A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W.

À Becket, Gilbert, Comic History of Rome, 78;
Comic History of England, 78.
Adam, Robert B., 184 n.
Adams, John, 58.
Advertisements, importance of, in verifying first editions of certain books, 79.
Ainsworth, W. H., 346.
Albert, Prince Consort. See Martin, Sir Theodore.
Albert Memorial, 285.
Alderson, Amelia (Mrs. Opie), 232.
Aldines, 5, 88.
Alexandra, Princess of Wales, 284.
Alken, Henry, Analysis of the Hunting Field, and Life of John Mytton, illustrated by, 77.
Allan, John, 83, 84, 85.
Allen, Edmund, 21, 307 ff.
Allen, John, Memorial of, 57.
Allis, William E., 115, 116.
American Book Prices Current, 103.
Anderson, Mary, 327.
Anderson’s Auction Rooms, 103, 354.
Andrews, William Loring, Gossip about Book-collecting, 51.
Anne, Queen, 278.
Anne of Denmark, Queen of James I, 280.
Arblay, Madame d’. See Burney, Fanny.
Argyle, Archibald Campbell, Duke of, 150.
Arnold, William Harris, Record of Books and Letters, 18, 103-106;
First Report of a Book-collector, 101, 102.
Association books 1, 107 ff.
AthenÆum, The, 106 n.
Auchinleck, Alexander Boswell, Lord, his Death, 173;
mentioned, 150, 165, 166, 172.
Auchinleck, Boswell’s birthplace, the author’s visit to, 181-184.
Auction catalogues, 30.
Auction sales, 59, 60.
Audubon, John J., Birds of North America, 5.
Aulus Gellius, Noctes AtticÆ, 90.
Austen, Jane, 186, 187, 253.
Bacon, Francis, Lord, quoted, 7;
and Shakespeare, 92;
Essaies (1598), Widener’s last purchase, 354, 355.
Bagehot, Walter, 272.
Bangs & Co., 104.
Bank of North America, History of the, 57, 58.
Barclay, Alexander, 91.
Barclay and Perkins’s, 195.
Baretti, Giuseppe M. A., attacks Mrs. Piozzi, 216;
mentioned, 194, 198.
Barham, Thomas, Ingoldsby Legends, unique presentation copy of first edition, 347.
Barrett, Lawrence, 327.
Barrie, Sir James M., What Every Woman Knows, 196.
Bartlett, Henrietta, 72.
Barton, Bernard, 135.
Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of. See Disraeli.
Beard, Tom, presentation copy of A Christmas Carol to, 116.
Beardsley, Aubrey, caricature of O. Wilde, 114, 319.
Beauclerk, Lady Diana, 179.
Beckford, William, presentation copy of Disraeli’s Henrietta Temple to, 29.
Bell, Currer, Ellis, and Acton, Poems, 83. See BrontË Sisters.
Bement, Clarence S., 89.
Berayne, Katherine Tudor de (“Mam y Cymry”), 189.
Bernhardt, Sarah, 337.
Bible, the, Shakespeare “cryptogram” in, 92, 117. See Gutenberg Bible.
Bibliographies, 113 ff.
Biddle, Nicholas, Memoirs of, 58.
Bindings, 54, 55, 74.
Birrell, Augustine, quoted, 33, 151.
Bixby, William K., 72, 352.
Blair, Miss, 161.
Blake, William, Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 52, 82;
Poetical Sketches, 81, 82;
Songs of Innocence and Experience, 81, 82;
Linnell collection, sale of, 82.
Blandford, Marquis of. See Spencer, George.
Blount, Edward, 93.
“Blue-Stockings, The”, 194.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, the Decameron, 70.
Boehm, Sir J. E., 285, 286.
Boethius, De Consolatione PhilosophiÆ (MS.), 90, 91.
Boleyn, Anne, 275.
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 177.
Bonnell, H. H., 83.
Book Auction Records, 103.
Book Prices Current, 72.
Book-collecting, delights of, 2 ff.;
changing fashions in, 5.
Book-plates, 60, 61.
Books, “as originally published,” 54, 55;
advancing prices of, 66 ff., 70 ff. See Association Books, Bindings, Extra-illustrated Books, Presentation Books, Subscription Books.
