The Book-Hunter
Historical literature, reprints of, 327
--in manuscript, _ib. et seq._
Histrio-Mastix of Prynne, its unfortunate history, 129 _et seq._
Hobby, the, of book-hunting, 101 _et seq._
Hortensius, 267.
Illustrating of criminal trials, 150
--its advantages to posterity, _ib. et seq._
--at its height, 180 _note_.
--illustrating a folio copy of Shakespeare, _ib. note_.
Illustrators of books, the, known as "Grangerites," 82
--their mode of proceeding, 83 _et seq._
Imperfect copies, completion of, 27.
Index Expurgatorius of Charles Lamb, 152 _note_.
Inlaying, process of, 219.
Iona, the saints of, 382.
Ireland, history of, in early times fabulous, 362;
Keating's History, _ib. et seq._
Ireland, primitive church in, 368 _et seq_.
Irish Archaeological and other Clubs, 312 _et seq._
Irish "bulls," instances of, 132.
Irish statutes and Irish history, 146 _et seq._
Joecher, Allgemeines Gelehrten Lexicon of, 235.
Johnson and Dr Richard Farmer, 130 _et seq._
Johnston, Captain, his Lives of Highwaymen and Pirates, 149.
Jolly, Bishop Robert, 244
--as a book-hunter, 245.
"Jolly" Club, the, 246.
Jones, Sir William, reading Cicero, 111.
Junot, the library of, 63.
Keating, Jeffrey, D.D., his History of Ireland, 363 _et seq._
Kent, Chancellor, collection of, 184 _et seq._
Kentigern, St, anecdotes of, 392 _et seq._
Knox, Vicesimus, Spirit of Despotism by, 197.
Lamb, Charles, Index Expurgatorius of, 152 _note_.
Large-paper copies, aspirants after, 86.
Laurentian Library at Florence, 198.
Law books, composition of, 118.
Law maxims, absurd book on, 138 _note_.
Law papers as furnishing humorous reading, 135 _et seq._
Law technicalities, vagaries of, 136 _et seq._
Levant monks, apathy of, with reference to priceless books, 209.
Librarians recruited from the ranks of book-hunters, 227
--disadvantages of "Cerberus" librarians, 228 _et seq._
--Angelo Mai of the Vatican, 229
--Magliabecchi, _ib. et seq._
--Adrien Baillet, 230 et _seq._
--librarians as scholars, 231 _et seq._
Libraries as stimulants to intellectual culture, 115 _et seq._
--growth of great libraries, 169
--impossibility of their being improvised, _ib. et seq_.
--their gradual accumulation, 170 _et seq._
--Imperial Library at Paris, 176, 205, &c.
--size of American libraries, Harvard, Astorian, Library of Congress,
Boston Athenaeum, 176
--their large number in the States, _ib._
--The Private Libraries of New York, by James Wynne, M.D., 177
--specimen of a New York interior, 182
--library of Chancellor Kent, 184 _et seq._
--of Mr Lorimer Graham, 186
--of Rev. Dr Magoon, 187 _et seq._
--of Mr Menzies, 189 _note_
--Harvard Library, 190
--Government and public libraries, 191
--privileged libraries and the Copyright Act, 193 _note_
--British Museum Library, 197 _et seq._
--Ambrosian Library at Milan, 198
--Laurentian Library at Florence, _ib._
--Bodleian Library, _ib._
--Memoirs of Libraries, by Edward Edwards, 199 _note_
--Durham College Library, nucleus of Trinity of Oxford, 203
--burning of Alexandrian Library, 211.
Licensing, abolition of, in England, 208.
Limiting number of impressions, 281 _et seq._
Literary forgeries, moral code of, 303 _et seq._
Long Parliament, proceedings of, 328 _et seq._
Lucullus, Magnus, of Grand Priory, 46 _et seq._
Lycanthropy, 279.
Magi, in their conflicts with saints, 401 _et seq._
Magliabecchi, the librarian, 229 _et seq._
Magoon, Rev. Dr, library of, 187 _et seq._
Maitland Club, 312.
