University of Virginia Library

INDEX.

• Academy, The, 23.
• Acarus eruditus, 77, 78.
• Acts of the Apostles, quoted, 4.
• Aglossa pinguinalis, 76.
• Albermarle (Duke of), portrait by Logan, 126.
• Althorp library, 124.
• Anderson (Sir C.), 55.
• Anobium paniceum, 77, 78.
• Anobium pertinax, 77, 78, 87, 88.
• Antiquary, The, 54.
• Antwerp, Monks at, 57, 58.
• Asbestos fire, 27.
• Ashburnham House, Westminster, 10.
• Asiarch, an, 7.
• Athens, Bookworm from, 81.
• Atkyns' Origin and Growth of Printing, 126.
• Auctioneer, story of, 145.
• Austin Friars, 15.

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• Bagford (John), the biblioclast, 118.
• Balaclava, battle of, 143.
• Bale, the antiquary, 9.
• Bandinel (Dr.), 87, 88.
• Beedham, B., 52.
• Bible, the first printed, burnt at Strasbourg, 13.
• — the "bug'' edition, 95.
• Bibliophile, pleasures of a, 153.
• Bibliotaph, a, 129.
• Bibliotheca Ecclesiæ Londino-Belgicæ, 16.
• Binder's creed, 31.
• — plough, 105.
• Binding, care to be taken of, 134.
• — quality of good, 104.
• Bird (Rev. —), 55.
• Birdsall (Mr.), bookbinder, 80.
• Birmingham Riots, 11.
• Black-beetles, enemies of books, 94.
• Black-letter books in United States, 91.
• Blatta germanica, 65.
• Boccaccio, 48-50.
• Bodleian, bookworms at, 87.
• Bookbinders as enemies of books, 103.
• Books, absurd lettering, 111.
• — burnt at Carthage; at Ephesus, 4.
• — burnt in Fire of London, 10.
• — burnt by Saracens, 3.
• — captured by Corsairs, 18.
• — cleaning of, 114.
• — deprived of title pages, 118, 119.

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• Books destroyed at the Reformation, 51.
• — dried in an attic, 16.
• — examination of old covers, 116.
• — how to dust them, 134.
• — injured by hacking, 111.
• — lost at sea, 17, 18.
• — margin reduced to size, 111.
• — mildew in, 136.
• — from monasteries destroyed, 9.
• — restoration when injured, 114.
• — restored after a fire, 15.
• — scarce before printing, 2.
• — sold to a cobbler, 52, 149.
• — too tight on shelves, 137.
• — their claims to be preserved, 151.
• — used to bake "pyes,'' 10.
• — which scratch one another, 134.
• Book-sale in Derbyshire, 145.
• Bookworm, the, 67-93.
• — attempt to breed, 81-3.
• — from Greece, 82.
• — in paper box, 89.
• — in United States, 91.
• Bookworms' progress through books, 84.
• — race by, 86.
• Bosses on books, 135.
• Boys injuring books, 139.
• — in library, story of, 140.
• Brighton, black letter fragments, 59.
• British Museum, Boccaccio's Fall of Princes, 61.

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• British Museum free from the "worm,'' 83.
• —burnt book exhibited at, 11.
• Brown spots in books, 24.
• Bruchium, 3.
• Burckhardt's Arabic MSS., 77.
• "Bug'' Bible, 95.
• Burgundy (Duchess of), 130.


• Cambridge Market, 97.
• Caskets (the three), Shakspeare, 60.
• Caspari (Mr.), a collector, 124.
• Cassin (Convent of Mount), 49.
• Caxton, William, 130.
• — his use of waste leaves, 90.
• — Canterbury Tales, used to light a fire, 53.
• — Golden Legend, ditto, 52.
• — Lyf of oure Ladye, 89.
• Caxtons saturated by rain, 22.
• — spoilt in binding, 107.
• — discovered in British Museum, 108.
• Charles II, portrait by Logan, 126.
• Chasles (Philarête), 52.
• Child tearing books, 139.
• Children as enemies of books, 138.
• Choir boys injuring MSS., 124.
• Christians burnt heathen MSS., 7.
• — early, 6.
• Clarendon (Earl of), portrait by Logan, 126.
• Clasps on books, injury from, 135.
• Clergymen as biblioclasts, 64.

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• Clulow (Mr. George), 144.
• Coal fires objectionable in libraries, 27.
• Codfish, book eaten by a, 96.
• Cold injures books, 26.
• Collectors as enemies of books, 117.
• College quadrangle, 41.
• Colophon in Schoeffer's book, 123.
• Colophons (collections of), 118.
• Commonwealth quartos, 44.
• Communal libraries in France, 48.
• Cotton library; partially burnt, 10.
• Cowper, the poet, on burnt libraries, 12.
• Crambus pinguinalis, 76.
• Cremona, books destroyed at, 8.
• Croton bug, 95.


