writer on the subject of books. He is understood to have an extensive
library of an exceedingly miscellaneous character. He has an especial
liking for books which bear the traces of former distinguished owners.
He himself has pointed out that, 'as a rule, tidy and self-respecting
people do not even write their names on their fly-leaves, still less do
they scribble marginalia. Collectors love a clean book, but a book
scrawled on may have other merits. Thackeray's countless caricatures add
a delight to his old school books; the comments of Scott are always to
the purpose; but how few books once owned by great authors come into the
general market. Where is Dr. Johnson's library, which must bear traces
of his buttered toast? Sir Mark Sykes used to record the date and place
of purchase, with the price--an excellent habit. The selling value of a
book may be lowered even by a written owner's name, but many a book,
otherwise worthless, is redeemed by an interesting note. Even the
uninteresting notes gradually acquire an antiquarian value, if
contemporary with the author. They represent the mind of a dead age, and
perhaps the common scribbler is not unaware of this; otherwise he is,
indeed, without excuse. For the great owners of the past, certainly, we
regret that they were so sparing in marginalia. But this should hardly
be considered as an excuse for the petty owners of the present, with
"their most observing thumb."' Mr. Lang is the lucky owner of a copy of
Stoddart's poem, 'The Death Wake' (1831), that singular romantic or
necromantic volume, which wise collectors will purchase when they can.
It is of extreme rarity, and the poetry is no less rare, in the French
manner of 1830. On this specimen Aytoun has written marginalia. Where
the hero's love of arms and dread of death are mentioned, Aytoun has
written 'A rum cove for a Hussar,' and he has added designs of skeletons
and a sonnet to the 'wormy author.' 'A curse! a curse!' shrieks the
poet. 'Certainly, but why and wherefore?' says Aytoun. There is nothing
very precious in his banter; still it is diverting to follow in the
footsteps of the author of 'Ta Phairshon.' Mr. Lang also possesses John
Wilkes' copy of the second edition of 'Theocritus, Bion and Moschus,' in
French, with Eisen's plates; he has Leon Gambetta's copy of the 'Journée
Chrétienne,' Collet's copy of his friend Crashaw's 'Steps to the
Temple,' and a copy of Montaigne, with the autograph of Drummond of
Hawthornden.
[Illustration: _The late Frederick Locker-Lampson._
From a Portrait by Mr. Du Maurier.]
The late Frederick Locker-Lampson, whose lamented death occurred whilst
the earlier pages of this book--in which he took much interest--were
passing through the press, was an ideal book-collector. He cared only
for books which were in the most perfect condition. The unique character
of the Rowfant library, its great literary and commercial value, and its
wide interest, may be studied at length in its admirable catalogue,
which of itself is a valuable work of reference. Mr. Locker, for it is
by this name, and as the author of 'London Lyrics,' that he will be best
remembered, devoted his attention almost exclusively to English
literature, although of late years he had devoted as much attention as
his frail health would allow to the formation of a section of rare books
in French literature. It would be impossible to describe in this place
all the many book rarities at Rowfant; we must be content, therefore,
with indicating a few of the more interesting ones: Alexander Pope's own
copy of Chapman's translation of Homer, 1611; one of the largest known
copies of the First Folio Shakespeare, 1623; an extensive series of the
first or early quarto editions of Shakespeare's plays, about fifty in
number--including the spurious plays--many of which were at one
time in the collections of Steevens, George Daniel, Tite, or
Halliwell-Phillipps. The library is rich in other writers of the
Elizabethan period--of Nash, Dekker, Greene, Gabriel Harvey. There are
also a long series of the first editions of Dryden; the earliest issues
of the first complete edition of 'Pilgrim's Progress'; of 'Robinson
Crusoe' (the three parts); of 'Gulliver's Travels,' besides about a
score of other _editiones principes_ of Swift, Pope, Goldsmith,
Fielding, Richardson, Johnson, Gay, Gray, Lamb, Byron, Shelley,
Wordsworth, Thackeray, Dickens and many others. The two early printed
books of especial interest are the 'De Senectute,' printed by Caxton,
1481, and Barbour's 'Actis and Lyfe of the maist Victorious Conquerour,
Robert Bruce, King of Scotland,' printed at Edinburgh by Robert Lepruik
in 1571. The room in which the books are kept is virtually a huge safe;
it was at one time a small ordinary room, and it has been converted into
a fireproof library, with brick walls within brick walls; the floor of
concrete, nearly two feet thick, and a huge iron door, complete an
ingenious and effective protection against the most destructive of all
enemies of books--fire.
