The Book-Hunter, John Hill Burton [essential reading TXT] 📗

id="Page_421" title="[421]">—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 Cæsar, 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 Célèbres," 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 Camélias 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 Cæsar, 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 célèbres, 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 célèbres, 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.

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 Archæological and other Clubs, 312 et seq.

Irish "bulls," instances of, 132.

Irish statutes and Irish history, 146 et seq.


Jöcher, 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 Maï 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 Athenæum, 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,