Nicholas V. Pope, Book list of, 139
_Nineteenth Century_, Extracts from the, 26, 68, 111
Nordau, millionaires in England, 133
North, Dr. John, his book-loving habits, 8
---- Dr. J., Library of, 73
---- Life of, 73
North's _Lives of the Norths_, 7
Notes, Suggestions on taking, 41
Novel-reading, 33
---- lecture on, 36, 37
Novels, how to bind, 62
Octavia Library, 135
Oldys, W., 79
Oliveriana Library, 147
Oxford, Lord, 79
---- University of. Duke Humphrey's collection of illuminated
treasures, 71
Pamphlets, how to bind, 63
---- how to catalogue, 63, 94
Paper, coloured, 13
---- fine, 13
---- hand-made, 8
---- Japanese vellum, 8
---- vellum, 13
---- knives, 16
---- maker, the, 3
Parentucelli, T., Catalogue of S. Marco Library, 137
Parker's _Domestic Architecture_, Reference to, 70
Paston _Letters_, 70
Pattison, Mark, a type of a scholar, 134
Payn, J., on the best hundred books, 30
Pembroke, Earl of, 79
Pepys' books, how numbered and titled, 78
---- book presses, 75
---- book presses at Magdalene College, 75
---- Collection of Ballads, &c., 65
---- Diary, 43, 59, 74, &c.
---- library catalogue, 76
---- library catalogue, classification of, 82, 89
---- a lover of books, 74
---- manuscripts, 77
---- single sheets, 77
Periodicals, Unbound, on placing, 89
Pesaro, Library of, 138
Petrarch, project of a public library, 143
Phillips, W., anecdote of George Sumner, 116
Pickering, Publications issued by, 4
Pieresc, and his books, 149
---- Funeral oration on, 150
Plato, Teachings of, 142
Plato's Works, 143
Plutarch, 148
---- on Lucullus' Library, 135
Plutarch's _Lives_, 143
Poetical Concordances, 44
Poliziano, 142
Poole, Mr., on enemies to books, 18
Pope, 'Globe' edition of, 2
Pope's Works, the edition of Courthope and Elwin, 3
Preservation of book covers, A recipe for, 20
Pressman, The, 3
Priceus, _Defensio Hist. Brit._, 76
Printer, The, 3
Prints, safe keeping of, 106
Private Library, divisions or classification of a, 89
_Psalms_, French, 74
Pseudonyms, how to catalogue, 84
Publisher, The, 3
Pulci, 142
Putnam's _Books and their Makers_, 71, 142
Ptolemy's _Cosmography_, 143
Quintus Curtius, 148
Quotations, Dictionary of, 44
Radcliffe bookcases, cost of, 114
Rare books, what constitutes, 12
---- why so called, 11
Rarity as affecting the price of books, 11
Rawlinson, T., 79
Reader, The, 3
Reading, The art of, 25
---- ---- literature on, 26
---- seat, 96
Record, unpublished, advisability of typing, 64
Reference books, 42
---- American, 43
---- French, 43
---- uses of, 43
Regulations, Book of, of Guidobaldo I, 118
Renaissance history, 136
Richardson's _Dictionary_, 44
Rochester's _Poems_, 78
Romances, Guy Beauchamp's library of, 71
_Romola_, 37
Roscoe, Mr., on book-collecting, 144
Rowfant Library Catalogue, 83
Ruddiman, T., 117
Ruskin, J., advice on book collecting, 150, 151
---- choice of books, 34
---- his scheme of a Royal series of books, 4
Ruskin's _Crown of Wild Olive_, 152
---- _Sesame and Lilies_, 151, 152
Sachetti, Franco, 137
Sala, G. A., On common-place books, 39, 40
Sallust, 148
Salutati, C. de, On utility of public libraries, 143
S. Giorgio Maggiore, Library of, 137
---- MSS. of, at Florence, 137
S. Marco, Catalogue of Library of, 138
Santa Trinità, Proposed public library at, 143
Scott, R., bill of books supplied to Pepys, 77
---- Bookseller of the XVIIth Century, 73
Scott, Sir W., Life of, 80
---- his care of books, 16
---- Novels of, original bindings of, 6
_Seven Champions of Christendom_, 72
Seventeenth Century Literature, Catalogue of, 83
Sévigné, Mme. de, Letters of, 109
Shakespeare, 'Cambridge' Edition of, 2, 53
'Shannon' Tables, 104
Shaw, G. B., on an economic library, 133
Shelf Classification, Difficulty of, 88
Sheraton, Bookcase designs by, 99
Silver Fish, bookboring insects, 23
'Sleepy Hollow,' an armchair at Eversley, 105