[Illustration: _Portrait Bookplate of Mr. Joseph Knight._]
The library of Mr. Joseph Knight, the editor of _Notes and Queries_,
more nearly resembles a select and orderly bookseller's premises than a
private individual's. It seems almost impossible to believe that the
comparatively small house in Camden Square could contain between 12,000
and 13,000 volumes, and yet such is undoubtedly the case. Every room is
crowded, and all the sides of the staircases are crowded with books
from top to bottom. Mr. Knight's library is essentially a working one,
but it is also something more. It is rich in editions of Froissart's
'Chronicles'; in editions of Rabelais--notably the excessively rare one
printed by Michel le Noir, 1505; in Elzevir editions it includes a very
extensive series; the series of the 'Restif de la Bretonne' includes
about 200 volumes, being one of the few complete sets in London. A few
of Mr. Knight's greatest rarities have come to him at very cheap
rates--_e.g._, the 'Apologie pour Herodote,' 1566, without any of the
_cartons_, or cancels, upon which the Genevese authorities insisted.
This little volume, of which there are very few copies known, cost Mr.
Knight 16s., neither buyer nor seller knowing its value at the time of
the transfer. Another 'bargain' is the fine copy of Baudelaire, 'Les
Fleurs de Mal,' 1857, which was fished out of a fourpenny box in High
Street, Marylebone! Mr. Knight's collection of French plays and of works
relating to the French stage is, like that of the English
dramatists--ancient and modern--exceedingly extensive. He possesses,
also, a few good Aldines, a number of Bodonis, and some books of Le
Gason.
Mr. Gladstone is, of course, a book-collector, as well as an omnivorous
reader. The Grand Old Book-hunter's literary tastes cover almost every
conceivable phase of intellectual study. His library contains about
30,000 volumes, to which theology contributes about one-fourth. The
works are arranged by Mr. Gladstone himself into divisions and sections.
For many years he was an inveterate bookstaller, a practice which of
late years has brought with it a certain amount of inconvenience. After
attending Mr. H. M. Stanley's wedding, for example, in 1890, Mr.
Gladstone went on one of his second-hand book expeditions, this time to
Garratt's, in Southampton Row. The right hon. gentleman walked with his
customary elasticity, and was followed to the shop by a large crowd of
admirers, chiefly consisting of working men, whose enthusiasm was kept
in order by three policemen. Outside the bookseller's several hundred
people gathered, and they were not disappointed in their wish to see
the Grand Old Man, for Mr. Garratt's shop does not boast of a back-door
through which fame can escape its penalties. On coming out, Mr.
Gladstone, looking, as a working man standing on the kerb expressed it,
'as straight as a new nail,' received quite an ovation, the people
waving their hats and cheering vigorously as he drove away in a cab. Mr.
Gladstone's marked catalogues are a familiar and a peculiarly welcome
feature with second-hand booksellers, who proudly expose them in their
windows. A bookseller who exhibited one of these catalogues before the
Old Man retired from the Premiership was accosted by a strong Tory with
the remark: 'I see you've got a list marked by Gladstone's initials in
the window;' and then, whispering fiercely in the bookseller's ear, he
added, 'Does he pay you?' We give a facsimile of one of Mr. Menken's
catalogues with an order for books from Mr. Gladstone.
