_Reynard the Fox_, 11, 12;
Gray’s _Odes_, 13, 14;
Johnson’s Drury Lane _Prologue_, 14, 15;
Gutenberg Bible, 17;
inheritance from Moses Polock, 19;
books from Washington’s library, 20;
first edition _Adonais_, 25;
_Moby Dick_, 26, 27;
Shakespeare first folio, 27;
_The Book of Hunting and Hawking_, 30;
_Pilgrim’s Progress_, 31, 32, 33;
Keats’s copy of Shakespeare, 40;
Shelley’s own copy of _Queen Mab_, 40;
Baxter’s _Call to the Unconverted_ in Indian language, 43;
letter of Dr. Johnson to Garrick, 48, 49;
second edition _Venus and Adonis_, 53;
signature of Button Gwinnett, 53, 54;
letter of Amerigo Vespucci, 55, 56;
commonplace book of Giorgio Vespucci, 56, 57;
first edition _Robinson Crusoe_, 59, 60, 61;
book from Lamb’s library, 61;
Bradford’s _First Laws of New York_, 64;
first book printed in New York, 65;
Franklin’s first draft of his own epitaph, 66, 67;
Missal of Gabrielle d’Estrées, 68, 70, 71, 72, 74;
MS. of Handel’s
“Messiah,” 69;
MS. of Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger,” 73;
Lope de Vega’s _Carlos V_, 77;
first volume of verse printed in North America, 77, 78, 79;
_Unpublishable Memoirs_, 82;
first folio Shakespeare, 84, 85;
the Holford first folio, 86;
four folios from the Perry sale, 87;
volume of nine Shakespeare plays, 88;
Poe’s _Prose Romances_, 93;
MS. sonnet by Oscar Wilde on sale of Keats’s love letters, 94;
letter of Keats to Fanny Brawne, 95, 96, 97;
autograph letter of Cervantes, 100, 101, 102;
letter written by George Washington, 106, 107;
illustrated MS. letter of Thackeray, 110;
MS. of Wilde’s _Salomé_, 112, 113, 114, 116;
MS. dedication of Wilde’s _Sphinx_, 115;
forgery of a Shakespeare MS. by Ireland, 123;
Ireland’s confession, 128;
autograph letter of Franklin, 135;
Franklin’s work book of his press, 138, 139;
MSS. of Bernard Shaw, 142, 143;
MS. of Conrad’s _Victory_, 143, 144;
of _Lord Jim_, 145;
Shakespeare’s _Troylus and Cresseida_, 147;
presentation copy, first edition of _The Faerie Queene_, 148, 149,
150;
book given by Spenser to Gabriel Harvey, 149;
MS. of Walt Whitman’s “By Emerson’s Grave,” 152, 153, 154;
Dickens’s letter about beginning _Pickwick_, 155, 157;
MS. pages of _Pickwick_, 156, 157;
Dickens’s note in verse, 158, 159;
his last written letter, 160;
MS. poems of Burns, 161, 162, 163, 164;
MSS. of Mark Twain, 164, 165;
Poe’s “Annabel Lee” and “Epimanes,” 166, 167, 168, 169, 170;
MS. page of Joyce’s _Ulysses_, 171;
letter of Benedict Arnold, 172, 173, 174;
MS. page of the _Rubáiyát_, 175;
contemporary certified copies Declaration of Independence and
Articles of Confederation (U.S.), 176, 177;
MS. title page of Hawthorne’s _Wonder Book_, 180;
collection of old-fashioned books for children, 182-209;
Gutenberg Bibles, 212, 213, 218, 219, 220;
Pfister (Bamberg) Bible, 220, 221;
the 1462 Bible (Mainz), 221;
MS. Bible of eleventh century, 222;
Gospels of ninth century, 223, 224;
French illustrated Bible of fourteenth century, 224;
early English Bible pictures, 224, 225;
ancient block books, 227, 228;
Jenson Bible (1479), 231;
Caxton books, 232, 233;
annotated He Bible (1611), 239;
_Jack Juggler_ (1555), 247;
MS. of White’s _Selborne_, 251;
MSS. of Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and Occleve, 252;
the Battle Abbey Cartularies, 257, 258;
letter of Beau Brummell, 258;
MS. of Arnold Bennett, 262;
a tea-ship broadside, 266;
old Spanish MS. concerning Cortés, signed by Charles V, 268, 269;
Columbus letter (1493), German edition, 271, 272;
the King-Hamy chart, 273;
charts used by Cortés and Pizarro, 274, 275;
tailor’s bill to De Soto, 276;
first work of Captain John Smith, 277, 278;
Washington’s autographed copy of _Proceedings of the Convention_
(Richmond, 1775), 285;
signature of Button Gwinnett, 286;
pass for Paul Revere, signed by Joseph Warren, 287, 288;
Cæsar Rodney letter about signing of the Declaration, 288;
Lincoln letters, 290;
first draft of Emancipation Proclamation, 291;
Lincoln’s Baltimore address, 291;
his speech on formation of Republican Party, 291, 292;
his letter about the flag, 292;
Walker letters about Confederate flag, 292, 293;
notebook describing Lincoln’s death, 294;
Lee’s resignation of commission in U. S. Army, 294, 295;
letter to Beauregard; after the surrender, 295, 296;
letter of Grant to his father, 297;
telegram of Grant to Stanton, announcing Lee’s surrender, 298, 299.
