Index
Amory, Hugh (1930–2001)
250, 515
Annapolis
198
Anthon, Charles (1797–1867)
408–10
Antwerp, Plantin Museum
470–1
Aratea manuscript (Leiden)
298–9, 310
Ascensius, Josse Badius (1462–1535)
322
Assmann, Jan (1938–2024)
451, 468
Austen, Jane (1775–1817)
287
Babington, Churchill (1821–89)
211–12, 219
Babington, Percy (b.1877)
fig.18
Baker, Thomas (1656–1740)
361–2
Barbados
161–92
languages in
183, 203
population
165–6
publications for
170
Barker, Edmund Henry (1788–1839)
389–421
Barlow, Henry Clark (1806–76)
464
Barnes, A.S., publisher
280–1
Bartholomew, A.T. (1882–1933)
224, 229, 236, 240, 248
Baskerville, John (1707–75)
231–2, 286
Baudin, Fernand (1918–2005)
268–9
Bauer, type founders
280
Belfortis, Andreas (fl.1471–8)
297, 300, 307
Bessel, Gottfried
432–3
Bible (Cambridge, 1629)
88–9, 91, 94, 96
Bibles, from Amsterdam
191, 262, 533
bindings of
91–100
formats
91
typography
253, 286, 312–14
value of
348–9
bibliomania
447–8
bibliometric research
515
black-letter type
212, 216–7, 286, 315–16, 322
Blades, William (1824–90)
10, 18, 28, 37, 44, 277, 467, 469
Blair, Hugh (1718–1800)
259, 265
blank space
293–4
Blomfield, C.J. (1786–1857)
390–419
book sales from libraries
65–70
bookbinding
79–101, 134
breaking bindings
13, 425–6
booksellers, inventories of
115–16
Boston, Mass.
191–2
Boucher, Jonathan
417
Bowers, Fredson (1905–91)
342, 353
Bowyer, William (1699–1777)
264, 269
Boyse, Daniel, bookbinder
93, 95, 96, 99
Bradshaw, Henry (1831–86) in Belgium
12, 20–1, 27
and Cambridge University Library
38–41
and Campbell
4–7
and Cohn
7
contemplates leaving Cambridge
40
and Hessels
4
and Holtrop
5–45
and incunables
4–7, 9–45
and photography
5, 6–7
silence
38
Braithwait, Richard (1588–1673)
341
Bray, Thomas (d.1730)
198–200
breaking books
13, 425–6
Britain, early printed output
526–30
British Museum
435, 453
Brooke, Christopher (d.1628)
252–3
Brothers of Common Life
26, 318
Browne, Daniel (fl.1692–1729)
275
Browne, Jonas
171–5, 177, 179, 188, 206
Brunet, J.-C. (1780–1867)
447
Brydges, Sir Egerton (1762–1837)
277
Buck, John and Thomas, printers
91
Bullen, George (d.1894)
467
Bullen, Henry (1857–1938)
246
Burges, George (1786–1864)
400
Buxton family
119–21, 130–1, 160
Buxton, John (1608–60)
114, 119–60
Byatt, A.S. (1936–2023)
288
Byron, Lord (1788–1824)
391
Calvert family
206–7
Cambridge, Clare College
368–9
King’s Hall
50
Trinity College
48–64
library
50, 366–8, 370–1
University Library
38–40, 369
University Press
91, 220–48
Cambridge, bookbinders in
90–100
booksellers in
366, 371–3
college libraries
369–70
early book ownership
52–8, 64
faculty libraries
371
Marian visitation
50–2
mathematics tripos
374
student expenditure
364–76
Cambridge University Calendar
375–6
Campbell, M.F.A.G. (1819–90)
3–7, 8, 27, 29, 44, 45
Cape, Jonathan (d.1960)
289
Capell, Edward (1713–81)
270
Cardiff, public library
65–75
University
73–5
Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881)
459, 462
Carnerius, Augustinus (fl.1474–6)
297, 301–10
Carter, Harry (1901–82)
273
Caslon, William (1692–1766)
259–61
Castellio, Sebastian (1515–63)
331
Castelvetro, Giacomo (1546–1616)
379
Castle Ashby
87
Cavendish, Margaret (1623–73)
351
Caxton, William (d.1492)
10, 283, 460, 465–7, 496
Chapman, R.W. (1881–1960)
271
Charleston
199
China, book production in
535–8
choice of books, reasons for
119
Christopherson, John (d.1558)
48–64
will
57–64