[Illustration: '_An Order from Mr. Gladstone._']
Mr. Henry Spencer Ashbee, of Bedford Square, has a small but charming
library, nearly every volume being beautifully bound. The books are, for
the most part, modern, and chiefly French. There are, for example,
Sainte-Beuve's 'Livre d'Amour,' which was suppressed after a few copies
were struck off, with the author's own corrections; the Fortsas
'Catalogue,' the cruel joke of M. Renier Chalon; first editions of 'The
English Spy,' an exceptionally fine copy; Coryat's 'Crambe, or, his
Colwork,' 1611; Roger's 'Poems' and 'Italy'; a number of books
illustrated by Chodowiecki, the Cruikshank of Germany; practically all
the books published by M. Octave Uzanne and Paul Lacroix in the finest
possible states. Mr. Ashbee possesses several extra-illustrated or
grangerized books of exceptional interest--the nine volumes of Nichols'
'Literary Anecdotes' are extended to thirty-four, there being upwards of
5,000 additional portraits, views, and so forth. Mr. Ashbee's library
comprises several thousand volumes, the binding alone of which must have
cost a small fortune.
[Illustration: _Portrait Bookplate of Mr. H. S. Ashbee._]
[Illustration: _Mr. T. J. Wise, Book-collector._]
The libraries of Mr. Thomas J. Wise and Mr. Walter Slater may be
bracketed together, partly because they have been formed side by side.
They differ in many respects, however. Mr. Wise's is a small but choice
collection of books, autographs, and manuscripts of modern writers. He
possesses, for the most part, in first editions of the finest quality,
practically everything written by Matthew Arnold, William Blake, Robert
Browning and Mrs. Browning, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, George Eliot,
Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, Landor, Meredith, William Morris, John Ruskin,
Swinburne, and Tennyson. Of Shelley, for example, Mr. Wise has a
collection of 400 books and pamphlets by or concerning him. There is
only one other collection comparable to it, and it is that possessed by
Mr. Buxton Forman. Of Byron Mr. Wise has everything, including 'The
Waltz,' 'Poems on Various Occasions,' and all the other excessively
rare publications of this prolific poet, the only exception, indeed,
being 'The Curse of Minerva,' 1812. Mr. Wise's collection of Ruskiniana
is practically complete, and includes a number of privately-printed
pamphlets issued to a few personal friends. Mr. Walter Slater's books
and manuscripts include a unique series of both Dante G. Rossetti and
Walter Savage Landor. Of the former, it contains the manuscript of
three-fourths of the 'House of Life' series of sonnets, the manuscript
of 'St. Agnes,' and the whole of the extant manuscript of 'The King's
Tragedy'; these manuscripts usually include not only the 'copy' as it
was sent to the printer, but usually the first and second drafts. The
series of Landor books and pamphlets is quite complete, from his first
book of poems, 'Moral Epistles,' issued in 1795, and the equally
excessively rare 'Poems from the Arabic and Persian,' issued at Warwick
in 1800, to 'Savonarola,' in Italian, 1860. Mr. Slater has a complete
series of the first editions of the curious works of Mrs. Behn.
[Illustration: _Mr. Clement Shorter's Bookplate._]
Mr. Clement K. Shorter, the editor of the _Illustrated London News_, the
_Sketch_, and several other publications, is a book-collector who, like
Mr. Wise and Mr. Slater, has pitched his 'tent' on the northern heights
of London. Mr. Shorter has an unusually complete set of the works of
Thomas Hardy, George Meredith, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte
Brontë--besides the 'Cottage Poems' of old Mr. Brontë--and Matthew
Arnold. Of the last named there are copies of the very limited editions
of 'Geist's Grave,' 'St. Brandran,' 'Home Rule for Ireland,' and 'Alaric
at Rome.' Mr. Shorter's Ruskin treasures include a volume of the plates
of 'Modern Painters,' on India paper, bound up in vellum. There are also
several first editions of the earlier works of Carlyle, and William
Watson's 'Lachrymæ Musarum,' on vellum, with the original manuscript
bound up with it. Mr. Shorter has many interesting manuscripts and books
by Oliver Wendell Holmes, R. L. Stevenson, and A. C. Swinburne, with
autographs or notes by their respective authors. Mr. Richard le
Gallienne, the well-known author, has for many years been a confirmed
book-hunter, and has come across some rare and interesting finds. Mr.
