The Book-Hunter
Antiquarianism known as archaeology, 3.
Architecture, Church, of the early British Christians, 372.
Ardsnischen, Pastor of, buying a Greek New Testament, 60.
Armagh, Book of, 388 _et seq._
Assessed Taxes Department in relation to decay of libraries, 192.
Astor, John Jacob, the bequest of, 174.
Astorian Library, wealth of the, 176 _et seq._
Atticus as a dealer and capitalist publisher, 108 _note_.
Attorneys in Norwich, in Norfolk, and in Suffolk, 141 _et seq._
Auchinleck Press, account of, 294 _et seq._
Auctioneers: Carfrae, 60 _et seq._
--Evans, 93 _et seq._
--anecdote of a Cockney auctioneer, 178.
Auction-haunter different from prowler, 88 _et seq._
Authors and compositors, 77 _et seq._
Bacon commending brevity of old Scots Acts, 146.
Bailiff, the, and the writ, 136 _note_.
Baillet, Adrien, librarian and author of Jugemens des Savans, 230
_et seq._
Ballad fabricating, 306.
Bannatyne Club, 284 _et seq._
--Scott's song for festivities of, 285.
Barclay, Colonel, a Quaker, anecdote of, 9 _note_.
Bargain hunters and their leanings, 162.
Baskerville, the Birmingham printer, inaccuracy of, 67.
Bede on the Saints, 379.
Bentham, words in one sentence of an Act of Parliament counted by, 144.
Bethune, Rev. Dr, Waltonian Library of, 87 _et seq._
Bible, inaccurate editions of, 67 _et seq._
--old editions comparatively numerous, 218.
Bibliognoste, definition of, 5 _note_.
Bibliographe, definition of, 5 _note_.
Bibliographers, function of, a cruel one, 237 _et seq._
--victimising each other, 242.
Bibliographical Decameron, various quotations from, 93, 294 _et seq._
Bibliographies, 233 _et seq._
--on special subjects, 235
--those devoted to the best books, 239.
Bibliomane, definition of, 5.
Bibliomania a disease, 13.
"Bibliomania," Dibdin's, quotations from, 18
--Ferriar's, quotation from, 86, 87 _note_.
Bibliophile, definition of, 5.
Bibliotaphe, definition of, 5.
_Bibliotheque bleue_, anecdote connected with the, 50.
Bibliuguiancie discussed by Peignot, 220.
"Bill-books" of compositors, 79 _et seq._
Binders, famous, 28.
Bindings, "Inchrule" Brewer's love of, 28
--bindings as relics, 30.
Boccaccio, _editio princeps_ of, 91
--cause of its extreme rarity, 92
--sold at the Roxburghe Library sale, 94 _et seq._
Bodleian Library, origin of, 198.
Bohemian of literature, 108 _et seq._
Bohun, Edmond, a Jacobite and last English licenser, 208.
Bollandus, his great work on the Saints, 355 _et seq._
--the persistent labours of his successors, 356.
Book-caterers, 20 _et seq._
Book-clubs, 243 _et seq._
--their structure, 251
--advantages of, 255 _et seq._
--confining their attention to books of non-members, 257
--the Sydenham Club, 265
--the Roxburghe Club, _ib. et seq._, &c.