Smith, L. P., Qualifications of a Librarian, 117
Smith, W., _Greek and Roman Biography_, 44
Somers, Lord, 79
Soulsby, Miss Lucy, _Things in Book Clothing_, 28
Spartianus, 148
_Spectator_, Extract from, on Knowledge, 42
Spencer, George, Earl, 79
---- Earl, Library at Manchester, 79
Sport, Reference to, 133
Sporting books, on collecting, 67
Staghounds in England, 135
Stanley, Col., 79
Steps, Library, 106
Stevens, _Who spoils our English Books?_ 3, 4
Stevenson, R. L., Works. 'Edinburgh' Edition, 4
Strozzi, Palla degli, Greek learning, 142
---- originator of public libraries, 143
Subjects, Short, classification of, 85
Suetonius, 148
Sumner, G., Anecdote of, 116
---- his knowledge of books, 116
Sunderland, Charles, Earl of, 79
Suppressed books, 12
Symonds, On great literary undertakings, 142
---- _Revival of Learning_, 139, 140, 142, 144
Tables, Library, 104
Tacitus, 148
Tarleton's _Jests_, 72
_Tatler_--Addison's Picture of Tom Folio, 79
Tiberius, Library of, 135
Title-pages, ruined, 7
Titles, how to prepare, 87
Thirlwall, on reading, 31
_Thomas à Kempis_, Editions of, 68
Thomas of Saranza, founder of the Vatican Library, 145
Todd's _Gower and Chaucer_, 72
---- _Index Rerum_, 39
Tonk's Patent Fittings for Bookcases, 95
Topographical Books, on collecting, 66
---- Rise in price of, 66
Traill, H. D., on book readers, 35
Trajan, Library of, 135
Traversari, Ambrogio, 137
_Urbino_, _Dukes of_, 110, 144
---- _Memoirs of the_, 119
---- book-collecting by, 145
---- hospitality to men of letters, 148
---- Library of, 138
---- his collection of ancient MSS., 149
Valvio, G., Publisher of Plato (1482), 142
Vespasiano, a MSS. copyist, 138
---- on Casimo's plan of forming a library, 138
---- on Federigo's literary habits, 148
---- on the S. Marco Library Catalogue, 138
Vitruvius' _Architecture_, 119, 125
Walpole, H., on Beauclerk's library, 107
Walpole's Letters, edited by Cunningham, 3
Wanley, H., 79
Warwick, Earl of, Library of early romances, List of, 71, 72
Weeding out, 80
Wheatley, B. R., on library arrangement, 90
Wheatley, H. B., _Pepys and the World he lived in_, 74, 82, 90
_Where is it?_ 40
White Canons, Catalogue of the House of the, 70
Whittingham, Books printed by, 4
Whittingham's garden at Chiswick, 4
Wilberforce, Dr., on knowledge, 42
Wilkinson's _Ancient Egyptians_, 44
Willett, Deb., 78
Willis and Clark, _History of Cambridge University_, 120
Wordsworth, careless with his books, 16
Wren, Sir C., bookcases at Trinity College, Cambridge, 102
Wren, W., on Education, 45
Zola, 110
_London_: STRANGEWAYS, _Printers._
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Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
Page 53, " ssued" changed to "issued" (issued in a separate)
Page 61, "cuttting" changed to "cutting" (even cutting off lines)
Page 64, "callendar" changed to "calendar" (instructions to calendar)
Page 153, "Aelus" changed to "Ælius" (Ælius, 148)
Page 153, "Aemylius" changed to "Æmylius" (Æmylius Protus, 148)
Page 155, "Lionardi" changed to "Lionardo" (Bruni, Lionardo, 137)
Page 156, Brontè changed to "Brontë" (Brontë, C.,)
Page 158, "Gentlemen's" changed to "Gentleman's" (Kerr's _Gentlemen's
House_, 120)
Page 158, "Lapaccim" changed to "Lapaccini" (Lapaccini, Fra G., a MS.
copyist, 138)
Page 158, "bookbinding" changed to "bookboring" (_Lepisma Saccharina_,
bookboring insects)
Page 158, "Th" changed to "The" (_Library, The_,)
Page 159, "Nazianzen" changed to "Naziazen" (Naziazen, St. Gregory, 148)
Page 162, "MMS." changed to "MSS." (Vespasiano, a MSS.)
Buckram is sometimes capitalized and sometimes not. This was retained.
This book hyphenates or not on a whim. For example: Common-place and
Commonplace. These were retained.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Private Library, by Arthur L. Humphreys