Henry Norman, the traveller and assistant editor of the _Daily
Chronicle_, has a number of choice and rare books, chiefly first
editions of American authors--J. Russell Lowell, Longfellow, O. W.
Holmes, Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Whittier--nearly all of whom were
personal friends of Mr. Norman's. Mr. Norman has gone to the
extravagance of two sets of the first editions of Thomas Hardy's books,
whilst of George Meredith there is one complete set.
[Illustration: _Mr. A. Birrell, Book-collector._]
The House of Commons contains several men who have very excellent
libraries and excellent judgments of books. Mr. Leonard Courtney has
been guilty of bookstalling a good many times in his successful career,
and is, perhaps, an exception to the general rule that good political
economists usually make poor book-hunters. Mr. Courtney possesses a good
many uncommon books, which he has picked up from time to time. Mr.
Augustine Birrell, Q.C., the author of 'Obiter Dicta,' and son-in-law of
the late Frederick Locker-Lampson, has a good library of from 5,000 to
6,000 books. Among these may be noticed the first edition of Gray's
'Elegy,' picked up at Hodgson's for 3s. 6d.; first edition of Keats'
'Endymion,' purchased off a stall in the Euston Road for 2s. 6d.; first
edition of 'Wuthering Heights'; and an extensive series of books
relating to or by Dryden, Pope, Swift, and others of that period, as
well as a number of presentation copies of books by Matthew Arnold,
Browning, and Tennyson, etc. Mr. T. R. Buchanan, M.P., who was for many
years librarian of All Souls' College, Oxford, has a small but select
library of books which are, for the most part, remarkable on account of
the beauty or rarity of their bindings. It is especially strong in fine
specimens of early English and Scotch bindings; there are a few examples
from De Thou's library, and a few characteristic specimens of Italian
and Flemish bindings of the best periods. The books themselves are
principally editions of the classics; but the section of Bibles printed
in England and Scotland is a full one. There are also many volumes with
a personal interest; for example, the copy of Locke's 'Essay concerning
the Human Understanding' was once Coleridge's, and contains a note by
him to this effect: 'This is, perhaps, the most admirable of Locke's
works; read it, Southey,' etc.; and the copy of the 'Libri Carolini,'
1549, was Scaliger's.
Captain R. S. Holford, of Dorchester House, Park Lane, has a choice
library of beautiful and rare books, formed by his father, the late H.
S. Holford. For many years its chief treasure was the only known first
edition of 'Pilgrim's Progress,' 1678, which was valued at £50; during
the last few years, however, four other copies have turned up, without,
however, lessening the commercial value of the Holford copy, which would
probably fetch two or three times the amount at which it was valued
thirty years ago. The facsimile of the first edition issued a few years
ago was made from Mr. Holford's copy. A few other treasures of Captain
Holford's library may be briefly mentioned as follows: A
fifteenth-century manuscript of Livy's 'Historia,' on vellum, in a
Venetian binding, with the arms of Aragon; Cardinal Hippolyto d'Este's
copy of Rhinghier, 'Cento Giuochi Liberali, et d' Ingegno,' Bologna,
1551; Grolier's copy of Pliny, 'Epistolæ,' etc., Venice, 1518; of
Valerius Maximus, Venice, 1534; and of 'Epitomes des Roys de France,'
Lyons, 1546; the Maioli copy of Homer, 'Odyssea,' Paris, 1538; Du
Bellay's 'Memoirs,' 1572, with the arms of Henri de Bourbon, Prince de
Condé; and the copy of 'Liber Psalmorum Davidis,' 1546, bound by
Nicholas Eve for De Thou.