Margaret, Queen of Scotland, as a saint, 355.
Meadow, Archdeacon, description of as a mighty book-hunter, 14
--at an auction, 15
--a portion of his collection sold, 17
--reputed to read his own books, 18
--his learning, 19.
Medici, library of the, 198 _et seq._
Men of the Time, printers' blunders in, 75.
Menzies, Mr, valuable American collection of, 189 _note_.
Metaphysics, origin of name, 127.
Monkbarns as a book-hunter, 165 _et seq._
--his description of Snuffy Davie's prowlings, 221 _et seq._
Nathalan, St, anecdote of, 395.
Newgate Calendar, interest of, 148.
New York, private libraries of, 177 _et seq._
Nomenclature, Greek, abuses and merits of, 2.
Noy, Attorney-General, and the Histrio-Mastix, 130.
Oelrichs, John Charles Conrad, rare work by, 207.
Old writers, their careful disclaiming of original ideas, 117.
Olio, Grose's, extract from, 54 _note_.
Onslow, Mr, and naming of members of Parliament, 131.
Owen's Parallelograms, the nature of, 13
--biographical notice of Owen in Men of the Time, 75 _et seq._
Oxford, Bishop of, biographical notice of, in Men of the Time, 75.
Palaeographist, meaning of the name, 3.
Palimpsest, meaning of, 3.
Pamphlets, careful preservation of, enforced, 339.
Panel, meaning of, in England and in Scotland, 138.
Papaverius, Thomas, 32 _et seq._
--his unpunctuality, 33
--his costume, _ib. et seq._
--his eloquence, 35, 36
--on vagrancy, 38
--his irresponsibility in pecuniary matters, 39
--his charity, 41
--as a philosopher of human nature, 42
--as a book-hunter, _ib. et seq._
--as a borrower of books, 43 _et seq._
--his acute sensibility, 45.
Peignot, his Dictionnaire de Bibliologie, 127 _note_, 207
--his dictionary of condemned books, 208
--as a vagabond bibliographer, 239 _et seq._
Philobiblion of Richard of Bury, 199
--extract from, 220 _note_.
Photius, curious history of the Bibliotheca of, 236.
Picts, St Columba among the, 377.
Pinkerton, John, description of, 285.
Playbills, collection of, a phase of bibliomania, 64.
Poems and plays as relics of pure literature, 217 _et seq._
Popular authors objects of competition among publishers, 260 _et seq._
Preservation of literature, 205 _et seq._
--politics and religion, with reference to, 208
--wars and revolutions with reference to, 209
--books in the midst of fire, 210.
Pretenders, 161 _et seq._
--generally bargain-hunters, 162
--their devices, 163.
Printers' blunders serviceable to literature, 71 _et seq._
--laughable examples of, 72 _et seq._
--tragic results of, 75
--examples of, in Men of the Time, 76.
Printing press, private, an appalling form of bibliomania, 293
--possession of, by Sir Alexander Boswell, 294.
Professional dealer, the, 107.
Prowler different from auction-haunter, 88 _et seq._
Prynne and his Histrio-Mastix, 129 _et seq._
Publishers and good literature, 262.
Quaker collector of paintings, a, anecdote of, 103.
Queen Cadyow and St Kentigern, 394.
Rambles in search of sculptured stones, 411 _et seq._
Rarity, the comparative, of certain books, 170 _et seq._
--Americans and the rarity of books, 173 _et seq._
--rarity of works of early English printers, 218 _et seq._
--rarity increased by increased number of copies, 282.
Ratcliffe, Dr, a physician, 69 _note_.
Reading of books by book-hunters and possessors of libraries, 109
--impossible in certain cases, 110
--ought to be desultory, _ib. et seq._
"Reading with the fingers" a test of scholarship, 116.
Religion and politics in reference to the preservation of literature,
208.
Religious hypocrites, uncharitableness and intolerance of, 7
--their development into criminals, 8.
Reminiscences of a book-hunting life, 59 _et seq._
"Remnants," or broken books, 254.