Clay, John (d.1916)
22
Clifford, Lady Anne (1590–1676)
350
clothes, cost of
123–4
Clowes, printers
412, 419–20
Cockerell, Sydney (1867–1962)
223–7, 238
Codrington, Christopher (d.1710)
193, 204
Cohn, Albert, bookseller
7
Cole, William (1714–82)
431
Coleridge, S.T. (1772–1834)
249, 264
Collins, Howard (1857–1910)
259
commonplace books
345–6
Conway, William (1856–1937)
3, 4, 5
Coppens, Chris
48
copyright
417, 421
Cory, John
70
Coster, Laurens (c.1370–c.1440)
457
Cottle, Joseph (1770–1853)
249, 264
Cranage, D.H.S. (1866–1957)
224, 225–7
Crawford, Patricia
344–5
Cunningham, Charles, missionary
194–7
D’Ewes, Symonds (1602–50)
118
Dalham, church
87–8
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)
459–65, 468
Darnton, Robert (b.1939)
285
databases
475–9, 538
De Bure, Guillaume (1734–1820)
17, 447
de-accessioning
65–75
Deberny & Cie, type founders
280
dedications
352–3, 357
Degeorge, Léon
470
Delaissé, L.J.M. (1914–72)
317–18
Delisle, Léopold (1826–1910)
29
Derolez, Albert (b.1934)
314–15
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776–1847)
405, 418, 420, 447–8, 470
Dickens, Charles (1812–70)
284
Didot, Ambroise Firmin (1790–1876)
406
digitization
422–4, 426, 433–4, 444–5
Disher, Samuel, bookbinder
98–9
Douglas, Alexander Frost (d.1939)
374–5
Drayton, Michael (1563–1631)
255, 262
Dreyfus, John (1918–2002)
268–9
Dunbar, George (1777–1851)
411–12
Duport, James (1606–79)
263
Dwiggins, W.A. (1880–1956)
268
Dyce, Alexander (1798–1869)
421
Eadwine Psalter (Cambridge)
313, 432
edition sheets
525–6
Egerton, Frances, Countess of Bridgewater (1583–1636)
343
Ellys, Sir Richard (d.1742)
404
Elsevier, Anna
217–18
Elsevier, Daniel (d.1680)
211–12, 218
Ely cathedral
67
English Short Title Catalogue see ESTC
Ennen, Leonard (1820–80)
18
Enschedé family
3–4, 8, 43–4
Enschedé, type founders
280
Episcopius, Nicolaus (1501–64)
56
ESTC
475–92, 495, 498, 512, 515–16, 526–7
Estienne, Henri see Stephanus, Henricus
Evelyn, John (1620–1706)
354–6, 360, 381, 386
exhibitions
422, 434–7, 452–3, 460–5, 467–8, 470, 491
facsimiles
3–6, 27, 42–5, 271–83
Ferrara
294–311
Fischer, Gotthelf (1771–1853)
19
Florence, Dante celebrations in
460–5
Forbes, Mansfield (1889–1936)
368
forgeries
272
Fournier, Pierre Simon (1712–68)
261
Foxon, David (1923–2001)
249, 251
Froben, Hieronymus (1501–63)
56
Gardner, Helen (1908–86)
342
Gaskell, Philip (1926–2001)
83
Gerson, Jean (1363–1429)
318
Goes, Mathias van der, printer
11, 12, 31–3
Goldschmidt, E.P. (1887–1954)
79–83
Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor (1869–1924)
227–8
Göttingen University Library
111
Goudy, F.W. (1865–1947)
237–8
Gough, Richard (1735–1809)
427
grand tour
377–8, 380–1
Great Exhibition (1851)
435–6, 468
Greene, Leonard, bookbinder
100
Greg, W.W. (1875–1959)
79–81, 83–4, 277, 285–6
Grylls, William (1787–1863)
302
Gutenberg, Johannes (d.1468)
450, 454–5
Halbwachs, Maurice (1877–1945)
451
Halley, Edmond (1656–1742)
254
Harley, Edward, Earl of Oxford (1689–1741)
102–5
Heath, Sir Edward (1916–2005)
250–1
Heffer, William (1844–1928)
373, 376
heroes
459
Hervey family, of Ickworth
341
Hessels, J.H. (1836–1907)
3, 35–7, 40, 44
Hobson, Anthony (1921–2014)
82–4
Hobson, G.D. (1882–1949)
80, 90
Hogg, Thomas (1792–1862)
34–5
Holt, Josiah
203
Holtrop, J.W. (1806–70)
8–45, 449, 458
family unhappiness
40
retirement
45
horses, cost of
126–7
household goods, cost of
127–9
Houston, R.A.