Booksellers, Second-hand, catalogues of, 30 ff.
Boscawen, Mrs. Edward, 179.
Boswell, James, quoted, on London, 13;
Macaulay’s characterization of, refuted, 148, 149;
early years, 149, 150;
first meeting with Johnson, 150, 151;
his style, 151;
portraiture of Johnson, 152;
devotion to Johnson, 152;
not very much in Johnson’s company, 153;
qualities as a biographer, 153, 154;
weaknesses considered, 154 ff., 159 ff.;
Carlyle on, 154;
conversational powers, 156;
Life of Johnson, largely his own autobiography, 156, 157;
letters to Temple, 157 ff.;
last days and death, 164, 165, 180;
wanderings about Europe, 165, 166;
letter to Dilly, 166;
first paper drawn by, as an advocate, 168;
“press notices” of himself, 170-172;
marries Margaret Montgomerie, 172;
continued interest in Johnson, 172, 173;
death of his father, 173;
financial difficulties, 173;
effect of Johnson’s death on, 173;
publishes the Journal of the Tour to the Hebrides, 174;
its success encourages him to undertake Johnson’s life, 174;
the Life published (1791), 175, 176;
wife’s death, 174;
thinks of running for Parliament, 175;
contemporary opinions of, 181;
Johnson on, 181;
mentioned, 21, 30, 174, 201, 214, 226.
Life of Samuel Johnson, dedication copy, to Sir Joshua Reynolds, 18, 19, 347;
divers editions of, 64;
Macaulay’s essay on, considered and criticized, 145 ff.;
merits of, in general, 153;
its success, 175;
presentation copy of, to James Boswell, Jr., 176;
effect of its publication, 178-180;
almost universally praised, 184, 185;
the great English epic, 185;
Mrs. Thrale’s copy of, 222;
mentioned, 61, 98, 307, 308, 309.
An Account of Corsica, 166-170, 172;
presentation copy of, 59.
Boswell, James, Jr., 176, 180.
Boswell, Mrs. Margaret, her bon mot on Johnson, 173;
her death, 174;
mentioned, 154, 164, 172.
Bowden, A. J., 75.
Bradford Club, 57.
Brandt, Sebastian, The Ship of Fools, 91, 92.
Bristol, Bishop of, 317.
British Museum, 43, 101, 111.
Broadley, A. M., published Mrs. Thrale’s Journal of a Tour in Wales, 218, 221.
BrontË, Charlotte, presentation copy of Henry Esmond to, 347;
mentioned, 83.
BrontË, Emily, 187.
BrontË Museum, 83.
BrontË Sisters, 186, 187. See Bell, Currer, etc.
Brooks, Edmund D., bookseller, 53, 54, 83.
Brough, Fanny, 336.
Browning, Arabel, 26.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, letter of, 26, 27;
mentioned, 186, 187.
Browning, Robert, Pauline, 103;
mentioned, 26, 27, 91, 228.
Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward, 253.
Bunbury, Henry W., 32.
Burke, Edmund, inscription to, from Boswell, 185;
mentioned, 151, 181, 187, 188, 194, 221.
Burney, Dr. Charles, 194, 208.
Burney, Fanny (Madame d’Arblay), Evelina, 46, 127, 199, 200;
her Diary, quoted, on life at Streatham Park, 199 ff.;
mentioned, 186, 187, 204, 209, 221.
Burns, Robert, Poems, first Edinburgh edition, 83, 84;
Kilmarnock edition, 83-86, 103.
Burns Museum, 86.
Bushnell, John, 281.
Butler, Samuel, The Way of all Flesh, 124.
Byron, Allegra, 238, 244.
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, copy of Thomson’s Seasons presented by, to Frances W. Webster, 29;
mentioned, 238.
Caine, Hall, 268.
Carlton Hotel, London, 268.
Carlyle, Thomas, presentation copy of Dickens’s American Notes to, 115;
on Boswell, 154;
mentioned, 185, 293.
