Chapter IV

Literary Results of My Acquaintance with Mr Huth--The New
_Bibliography_ in Progress, and the 1867 Book gradually
superseded--Some Other Literary Acquaintances--George
Daniel--John Payne Collier and Frederic Ouvry, His
Son-in-Law--The Millers of Craigentinny--'Inch-rule'
Miller--He purchases at the Heber Sale by Cartloads--My
Efforts to procure Particulars of all the Rare Books at
Britwell--I let Mr Christie-Miller have One or Two Items--
An Anecdote--Mr Miller's London House formerly Samuel
Rogers's--His Son--Where They are all buried--The Rev.
Thomas Corser--His Fine Library--What It cost and what It
fetched--His Difficulties in Forming It--Whither Much of It
went--My Exploits at the Sale--Description of the House
where the Books were kept--Mr Corser's Peculiar Interest in
My Eyes--His Personal Character--The Sad Change in the Book
Market since Corser's Day--Mr Samuel Sanders--A Curious
Incident--Mr Cosens, Mr Turner and Mr Lawrence--Their
Characteristics--Some Account of Mr Cosens as He gave It to
Me--His Line of Collecting--My Assistance requested--A Few
of His Principal Acquisitions and Their Subsequent
Fortunes--Frederic Locker--His Idiosyncrasies--His Want of
Judgment--His _Confidences_, 57

CHAPTER V

Mr Henry Pyne--His Ideas as a Collector, and My Intercourse
with Him--His Office One of My Regular Lounges--His
Willingness to Part with Certain Books--I buy a Pig in a
Poke, and It turns out well--Mr Pyne's Sale--A Frost--I buy
All the Best Lots for a Trifle--The Volume of _Occasional
Forms of Prayer_ and Its History--Pyne's Personal Career
and Relations--His Investigation of the Affairs of a Noble
Family--The Booksellers--Joseph Lily--His Sale--His
Services to Mr Huth--The Daniel Books in 1864--Daniel's
Flyleaf Fibs--The Event an Extraordinary _Coup_--The Napier
First Folio Shakespear knocked down and out at £151--Why
some Books are Dear without being Very Rare--F. S. Ellis
and the Corser Sale--My Successful Tactics--He lends me Sir
F. Freeling's Interleaved _Bibliotheca Anglo-poetica_ 73

CHAPTER VI

My Transactions with Mr Ellis--Rarities which came from
Him, and how He got Them--Riviere the Bookbinder--How He
cleaned a Valuable Volume for Me--His Irritability--A
Strange Tale about an Unique Tract--The Old Gentleman and
the Immoral Publication--Dryden's Copy of Spenser--The
Unlucky _Contretemps_ at Ellis's--A Second Somewhere Else--
Mr B. M. Pickering--Our Pleasant and Profitable Relations--
Thomas Fuller's MSS. Epigrams--Charles Cotton's Copy of
Taylor the Water-Poet's Works--A Second One, which
Pickering had, and sold to Me--He has a First Edition of
_Paradise Lost_ from Me for Two Guineas and a Half--
Taylor's Thumb Bible, 93