531
Howe, Ellic (1910–91)
290–1
Hyginus Mythographus
295, 297–31, figs 25–7
Imitatio Christi
312–35, figs 28–34
inventories
348–50
Isham, Sir Justinian (1610–75)
86
italic type
212–13, 215–16, 256–9, 262, 276, 280, 314, 322
Italy, advertising in
109–10
early printed output
513–14
Jamaica
163–4, 166
James, M.R. (1862–1936)
225, 241–2, figs 21–2
James, Sir Henry (1803–77)
4, 277, 439–40
Japan, book production in
536
Jayne, Sears (1920–2015)
347
Jenkinson, Francis (1853–1922)
235–6, 239
Jenson, Nicolas (1420–80)
284
Johnson, Samuel (1709–84)
102–11
Johnston, Edward (1872–1944)
289
Kelmscott Press
221–3, 227
Kempis, Thomas à (1380–1471)
312–35, figs 28–34
Kennett, White (1660–1728)
178
Kent, H.W. (1866–1948)
229, 233–5, 238–9
Keynes, Geoffrey (1887–1982)
224, 229, 239–40, 277
Klingspor, type founders
280
Kloss, Georg (1787–1854)
18, 25
Knight, Charles (1791–1873)
276, 459, 464
Lamartine, Alphonse de (1790–1869)
450
Lambinet, Pierre (1742–1813)
43
Lane, John
219
Langham, Elizabeth
341
La Serna Santander, Carlos de
17
Laughton, John (d.1712)
361
Leadenhall Press
279
Leeu, Gerard (1445–92)
18, 20, 33, 36, 41–2, 44, 293
Legate, John, printer
91
Lemprière, John (d.1824)
408–9, 411–12, 417
Leslie, Charles
262–3
Linotype
259, 282, 290
literacy
351–2
Lofft, Capel (1751–1824)
275
London, number of presses in
529
Louvain, exiles in
48, 50, 54
printing in
33–4
Lowenthal, David (1923–2018)
283
Lucy, Alice
346, 356
Mabillon, Jean (1632–1707)
432
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800–59)
366–7, 373
Macmillan, Daniel (1813–57)
372
Madden, Sir Frederic (1801–73)
435
Major, J.R. (1797–1876)
411, 414, 416, 418
Makin, Bathsua (1600–75)
347, 352
Mansion, Colard (fl.1440–84)
10, 28, 36–7, 41, 294
Manutius, Aldus (1449–1515)
286
Mardersteig, Giovanni (1892–1977)
269, 290
mark-up for printers
267–9
Martens, Thierry (d.1534)
19–24, 36, 37–8, 42
Martin, Henri-Jean (1924–2007)
505, 514
Marvell, Andrew (1621–78)
257
Mayor, J.E.B. (1825–1910)
38
McColvin, Lionel (1896–1976)
66
McKenzie, D.F. (1931–99)
249–50, 285
McKerrow, R.B. (1872–1940)
221
Mede, Joseph (1586–1639)
84–100
Meerman, Gerard (1722–71)
111
Melbourne Public Library (State Library Victoria)
422, 437–9
memory, public
451–5
Mendelson, Sara
344–5
Merton, Wilfred (1888–1957)
223, 227
Meynell, Francis (1891–1975)
228, 237, 270
Miller and Richard, type founders
279, 282, 290–1
Milton, John (1608–74)
84–5, 342, 358
mise-en-page
262–70, 272, 320–5
missionary societies
192–204
Monk, J.H. (1784–1856)
370–1, 390–401, 405, 418
Monotype
231, 244, 246, 282, 290
keyboards
268
Montfaucon, Bernard de (1655–1741)
432
Monthly Catalogue
175–85
Moody, Henry, bookbinder
99
Moreau, Pierre (c.1600–48)
322–3
Morgan, Paul
353–4
Morison, Stanley (1889–1967)
232, 241, 248, 268, 290
Mosley, James (1935–2025)
261
Moxon, Joseph (1627–91)
259, 288
Munby, A.N.L. (1913–74)
424
Murray, A. G.W. (1884–1919)
fig.23
museums
469–71
musical instruments
162
Napier, John (1550–1617)
315
national libraries
449–50
Neddermeyer, Uwe
498, 517, 519, 538
Neurath, Otto (1882–1945)
314
Newcome, John (1683–1765)
105
Newdigate, Bernard (1869–1944)
232
newspaper design
288–9
Newton (Puckering), Henry (1618–1701)
354–7, 378–88, fig.36
Newton, Sir Adam (d.1630)
355, 357, 378–80
Newton, Sir Isaac (1643–1727)
254
Niclas, J.-N.