[Illustration: _Facsimile of Title-page, 'Pilgrim's Progress,' First
Edition._]
Dr. W. H. Corfield, Mr. C. E. H. Chadwyck-Healey, Q.C., Sir Julian
Goldsmid, M.P., Mr. C. F. Murray, Mr. George Salting, Mr. Samuel
Sandars, Mr. H. Yates Thompson, Mr. H. Virtue Tebbs, and Mr. T. Foster
Shattock, are understood to possess choice libraries of books noted
chiefly for the beauty or rarity of their bindings. M. John Gennadius,
late Greek Minister at the Court of St. James's, possessed one of the
finest libraries formed during recent years. This collection was
destined to supplement and ornament the National Library of Greece,
founded at Athens by his Excellency's father, on the very morrow of her
liberation. Fate, however, ordered otherwise, and these beautiful books
were, consequently, dispersed at Sotheby's, from March 28 to April 9,
the eleven days' sale of 3,222 lots realizing £5,466. The library of Mr.
W. Christie-Miller, of Britwell Court, Maidenhead, is understood to
include many choice books, particularly early printed works, but no
particulars of it are available.
Holland House Library is one of great historic value and interest. It is
fully described by the Princess Marie Liechtenstein, in her monograph on
the place. Macaulay has described the appearance of the library in his
famous essay on Lord Holland. It is rather a collection formed by a
statesman and a literary man than by a bibliophile; there are over
10,000 volumes, many of which are privately printed books, presentation
copies; there is a large collection of historical works relating to
Italy, Portugal, and France; Spanish literature, a memento of the taste
of the third Lord Holland, is well represented; the collection of
Elzevirs is very fine, as is also that of the Greek and Latin classics,
and the highly curious collection of various copies of Charles James
Fox's 'James II.,' which belonged to different celebrities, is housed
here.
Mr. C. J. Toovey inherited from his father, the late James Toovey, a
fine library of exceptionally choice books; it is rich in monuments of
the Early English printers, one of its gems being a fine copy of the
'Boke of St. Albans'; Aldines probably form one of its largest sections,
whilst in bindings by the great masters of the French school of
bibliopegic art the library has very few equals. Many of these were
purchased by the late Mr. Toovey in Paris, long before the present rage
for them had commenced, so that, as an investment, they will doubtless
yield a handsome profit if they ever come into the market. The series of
Walton's 'Angler' includes the first edition, with a presentation
inscription by the author; there is also the largest known First Folio
edition of Shakespeare, to which reference has already been made.
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INDEX.
ADDISON, JOSEPH, 39, 108, 265, 267
Advocates, Library of the College of, 116
Ainsworth, W. Harrison, 83, 288, 289
Alchorne, S., 109
Alcuin, 2, 3, 139
Alde, John, 183
Aldersgate Street, 39
Aldine editions, 129-131, 300, 304