Carnegie, Andrew, Triumphant Democracy, quoted, 167;
publishes the Life of Johnson, 175

made a royal chaplain, 300;
tutor to Lord Chesterfield’s son, 301;
builds Charlotte Chapel and becomes prosperous and extravagant, 302;
leads a triple life, 302;
tries to purchase living of St. George’s, Hanover Square, 303;
and is disgraced, 304;
convicted of forgery and sentenced to death, 305, 306;
Thoughts in Prison, 306;
Dr. Johnson’s aid enlisted to obtain his pardon, 306, 310, 311;
his execution, 315-317.
Dodd, Rev. Mr., father of William, 294, 296.
Dodd, Mead & Co., 48.
Donne, John, Walton’s Life of, 96.
Dowden, Edward, Life of Shelley, 108.
Drake, James F., bookseller, 49, 51, 110.
Dreer, Ferdinand J., 57, 58, 83.
Dutton, E. P., & Co., 115.
Eckel, John C., First Editions of Charles Dickens, 55, 79, 114 ff.
Edinburgh Review, 147.
Edmonton Churchyard, 53.
Egan, Pierce, Boxiana, 81.
Elia and Eliana, 52.
Eliot, George. See Evans, Mary Ann.
“Eliot” Bible, 86.
Elizabeth, Queen, 189, 270, 277, 278.
Elizabethan Club, 72.
Elliott, Ebenezer, 83.
Elzevirs, 5, 88.
England, dispersion of great private libraries in, 70, 71.
English Literature, three greatest characters in, 151.
Evans, Mary Ann, 111, 186, 187, 253.
Examiner, The, 135, 143.
Executions, public, in England, in 18th century, 314, 315.
Extra-illustrated books, 55, 57.
Fell, John, Bishop of Oxford, 96.
Field, Eugene, 15.
Fielding, Henry, 156, 253.
FitzGerald, Edward, Rubaiyat, 7.
Fleet Street, in author’s book-plate, 61.
Folger, H. C., 72.
Foote, Samuel, 304.
Fore-edge painting, fine example of, 74.
Forman, H. Buxton, 106.
Formosa, Historical and Geographical Description of, 32.
Forster, John, 24.
Fortnightly Magazine, 332.
Fox, Charles James, 130.
Foxe, John, The Book of Martyrs, 76.
France, Anatole, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, 65.
Franklin, Benjamin, his edition of the Cato Major, 9;
mentioned, 58, 177.
Frederick William, Crown Prince of Prussia, 284.
French Revolution, 229.
Friswell, Hain, 261.
Furness, Horace H., 92.
Gale, Minna, 327.
Gamp, Sairey, 243.
Garrett, Mr., President of B. & O. Railroad, 54.
Garrick, David, Love in the Suds, 28;
mentioned, 43, 194, 200.
Garrick, Mrs. David, 194.
Gaskell, Elizabeth C., Cranford, 125.
George III, 21, 214, 306, 307, 309.
George V, 266, 270.
Gibbon, Edward, 162, 181.
Gilbert, William S., 78, 331.
Gilbert and Sullivan, Patience, Wilde caricatured in, 324.
Gissing, George, Workers in the Dawn, 124.
Godwin, Fanny, illegitimate daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, 244, 245.
Godwin, M. J., Godwin’s second wife, Lamb’s comments on, 238, 239, 240;
her bookshop on Skinner St., 239;
pursues Shelley and his companions, 242, 243.
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Godwin’s First Wife, dies in childbirth, 233;
mentioned 232, 238.
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, 2d, copy of Queen Mab inscribed to, 108;
marries Shelley, 244, 245.
See Shelley, Mary W.
Godwin, William, sketch of his life, 228 ff.;
a political heretic and schismatic, 229;
Enquiry concerning Political Justice, 229, 230;
Adventures of Caleb Williams, 231, 232;
fascination for the fair sex, 232;
relations with Mary Wollstonecraft, 232, 233:
marries her, 233;
her death, 233;
courts Harriet Lee, 234;
financial troubles, 234, 235;
quarrelsomeness, 234;
his tragedy, Antonio, “damned with universal consent,” 235-237;
marries Mrs. Clairmont, 237, 238;
Life of Chaucer, 238, 239;
books for children, 239;
suggests Tales from Shakespeare to the Lambs, 239;
his opinions become less advanced, 240;
revival of interest in, through Shelley, 242;
absurd relations with Shelley, 243, 244;
his financial troubles thicken, 243, 244, 245;
his later literary work, 246;
Hazlitt’s anecdote of, 246;
becomes Yeoman Usher of the Exchequer, 247;
death, 247;
essay on “Sepulchres,” 247, 248;
the “husband of the first suffragette,” 248.