404
Nobbs, F.G. (1882–1954)
241
Nonesuch Press
270
Norfolk, books in
119–60
North, John (1645–83)
252
old-face type
279–83
Oldys, William (1696–1761)
102
Orcutt, W.D. (1870–1953)
220
Osborne, Thomas (d.1767)
102–13, fig.1
Osler, Sir William (1849–1919)
235–6
Padua, English visitors to
385–6
Pantzer, Katharine (1930–2005)
475–81, 484, 486–91
Paris, Bibliothèque Impériale
28–9, 34–5
Parr, Samuel (1747–1825)
389, 391–2, 407
Payne, Roger , bookbinder (1739–97)
427–8
Peace, J.B. (1864–1923)
222–4, 227–8, 230, 233, 247
pen drawings
302–10, figs 25–7
Pepys, Samuel (1633–1703)
315–16
periodicals, trade in
530–1
Perrin, Louis (1799–1865)
280, 281–2
Phemister, Alexander C.
279
Phillips, Sir Richard (1767–1840)
395
photography
4–7, 22–3, 42, 438–40
Pickering, William (1796–1854)
279, 283
plays and play-going
122–3, 125–6, 136, 186, 358–9
Pollard, A.W. (1859–1944)
221–2, 245, 246
population
531–3
Porson, Richard (1759–1808)
389–90
prices, book
114–17, 139–59
Prior, Edward (1852–1932)
225
probate inventories
116–17, 166–8
prospectuses, charges for
112
Puckering, Elizabeth (d.1689)
339–63
Puckering, Sir Henry see Newton
Puckering, Sir Thomas (1591–1637)
355, 361
punctuation
262, 313, 314
Purchas, Samuel (1575–1626)
267
Pynson, Richard (c.1449–c.1529)
325–6
Ratdoldt, Erhard (1442–1528)
299, 301, 310
reading, study of
283–90, 299, 312–35, 340–63
red printing
422–3
Reed, Talbot Baines (1852–93)
290
Reiffenberg, Frédéric de (1795–1850)
11, 449
Renouard, A.-A. (1765–1853)
447
Rogers, Bruce (1870–1957)
220–48, 268, figs 22, 24
Rogers, Thomas
329–30
Roman type
212–14, 261–2, 286
Rome, English visitors to
386
obelisk
454
Rooses, Max (1839–1914)
470–1
Roots, George
253–4
Rosweyde, Heribert (1569–1629)
331
Roxburghe Club
428–9
rubrication
42–3
Ruelens, Charles (1820–90)
11, 318
Ryder, John (1917–2001)
272
Sacro Bosco, Johannes de (1195–1244)
295, 297, 307–8
Sadleir, Anne (1585–c.1671)
350
Sassoon, Siegfried (1886–1967)
236, 238, figs 19–20
Scarlett, Philip, bookbinder
99
Scholderer, Victor (1880–1971)
298
schoolbooks
410–16, 522–3
Servais, Ridder de (1735–1807)
17, 24
Shadwell, Thomas (1642–92)
256–7
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)
133, 140, 461–2
Short-Title Catalogue (Pollard and Redgrave) see STC
slave trade
163
Sloane, Sir Hans (1660–1753)
181
Smeeton, George (1780–1847)
277
Smith, John, printer
258
Snyder, Henry (1929–2016)
477
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel see SPG
Sotheby, Samuel Leigh (1805–61)
12
South Kensington Museum
436–8
Sparke, Michael (d.1653)
89
Sparrow, Anthony (1612–85)
274–5, 292
SPG
