Chapter 27

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Caxton, W., 12, 30, 60, 61, 72, 109, 111, 132, 135, 190, 247, 248, 262, 268, 300, 306 'Arthur, King,' 133 'Book called Cathon,' 132, 133 (_bis_) 'Book of Chivalry,' 136 'Book of Good Manners,' 33 'Chastising of God's Children,' 13, 132 'Christine of Pisa,' 89 Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales,' 136 'Chronicles of England,' 90, 132, 133 Cicero ('De Senectute'), 'Of Old Age,' 89, 132, 133, 313 'Dictes and Sayings,' 90, 132 'Doctrinal of Sapience,' 132, 133 'Faits d'Armes et de Chevalerie,' 13 'Game and Playe of Chesse,' 90, 132, 133, 135 'Godfrey of Bulloigne,' 13, 33, 132 'Golden Legend,' 13, 93, 133, 271, 303 Gower's 'Confessio Amantis,' 133 Higden's 'Description of Britayne,' 90 Higden's 'Polychronicon,' 89, 303 'Historyes of Troy,' 132 (_bis_) 'History of Blanchardyn and Eglantine,' 133 'History of Jason,' 132, 133 (_bis_) 'Life of St. Katherine,' 220, 221 Lydgate's 'Life of our Lady,' 220 'Lives of the Fathers,' 220 'Mirrour of the World,' 90, 95, 133 'Royal Book, or Book for a King,' 90 Russell's 'Propositio,' 134 'Siege and Conquest of Jerusalem,' 309 'Troylus and Creside,' 133 Virgil's 'Æneid,' 13, 133