Goldsmith, Oliver, A Haunch of Venison (1776), 32;
The Vicar of Wakefield, “points” of first edition, 46, 98, 102, 127;
edition with Rowlandson plates, 46;
She Stoops to Conquer, 46, 103;
Johnson’s story of the sale of MS. of the Vicar, 98, 99;
The Traveller, 99;
The Deserted Village, 102;
mentioned, 8, 24, 61, 89, 194, 303, 304, 321, 322.
Goncourt, Edmond de, 94.
Gordon, Gen. Sir Alexander, presentation copies of Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort to, from Queen Victoria, 33, 34.
Grammatica Groeca, 89, 90.
Granniss, Ruth S., 113.
Gray, Thomas, Poems, 74:
the Elegy, 103;
Gen. Wolfe’s copy of the Elegy, 107, 108;
mentioned, 156, 163.
Greeley, Horace, 2.
Griffin, The, on the Site of Temple Bar, 269, 284, 285.
Grolier Club, bibliographies published by, 113 ff.;
exhibitions of, 113;
mentioned, 351, 352.
Gutenberg Bible, record price paid by H. E. Huntington for, at Hoe sale, 36, 67;
mentioned, 73.
Hagen, W. H., his copy of Paradise Lost, 5 n.;
sale of his collection, 102, 103, 106;
mentioned, 97.
Hamilton, Lady Emma, 320.
Hardy, Thomas, Desperate Remedies, 11, 13, 124;
letter of, to “old Tinsley,” 11, 12;
Far from the Madding Crowd, MS. of, 11, 13, 14;
Under the Greenwood Tree, 13;
The Woodlanders, 124;
quoted, 212.
Harrington, Lady, 307, 308.
Harrison, Mr., at Theobald’s Park, 288, 289.
Harvard University, Harry E. Widener graduated at, 345;
his collection now in keeping of, 349;
the Widener Memorial Library, 353.
Hawkins, Sir John, Life of Johnson, 21, 174, 214;
Boswell and, 179, 180;
mentioned, 305, 309, 317.
Hawtrey, Charles, 336.
Hazlitt, William, Anecdote of Godwin, 246, 247;
mentioned, 239.
Heath, James, engraver, 184 n.
Heming and Condell, 92.
Henkels, Stan, 57, 100.
Henry VI, 275.
Herbert, George, Walton’s Life of, 96;
The Temple, 97.
Herrick, Robert, Hesperides, first edition, 7, 102, 103.
Hill, George Birkbeck, editor of Boswell, 22, 64, 153, 181, 309.
Hill, Walter, bookseller, 44, 46, 83, 91.
Hingley, Mr., 298.
Hodgkins, Thomas, 239.
Hoe, Robert, sale of his collection, 36, 92, 103, 352, 354.
Hogarth, Mary, presentation copy of Pickwick Papers in parts to, 80, 81.
Hogarth, William, 190.
Holbrook, Richard T., 18.
Hollings, Frank, bookseller, 33.
Hollingsworth, John, 132.
Homer, Pope’s translation of, 9;
Chapman’s, 102.
Hooker, Richard, Walton’s Life of, 96.
Horneck, Miss, 24.
Horneck, Mrs., 24.
Howells, William Dean, 251, 254.
Hume, David, 161, Knockout, The,” at London auctions, 102, 103.
Labouchere, Henry, Truth, 28.
Lamb, Charles, autograph letter to Taylor & Hessey, 28;
receipt for copyright of Elia, 28, 74;
Elia, presentation copy of, 28;
Prose Works (1836), 37;
Letters (1837), 37;
Elegy on a Quid of Tobacco, 38, 39 n., 40;
in the Cosens MSS., 38, 39, 41;
birth and growth of the author’s interest in, 52, 53;
his burial-place, 53;
his house at Enfield, 53;
Old China, 68;
as book-collector and book-lover, 68;
admiration for Miss Kelly, 130 ff.;
Dream Children reminiscent of her, 130, 131;
resurrection of his letter offering marriage to her, 132 ff.;
sonnet to her, 133;
on Blue-stockings, 134;
“Barbara S——,” 134, 135;
writes Epilogue to Godwin’s Antonio, 235;
describes its first performance and damnation, 236, 237;
his copy of the play-bill, with comments, 237;
on Mrs. Godwin, 239, 240;
bon mots of, 241;

mentioned, 7, 48, 89, 112, 122, 129, 222, 239, 330.
