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  • Achademios, Skelton's, 11.
  • Aeschylus, translations of, 71.
  • Aesop, the Fabulous Tales of, 12.
  • Aethiopica, the, 86.
  • Africa, books on, 206, 209.
  • Agincourt Expedition, the, 50.
  • Agriculture, books on, 238.
  • A Kempis, Thomas, 217.
  • Alaric's grave, 104.
  • Alchemy, books on, 245, 256.
  • Alfred, king, 101.
    • —— his tomb, 104.
  • Allibone's Critical Dictionary, 163.
  • Americana, 210.
  • Ames' Typographical Antiquities, 7, 8, 169.
  • Amyot, PÈre, 86.
  • Ancillon, Charles, 81.
  • Andrada, Tomaso de, 155.
  • Anjou, RenÉ duc d', 87.
  • Antiphonaries, Spanish, 129.
  • Aquinas, Thomas, 37.
  • Arabian Nights, the, 77.
  • Arber's Term Catalogues, 162.
  • Architecture, books on, 211.
  • Arctic and Antarctic, books on, 206.
  • Aristophanes, translations of, 71.
  • Armorial bindings, 115 n.
  • Arthur, King, his character, 89.
  • Ascham, Roger, on books of Chivalry, 87.
    • —— on Cambridge, 38.
    • —— his Book of the Cockpit, 262.
  • Association books, 172.
  • Astrology, books on, 253-256.
  • Astronomy, books on, 244.
  • Attic Theatre, the, 73.
  • Auctions, the history of book-, 187.
  • Auction Records, Book-, 191.
  • Augustine, St., on Varro, 154.
  • Austen, Jane, her Mansfield Park, 113.
    • —— on novels, 63.
  • Australia, books on, 207.
  • Aymon, the Four Sons of, 14, 15.
  • Balin and Balan, 95.
  • Ballads, 220.
  • Ballatis, Gude and Godlie, 13.
  • Bankes's IX. Drunkardes, 257.
  • Barbary, books on, 209-210.
  • Barbier's Ouvrages Anonymes, 169.
  • Barbier, Louis, 154.
  • Barclay's Euphormionis, 11.
  • Barocci, Giacomo, his library, 181.
  • ——??Sweynheim and Pannartz, 179.
  • ——??Christian Wechel, 178.
  • Caxton, his advertisement, 175.
    • —— binding by, 20.
    • —— book by, 20.
    • —— his Book of Good Manners, 14, 223.
    • —— on Chivalry, quoted, 90.
    • —— his Four Sons of Aymon, 14, 15.
    • —— The Life of, by Blades, 165.
    • —— a lost book by, 11.
    • —— and Malory, 98, 99.
    • —— his Metamorphoses of Ovid, 11.
    • —— on rebinding a, 114.
    • —— his Recueil des Histoires, 99.
    • —— his Speculum, 14.
  • Cervantes' Don Quixote, 66, 74.
  • 'Chafynghowys,' the, 34.
  • Chance, 201.
  • Chapbooks, 220, 228.
  • Charlemagne, a story of, 196.
  • Chasse de Loup, La, 261.
  • Chaucer, quotations from, 1, 56, 94.
  • Cheke, Sir John, 132.
  • Chess, books on, 262.
  • Chivalry, books on, 234.
    • —— a collector of books on, 200.
    • —— England the home of, 92.
    • —— romances of, 86-90, 227, 228.
    • —— and 'Sport,' 91.
  • Chronograms, Hilton's, 168.
  • Civil War, books on the, 221.
  • Classics, the, 61, 70-73.
    • —— collecting the, 222.
  • Claudin, M. Anatole, works by, 166.
  • Cleaning books, 145-149.
  • Clement's BibliothÈque Curieuse, 164.
  • Clerkenwell, books bought in, 3, 18.
  • Cless, Johan of Frankfort, 180.
  • Cockfighting, books on, 261.
  • Collating, 119, 152-153.
  • Collectors, see Book-collectors.
  • Collins, William, of Chichester, 11, 12.
  • ColombiÈre, La, books by, 235-31.
  • Heliodorus, 84.
