IT is a great pity that there should be so many distinct enemies at work for the destruction of literature, and that they should so often be allowed to work out their sad end. Looked at rightly, the possession of any old book is a sacred trust, which a conscientious owner or guardian would as soon think of ignoring as a parent would of neglecting his child. An old book, whatever its subject or internal merits, is truly a portion of the national history; we may imitate it and print it in fac-simile, but we can never exactly reproduce it; and as an historical document it should be carefully preserved.
I do not envy any man that absence of sentiment which makes some people careless of the memorials of their ancestors, and whose blood can be warmed up only by talking of horses or the price of hops. To them solitude meansennui, and anybody's company is preferable to their own. What an immense amount of calm enjoyment and mental renovation do such men miss. Even a millionaire will ease his toils, lengthen his life, and add a hundred per cent. to his daily pleasures if he becomes a bibliophile; while to the man of business with a taste for books, who through the day has struggled in the battle of life with all its irritating rebuffs and anxieties, what a blessed season of pleasurable repose opens upon him as he enters his sanctum, where every article wafts to him a welcome, and every book is a personal friend!
Academy, The, 23.Acanis 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.Bagford (John), the biblioclast, r: 18.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 Ecclesiae Londino-Belgicae, 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, hookworms 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.Books destroyed at the Reformation, Si.— dried in an attic, 16.— examination of old covers, 116.— how to dust them, 134.— injured by hacking, i x i.— 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.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 (Philarete), 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.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), I IS.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.Doraston (J.), Poem on Bookworne, 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 Yorklibraries, 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,Gatty's (Mrs.) Parables, 76.German Army at Strasburg, U.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, 0.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.Hwqhrey's History of Writing, 138.Hypothenemus eruditus, 76.Ignorance and Bigotry, P-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.Librariesburnt: by Caesar, 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.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, 106.Magdalene College, Cambridge, 128.Maitland (Rev. S. R.), 54.Mansfield (Lord), ij.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.Muller (M.), of Amsterdam, 62.Newmarsh (Rev. C. F.), 54.Niptus Hololeucos, 101.Noble (Mr.), on Parish Registers, 61.Notes and Queries, 77.Oak Chest, 44.OEcophora pseudospretella, 79.Offer 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, io.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.Portrait collectors, 127.Priestley (Dr.), library burnt, 11, 12.Printers, the first, 13.Printers' marks, collection of, 119.— ink and bookworms, 80.Probrue (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 Encyclopaedia, 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.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.Thonock Hall, library Of, 56.Timmins (Mr.), 50.Title-pages, collections sold, 122.— volumes of, 118.Title-pages, old Dutch, 120.Tomicus Typographus, iox.Utramontane 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.Pox Piscis, 96.Washing old books, x6.Water an enemy of books, 17-28.Waterhouse (Mr.), Si.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.