--their gradual growth, 266 _et seq._
--Dibdin's description of the origin of the Roxburghe Club, 267
--their secrecy, 271
--the Bannatyne Club, 284 _et seq._
--book-club men, _ib. et seq._
--character of their editors, 307, 315
--value of such clubs to history, 309
--their literature, 311
--Camden Club, _ib._
--Chetham Club, 312
--Surtees Club, _ib._
--Maitland Club, _ib._
--Spalding Club, _ib._
--Irish Archaeological and other Clubs, _ib. et seq._
--purity of text of book-club literature, and consequent historical
value, 322 _et seq._, 327
--as art unions, 404 _et seq._
Book-hunters as creators of libraries, 168 _et seq._, 197
--as preservers of literature, 205 _et seq._
--as _chiffoniers_, 219
--as discoverers of valuable and curious books, 224
--as librarians, 227 _et seq._
--their clubs, 243 _et seq._
--various titles of, 5, 6
--vision of mighty book-hunters, 14
--book-hunters as bibliothaptes and bibliolytes, 54 _et seq._
--classification of, 64 _et seq._
--as Rubricists, 63
--as aspirants after large paper copies, 86
--their place in the dispensations of Providence, 101 _et seq._
--the harmlessness and advantages of their disease, 102 _et seq._
--book-hunters and dealers, 104
--in relation to other hobby-riders, 105
--their lack of mercenary spirit, _ib. et seq._
--in the amateur phase, 106 _et seq._
--their freedom from low company, 109
--their intellectual advantages, _ib. et seq._
--from their pursuit readers and scholars, 114
--their delight in a new toy, 123.
Books, annotating of, a crime and a virtue, 185 _et seq._
--their decay from natural causes, 211 _et seq._
--books, large and solid, factors in the acquisition of fame, 215
--such only fitted for authors and students, 252
--books, small and fragile, preserved by book-hunters, 215
--rarity of old school-books, _ib. et seq._
--importance of any kind of old books, 217
--rare books printed by early English printers, 218 _et seq._
--David Clement on rare books, 224 _et seq._
--rare books not always rare, 225
--books as introducers of books, 233
--reproduction of old and rare books by book-clubs, 246 _et seq._
--books used in Ireland in sixth century, 388.
Boswell, Sir Alexander, as a book-club man, 292 _et seq._
--his reprints, 293
--his Auchinleck Press, 294
--his character and writings, 295 _et seq._
Botfield, Beriah, his work, 194 _note_.
Bourdaloue, favourite reading of, 112.
Brewer, "Inchrule," as a mighty book-hunter, 25 _et seq._
--origin of his name, 26
--his love of bindings, 28
--his satellites, 31 _et seq._
British Museum, deposits of books in, 194 _note_
--origin of library, 197 _et seq._
Brunet as an "Inchruler," 26
--his description of an Elzevir Caesar, _ib. note_.
Buckle, historical researches of, 342.
"Bulls," Irish, in unlikely books, 132 _et seq._
--specimen of an index "bull," 133.
Burton, Mr, private library of, 182 _et seq._
Butler, poetical remains of, discovered by the antiquary Thyer, 326.
Camden Club, purpose of, 311
--a curious volume of, 315 _et seq._
"Canadian," mistaken use of, for Candian, 74.
Carfrae, the auctioneer, 60 _et seq_.
--selling fragments of early English poetry, 61.
"Causes Celebres," records of French and German crime, 149 _et seq._
--their fitness for novel-making, 150.
Celtic Christianity, 369 _et seq._, 377 _et seq._
Chetham Club, purpose of, 312.
Church architecture of early British Christians, 372 _et seq._
Classical literature, incompleteness of, 324
--recent discoveries in, of paltry value, 325 _et seq._
Classification of book-hunters, 62.
Clement, David, illustrious French bibliographer, 224.
Clubs in general, 243 _et seq._
Cogswell, Dr, first librarian of the Astorian Library, 174 _et seq._
Collectors and their satellites, 30 _et seq._
--as book-readers, 113 _et seq._
--in relation to the scholar, 115.
Columba, St Adamnan's life of, 374
--among the Picts, 377
--settling succession of Aidan, 383
--anecdotes of, 387, 389, 403, &c.
--Columba fishing, 395.
Compositors, characteristics of, 76 _et seq._
--their reasons for interest in an author's work, 77 _et seq._
--"bill-books" of, 79
--their professional apathy, 81.
Copyright Act, value of, 191.
"Course of reading," a so-called, 110.
Creation of libraries, 168 _et seq._
Criminal trials, attractive interest of, 148
--"illustrating" of, 150.
Cuthbert, St, and the solan-geese, 390 _et seq._
Dame aux Camelias quoted, 10 _note_.
Dealers in their relations to book-buyers, 107.