193–204
St. Clair, William (1937–2021)
534
statues
454–5, 456–7, 461, 464, 466, 468
STC
475–92
Stephanus, Henricus (1528–98)
403–6, 413
Stevens, Henry (1819–86)
467
Stevenson, Allan H. (1903–70)
80
Stock, Elliot, publisher (1838–1911)
277–9
Stourbridge Fair
127–9
Stuteville, Sir Martin (d.1631)
84–100
subscription publishing
176, 183, 205, 364, 403–4, 410
survival of books
166
Swift, Jonathan (1667–1745)
257
Tabor, Stephen
477, 484
Tanselle, G. Thomas (b.1934)
442–3
Taschereau, Jules (1801–74)
29
Techener, Jacques-Joseph (1802–73)
453
Tenison, Thomas (1636–1715)
193–4, 197
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811–63)
279, 281, 288, 367
Thomason, George (d.1666)
379
Thott, Grev Otto (1703–85)
30, 111
Thrale, Richard, bookseller (fl.1661–7)
135
Tibenham, church
137
Tommaseo, Niccolò (1802–74)
464
Tottenham, George (1844–1910)
364–5
Tresham, Sir Thomas (1543–1605)
88
Tross, Edwin (1822–75)
33
Tschichold, Jan (1902–74)
290
Tupper, George (d.1911)
277
Turner, Dawson (1775–1858)
406–7, 409, 418
type sizes
186
specimens
211–19, 230–1, 260, 280–2
typography and authors
249–70
Tyson, Michael (1740–80)
429–31
Updike, D.B. (1860–1941)
220, 222, 227
Valpy, A.J. (1786–1854)
390, 392, 395, 400–7, 411–14
Valpy, Richard (1754–1836)
401
Van Dijck, Christoffel (1605–69)
211–19
Vanderhaeghen, Ferdinand (1813–1913)
29
Veldener, Johann (fl.1473–86)
11, 12, 22–5, 27, 31, 37
Vergauwen, François (1801–81)
3, 4, 6, 21, 32
Vertue, George (1684–1756)
429–30
Vervier, photographer
4–7
Walbancke, Matthew (fl.1618–67)
275
Walker, Emery (1851–1933)
222, 223, 233
Waller, A.R. (1867–1922)
223–4, 227, 236
Walpole, Horace (1717–97)
427
Walter, Elizabeth
347
Wanley, Humfrey (1672–1726)
361–2, 264, 266, 432
Warburg, Aby (1866–1929)
294–5
Warde, Beatrice (1900–69)
251
Warde, Frederic (1894–1939)
290
watermarks
16
Webb, Sir Henry
70
Webster, Noah (1758–1843)
410, 412, 417–18
Weitenkampf, Frank (1866–1962)
271
Welsh Assembly
72, 74
Welsh books
70
Westfalia, Johannes de (d.1498)
16, 41–3, 320, 456, 458
Wharton, William (1925–2008)
288
White House transcripts
287
Willems, J.-F. (1793–1846)
26
Williams, William, bookbinder
95–100
Wise, T.J. (1859–1937)
272, 286, 290
Wolfreston, Frances (1607–76/7)
353–4
women and their books
339–60
and libraries
369
Woodbridge, Dudley
194
woodcuts, use of
323–4, 326–7
Wordsworth, William (1770–1850)
264–5
Worthington, John (1618–71)
85
Wrangham, Francis (1769–1842)
206
Wright, J.M.F.
370–1
Yonge, James (d.1721)
253
Zainer, Günther (d.1478)
319–20, 323, 523–4
Zell, Ulrich (d.1507)
13–21
Zouch, Arthur (d.1752)
161, 169–207