See Kelly, Frances Maria.
Lamb, Charles and Mary, Tales from Shakespeare, 7, 239.
Lamb, Mary, and her brother’s courtship of Miss Kelly, 136, 138, 141, 142;
mentioned, 38, 53, 239.
Lambert, William H., sale of his collection, 48.
Lambton, Sir Hedworth, assumes name of Meux and inherits Lady Meux’s estates, 288, 289;
on active service in the late war, 291 and n.
See Temple Bar.
Lee, Harriet, courted by Godwin, 234.
Leech, John, illustration for A Christmas Carol, 116; 78.
Levasseur, ThÉrÈse, 165.
Lewes, George Henry, 176.
Lincoln, Abraham, 333.
Linnell, John, his Blake collection, 82.
Lippincott’s Magazine, 329.
Livingston, Luther S., 48, 49, 75, 97, 103.
Lloyd, Constance, Marries Wilde, 328.
Lobo, Father, his Abyssinia translated by Dr. Johnson, 125.
Locke, John, 91.
Locke, William J., The BelovÈd Vagabond, 91.
Locker-Lampson, Frederick, his copy of the first folio of Shakespeare, 93;
and of the Compleat Angler, first edition, 96;
mentioned, 346.
London, the great market of the world for collectors’ books, 8 ff.;
and Dickens, 10;
bookshops of, 13 ff.;
Stow’s Survay of, 32, 274, 275;
changes in, 66, 268, 269;
preËminence of, as a book-market, passing to New York? 71;
Aggas’s pictorial map of, 274;
the plague and the great fire, 279.
London, a poem, 32.
London County Council, 10.
Lowell, Amy, 222.
Lowell, James Russell, 7, 154, 185.
Lowther, Katherine, and Gen. Wolfe’s copy of Gray’s Elegy, 107.
Lucas, Edmund V., 132, 133.
Lud Gate, 277.
Macaulay, Hannah More, 146.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord, his essay on Boswell’s Johnson criticized, 145 ff.
Maclise, Daniel, presentation copy of Dickens’s The Haunted Man, to, 116.
Macpherson, James, 211.
Macready, William C., presentation copies to, of Oliver Twist, 44, 46, 47,
American Notes, 116,
and The Cricket on the Hearth, 116.
Macrobius, Saturnalia, 90.
Madison, James, 58.
Magdalen House, Dodd chaplain at, 298, 299.
Maggs, the Brothers, booksellers, 66, 103.
Mangin, Edward, Piozziana, quoted, 17.
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 307.
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, 278.
Marshall, Archibald, 251.
Marshall, John, 58.
Marshall, Joshua, 281.
Martin, Sir Theodore, Life of the Prince Consort, inscribed presentation copy of, to Gen. Sir A. Gordon, 33, 34.
Martin, Mrs., Letter of Mrs. Browning to, 26.
Mary, Queen of George V, 267, 270.
Mason, Stuart, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde, 114.
Mason, William, Elfrida, Boswell’s copy of, 159, 163.
Mathew, Caroline, 25.
Mathew, George Felton, poem of Keats addressed to, 25; 106 n.
Matthews, Brander, Ballads of Books, 69.
Meirs, Richard Waln, 68.
Melmoth, Sebastian, name assumed by Wilde in Paris, 340.
Meredith, George, Modern Loves, inscribed to Swinburne, 121;
mentioned, 250.
Meux, Sir Hedworth. See Lambton, Sir Hedworth.
Meux, Lady Henry, makes Sir H. Lambton her heir, 288, 289.
Meux, Sir Henry, buys Temple Bar and sets it up at Theobald’s Park, 286.
Millard, Evelyn, 337.
Millett, Maude, 336.
Milton, John, Paradise Lost, first edition, with first title-page, 5 and n., 6, 87, 102, 103;
Lycidas, 103, 354.