Decay of books, 211 _et seq._
De Quincey on the Society of Friends, 8, 9.
Desultory reader, or Bohemian of literature, 108 _et seq._
Devices of old printers, collection of, 64 _et seq._
Dibdin, quotation from his Bibliomania, 18
--known as "Foggy Dibdin," 89
--at the Roxburghe sale, 91
--as a book-hunter, 165--on the cradle of the book-club system, 267
--his "Library Companion," 280 _et seq._
"Didot" Horace, in the Junot Library, 63.
Dietrich, collection of theses by, 64.
Diogenes, the so-called tub of, 120 _note_.
Directory of a city, the, as affording profitable reading, 155.
Douglas, Francis, anecdote told in his description of the east coast of
Scotland, 9 _note_.
"Dragon" as a book-hunter, _vide_ "Vampire."
Drunkenness of a former age, 11.
Duplicates, first buying of, 16
--most virulent form of bibliomania, 173.
Early Northern Saints, 352 _et seq._
Ecchellensis, Abraham, his controversy with Flavigny, 67.
Ecclesiastical architecture, 372 _et seq._
Ecclesiologist, the, as editor of book-club literature, 321.
Editions of the Classics, typographical blunders in, 68.
"Editio princeps," advantages of possessing an, 167
--of Boccaccio, 91.
Elzevir Caesar, Brunet's measurement of, 26
--origin of its rarity, 66.
Elzevirs, reason of their not being rare at present, 225.
Errors in the various editions of the Bible, 67 _et seq._
Evans, the auctioneer, 93.
Exchequer bill, curious specimen of, 134 _et seq._
Facsimiles, extensive manufacture of, 27.
Farmer, Dr Richard, and Johnson, 130 _et seq._
Feuerbach's German collection of _causes celebres_, 149.
Ferrier's Bibliomania, quotation from, 86 _note_.
Fires in libraries, 210 _et seq._
Fisher, Rev. John, Bishop of Rochester, originator of Library of
St John's, 204 _et seq._
Flavigny's controversy with Abraham Ecchellensis, 67.
Fountains, religious controversies connected with, 401 _et seq._
French _causes celebres_, 149 _et seq._
French novels, the morals of, 10.
Friends, Society of, greatest criminals found among, 8
--De Quincey's testimony to the same effect, _ib. et seq._
Furniture, old, 192.
Fustian, curious statute of Henry VII. concerning, 142 _et seq._
Game of Chess, by Caxton, captured in Holland by Snuffy Davie, 222.
Genealogist, a, as editor of book-club literature, 316 _et seq._
--his influence and genius, 318.
Genealogy, Scottish peculiarities in, 317
--extract on, from the Liber de Antiquis Legibus, 318.
Genius, rewards of, unequally distributed, 258.
Glasgow, the shield argent of, 393 _et seq._
Gleaner, the, and his harvest, 124 _et seq._
"Good reader," a, the bore of a house, 113.
Gordon, Sir Robert, collector of Gordonstoun Library, 97 _et seq._
Government and public libraries, 191.
Graham, Mr Lorimer, collection by, 186 _et seq._
Grandison, Sir Charles, his perfection a defect, 8.
"Grangerites," peculiar glory of, 82 _et seq._
--origin of name, _ib._
--their mode of proceeding, 83 _et seq._
Greek nomenclature, abuses and merits of, 2.
Grollier, a princely collector, 48.
Hagiology, 353.
Hallervord, John, Bibliotheca Curiosa of, 241.
Harvard Library, loss of old, 190.
Havelok the Dane reprinted by Roxburghe Club, 279.
Hazlewood, Joseph, a black sheep in the Roxburghe Club, 272
--description of his treasures, _ib. et seq._
--title of one of his reprints, 273
--description of another of his reprints, _ib. note_
--fate of his History, 274.
Heathenism in the British Isles, 400 _et seq._
Heber, Richard, origin of his library, 98 _et seq._
--Dibdin and Heber, 99
--duplicating his collection, 173.
Hierology of Greece, 359.
Highland springs, pilgrimages to, 299.