type, faults of,117,122,128.Ghost words,158,159.Gilding,seeBinding;Edges.Gladstone, William Ewart, a literary blunder of,152,153.Goethe, Carlyle on,110;his greatness,73;John Beattie Crozier on,112;on Sir Walter Scott,110.Goffered edges,61.Goudy, Frederic W., his Kennerley type commended,132.Grace before reading,77.Grammar of book manufacture,40,42.Grant, Ulysses Simpson, his coat of arms,30;his greatness brought out by responsibility,163.Gray, Thomas, small bulk of his work,69."Great books, Lest we forget the few,"104-114.Greek literature, masterpieces of,66-68.Greeks, surpassed by moderns in knowledge,30.Green, John Richard, quoted,50.Grolier, Jean, bindings made for,100.Groups, reading authors by,74,75.Guide, in reading,140-142;none to love of books,7.Guidi, Carlo Alessandro, killed by misprints,156.HABIT, and forethought,165.Haggard, Rider, his "Mr. Meeson's Will,"86.Hallam, Arthur Henry, at Cambridge University,139.Handwriting,seeManuscript.Harte, Francis Bret, on reading his works,143.Harvard University, course in printing,43;Library possesses manuscript of Shelley's "Skylark,"158;size of Library in 1875,104.Hawthorne, Nathaniel, on reading him,74,75.Hay, John, his reading in college,139;a remarkable misprint in his "Poems,"159.Hazlitt, William, as a guide in reading,141,142;Lamb and Stevenson on,141.Headlines, Henry D. Lloyd on,132."Hibbert Journal," bulkiness of,95.Hieroglyphics,seePicture writing.Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, his life of Longfellow,75.Holmes, Oliver Wendell, the Blue and Gold edition of his "Poems,"24,25;his life of Emerson,75;member of New England group of authors,75;a misprint in his "Works,"159;quoted,24,80,102,106.Holt, Henry, on simplified spelling,147,footnote.Homer, did not write for children,68;Hazlitt on,141;his works,64,66,67;Keats's sonnet on,108,109;not out of date,77;why his works are divided into books,83.Horace, hated by Byron,68;his works,69;in Bodoni's 1791 edition,129,130;more modern than the Puritans,69,than Dante,70.Houghton, Mifflin and Company, publish books resembling Chinese,87,88.Hours, books of, dainty volumes,20.House of Representatives Library, size in 1875,104.Hudson, Henry Norman, his edition of Shakespeare,71,72.Huey, Edmund Burke, his "Psychology and pedagogy of reading," commended,124.Hull, Mass., as misprinted,154.Humanistic type,seeNew Humanistic.Hunt, Leigh, his characterization of the "Divine Comedy,"70.I, the letter, discussions regarding its dot,61."Idler," a favorite edition of,24.Illumination,51;indication of initials for,21.Illustration, as a feature of the book,6;of the book beautiful,60."Imitatio Christi," in Updike's specimen pages,136.Incunabula, relatively cheap,49.Indecency in misprints,155,156.Indenting, as affecting the book beautiful,59."Independent," compactly printed,95.India, book of,85,86.Individual, value of reading to,29-32.Initials, colored,60;spacing and mitering of,59.Ink, best for the eye,116,120;blue, for legibility,5;an element of the book,5;maker, a spoiler of books,40,42.Interpretative typography,9-13,137,138."Interpreter of meaning, Print as an,"14-18.Invention, in book production,33,34.Irving, Washington, book design in editions of his "Knickerbocker,"10,11;unfortunate use of his "Sketch Book" as a school book,68,69.Italic type, invention and use by Aldus,20,21.Italy, annual book publication,105.JAPAN, annual book publication,105.Javal, Dr. Émile, his investigations of legibility,120,121,123.Jenson, Nicholas, beauty and grandeur in his work,4;descendants of his types,132;facsimile page of,frontispiece.Johnson, Rossiter, his Little Classic editions described,25,26.Johnson, Dr. Samuel, commends small books,20,22,23;a favorite edition of his "Idler,"24;his "Prayers" in tribute typography,136;on our knowledge of ancient Britain,79.Josephus, Flavius, book form inappropriate to,50.Justification, requirements of,58,59.Justinian, facsimile page of his "Digestum novum,"frontispiece.KEATS, JOHN, folio