Aldus, 129
Alfred, 3
Allen, Thomas, 31
Almon, J., 250
Althorp Library, the, 50, _et seq._
America, book trade with, 189
America, tracts on, 90
Amherst of Hackney, Lord, 309
Anacreon, Stephen edition, 129
Anderson, Adam, 219
Anderson, G. B., 94
Anderson, John, 193
Anglesey, Earl of, 27, 101 _note_
Angling books, Francis's, 93
Anson, Sir W. R., 305
'Anthologia Græca' (1494), 130
'Apologie pour Herodote,' 314
Arch, J. and A., 186
Archaica Club, 79
Archer, Sir Anthony, 16
'Aristophanes' (1498), 129
Aristotle (1495-98), 130
Arthur, Thomas, 230
Arundel, Henry, Earl of, 15, 16, 18
Ascham, Roger, 307
Ascham's 'Toxophilus,' 120
Ashbee, Mr. H. S., 315
Ashburnham, Lord, 126, 285
Ashmole, Elias, 18
Askew, Dr. A., 41
Askew Sale, the, 128, _et seq._
Asperne, James, 186
Athelstan, 3
'Atticus,' 46
Auctions, book, 98, _et seq._, 210
Aulus Gellius, 'Noctes,' 307
Aylesford, Earl of, 89, 117
Bacon, Francis, 19
Bacon, Roger, 6
Bagford, John, 30, 31, 204, 268
Bagster, S., 235
Bain, James, 240
Baker, Mr. E. E., 91
Baker, H., 249
Baker, Samuel, 100 _note_, 102, 103, 223
Baker, Thomas, 34
'Balbi Catholicon,' the, 127, 300
Baldwin and Cradock, 210
Bale, John, 13
Bale's 'Image of Both Churches,' 196
Balfour, Mr. A. J., 305
Ballads, 74
Ballard, T. and E., 103
Ballards of Little Britain, 173
Banks, Dr., 219
Bannatyne Club, the, 62 _note_
Baptist Library at Bristol, 138
Barbican, the, 176, 177
Barclay's 'Ship of Fools,' 120, 121
Barnard, Sir John, 238
Barnfield's 'Encomion of Lady Pecunia,' 41
'Baroccio,' 69
Barrett, Thomas, 35
Barton, Bernard, 76, 296
Bassett, Thomas, 219
Batemans of Little Britain, 171
Bates, Dr., 39
Bath, Marquis of, 304, 305
Bathoe, Sam., 103
Bathoe, W., 234
Baudelaire, 'Les Fleurs de Mal,' 314
Bauduyn (Piers), stationer, 10
Baylis, Alderman, 223
Baynes, W., 211
Beauclerk, Topham, 55 and _note_, 111
Beckett-Denison, C., 117
Becket, Thomas, 176 _note_, 236
Beckford, Peter, 49, 297, 298
Beckford, William, 48-50, 256
Bede, the Venerable, 3
Bedford, Francis, 87
Bedford, John, Duke of, 9, 17
Bedford Missal, the, 9, 109
Bedford Street, Strand, 241
Beet, Thomas, 251
Bell and Sons, George, 244
Benedict Biscop, 2, 3
Bennett, T., 187
Bentham, W., 61
Bentley, Dr. R., 116, 195, 196
Benzon, Mrs., 270
Berkeley, Earl of, 25
Bernard, Dr. Francis, 34, 132
Bernard, Sir Thomas, 71
Berthelet, Thomas, 261
Bibles and New Testaments, 136-140, 212, 261, 262, 285, 291, 302, 306
'Biblia Pauperum,' 272
Coverdale's (1535), 72, 89, 138, 263, 268, 302
Cranmer's (1540 and 1553), 72, 302
Cromwell's (1539), 302
Douay (1663), 120
Eliot's Indian, 119
Fust and Schoeffer (1462), 126, 300
German, 95
Græca Septuaginta, 192 _note_
Gutenberg (or Mazarin) (1455), 58, 72, 89, 90, 114, 125, 126, 255,
300
Hayes (1674), 21
Matthew's (1537), 72, 302
Tyndale's (1525-1526, 1533), 89, 137, 138
St. Jerome's MS., 140
Bibliomania, the decay of, 69
Bibliomaniac, A, 78
Bibliomaniac, the 'Library' of a, 200
Bibliophile, A, 78
Bibliophobia, 108
Bindley, James, 43, 66, 108, 109
Birrell, Mr. A., 145, 319
Bishopsgate Churchyard, 161
Black-letter books, 136
