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A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books

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by Nicholas Basbanes


  Thompson, James Westfall. Ancient Libraries. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1940.

  ——— . Byways in Bookland. Berkeley: Book Arts Club of California, 1935.

  ——— . The Medieval Library. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1939.

  Thompson, Lawrence S. Bibliologia Comica, or Humorous Aspects of the Caparisoning and Conservation of Books. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1968.

  Thorpe, James. Gifts of Genius: Treasures of the Huntington Library. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1980.

  ——— . Henry Edwards Huntington: A Biography. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1994.

  Tite, Colin G. C. “Early Catalogues of the Cottonian Library.” The British Library Journal (Autumn 1980): 144–57.

  Tolles, Frederick B. James Logan and the Culture of Provincial America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1957.

  Towner, Wesley. The Elegant Auctioneers. New York: Hill & Wang, 1970. Completed by Stephen Varble.

  Tryon, W. S. Parnassus Corner: A Life of James T. Fields, Publisher to the Victorians. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963.

  Turner, Decherd. HRC Notes. A series of newsletters written by the former director of the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin, from 1981 to 1988. Available at Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.

  Updike, John. Bech Is Back. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.

  Uzanne, Octave. The Book-Hunter in Paris: Studies Among the Bookstalls and the Quays. Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1893.

  Vision of a Collector: The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1991. Introduction by James H. Billington.

  Vosper, Robert. “A Pair of Bibliomanes for Kansas: Ralph Ellis and Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 55 (3rd quarter, 1961), 207–25.

  Walden, Milton. Americana: The Literature of American History. New York: Henry Holt, 1925.

  Watts, N. H. Cicero: The Speeches with an English Translation. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press/William Heinemann Ltd., 1961.

  Webber, Winslow L. Books About Books: A Bio-Bibliography for Collectors. Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1937.

  Weiner, Norman D., M.D. “On Bibliomania.” The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 35 (1966), 217–32.

  Weinstein, Louis. “Heritage Book Shop: The First Year.” The Professional Rare Bookman, Journal of the Antiquarian Booksellers of America, no. 4 (1982): 29–33.

  Weitzmann, Kurt, and Herbert L. Kessler. The Cotton Genesis: British Library Codex Cotton OTHO B. VI. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.

  Wendorf, Richard, ed. “Rare Book and Manuscript Libraries in the Twenty-First Century: An International Symposium,” parts 1 and 2. Harvard Library Bulletin 4 (new series), nos. 1 and 2 (Summer 1993).

  West, Andrew Fleming, ed. The “Philobiblon” of Richard de Bury. 3 vols. New York: Grolier Club, 1889. With an introduction, notes, original Latin text, and printing history.

  West, Herbert Faulkner. Modern Book Collecting for the Impecunious Amateur. Boston: Little, Brown, 1936.

  Whitehill, Walter Muir. Boston Public Library: A Centennial History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1956.

  ——— . Independent Historical Societies. Boston: Boston Athenæum, 1962.

  Widener, Harry E. A Catalogue of Some of the More Important Books, Manuscripts and Drawings in the Library of Harry Elkins Widener. Philadelphia: Privately printed, 1910.

  Wilhide, Elizabeth. William Morris: Decor and Design. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991.

  Williams, Alexander Whiteside. Social History of the Club of Odd Volumes, 1887–1967. Boston: Club of Odd Volumes, 1969.

  Willson, Beckles. George III as Man, Monarch and Statesman. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, 1907.

  Wilson, Robert A. Modern Book Collecting: A Guide for the Beginner Who Is Buying First Editions for the First Time. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.

  Winks, Robin W., ed. The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.

  Winterich, John T. Early American Books and Printing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1935.

  Wolf, Edwin, 2nd. The Library of James Logan of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1974.

  ———, ed. Legacies of Genius: A Celebration of Philadelphia Libraries. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, 1988.

  Wolf, Edwin, 2nd, and John Fleming. Rosenbach: A Biography. Cleveland and New York: World Publishing, 1960.

  Wolf, Edwin, 2nd, and Marie Elena Korey. Quarter of a Millennium: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1731–1981. Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1981.

  Wright, C. E., and Ruth C. Wright. Diary of Humfrey Wanley, 1715–1726. 2 vols. London: Bibliographical Society, 1966.

  Wright, Rev. John. Early Bibles of America. New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1892.

  Wroth, Lawrence C. “The Chief End of Book Madness.” The Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions 3 (October 1945): 69–77.

  ——— . The Colonial Printer. New York: Grolier Club, 1931.

  Wynne, James. Private Libraries of New York. New York: E. French, 1860.

  Wynne, Marjorie G. The Rare Book Collections at Yale: Recollections, 1942– 1987. The Third Sol. M. Malkin Lecture in Bibliography at the Columbia University School of Library Service, 14 December 1987. New York: Columbia University, 1988.

  Xenophon. “Socrates and Euthydemus.” In The Works of Xenophon, translated by H. G. Dakyns, vol. 3, part 1, 134–36. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1897.

  Yates, Frances A. The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age. London, Boston, and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979.

  The Zamorano 80: Collector’s Books About California. Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 1986. Being “an Annotated Check List Occasioned by the Exhibition of Famous and Notorious California Classics” at the Huntington Library.

  Zeitlin, Jake. Book Stalking at Home and Abroad. Dallas: DeGoyler Library, Southern Methodist University, 1987.

  Zempel, Edward N., and Linda A. Verkler. First Editions: A Guide to Identification. 2nd. ed. Peoria: Spoon River Press, 1984.

  Zinsser, William K. Search and Research: The Collections and Uses of the New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. New York: New York Public Library, 1961.