Rosenbach, Philip H., 85, 112, 172, 176, 177, 268, 269.
Rosenbach, Rebecca, 183, 184.
Rosier, James, 277.
Rowley, Thomas (Chatterton), 129, 130.
Roxburghe, Duke of, 89, 90, 248.
_Royal Battledoor, The_, 203.
_Royal Primer_, 198, 199.
_Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The_, 175.
_Rule of the New-Creature. To be
Practiced every day in all the Particulars of which are Ten_, 188.
Rutland, Duke of, 259.
Rylands (John) Memorial Library, 229, 245, 263.
Santangel, Luis de, Columbus
letters to, 270, 271, 272.
Sassoon, David, 224.
_Sauvages, Des_ (Champlain, 1603), 66.
Savonarola, Girolamo, 229.
_Scarlet Letter, The_ (quoted), 281.
Schelling, Felix E., 259.
Schöffer, Peter, 216, 217, 221, 236.
_School of Good Manners Composed for the Help of Parents_, etc., 201.
Schoolmaster Printer, the, 30.
Scolenberg, Baron von, 177.
_Scotch Rogue, The_, 206.
Scott, Sir Walter (quoted), 252.
Scott, Gen. Winfield, Lee’s letter to, resigning commission, 294, 295.
_Search after Happiness, The_, 206.
_Second Part of the Tragedy of Amboyna_, 282.
Sedgwick, Theodore, 54.
Shakespeare, first folio, 27, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88;
second folio, 35;
Keats’s copy of, 40;
_Venus and Adonis_, 51, 52;
_The Passionate Pilgrim_, 52;
_Poems_, 87;
history of folios, 87, 88, 89;
Jonson’s verses in, 88, 89;
early sales of, 89;
forged MSS. of, 122-128;
_Vortigern and Rowena_ (forged), 127, 128;
_Troylus and Cresseida_, 147;
editorial comment on his MSS., 151, 152;
Trowbridge set of the four folios, 219;
earliest American purchase of a first folio, 244;
_Hamlet_, second edition, 255, 256;
_The Tempest_, 265.
Shapira, ----, 225, 226.
Shaw, George Bernard, 142, 143.
Shelley, _Adonais_, 25;
_Queen Mab_, 40, 42;
personal correspondence, 42;
notes, 42;
_Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson_, 55;
advancing value of, 181.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 128.
_Ship of Fools, The_, 22.
_Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and
Ireland, 1475-1640_, 255.
_Singularitez de la France Antartique, autrement nommée Amérique_, 58.
Skinner, Abraham, Washington letter to, 9, 10.
Smith, George D., 52, 83, 198, 199.
Smith, Harry B., 40, 155.
Smith, John, 267, 277, 278, 279, 280.
_Some Excellent Verses for the Education of Youth_, 200.
Somerset House, 146.
Sorbonne, library of the, and Richelieu collection, 23.
Sotheby sales, 31, 32, 33, 52, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91.
Soto, Hermando de, 276.
Spanish National Library, 100.
Spencer, Earl, 90, 91, 245, 248, 263.
Spenser, Edmund, 148-151.
_Sphinx, The_ (Wilde), dedication of, 115.
_Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes. In either England: Drawn out of the
breasts of both Testaments_, etc. (1684), 188, 189.
Spitzer chart, 275.
Spring, Robert, 105, 106.
Stanton, Edwin M., 298, 299.
Stevens, Henry, 243, 244.
_Story of a Whistle, The_, 196.
Strawberry Hill Press, the, 13.
Streeter, Thomas E., 200.
Stuart, John T., 290.
Sussex, Duke of, 248.
