Chapter IX: A PLEA FOR SPECIALISM--(Continued) (2)

Professor Edward Arber's 'Introductory Sketch to the Martin Marprelate Controversy,' which appeared in 1895, contains a list of the more important tracts connected with that subject; and you will find Mr. W. Pierce's 'Historical Introduction to the Marprelate Tracts' (1908) useful. There are valuable lists of, and information upon, pamphlets of most descriptions and of all periods in the volumes of the 'Cambridge History of English Literature.' Mr. A. F. Pollard's 'Tudor Tracts, 1532-1588' appeared in 1903.

One of the most remarkable collections of pamphlets ever formed was that amassed during the Commonwealth by an enterprising London bookseller named George Thomason. He succeeded in gathering together[87] more than 22,000 pamphlets and tracts relating to the times; and being an ardent Royalist, was at great pains to prevent the collection from becoming known to the authorities. When the Royalist cause was scotch'd by the execution of King Charles, the collection was transferred to Oxford, and lodged in the Bodleian Library for safety; and although Thomason died in 1666, his collection remained at Oxford until nearly a century later, when it was purchased by King George III. for L300, and presented by him to the British Museum.

It is, of course, quite priceless now, and contains a large number of tracts not otherwise known. A catalogue of the collection was printed by the Museum authorities in 1908, two demy octavo volumes with the title: 'A Catalogue of the Pamphlets, Books, Newspapers, and Manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by G. Thomason, 1640-1661.'

[Sidenote: Philosophy.]

46. 'A farmer should be a philosopher,' said Mr. Jorrocks; and although most book-collectors who specialise in philosophical works would disclaim any connection between the two subjects, yet it is not easy to say where philosophy either begins or ends. The dictionaries are very cautious, contenting themselves with the assertion that any 'application of pure thought' or rational explanation of 'things' comes under this heading. Perhaps Mr. Jorrocks was more correct than most of his hearers imagined, for farming in this country certainly requires a deal of pure thought--if it is to be made to pay. For our purpose, however, we will narrow this heading down to those books which deal with the moral aspects of mental influences, and those which centre about the science of metaphysics.

[Sidenote: Poetry.]

47. Poetry is another heading over which we need not linger. He who specialises in this class of literature may be either a student of English poesy or a lover of prosody. If the former, the following volumes will be of assistance to him.

Thomas Warton's 'History of English Poetry' first appeared in three quarto volumes issued between 1774 and 1781; but a new edition, edited by W. C. Hazlitt in four octavo volumes, was published in 1871. Professor W. J. Courthope's work of the same title was issued in six volumes between 1895 and 1910; whilst Professor G. Saintsbury's 'History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day,' begun in 1906, was completed in 1910, three octavo volumes.

[Sidenote: Privately-printed.]

48. Privately-printed Books. A curious byway of collecting, this; for although it comprises books upon every subject under the sun, yet it will not help the collector to acquire knowledge upon any single subject. For some there is doubtless a certain attraction about books that have been put forth surreptitiously, as it were; yet to the ordinary book-collector such volumes seem to partake rather of the nature of pariahs. They are among books, but not of them, lacking the credentials of their companions. They are of three species only: (1) Personal Books; of interest only to a family and its relations; (2) Books refused by the publishing houses as being unlikely to appeal to the general public; (3) Improper books, which, if issued publicly, would most likely incur an action by the Public Prosecutor. Some years ago Bertram Dobell, a London bookseller, collected upwards of a thousand volumes issued in this manner, and published a catalogue of his collection, with interesting notes. This collection was finally sold _en bloc_ to the Library of Congress at Washington, U.S.A., in 1913. J. Martin's 'Bibliographical Catalogue of Privately Printed Books' was published first in 1834, two volumes; but a second edition appeared twenty years later.

[Sidenote: School Books.]

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 Grammaticae' 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.

[Sidenote: Sport.]

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 Phoebus, 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 L355. 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.'

[Sidenote: Theology.]

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 Oeuvres 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.

[Sidenote: Tobacco.]