Montagu, Elizabeth, 194, 200, 204.
Montgomerie, Margaret. See Boswell, Margaret.
Moore, George, Memoirs of My Dead Life, proof-sheets of, 49, 50;
Literature at Nurse, and Pagan Poems, presentation copies of, 49, 51;
Flowers of Passion, 87;
quoted, on the Griffin, 285.
Moran, E. R., 347.
More, Hannah, 153, 154, 194.
Morgan, John Pierpont, acquires Boswell’s letters to Temple, 158;
mentioned, 71, 98, 351, 352.
Morley, Christopher, 150 n.
Morris, William, 331.
Mudie’s Lending Library, 49.
Murphy, Arthur, introduces Johnson to the Thrales, 192, 193.
Neilson, Julia, 336.
Nelson, Horatio, Lord, 320, 321.
New York, and the rare-book market, 71.
Newton, A. Edward, book-plate of, 60, 61;
visit to Auchinleck, 181-184;
imaginary meeting with Dr. Johnson, 273, 274;
visit to Theobald’s Park (Temple Bar), 286-290.
North, Ernest D., bookseller, 46, 52.
Oration in Carpenter’s Hall (Philadelphia), 58.
Original London Post, Robinson Crusoe published serially in, 101.
Osbourne, S. Lloyd, 112.
Osgood, Charles G., 60, 61, 176, 177.
Paine, Thomas, 229, 230, 231.
Paoli, Pascal, 156, 165, 166, 169, 170.
Pater, Walter, quoted, on Wilde’s comedies, 334.
Patissier, FranÇois, Le, 88.
Patterson, John M., 168.
Paul, C. Kegan, 247.
Pearson, Mr., bookseller, 21-23.
Pembroke, Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of, 346.
Pembroke College (Oxford), 22.
Penn, William, 58.
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, Our House, presentation copy of, to the author, 32, 94, 328.
Pennell, Joseph, 94, 328.
Pepys, Samuel, 158.
Percy, Hugh (Bishop), 179.
Percy, Mrs., presentation copy of Rasselas to, 125.
Perkins, Mary. See Dodd, Mary.
Phelps, William Lyon, on Trollope, 250, 251, 258.
Pickwick, Mr., Seymour’s original drawing of, 346.
Pinero, Sir A., 335.
Piozzi, Gabriel, copy of Johnson’s Prince of Abissinia (Rasselas) presented to, by Mrs. Thrale, 206, 207;
his acquaintance with Mrs. T., 207-209;
becomes engaged to her, 210;
their marriage, 212, 213;
his death, 223;
mentioned, 194, 214, 217.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. See Thrale-Piozzi, Hester Lynch.
Plague, The, in London, 279.
Pope, Alexander, his Homer, 9;
Dr. Johnson, and O. Wilde, on, 10;
mentioned, 89.
Presentation books, 107.
Princeton University, 68.
Prints, collecting, 4;
inlaying, 57.
Psalmanazar, George, Memoirs, association
copy of, 31;
Johnson and, 31, 32.
Punch , 120, 335.
Pynson, Richard, 91.
Quaritch, Bernard, the Napoleon of booksellers, 15;
his catalogues, 87 ff.;
mentioned, 7, 76.
Quaritch, Bernard Alfred, a worthy son of his father, 15;
on Widener, 353, 354;
mentioned, 8, 71, 98, 103.
Quin, James, 190.
Radcliffe, Ann, 253.
Ralph Roister Doister, 89.
Ransome, Arthur, Oscar Wilde, 49.
Reade, Charles, 253.
Redway, W. E., manager of Hollings’s, 33.
Reed, Henry, Copy of Vanity Fair presented to, by Thackeray, 19.
Rembrandt, H. van Rijn, 152.
Reveley, Mrs., 232.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, dedication copy of Boswell’s Johnson to, 18;
mentioned, 153, 156, 181, 184 n., 194, 200, 347.
Rice, Mrs. Hamilton, builds Widener Memorial Library, 353;
mentioned, 48, 112, 346.
Roberts, The Holy Land, 5.
Robinson, Mary Darby (“Perdita”), 232.
Robinson, Henry Crabbe, 37.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 329.