  • Henry vii. and Winchester, 98.
  • Heraldry, books on, 234.
  • Herbals, 245-247.
  • Herbert, George, his Jacula Prudentum, 56.
  • Herbert, Sir Henry, Office Book of, 227.
  • Herbert, William, lost books described by, 12.
  • Hilton's Chronograms, 168.
  • Hinard, Damas, 74.
  • Historie of Judith, the, 11.
  • History, books on, 237.
  • Hoccleve, 90.
  • Homer, translations of, 71-72.
  • Hoole's New Discovery, 260; his pupils, ib.
  • Horace, on translating, 72.
  • Hospitallers, 200, 214.
  • Hotel du Lion d'Or, 29.
  • Housewife, the perfect, 239.
  • Hozier, Pierre d', 40.
  • Humphrey, Lawrence, 4.
  • Humphreys, Mr. A. L., quoted, 67, 69.
  • Husbandry, books on, 238.
  • Hyde Abbey, 104.
  • HyÈres, the monk illuminator at, 37.
  • Hygiasticon, 224.
    • Illuminator of St. Honorat, the, 37.
    • Illuminators, the Winchester, 101-102.
    • Illustrated Books, 240.
    • Imitatio Christi, 217.
    • Incunabula, definition of, 167 n.
      • —— see Early-Printed Books.
    • Interruptions, 33-35.
    • Jacula Prudentum, 56.
    • Jaggard, William, 181.
    • Jall, the, 250-251.
    • Jest Books, 228.
      • —— —— some early, 16.
    • Jonson, Ben, lost works of, 13.
    • Judith, the Famous Historie of, 11.
    • Karslake's Notes from Sotheby's, 162.
    • Keats' Endymion, 113.
    • Keeper of the Abbey muniments, 54 n.
    • Kempis, Thomas À, 217.
    • Kennet, Bishop White, 210.
    • King Glumpus, 189.
    • Koberger, Anton, 176.
    • L'AbbÉ's Bibliotheca, 155.
    • La ColombiÈre, books by, 235-236.
    • La Fontaine, Jean de, 39.
    • La Marche, Olivier de, 215.
    • La Monnoye, Bernard de, 154.
    • Lang, Andrew, on Elzeviers, 76.
    • Schoeffer's catalogue, 174.
    • School Books, Old, 259.
    • Scipio Africanus, quoted, 38, 57 n.
    • Scott, Dr. E. J. L., 54 n.
    • Scott's Last Expedition, 69.
    • Sea, books on the, 251-252.
    • Seals, books on, 236.
    • SeilliÈre, Baron A., the library of, 22 n, 227.
    • Seymour, Richard, Esq., 187.
    • Shakespeareana, 218, 219.
    • Shakespeare's Passionate Pilgrim, 10, 228 n.
      • —— Plays, 14, 17.
      • —— Titus Andronicus, 17.
    • Sharon Turner on digressions, 52.
      • —— on Romances, 88.
    • Shelley, quotation from, 38.
      • —— Adonais and Queen Mab, 189, 190.
      • —— Original Poetry, 190.
    • Shelves, 128-134.
    • Ships, an authority upon old, 43.
    • 'Shorn lamb' proverb, 56.
    • Skelton, John, lost books by, 11.
    • Slater's Early Editions, 191.
    • Solitude, 35-39.
    • Sophocles, translations of, 71.
    • Sotheby on block-books, 166.
    • South Seas, books on the, 207.
    • Southcote Manor-house, 244 n.
    • Spanish folios, 129.
    • Specialism, the advantages of, 194 seq.
    • Specialists, subjects of, 202-203.
    • Speculum, Caxton's, 14.
    • Speculum Principis, Skelton's, 11.
    • Spenser, quoted, 31.
    • Sport, books on, 260.
      • —— definition of, 260 n.
    • StaËl, Madame de, 52.
    • Staining bookshelves, 131, 132.
      • —— leaves of books, 149.
    • Stains, removing, 146-149.
    • 'Stationers,' 177.
    • Sterne, Laurence, 56.
    • Sweynheim and Pannartz, 179.
    • Syon College library, 12, 21.

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