Swann, Mrs. Arthur W., 54.
Sweynheym and Pannartz, 231.
Sykes, Sir Mark, 248.
Taft, C. S., 294.
Tea-ship broadside, 266.
_Tempest, The_, 265.
Thackeray, William M., forged notes of, 109, 111;
genuine MS. of, 110.
Thomas, Isaiah, 202.
Thomas à Becket, 232.
Thou, Jacques Auguste de, 21, 24.
_Token for Children, being an exact Account of the Conversion, Holy
and Exemplary Lives and Joyous Deaths of Several Young Children_
(1749), 189, 190.
_Token for the Children of New England or some Examples of Children,
in whom the Fear of God was remarkably budding before they died_,
etc., 190, 191.
_Tom Jones_, 36, 204.
_Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of_, 187.
_Tom Sawyer Abroad_, 164, 165.
Tower of London, architect of the, 222.
Travers, Clayton L., 191, 192.
_Treasure Island_, 122, 187.
_Treaties, Collections of_ (Jenkinson), 20.
_Troylus and Cresseida_, title page (1609), 147.
_True Relation of such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate as hath
hapned in Virginia_ (Smith), 277.
_True Relation of the most prosperous Voyage made this present year
1605 in the Discovery of the Land of Virginia, A_ (Rosier), 277.
Tunstall, Bishop Cuthbert, 234, 235.
Tyndale, William, 234, 235, 236.
_Ulysses_ (Joyce), MS. page of, 171.
_Unpublishable Memoirs_, 82.
_Utopia_ (More), 60, 61.
Van Antwerp, William C., 84.
Vatican library, 221.
Vega, Lope Felix de, 77.
_Venus and Adonis_, 51, 52, 53.
_Verses for Little Children, by a Friend_, 200.
Vespucci, Amerigo, letter of, 55, 56, 57.
Vespucci, Giorgio Antonio, 56, 57.
_Victory_ (Conrad), MS. page of, 144.
_Virginia Journal_, 19.
_Virtuous William_, 187.
Voyages, De Bry’s, 275.
Wagner, Wilhelm Richard, MS. of, 73.
Waldseemüller, Martin, 273.
Walker, Gen. Leroy P., 292, 293.
Walker, Matilda Pope, 293.
Wallace, Sir Richard, 248.
Walpole, Horace, 13, 14, 130.
Walton, Izaak, 30.
Warner, Benjamin, 5.
Warren, Gen. Joseph, 287.
Washington, George, letters of, 9, 10, 11;
locket with hair of, 15, 16;
books from library of, 19, 20;
MS. of, 106, 107;
forged correspondence of, 108;
autographed copy of _Proceedings of the Convention_
(Richmond, 1775), 285.
Washington, Martha, 20, 21;
letter written by G. W. for, 106, 107.
Webster, Noah, 6, 206.
_Wehkomaonganoo Asquam Peantogig_, 43, 79.
_West Indian Voyage_ (Drake), 275.
_When We Were Very Young_, 28.
White, Gilbert, MS. of, 251.
White, William A., 33, 157, 253.
Whitman, Walt, MS. of “By Emerson’s Grave,” 152, 153, 154.
_Who Killed Cock Robin_, 209.
Widekind, King, Gospels of, 223, 224.
Widener, Harry Elkins, 45, 46, 66, 85.
Widener, Joseph, 87, 218.
Widener Library (Harvard), 45, 46, 66, 85.
Widener, P. A. B., 45, 80, 218.
Wilde, Oscar, original and forged MSS. of, 94, 112;
_Salomé_, 112, 113, 114, 116;
dedication of _The Sphinx_ to Mrs. Campbell, 115.
_William Penn’s Conversion from a Gentleman to a Quaker_, 282, 283.
William the Conqueror, 222, 257.
Windsor Castle library, 217.
_Winnie-the-pooh_, 187.
Winship, George Parker, 288.
Winthrop, John (Governor), 185, 187, 281.
Wise, Thomas J., 42, 256.
Wolsey (Thomas), Cardinal, 234, 235.
Wood, William, 282.
Wrigley and Berriman, 206, 207.
Wroth, Lawrence C., 288.
Wynkyn de Worde, 62.
Yale University Library, 220.
Young, Owen D., 157.
_Zodyacke of Life, The_, 77.
Transcriber's Notes:
Italics are shown thus: _sloping_.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation are retained.
Perceived typographical errors have been changed.
The index entry of p156 for Marlowe, Christopher, has been corrected
to p146.