Rosenbach, A. S. W. (“Rosy”), bookseller, 41-44;
quoted, on Widener, 348;
his catalogue of Widener’s Stevenson collection, 348;
mentioned, 71, 75, 80, 106, 109.
Ross, Robert, quoted, 114;
and Wilde, 341, 342.
Rossetti, Dante G., his sketch of Tennyson reading Maud, 26, 27;
inscription to Swinburne, 106.
Rossetti, W. M., 26.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 165.
Rudd, Margaret, Anecdotes of the Life and Transactions of, 81.
Rug-collecting, 3, 4.
Ruskin, John, 37, 38.
Taylor and Hessey, 28, 74.
Temple, Rev. William J., Boswell’s letters to, history of the collection, 157, 158;
extracts from the letters, 158-165;
his letters to B. not preserved, 159;
mentioned, 180.
Temple Bar, in the author’s book-plate, 61;
the western boundary of the “City,” 267;
history of, 274 ff.;
the first structure, 275-279;
the second, built by Wren in 1670 and after, 279-281;
demand for its removal, 281, 282;
iron spikes on, 282;

taverns surrounding, 282, 283;
lessening importance of, 283, 284;
last functions in which it played a part, 284;
removed in 1877, 284;
purchased by Sir H. Meux, and removed to Theobald’s Park, 286;
a visit to, described, 286-290.
Temple, The, 274.
Tennyson, Alfred, sketch of, reading Maud, 26, 27;
mentioned, 283.
Terry, Ellen, 129.
Thackeray, William M., copy of Vanity Fair presented by, to Henry Reed, 19;
sketch for illustration of Vanity Fair, 48, 49;
Vanity Fair, in parts, 78, 251, 252;
sentence written in his copy of Cowper’s The Task, 347;
copy of Henry Esmond, presented by, to Charlotte BrontË, 347;
mentioned, 250, 253.
Theobald’s Park, Temple Bar now set up at, 286 ff.
Thomson, James, The Seasons, copy of, presented by Lord Byron to F. W. Webster, 29.
Thrale, Henry, marries Hester L. Salusbury, 191;
their mÉnage, 191 ff.;
parties at Streatham, 194,
the brewery, 195;
described by his wife, 196, 197;
elected to Parliament, 197;
his table among the best in London, 198;
business troubles, 202;
advised by Johnson, 202, 203;
death, 203;
mentioned, 186, 189.
See Thrale-Piozzi, Hester Lynch.
Thrale, Hester Lynch. See Thrale-Piozzi.
Thrale, “Queenie,” 198.
Thrale-Piozzi, Hester Lynch, Lyford Redivivus (MS.), 16, 17;
Psalmanazar’s Memoirs inscribed by Johnson to, 31, 32;
her copy of the Dictionary, 63, 202;
Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson, 174, 214;
and Boswell’s Johnson, 178, 179;
her qualities, in general, 187, 188;
her pedigree, 188, 189;
birth, early years and education, 189, 190;
marries Thrale, 191;
their mÉnage, 191 ff.;
her one duty, 192;
Johnson introduced to, 192;
beginning of their long-enduring familiar intercourse, 193, 194;
relations with Thrale, 196, 197;
her numerous progeny, 197;
business ability, 197, 204;
life at Streatham, 199 ff.;
Johnson’s verses to, 201;
coexecutor with Johnson of Thrale’s estate, 203;
sells the brewery, 204, 205;
acquaintance with Piozzi, 207, 209;
verses to Piozzi, 210;
engaged to him, 210;
Johnson’s violent letter to, and her reply, 211, 212;
marries Piozzi, 212, 213;
effect of Johnson’s death on, 213, 214;
Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, 215;
other works published by, 216;
Baretti’s attack on, 216;
builds Brynbella, 217;
busy with her pen, 218;
Thraliana, 218;
Journal of a Tour in Wales, MS. of, 218-221;
Macaulay’s “silly phrase” concerning, 221;
modern opinion of, 221;
her influence on Johnson, 221;
literary taste, 222;
her copy of Boswell’s Johnson, 222;
death of Piozzi, 223;
last days, at Bath, 223, 224;
death and burial, 224;
last words on, 224, 225;
mentioned, 155, 161, 181.
Thurlow, Edward, Lord, 162.