• Damp, an enemy of books, 24.
• Dante, 50.
• — The Inferno, 106.
• Derbyshire, book sale in, 145.
• Dermestes vulpinus, 89.
• De Rome, the binder, 47, 48, 110.
• De Thou, 110.
• Devil worship, 5.
• Devon and Exeter Museum, 101.
• Diana, Temple of, 6.
• Dibdin (Dr.), 110.
• — sale of his Decameron, 148.
• — his books, 25.
• D'Israeli (B.), 17.

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• Doraston (J.), Poem on Bookworm, 67, 76.
• Dust, an enemy of books, 39.
• — and neglect in a library, 39-50, 133.
• Dusting books—how to do it, 136.
• Dutch Church burnt, 15.
• — library at Guildhall, 16.


• Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 53.
• Edmonds (Mr.), bookseller, 58.
• Edward IV, 130.
• Edwards (Mr.), bookseller, 18.
• Electric light in British Museum, 32.
• Ephesus, 5.
• "Eracles,'' 111.
• "Evil eye,'' the, 6.
• "Excursion, The,'' 139.


• Fire, an enemy of books, 1-16.
• — of London, 10.
• Flint (Weston), account of black-beetles in New York libraries, 95.
• Folklore, ancient, 5.
• "Foxey'' books, 25.
• Francis (St.) and the friars, 37.
• French Protestant Church, 53.
• Frith (John), 96.
• Froissart's Chronicles, 110.
• Frost in a library, 26.


• Garnett (Dr.), 81.
• Gas injurious, 29-38,

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• Gatty's (Mrs.) Parables, 76.
• German Army at Strasburg, 13.
• Gesta Romanorum, 66.
• Gibbon, the historian, 2.
• Glass cases preservative of books, 27.
• Golden Legend, by Caxton, 52.
• Gordon Riots, 11.
• Government officials as biblioclasts, 65.
• Grenville (Rt. Hon. Thos.), 56.
• Guildford, library at school, 129.
• Guildhall, London, library at, 16.
• Gutenberg, 123.
• — documents concerning, burnt, 13,
• Gwyn, Nell, housekeeping book of, 65.
• "Gyp'' brushing clothes in a library, 44.


• Hannett, on bookbinding, 76.
• Havergal (Rev. F. T.), 76.
• Heathens burnt Christian MSS., 7.
• Heating libraries, 27.
• Hebrew books burnt, 8.
• Hereford Cathedral library, 76.
• Hickman family, 56.
• Histories of Troy, 111.
• Holme (Mr.), 77.
• Hooke (R.), his Micrographia, 71-75.
• Horace's Satires, 140.
• Hot water pipes for libraries, 26.
• House-fly, an enemy of books, 102.
• Hudde, Heer, a story of, 17.

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• Humphrey's History of Writing, 138.
• Hypothenemus eruditus, 76.


• Ignorance and Bigotry, 51-66.
• Illuminated letters fatal to books, 51.
• — initials, collections of, 123.
• Indulgence of 15th Century spoilt by a binder, 109.
• Inquisition in Holland, 63.


• Kirby and Spence on Entomologists, 75, 101.
• Knobs of metal on bindings, 135.
• Koran, The, 7.


• Lamberhurst, 61.
• Lamport Hall, 58.
• Lansdowne Collection of MSS., 60.
• Latterbury, copy of, at St. Martin's, 54.
• Leather destroyed by gas, 30.
• Lepisma, 96.
• — mistaken for bookworm, 75.
• Libraries burnt: by Coesar, 3.
• — —at Dutch Church, 15.
• — —at Strasbourg, 13.
• — neglected in England, 15, 22, 40.
• — at Alexandria, 3.
• — of the Ptolemies, 3.
• Library Journal, The, 94.
• Lincoln Cathedral MSS., 124.
• Lincolne Nosegaye, 124.
• London Institution, 31.

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• Lubbock (Sir J.), 90.
• Luke's, St., account of destruction of books, 4.
• Luxe des Livres, 47.
• Luxury and learning, 42.


• Machlinia, book printed by, 108.
• Magdalene College, Cambridge, 128.
• Maitland (Rev. S. R.), 54.
• Mansfield (Lord), 11.
• MS. Plays burnt, 60.
• Manuscripts, fragments of, 126.
• Margins of books cut away, 49, 127.
• Maximilian (The Emperor), 125.
• Mazarin library, Caxton in, 52.
• Metamorphoses of Ovid, by Caxton, 10.
• Micrographia, by R. Hooke, 71.
• Middleburgh, 17.
• Mildew in books, 136.
• Minorite friars, 37.
• Missal illuminations, sale of, 119.
• Mohammed's reason for destroying books, 7.
• Mohammed II throws books into the sea, 21.
• Monks at Monte Cassino, 49.
• Mould in books, 24.
• Mount Cassin, library at, 50.
• Moxon's Mechanic Exercises, 115.
• Müller (M.), of Amsterdam, 62.


