Chapter 1

LATER ENGLISH COLLECTORS 202

INDEX 221

List of Illustrations

PORTRAIT OF PEIRESC _Frontispiece_ (From an engraving by Claude Mellan.)

INITIAL LETTER FROM THE 'GOSPELS OF ST. CUTHBERT' 18

SEAL OF RICHARD DE BURY 38

PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD PRAYING BEFORE ST. GEORGE 59 (From the Book of Hours commonly known as the 'Bedford Missal.')

PORTRAIT OF MAGLIABECCHI 74 (From an engraving in the British Museum.)

BINDING EXECUTED FOR QUEEN ELIZABETH 112 (English jeweller's-work on a cover of red velvet. From a copy of 'Meditationum Christianarum Libellus,' Lyons, 1570, in the British Museum.)

PORTRAIT OF SIR ROBERT COTTON 117 (From an engraving by R. White after C. Jonson.)

PORTRAIT OF SIR THOMAS BODLEY 126 (From an engraving in the British Museum.)

BINDING EXECUTED FOR GROLIER 141 (From a copy of Silius Italicus, Venice, 1523, in the British Museum.)

PORTRAIT OF DE THOU 168 (From an engraving by Morin, after L. Ferdinand.)