Rent-paying in Scotland, 140 _note_.
Resuscitated literature, peculiar value of, 324
--objected to in hagiology, 359.
Richard of Bury, Bishop of Durham, as a private collector, 199 _et seq._
--as a benefactor of posterity, 200 _et seq._
--originator of Durham College Library, the nucleus of Trinity of
Oxford, 203
--on the treatment of manuscripts (quotation from the Philobiblion),
220 _note_.
Ritson, Joseph, opponent of John Pinkerton, 287 _et seq._
--his peculiarities, 288 _et seq._
Robespierre, draft of decree before, concerning the public libraries of
Paris, 209.
Romans as introducers of Christianity into Great Britain, 360, 379
--as slighters of history, 360 _et seq._
Rout upon Rout, by Felix Nixon, 57.
Roxburghe Club, 97, 265 _et seq._
--its origin, 268
--its dinner and toasts, 269
--its members, 270
--its "revels," 275
--Hazlewood's connection with, _ib._ and _note et seq._
--reprinting by, of ancient books, 278 _et seq._
--its first serious efforts, 279
--Dibdin as its master, 280
--under the care of the scholarly Botfield, 281
--its proffer of membership to Sir Walter Scott, 283 _et seq._
Roxburghe, Duke of, as a book-hunter, 90, 164
--origin of his bibliomania, 90 _et seq._
Roxburghe Library, sale of, 89 _et seq._
--scenes at the auction, 92 _et seq._
--Earl Spencer present, 93 _et seq._
Rubricists, book-hunters as, 63.
Rule, Gilbert, ghost-story concerning, 346 _et seq._
"Runic Knot," the, 409.
Saints, the early Northern, 352 _et seq._
--the making of, 353
--festival days of, 354 _et seq._
--Bollandus and his successors on saints, 355 _et seq._
--value in history of saint literature, 358 _et seq._
--vestiges of the peculiar characteristics of early Northern saints,
371 _et seq._
--their church architecture, 372
--saints of Irish origin innumerable, 375
--independent of Rome, 381
--mostly all obscure, _ib. et seq._
--as prophesiers of death, 383
--personal habits of, 389
--fishing and marine anecdotes of, 395 _et seq._
Scholars in relation to collectors, 115 _et seq._
School-books, rarity of old, 215 _et seq._
Schoolboy life, reminiscences of, conjured up by an advertisement, 157
_et seq._
Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence, a curious book, 240.
Scots Acts, brevity of, 146.
Scott, Sir Walter, as a book-club man, 283
--his admission to the Roxburghe Club, _ib. et seq._
--writing a song for the Bannatyne Club, 285
--his reprint of a trial for murder, 290 _et seq._
--imposed on by Robert Surtees, 300 _et seq._
--first idea of Waverley suggested to him by Surtees, 306.
Sculptured stones in Scotland, 405 _et seq._
--description of one, 406
--their character, 407 _et seq._
--Mr John Stuart's transcripts of, 410
--ramble in search of, 411 _et seq._
--one of them at Lochcolissor, _ib._
--others in various parts, 412 _et seq._
Seneca commending literary moderation, 119 _note_.
Serf, St, and his robin, 392.
Shakespearian criticism a branch of knowledge, 69 _et seq._
--valuable to literature, 71.
Sheepfolds, Ruskin on the construction of, 125.
Sloane, Sir Hans, originator of British Museum Library, 197.
Smart, Fitzpatrick, as a mighty book-hunter, 19
--his peculiar line known as the "Fitzpatrick Smart Walk," 20
--his fancy ill to please, 21
--his household gods, 22
--his dress, 23
--his wonderful genius, 25
--fate of his collection, _ib._
Smithsonian Institution, origin of, 174.
Snuffy Davie, a prince of book-hunters, 166
--his capture of the Game of Chess, 222.
Societies, book and other, 247 _et seq._
--the transactions of learned, an outlet for genius, 262 _et seq._
Spalding Club, 312
--as an art-union, 404.