• Newmarsh (Rev. C. F.), 54.
• Niptus Hololeucos, 101.

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• Noble (Mr.), on Parish Registers, 61.
• Notes and Queries, 77.


• Oak Chest, 44.
• Œcophora pseudospretella, 79.
• Offor Collection of Bunyans, 14.
• On, Priests of, 69.
• Overall (Mr.), Librarian at Guildhall, 16.
• Ovid, Metamorphoses by Caxton, 10.
• Oxenforde, Lyf of therle, 10.


• Paper improperly bleached, 25.
• Papyrus, 68.
• Paradise Lost, 142.
• Parchment, slips of, in old books, 112.
• Parish Registers, carelessness, 62.
• Parnell's Ode, 70.
• Patent Office, destruction of literature at, 65.
• Paternoster Row, 10.
• Paul, St., 6.
• Pedlar buying old books, 54, 55.
• Peignot and hookworms, 79.
• Pepys (Samuel), his library, 128.
• Petit (Pierre), poem on bookworm, 70.
• Philadelphia, wormhole at, 92.
• Phillipps (Sir Thos.), 129.
• Pieces of silver or denarii, 5.
• Pinelli (Maffei), library of, 18.
• Plantin Museum, 122.
• Policemen in Ephesus, 7.

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• Portrait collectors, 127.
• Priestley (Dr.), library burnt, 11, 12.
• Printers, the first, 13.
• Printers' marks, collection of, 119.
• — ink and bookworms, 80.
• Proëme (Mr.), 120.
• Ptolemies, the Egyptian, 3.
• Puttick and Simpson, 15.
• Pynson's Fall of Princes, 61.


• Queen Elizabeth's prayer-book, 98.
• Quaint titles, collections of, 121.
• Quadrangle of an old College described, 41.


• Rain an enemy to books, 21.
• Rats eat books, 97.
• Recollet monks of Antwerp, 57.
• Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, 130.
• Reformation, destruction of books at, 9.
• Restoration of burnt books, 11.
• Richard of Bury, 47.
• Ringwalt's Encyclopædia, 92.
• Rivets on books, 135.
• Rood and Hunte, 53.
• Rot caused by rain, 21.
• Royal Society, London, 71.
• Rubens' engraved titles in Plantin Museum, 122.
• — autograph receipts, 122.
• Ruins of fire at Sotheby and Wilkinson's, 14.
• Rye (W. B.), 61, 83.

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• St. Albans, Boke of, 54.
• St. Martin's-le-Grand, French church, 53.
• St. Paul's Cathedral, books burnt in vaults of, 10.
• Sale catalogues, extracts from, 119.
• Schoeffer (P.), 123.
• Schonsperger (Hans), 125.
• Schoolmaster and endowed library, 129.
• Scorched book at British Museum, 11.
• Scrolls of magic, 6.
• Serpent worship, 5.
• Servants and children as enemies of books, 131-144.
• Shakesperian discoveries, 58.
• "Shavings'' of binders, 31.
• Sheldon (Archbishop), portrait by Logan, 126.
• Sib's Bowels opened, 121.
• Smith (Mr.), Brighton bookseller, 64.
• Sotheby and Wilkinson, 125.
• — fire at their rooms, 14.
• Spring clean, horrors of, 133.
• Stark (Mr.), bookseller, 55-58.
• Stealing a Caxton, 54.
• Steam press, 40.
• Strasbourg, siege of, 13.
• Sun-light of gas, 29, 32.
• Sun worship, 5.
• Sylvester's Laws of Verse, 71.


• Taylor, the water-poet, 121.
• Teylerian Museum, Haarlem, 128.
• Theurdanck, prints in, 125.

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• Thonock Hall, library Of, 56.
• Timmins (Mr.), 50.
• Title-pages, collections sold, 122.
• — volumes of, 118.
• Title-pages, old Dutch, 120.
• Tomicus Typographus, 101.


• Ultramontane Society, called "Old paper,'' 63,
• Unitarian library, 13,
• Universities destroy books, 9.


• Value of books burnt by St. Paul, 4.
• Vanderberg (M.), 57.
• Vermin book-enemies, 94-102.
• Vox Piscis, 96.


• Washing old books, 16.
• Water an enemy of books, 17-28.
• Waterhouse (Mr.), 81.
• Werdet (Edmond), 48, 57.
• Westbrook (W. J.), 102.
• Westminster Chapter-house, 97.
• — skeletons of rats, 97.
• White (Adam), 83.
• Wolfenbuttel, library at, 23.
• Woodcuts, a Caxton celebration, 124.
• Wynken de Worde, fragment, 59.


• Ximenes (Cardinal) destroys copies of the Koran, 8.