40, 134.
---- used in France, 135.
---- ---- Germany, 135.
Nash, 'Beau,' 206.
Neptune, figured on a book-plate, 96.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 12.
---- St. Michael's Church, view of, 109.
New College, Oxford, 58.
Newdigate, Richard, 52.
New England Library, the, 153.
Newport, Lady, 38.
New York Society Library, 159.
Nevill, Lady Dorothy, 199.
Nicholson, Gilbert, 43.
Nicholson, ----, an attorney at Lichfield, 106.
North, Hon. Anne, 189.
Nott, Fettiplace, 40.
Nuremberg, Library of St. Laurence at, 183.

OKEY, family book-plate, 183.
Oliver, Dr. William, 84, 86, 212.
---- William, 210.
Ord, John, 64.
Oringen, 125.
Orr, J., 70, _note_.
Oxford, Earl of, 192, 193.
---- Henrietta, Countess of, 14, 79, 81, 190, 193, 203.
Oxford, suspected disloyalty of, to the House of Hanover, 78.

PAGIT, JUSTINIAN, 40.
Pain, Anne, 198.
---- Thomas, 198.
Paper, its ancient scarcity, 116.
Park, Thomas, 224.
Parlington, library at, 88.
Parochial Libraries, 167, 168, 203, 225, 226, 227.
Parsons, Daniel, 21.
Paynter, David, 44.
Pembroke College, 57.
Penn, Sophia, 213.
---- Thomas, 151.
---- William, 151, 152, _note_.
Pennant, Henry, 208.
Penny, Nicholas, 52.
Pepys, Samuel, 8, 18, 40, 100, 178, 216-218.
Pereira, Rev. H. W., 121.
Perrault, Francis, 218.
Personal particulars on book-plates, 178.
Petrarca, Giuseppe, 122.

Petra-Sancta, Father, his system of expressing metals and tinctures in
heraldry, 23.
Pfann, engraver, 216.
Physicians, College of, 15.
Picart, Bernard, 144.
'Picture' book-plates, 98-113.
Pindar, Elizabeth, 188.
Pine, John, 75, 76, 78, 79, 100, 202.
Pirckheimer, Bilibald, 7, 17, 18, 117, 118, 162, 175, 220.
Pitfield, Charles, 40, 178.
Pocklington, Joseph, 65.
Polish book-plates, 149.
Pollard, engraver, 96.
Pollen, Rev. George, 68.
Pömer, Hector, 118, 120, 121.
Pomfret, Lady, 193, 194.
Pompadour, La, 140.
Ponsonby, Hon. Gerald, 94.
Pope, figured on a book-plate, 81.
Porcellian Club, the, 159.
Portal, Joseph, 213.
Portrait book-plates, 36, 98, 196, 200, 216-220.
Poulet-Malassis, M., 1, 7, 97, 135, 136, 141, 142.
Powlet, C. S., 213.
---- George, 213.
Priestley, Joseph, 107.
Prince Library, the, 153.
---- Thomas, 153.
Prior, Matthew, 182, 222.
Punning Heraldry, instances of, upon book-plates, 125.
Pye, engraver, 104, 106.

QUEENS' COLLEGE, CAMB., 57.

RABY, LORD, 181.
Radcliffe Library, J. Gibbs's gift to, 218.
Raigniauld, engraver, 136.
Rayner, F., 226.
Red-skins figured on book-plates, 159.
Reilly, John, 53, 166, 167.
Restoration, increase in number of book-plates, after the, 33.
Revere, engraver, 154.
Rieterin, Margretha, 118.
Roberts-Brown, J., 2.
Robinson, John, 59.
---- Johnson, 208.
---- Thomas, 176.
---- Sir William, 46.
Rochdale Circulating Library, the, 99.
'Rococo' style, the, 142, 147.
Roe, engraver, 96.
Rogers, Samuel, 224.
Roos, Lady, 50, 188.
---- Lord, 50, 52.
Rosenberg, Count of, 127, 130, 131.
Ross, T., 81.
Rowney, Thomas, 52.
Royal Society, Library of, 118.
Royall, Isaac, 151, _note_.
Rushout, Sir John, 59.
Russian book-plates, 149.
Rylands, J. Paul, 43, 100, 179.

SADELER, GILES, 124, 127, 132.
---- Joseph, 124.
St. Albans Grammar School, 39.
St. David's, Bishop of, 59.
St. Frances de Sales, 137.
St. John figured on a book-plate, 167, 226, 227.
St. John's College, Camb., 57.
St. Paul figured on a book-plate, 124, 125.
St. Peter figured on a book-plate, 125.
St. Quintin, Sir William, 43.
St. Thomas's Hospital, 59.
Sartor, James, 202.
Sartorius, Christopher, 202.
Sayer, John, 52.
Scharff, Gottfried Balthazar, 176.
Schintz, Dr. C. S., 128.
Scotch book-plates, 69-70.
---- rebellion, the second, 12.
Scripture, quoted in condemnation of book-stealing, 167.
Scroope, Simon, 50.
Seyringer, John, 175.
Shakespeare represented on a book-plate, 81.
Shelburne, Lord, his quarrel with Priestley, 107.
Sheraton, Thomas, 66.
Sherwin, John Keys, 72, 90, 96, 214, 215.
Sibmacher, Hans, 126.
Signeira, drawing by, 95.
Sinton, engraving by, 137.
Sion College Library, 102.
Skeleton, one represented on a book-plate, 129.
Skinner, J. [Jacob?], 64, 81, 84, 203-212.
---- Matthew, 212.
Skorina, F., 124.
Sloane, Sir Hans, 12.
Smyth, Sir John, 212.
Southey, Robert, 209-210.
Southwell (anon.), 34.
---- Sir Robert, 40, 180.
---- Hon. R. H., 103.
Spanish book-plates, 148.
Speratus, Paulus, 122, 166.
Stanley, Sir Edward, 50.
Stapylton, Sir Bryan, 46.
---- Martin, 46.
Stearne, Bishop John, 7.
Stephens, William, 14.
Sterne, Laurence, 223, 224.
Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William, 19.
Stourhead, 95.
Strafford, Earl of, 182.
Strange, Sir Robert, 11, 87, 214, 215.
Strawberry Hill, 103, 106, 195.
Study, praise of, on book-plate, 175-177.
Sturgis, John, 213.
Surgeons, College of, 15.
Surtees, Robert, 68.
Swaffham, parish library of, 226.
Swedish book-plates, 146-147.
Swift, Jonathan, 194.
Swiss book-plates, 147.
Sydenham, Sir Philip, 102, 184, 203.
Sydney Sussex College, 30.
Symons, John, 66.