Black-letter booksellers, the, 236
Black-letter collectors, 'Father' of, 27 _note_
Black-letter mania, 59
Blackwell's 'Herbal,' 105
Blake, W., 93
Blandford, Marquis of, 61 _note_, 109, 124
Block book, 89
Bloomfield, R., 154
Boccaccio, the Valdarfer, 52, 61, 93, 123-125
Boccaccio, 'Les Illustres Malheureux,' 50
Bodleian, the, 23, 67
Bodley, Sir T., 22, 283
Boethius, 'Consolation of Philosophy,' 4
Bohn, H. G., 50, 243, 244, 255
Bohn, James, 243
Bohn, J. H., 243, 244
'Boke of St. Albans,' 136, 322
Bolland, Sir W., 61, 69
Bonaparte, Prince L. L., 95, 96, 254
Bonaventure's 'Life of Christ,' 9
Bond Street, 249, _et seq._
Book auctions and sales, 98, _et seq._
Book-borrowers, 274, _et seq._
Book catalogues, some humours of, 293-298
Booker, John, 18
Book-ghouls, 160
Book-hunting, early, 1
Book-marking, Lamb's notion of, 76
Book-pluralists, 46
Books and their prices, 118, _et seq._
'Booksellers,' the, a poem, 193
Booksellers' Row. _See_ Holywell Street
Bookstalls and bookstalling, 149-167
Book-thieves, 274, _et seq._
Boone, T. and W., 246, 250
Booth, Lionel, 116
Boswell, James, 108, 229
Boucher, Jonathan, 70
Bourne, Zacharius, 100
Bovey, Mrs., 265
Bowles, Rev. J., 220
Bowyer, Jonah, 216
Bowyer, William, 216
Boydell, Alderman, 251
Bozier's Court, 201
Brabourne, Lord, 93, 106
Bradbury and Evans, 116
Brand, Rev. John, 112, 179, 190, 207
Brassey, Mrs., 271
Bremner, David, 241
Bridges, John, 34, 121, 122
Bright, B. H., 108, 143 _note_, 302
Brindley, J., 249
Bristol, Earl of, 26, 31
British Museum copies of the classics, 128-131, 139, 166
British Museum, 276
Britten, Mr. James, 151
Britton, Thomas, 172, 173
Broadly, John, 109
Brooke, Lord Warwick, 100
Brown, Mr. J., 200
Brown, 'Old,' 157
Bruck, Cudworth, 193
Bruscambille on 'Long Noses,' 152
Bryant, W., 112
Brydges, Sir Egerton, 47, 59
Buccleuch, Duke of, 90, 305
Buchanan, Mr. T. R., 319
Buckley, Samuel, 174
Buckley, W. E., 94
Bull and Auvache, 206
Bumstead, G., 245
Bunyan, John, 183
Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress,' 145, 146, 312, 320, 321
Burbidge, Prebendary E., 18
Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, 141, 142
Burgess, F., 95
Burghley, Lady M., 264
Burghley, Lord, 306
Burlington, Countess of, 265
Burnet, Bishop, 234
Burnet, Rev. Gilbert, 232
Burney, Dr., 238
Burns, R., 281, 304, 308
Burton, Robert, 23
Butcher Row, 223-225
Bute, Marquis of, 305
Butler, Mr. Charles, 310
Butler's 'Hudibras,' 219
Butterworth, Henry, 217 _note_
Byng, Mr., 144
Byron, Lord, 109, 316
Byron's 'Childe Harold,' 308
Byron's 'English Bards,' 85
Byron's 'Waltz,' 308
Bywater, Mr. Ingram, 310
Cadell, Thomas, 235
Cadell and Davis, 235
Cæsar's (Sir Julius) Travelling Library, 22, 23, 110
Cæsar's 'Commentaries,' 55
Caldecott, Thomas, 68
Camden, W., 21
Campbell, Mr. Dykes, 106
Canonbury Tower, 72 and _note_, 73
Carbery, Lord, 31
Caroline, Queen, 268
Casaubon, Dr. M., 25
Cashel, Bishop of, 255
Cassell and Co., 116
Castell, Dr., 100
Catalogues. _See_ Book Catalogues
Cater, W., 193
Caviceo, 'Dialogue,' etc., 93
Cawthorn and Hutt, 208