inappropriate to,50;inappropriate Forman edition of,11;"On first looking into Chapman's Homer,"108,109;small bulk of his work,69.Kelmscott Press,seeMorris, William.Kennerley type, commended,132.Kipling, Rudyard, on reading him,143."Knickerbocker," Irving's, book design in editions of,10,11.Knowledge, necessary to success in life,30;obtainable in its fulness only through books,30;progress possible only in,29,30.Kuran, sources from which it was compiled,86.LAMB, CHARLES, on grace before reading,77;on Hazlitt,141.Large-paper copies, condemned,56,131.Latin literature, masterpieces of,68,69.Leadership developed under stress,163.Leading, as affecting legibility,120;as affecting spacing,58,59.Leather, employment in binding,52-54.Le Gascon, binder, his work,100.Legend, of pictures, proper place of,60.Legibility, elements of the book as related to,116-118;"Exceptions to the rule of legibility,"130,131,134-138;influence on, of paper, type, and ink,5;"Types and eyes: The problem,"120-127,—— "Progress,"128-133.Leland, Charles Godfrey, on forethought,166.Length of line,117.Lenox, James, mortified by a misprint,156;patron of Henry Stevens,38;"Recollections of," by Stevens,38,footnote.Le Sage, Alain René, his "Gil Blas,"143."Lest we forget the few great books,"104-114.Letters,seeCapital letters;Manuscript;Minuscules;Silent letters;Type.Lewes, George Henry, a misprint in one of his works,158.Librarians, "Books as a librarian would like them,"44-48;a duty to their successors,103;meeting of British, in 1882,38.Libraries, as affected by spelling reform,150;development in the United States since 1875,104;electrical batteries of power,30;put to needless expense for big books,36,for rebindings,46;"The student and the library,"139-144.Library Company of Philadelphia, size of library in 1875,104.Library hand, Bodoni's italic resembles,130.Library of Congress, size in 1875,104.Lightness, in books, deceptive,93,94.Lincoln, Abraham, his greatness brought by responsibility,163.Lincoln cent, lettering on,134.Line, endings should not show too many hyphens,59;normal length for legibility,117.Linnaeus, quoted,33.Linotype, gives a turned line,153.Literature, the book beautiful of service to,62;its treasures,63-78;print a contribution to,15;type appropriate to,136-138.Little and Brown, publishers, their "British Poets" compared withPickering's "Aldines,"24.Little Classic editions,20,25,26.Littré, Émile, typography of his "Dictionnaire,"135.Lloyd, Henry Demarest, on headlines, quoted,132.Locker-Lampson, Frederick, inappropriate edition of his "MyConfidences,"12.London Registrar General, misprint,155.Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, book design appropriate to his "Works,"11;his "Michael Angelo,"87;his sonnets on Dante,70;holiday edition of his "Skeleton in Armor,"137;"Life," appropriate edition of,12;quoted,68.Lowell, James Russell, member of New England group of authors,75.MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON, knew "Paradise Lost" by heart,73.McClellan, General George Brinton, his limitations,163.Malherbe, François, welcomes a misprint,157.Mammoth, picture of, a prehistoric book,79.Manuscript, chief difference from print,14;distinctions in,16;importance to bookmaking,51;limitations of,16;Ruskin on,51;still used in private records,15.See alsoPapyrus;Parchment.Margin, size and proportions of,56,57.Marriage service, misprint in,154.Material of the book, changed twice in two thousand years,92.Materials of writing,86.Mather, Cotton, list of errata in his "Magnalia,"160.Mathews, William, as an author,63;his memory of choice passages,63;on reading ten pages a day,108.Maxim, Sir Hiram, quoted,92."Meaning, Print as an interpreter of,"14-18.Mearne, Samuel, binder,100.Memory, Erasmus on art of strengthening,166,167;value of a well-stored,63."Men of the Time," famous misprint in,153,154.Ménage, Gilles, acknowledged his indebtedness to the Elzevirs,22.Mexican book, pre-Columbian, ornamented,6;described,85,86;picture