Tinker, Chauncey B., Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney, dedication copy, 62;
mentioned, 42, 158, 210.
Titanic, steamship, loss of, 343, 344, 355.
Tregaskis, James, bookseller, 30-32.
Trent, William P., 100.
Trollope, Anthony, quoted, 75;
The MacDermots of Ballycloran, and The Kellys and the O’Kellys, 111, 124;
his novels considered, 111, 112, 251 ff., 257 ff.;
later criticism of, 249, 250;
his simplicity, 253;
his autobiography, quoted, 253, 265;
his plots, 255;
Can You Forgive Her?, 255;
Orley Farm, 255, 256, 257;
Phineas Redux, 255;
the photographer par excellence of his time, 260;
his clerical gallery, 260;
Mrs. Proudie, 261, 262;
his autobiography, 262;
suggested order of reading his novels, 263;
a typical Englishman, 264;
effect of the war on the England he wrote of, 266.
Trollope, Henry M., 262.
Tyburn, execution of Dodd at, 315-317.
United States, book-shops in, 36 ff.
“Unspeakable Scot, The,” The First Stone, 51.
Van Antwerp, William C., 86, 93, 96, 106, 346.
Vanbrugh, Irene, 337.
Victoria, Princess Royal, 284.
Victoria, Queen, inscribed copy of Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort presented by, to Gen. Sir A. Gordon, 33, 34;
mentioned, 284.
Wainewright, T. G., 333.
Wales, Prince of (afterward George IV), 232.
Wales, Prince of (afterward Edward VII), 284.
Waller, Lewis, 336.
Walpole, Horace, The Castle of Otranto, 231;
mentioned, 181, 299.
Walton, Izaak, The Compleat Angler, 7, 95, 96, 98, 248;
his Lives of Donne, etc., 96;
mentioned, 286, 287.
Watts, Isaac, 190.
Webster, Frances W., copy of Thomson’s The Seasons presented by Lord Byron to, 29.
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 284.
Wells, Gabriel, bookseller, 51, 52, 110, 166.
Westcote, Lord, 194.
Whistler, James, Pennell collection of his works, 94;
and Wilde, 324, 328.
White, W. A., 72, 75.
Widener, George D., 344, 345.
Widener, Mrs. George D. See Rice, Mrs. Hamilton.
Widener, Harry Elkins, his collection given to Harvard University by his mother, 48;
sketch of his life, 343, 345;
lost on the Titanic, 344, 355;
devotion to, and knowledge of, books, 344, 345;
as a book-collector, 345, 346;
some of his treasures, 346 ff.;
Stevenson collection, 348;
personality and characteristics, 348, 349;
and the Grolier Club, 350;
his ambition to be remembered in connection with a great library, 352, 353;
at the Huth sale, 354;
his last purchase, Bacon’s Essaies, 354, 355;
mentioned, 19, 73, 75, 86.
Widener, Peter A. B., 350.
Widener Memorial Library, 93, 112, 353.
Wilde, Constance, 328.
Wilde, Oscar, on poetry and Pope, 10;
presentation copy of Moore’s Pagan Poems to, 49, 51;
advancing value of first editions of, 49;
multiplicity of books about him, 49, 51;
The Importance of Being Earnest, 89, 334, 337;
bibliography of, 114;
Beardsley’s caricature of, 114, 319;
lectures in U.S., 318, 325, 327;
personal appearance, 318;
difficulties of discussing him, 320;
his place in literature as influenced by his character, 321, 322;
Dorian Gray, 322, 329-331;
early life, 322, 323;
leads the “Æsthetic cult,” 323, 324;
at Oxford, and in London, 323, 324;
Poems (1881), 324, 325;
The Duchess of Padua, 327;
The Woman’s World, 329;
fairy tales, 331;
The Soul of Man under Socialism, 332, 333;
Pen, Pencil, and Poison, 333;
his poems, 333, 334;
his dramatic works—Lady Windermere’s Fan, 335;
A Woman of No Importance, 335, 336;
An Ideal Husband, 336, 337;
Salome, 337;
success of the plays, 338;
his downfall, 338, 339;
in prison, 338;
De Profundis, 338, 339;
effect of his reputation on his works, 339, 340;
in Paris under assumed name, 340;
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