Caxton Head Catalogues, 204

Caxton, the highest paid for a, 133

Caxtons, the Althorp, 133

Cecil, Sir Robert, 306

Chadwyck-Healey, Mr. E. H., 320

Chained books at Hereford

Chalmers, George, 69, 70

Champernoun, Mr., 57

Chandler, Dr., 289

Chapman, Henry, 235

Charing Cross, 235-246

Charing Cross Road, 258

Charles I.'s Prayer-Book, 87

Charles II., 21

Charlotte, Queen, as a book-hunter, 215

Charnock, Dr. S., 100

Cheapside, 184, 185

Chetham Library, the, 118

Child, Alderman, 56

Chiswell, R., 33, 100, 213

Chodowiecki, 316

Christ Church (Canterbury), Books at, 7, 9

Christ's Hospital, Newgate Street, 8

Christie, James, 100 _note_, 103, 117, 291

Christie, Manson and Woods, 117

Christie, Mr. R. C., 297, 303

'Chronicon Nurembergense,' 303

Churchill, A. and J., 210

Cicero, 306. _See_ also Caxton

Cicero, 'Ad Atticum,' 307

Circulating Library, the first, 234

Clare Hall, Cambridge, 260

Clare Market, 232

Clarendon, Earl of, 117

Clarke, W., 135, 251

Classics, their market value, 127-131

Claude's 'Liber Veritatis,' 305

Clavell, Robert, 214

Clement's Inn Passage, 225, 226

Clovio, Giulio, 57

Cochrane, J. G., 113, 221

Cock, auctioneer, 103

Cockaine, Sir Aston, 36

Coke, Sir Edward, 25

Colebrook Row, Islington, 76, 77

Coleridge, S. T., 76-78, 289, 320

Collier's 'Ecclesiastical Library,' 16

Collier, John Payne, 74-76, 230

Collins, Mr. Victor, 95, 96

Collins, W., 185

Columbus letter, the, 94

Comerford, James, 86

Compton, 113

Conant, N., 221

Conway, Lord, 24

Conyers, George, 216

Cooke, R. F., 94

Cook, Sir Robert, 25

Cooper, Mr. A. E., 258

Cooper, William, 99, 100

Copinger, Dr., 97

Corfield, Dr. W. H., 320

Corney, Bolton, 71

Cornhill, 184-186

Cosens, F. W., 93

Cosin, Dr., 24, 26

Cotton, Charles, 36

Cotton, Sir Robert, 21, 22, 283

Courtney, Mr. Leonard, 319

Cowper, W., 215

Coxhead, J., 196

Cracherode, C. M., 64-66, 238

Craig, J. T. Gibson, 88, 89

Cranmer, Archbishop, 16, 18

Crawford, Earl of, 88, 89, 126, 306

Crawford, W. H., 93

Crockford's, 226

Crofts, Rev. Thos., 111

Croker, Thomas C., 81, 82

Crossley, James, 287

Crowinshield, Edward, 115

Crowley, Robert, 191

Crozier, of the Little Turnstile, 202, 203

Cruden, Alexander, 185

Cruikshankiana, 90

Cunning bookseller, the, 250

Curll, Edmund, 219

Currer, Miss R., 268-270

Dalrymple, Alex., 56

Dampier, Dean, 238, 306

Daniell, Mr. E., 106

Daniel, G., 72-74, 141-143, 143 _note_

Daniel's, 'Delia,' 87

Dante, the Landino edition, 93

Darton and Hodge, 116

Darton, W., 196-198

Davies, Tom, 237

Davis, Arthur, 28

Davis, Charles, 187, 197

Davis, Lockyer, 199, 236

Davis, W., 199

Day and Son, 116

Day's circulating library, 208

Debrett, J., 250

De Bury, Richard, 7

Dee, Dr., 18

Defoe, Daniel, 156

Delafaye, Charles, 219

Denbigh, Lord, 31

Denham, Henry, 210

Denis, John, 181

Dent, J., 61, 62, 68, 69

Derby, Lord, 31

Dering, Sir Edward, 115

Derwentwater, Earl of, 292

Devonshire, Dukes of, 61 _note_, 124, 133, 141, 142, 173, 305, 306

Dibdin, T. F., 57, 61, 63, 64, 109

Dickens, Charles, 83, 86

Digby, Sir Kenelm, 26, 31, 100, 120

Dilke, C. W., 64, 202, 203

Dilly, C. and E., 183, 184

Dimsdale sale, the, 108

Diodorus Siculus (1539), 130

D'Israeli, Isaac, 71

Dobell, Mr. B., 106, 258

Dobson, Mr. Austin, 45

Dodsley, James, 251

Dodsley, R., 251

Dolben, Sir John E., 56

Dolet, Etienne, 304

Dorset, Earl of, 170

Douce, Francis, 67

Drake, Sir Francis, 19

Dramatic library of F. Burgess, 95

Dramatic library of F. Marshall, 93

Drama, works on the, 68, 291, 306

Drayton, M., 84, 158

Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare, 91

Drummond of Hawthornden, 311

Drummond, Miss, 271

Drummond's 'Forth Fasting,' 86

Drury, H. J. T., 70

Dryden, John, 35

Duck Lane, 175, 176

Duck, Stephen, 219

Duerdin, J., 115

Duke Street, Little Britain, 175, 176

Dulwich College Library, 204

Dunmore, John, 213

Dunton, John, 100-102

Dutens, Rev. L., 117

Dyce, Alexander, 47, 83-85, 289

Dyson, H., 35

Eadburga, Abbess, 260

East End, book-hunting in, 155, _et seq._

_Editiones Principes_, 128-131

Edmonds, Sir Clement, 211

Edward I., 3

Edward IV., 10, 33

Edward VI., 13

Edwards, E., 7, 31

Edwards, James, 117, 249

Egbert, 2

Egerton, T. and J., 113, 236

'Eikon Basilike,' 101 _note_

Elcho, the Dowager Lady, 270

Eliot's Indian Bible, 119

Elizabethan literature, 301

Elizabeth de Burgh, 260

Elizabeth (Princess), of Hesse-Homburg, 270

Elizabeth, Queen, 17, 18, 260, 262-264

Ellis, Mr. F. S., 35, 245, 246, 286, 300, 301

Ellis, Mr. G. I., 106, 246

Elmsley, Peter, 238, 240

Elton, Mr. C. I., 310

Elyot's 'Castell of Helth,' 166

Erasmus' 'Enchiridion Militis Christiani,' 119

Eshton Hall Library, the, 268-270

Essex, Earl of, 264

Eton College Library, 17

Euripides (1503), 129

Evans, R. H., 109, 110

Evans, Sir John, 305

Evans, Thomas, 110, 216

Evelyn, John, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 37, 212

Evelyn, Sir, 250

Exeter 'Change, 105, 154, 155

Extra-illustrating, 165

Fabyan's 'Chronicle,' 120

Fagel Collection, 111

Fairfax, Bryan, 56

Farmer, Dr. R., 41, 112

Farnese, Cardinal, 57

Farringdon Road, 158, 159

Fathers, the, 120

Faulder, R., 250

Felton, John, 23, 24

Fenestella, 'De Magistratibus,' 263

Fielding, Henry, 44, 45, 94, 108, 196

'Finds,' some book, 149, 150, 229, 230

Finsbury Square, 178, 179-183

Fire, the great, 212, 213

Flatman's 'Poems,' 85

Fleet Street, 216-223

Fleetwood, Bishop, 17

Fletcher, J. and F., 114

Flexney, W., 194

Folkes, Martin, 108

Fonthill, 49

Foote, Samuel, 163

Ford, K. J., 183

Forster, John, 83-85, 202, 203

'Fortsas Catalogue,' the, 315

Foss, Henry, 239

Foster, Birket, Mr., 94

Fountaine Collection, the, 261

Fox's 'Reign of James II.,' 86

Fox, William, 193

Francis, Francis, 93

Franklin, B., 175, 250

Freebairn's sale, 38, 240

Freeling, Francis, 61

Freeling, Henry, 61

French Revolution, 58, 67

Fresnile, John, 8

Froissart's 'Chronicles,' 314

'Fructus Temporum,' 300

Fuller's 'Church History,' 14

Fuller's 'David's Hainous Sinne,' 151

Funnibus, L., 147

Gainsborough, Earl of, 117

Gaisford, Mr. Thomas, 93, 306

Galwey, Mr. J., 234

Gambetta, Leon, 311

Gardner, H. L., 236

Garnett, Dr. R., 166

Garrick, D., 85

Garth, Samuel, 176

Gataker, Dr. Thos., 100

Genlis, Madame de, 286

Gennadius, M. J., 320-322

George and Sons, E., 187-189

George III., 53, 54, 130, 135, 141

Gibbon, E., 44, 240

Gibbs, Mr. H. H., 301, 302

Gifford, Dr., 139, 140

Gilbert and Field, 186, 187

Gilbert, S. and T., 187

Gilliflower, M., 248