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

'My pipe is lit, my grog is mix'd,
My curtains drawn and all is snug;
Old Puss is in her elbow-chair,
And Tray is sitting on the rug.'

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.

[Sidenote: Topography.]

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.

[Sidenote: Trades.]

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 Francois,' such practical treatises soon go the way of all superseded books.

[Sidenote: Travels and Voyages.]

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.

FOOTNOTES:

[82] Msr. F. C. Wieder, the librarian, writing to the 'Times Literary Supplement' of 6th February 1919 (p. 70), states that 'the catalogue is in preparation, and arrangements will be made that the books of this library can be sent on loan to foreign students through the intermediary of public libraries.'

[83] See note on p. 78.

[84] The moated manor-house (Southcote, near Reading) which he built provides an excellent example of the way in which learned men (especially mathematicians!) go astray when they insist upon being their own architects. A more unhandy house it is difficult to conceive; and in winter-time the dinner must invariably have been cold by the time it reached the dining-room. The writer of these lines prospected it from attics to cellars some years ago, but as usual "drew blank."

[85] Mr. E. Heron-Allen's 'De Fidiculis Bibliographia' was issued in parts, and forms two small quarto volumes, 1890 and 1894; but only about sixty complete sets are known to exist.

[86] Dodd's 'Essay towards a Natural History of the Herring,' 1752, contains a chapter of bibliography.

[87] You will find the whole tale--a most interesting one--in 'Bibliographica,' vol. iii., p. 291, from the pen of Mr. Falconer Madan.

[88] Lord Lovat's definition of 'Sport' was as follows: 'Sport is the fair, difficult, exciting, perhaps dangerous pursuit of a wild animal that has the odds in its favour, whose courage, speed, strength and cunning are more or less a match for our own, and whose death, being of service, is justifiable.' But this seems to apply more to hunting than anything else; it certainly precludes coaching, cock-fighting, racing, and steeplechasing.

[89] The copy in the Pittar sale at Sotheby's in November 1918 was extra-illustrated and finely bound. It fetched L9, 15s.

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, Pere, 86.
Ancillon, Charles, 81.
Andrada, Tomaso de, 155.
Anjou, Rene 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.
Basse, 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.

Caesar, 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 Basse, 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 _Bibliotheque 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.
Colombiere, La, books by, 235-6.
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, 185-6.
---- 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, 250-1.
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.
_Epicoene or the Silent Woman_, 13.
_Epitaph of the King of Scotland_, the, 11.
Errata, on, 170-1.
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.
FACETIAE, 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 _Tresor 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.
Grude, Francois, 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_, 161-2.
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, 71-2.
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.
Hyeres, the monk illuminator at, 37.
_Hygiasticon_, 224.

Illuminator of St. Honorat, the, 37.
Illuminators, the Winchester, 101-2.
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, 250-1.
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 a, 217.
Kennet, Bishop White, 210.
_King Glumpus_, 189.
Koberger, Anton, 176.

L'Abbe's _Bibliotheca_, 155.
La Colombiere, books by, 235-6.
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, 253-6.
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, 200-1, 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, 231-2.
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, mediaeval, 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 Francois, 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_, 165-6.
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, 227-8.
---- ---- some early, 179.
---- ---- on determining, 171-173.
_Prices of Books_, Wheatley's, 173-4.
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, 203-4, 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.
Querard's _Supercheries Litteraires_, 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, Francois, 181.
Rene 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, 94-5, 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, 251-2.
SEALS, books on, 236.
Seilliere, 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, 202-3.
_Speculum_, Caxton's, 14.
_Speculum Principis_, Skelton's, 11.
Spenser, quoted, 31.
SPORT, books on, 260.
---- definition of, 260 n.
Stael, 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 Cornucopiae_, 171-172.
Thomas Aquinas, 37.
Thomas a Kempis, 217.
Thomason, George, 257.
_Thyrsis and Daphne_, 13.
Titles, some curious, 256-7.
_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, 178-9.
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, 250-1.

ZOOLOGY, books on, 250.

Transcriber's Notes:

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