TADCASTER LIBRARY, 167.
Talbot, Col. John, 30.
---- C., 170.
Tapestry in the House of Commons, 202.
Terry, engraver, 104.
Thomas, Sir Edmund, 212.
Thompson, William, 52.
Thoms, Mr., 220.
Thoresby, the historian of Leeds, 184.
Thorne, Peregrine Francis, 212.
Titles, English, a stumbling-block to foreigners, 74.
'Tombstone Style,' the, 59.
Tommins, Jean, 90.
Tower of London, library of the Public Record Office in, 103, 104.
Towneley, Richard, 184.
Trémouille, Charlotte, Countess of Derby, 49.
Tresham, Sir Francis, 28.
---- Sir Lewis, 28.
---- Sir Thomas, 28, 30.
Trinity Hall, 57.
Troschel, Hans, 124, 126.
Turner, engraver, 154.
Twemlow, William, 44.
Tynemouth Priory, view of ruins of, 110.
Tyneside, the, Bewick's sketching ground, 110-112.
Tyrwhit, Francis, 179.

URBAN VIII., book-plate of, 148.

VANDERGUCHT, MICHAEL, 193, 202-203.
Vander Noot, Count, 149, 185.
Vennitzer, John, 183, 216.
Venus figured on a book-plate, 92.
Versailles, library at, 140.
Vertue, George, 14, 56, 79, 192-193, 203.
Vicars, Sir Arthur, 98, 146.
Vienna, College of St. Nicholas at, 164.
Von Hagenau, Ferdinand, 127.
Von Zell, William, 116.

WADD, WILLIAM, 15.
Wakefield, Gilbert, 107.
Wale, Samuel, 193.
---- T., 87.
Walker, H. P., 224.
Walpole, Horace, 14, 15, 103, 106, 178, 195, 196, 203.
Walters, Henry, 208.
Wanly, Humphrey, 31.
Warnecke, Herr, 16.
Warrington, local volunteers, picture of one, 107.
Warrington, view of, 106.
Washington, George, 156, 157, 158.
Way, G. L., 108.
Welbeck, 190.
Wentworth, Sir John, 50.
---- Thomas, Earl of, 181, 182.
Weobley Parish Library, 227.
Wernerin, designer, 128.
Wessenbrun, monastery of, 167.
Westmoreland, Francis Fane, Earl of, 38.
Wharton, Philip, Lord, 180.
---- William, 40, 180.
Wheatley, Henry, 106.
White, engraver, 218.
Wightwick, George, 173.
Wigtown, Earl of, 210.
Wilberforce, William, 225.
Wilkes, John, 223.
Willcox, Rev. F., 39.
William III., effect of his invasion upon English fashions, 74.
Williams, Rev. John, 153.
Willis, Sherlock, 167, 168.
Willmer, William, 30.
Wiltshire, John, 81, 82, 86.
Windham, Sir Edmund, 179.
---- Thomas, 179.
Winnington, Francis, 59.
Wodroofe, John, 208.
Wolsey, Cardinal, 18, 24.
Woodward, Charles, 173.
Worlidge, 213.
'Wreath and Ribbon Style,' the, 65.
Wren, Sir Christopher, 12.
Wyndham, Wadham, 78.

YALE COLLEGE, 159.
Yates, engraving by, 91.
---- James, 107.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Page xv, "Bromhill" changed to "Broomhill" (BIRNIE OF BROOMHILL)

Page 144, "th" changed to "the" (perhaps the most gloomy)

Page 150, missing marker "1" added to footnote.

Page 184, the inscription on Sir Philip Sydenham's book was moved out of the end of the paragraph to allow the

{Ætatis: 73
{Domini: 1702.'

to be lined up at the end as they are in the original text.

Page 184, "mathematican" changed to "mathematician" (astronomer and a mathematician)

Page 195, "y" changed to "yet" (and have not yet)

Index:

Page 233, "Chadowiecki" changed to "Chodowiecki" and moved to new alphabetical position (Chodowiecki, D. N., 127.)

Page 233, "Maridal" changed to "Maridat" (De Maridat, Peter)

Page 235, "Henault" changed to "Hénault" (Hénault, M.)

Page 235, "I'ANSON" changed to "I'ANSON" (I'ANSON, Sir T. B.)

Page 236, this text uses both Jaquéri in the text once and Jacquéri in the index once. The index was changed to reflect what was in the text, but the reader should be aware that the name appears both ways in other texts and often with "Elie" instead of "Eli."

Page 235, "Kaler" changed to "Koler" and move to new alphabetical position (Koler, Susanna)

Page 236, "Linasti" changed to "Linarti" (Linarti, Filippo)