writing of,81.Michelangelo, his "Moses" as a product of genius,65.Milton, John, debt of Daniel Webster to,110;gave metric hints by spelling,18;Hazlitt on,142;his greatness,72,73;his spelling,149,150;Lamb would say grace before reading,77;a misprint in "Samson Agonistes,"159;on the deprivation caused by his blindness,63,64;a spelling reformer,149.Minuscules, legibility,122-124,126;of late origin,118.Misprints, "The perversities of type,"152-161.Montaigne, "Journal of his travels," in three volumes,12.Morgan, Lloyd, cited,87.Morris, William, as printer,33,34;confesses faults of ignorance in book making,50;his Kelmscott editions, "tribute typography,"137;on shape of dot ofi,61;on types,5,129,130.Mosher, Thomas Bird, his "tribute typography,"137.Motteux, Peter Anthony, his translation of "Don Quixote,"144.Moulton, Charles Wells, "Library of Literary Criticism," its attractive book design,13.NAMES, place of, in development of the alphabet,81.Near sight,120,130.Necker, Jacques, student's blunder concerning,154.New England, its communities of readers,28,29;its group of authors,75,76.New Humanistic type, commended,138;special form ofa,123.New York Mercantile Library, size in 1875,104.Newspapers, extraordinary development of speed and cheapness in,14;legibility,5,117,132,133;opponents of spelling reform,145;place in reading,106.Newton, Sir Isaac, quoted,144.Nickel, as a substitute for paper,92,footnote.Novels, in a favorite book size,24;in illegible type,130;on reading,107;three-volume,12;typical book of to-day,35."Nuremberg Chronicle," a characteristic folio,19.OCULIST'S tests of legibility,120.Ormsby, John, his translation of "Don Quixote,"144.Ornamentation, in bindings,6,53,100,101;in type,121."Orthographic reform,"145-151.Ossian, Hazlitt on,141.Owen, Robert, a famous misprint concerning,153."Oxford Book of English Verse," thin-paper edition preferred,95."Oxford English Dictionary," corrects a misprint,158;its typography,135.Oxford India paper,92,94,95;miniature editions on,131,132.Oxford students cause a misprint in the marriage service,154.Oxford University Press, reward for misprints,156.PAGE, proportions of,4,42,55-57.Palm leaves, used for book of India,85.Pannartz and Sweynheym, grandeur in their work,4.Paper, best for the eye,116,120;buff tinted, for legibility,5,6;determines the expression of the book,4,5;introduced into Europe,84;of the book beautiful,54;of the Chinese book,88-90;"Thick paper and thin,"92-96;three elements of,5.Papermaker, a spoiler of books,40,42.Papyrus roll, and booklovers,4;described,82-84.Parchment, origin,83,84;"Parchment bindings,"102,103;parchment book and booklovers,4.Payne, Roger, binder,100.Peacock, Thomas Love, his novels in thick and thin paper,94,95.Peel, Sir Robert, misprint concerning,155.Penmanship,seeManuscript.Pergamum, origin of parchment in,83,84."Periodical, The," resembles a Chinese book,88,90."Personal power, A secret of,"162-167."Perversities of type,"152-161.Philadelphia Mercantile Library, size in 1875,104."Philobiblon," by Richard de Bury, significance of the title,8.Photogravures, in connection with type,6.Pickering, William, a disciple of Aldus,23;his characteristic books,23,24,compared with Little and Brown's "British Poets,"24,their predecessors, contemporaries, and successors,24;his "diamond classics" on large paper,131,132;method of book design,41;publisher,38.Picture writing,80,81.Pictures, earliest books were,79-81.See alsoIllustrations.Pillow, General Gideon Johnson, misprints concerning,157.Pindar, as characterized by Mrs. Browning,68.Plato, as characterized by Mrs. Browning,68;contributor to Bible of humanity,68;riches of,68.Pocket editions,22,23.Poe, Edgar Allan, quoted,28,152,158;small bulk of his poetry,69.Poetry, Hazlitt on,141,142;print as an interpreter of its meaning,17,18;type appropriate to,137,138.Pope, Alexander, a ghost word referred to him,158,159;Hazlitt on,142.Possessions, distinguished from Property,