  Index

  Abbey, Edwin, 379

  Abel, Rudolph, 362–63

  Ackerman, Forrest J., 417–18

  Adam, Robert B., 31

  Adam, Robert B. II, 31

  Adams, John, 140

  Adams, John Quincy, 379

  Adams, Randolph G., 151–52, 163

  Adams, Thomas, 193

  Adams Family Papers, 144

  Adanson, Michel, 459

  Addison, Joseph, 106

  Adelman, Seymour, 18, 221

  Adrian Van Sinderen Award, 293

  Aeneid (Virgil), 71

  Aesop, 123

  African Heroes and Heroines (Woodson), 402

  Agee, James, 284

  Ahearn, Allen and Patricia, 55

  Aiken, Conrad, 406

  Aiken, W. Dennis, 465, 467, 481

  Aitken, Robert, 305

  Albright College, 319

  Aldine Press, 80–81, 177, 183, 273, 446

  Aldridge, Ira, 397

  Alexander the Great, 63, 65

  Alexandria, 62–65, 68–70, 95

  fire at, 66–68

  Algren, Nelson, 359, 406

  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 4, 210–11, 421–23

  Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (Carroll), 416–17

  Alkan, 37

  Allen, Ethan, 441–42

  Allen, James, 154

  Allen, Susan M., 474–75

  Allmers, Robert, 363

  Almagest (Ptolemy), 132–34

  Althorp Library, 125

  America, book collecting in, 127–72

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nbsp; American Antiquarian Society, 104,146–48, 165, 200, 290, 302

  American Archives (Force), 159

  American Negro as a Dependant, Defective and Delinquent, The (McCord), 395

  American Negro Historical Society, 395

  American Philosophical Society, 136

  Amherst College, 390

  Amru (Amribn-al-As), 69

  Anatomy of Melancholy, The (Burton), 43

  Ancient world

  book collecting in, 59–69

  libraries in, 541n

  Andersen, Hans Christian, 421

  Anderson Auction Company, 179–80

  Anderson Galleries, 208, 211–12, 267

  Andre, John, 365

  Annals (Tacitus), 75–76

  Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery), 379

  Annmary Brown Memorial Library, 13

  Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham-Hyacinthe 36

  Anthropology Society, 157. See also Boston Athenæum

  Antiquarian fairs, 225 241, 410

  Apellicontes of Teos, 65–66

  Aperture Foundation, 236, 254, 258

  Applegate, Shannon, 476–78

  Applegate, Victor, 378

  Arabella and Araminta Stories, The (Smith), 533

  Arader, W. Graham III, 293, 489

  Aratea (Germanicus), 76

  Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, 347–48

  Archimedes, 63

  Arents, George, Jr., 356

  Arents Collection, 355–57

  Areopagitica (Milton), 96

  Argoli, Andrea, 132

  Aristea, 64

  Aristophanes, 59–60

  Aristophanes of Byzantium, 65

  Aristotle, 65–66, 82, 253, 273

  Arnold, Benedict, 365

  Arsenal Square controversy, 249–50

  Asay, Edward G., 167

  Asbury, Herbert, 406

  Ashburnam, Bertram, 35

  Ashley Library, 40

  Association material, 39

  Astor, William B., 168

  Astor Library, 168

  Astronomia nova (Kepler), 461

  Aubrey, John, 91

  Auction Madness (Hamilton), 337–38

  Auctions, 105, 173–74. See also

  Christie’s Sotheby’s; Swann Galleries

  Barrett collection, 428; Brinley

  collection, 165–66, 174; Britwell Court collection, 202; Church collection, 175; Clawson collection, 208–9; Codex Hammer, 227–28; Doheny collection, 218, 226–28, 411, 431, 508; Epstein collection, 285, 531–33; Fortsas collection, 116–19; Franklin collection, 137; Furman collection, 163; Garden Ltd. collection, 49 226, 228–29, 238–41, 463, 508; Hoe collection, 173–76, 178–80, 186, 194–96, 331; Hogan collection, 221; Horblit collection, 461–62; Houghton collection, 229; Huntington surplusage, 142; Huth collection, 185, 196, 209, 270; Jones collection, 271; Kern collection, 211–12; Manney antique collection, 528; Manney collection, 331, 412, 414, 524–28; Martin collection, 226, 228, 411, 422, 508; Mulholland sale, 419; Ramirez collection, 171; record sum spent at, 178–79, 181, 225, 228 Roxburghe collection, 114–16; Silver collection, 324–26; Squier collection, 171; Stockhausen collection, 336–37; Suzannet collection, 424

  Auden, W. H, 279

  Audubon, John James, 4–5, 152, 229

  Auerbach, Bart, 226, 227, 332, 334–35,338–39, 439–40, 509, 524, 532

  Augustine, St., 180

  Augustine of Canterbury, St., 87

  Ausonius, 74

  Ausonius, Decius Magnus, 60–61

  Austen, Jane, 212, 414

  Autobiography (Franklin), 4, 136, 179

  Awards for book collecting

  Adrian Van Sinderen Award, 293

  Sir Thomas More Medal, 452–54

  Babel, Isaac, 311

  Bach, Johann Sebastian, 272

  Bacon, Francis, 153

  The History of Henry VII, 92

  Bade, Anthony, 212

  Baden-Powell, Robert, 53

  Baer, Ludwig, 178

  Baker, Zachary M., 389

  Balbus, Johannes, 273–74

  Baldwin, Ruth, 368–75, 380

  Baldwin, Thomas Whitfield, 369, 371, 373

  Baldwin Library, 368–75

  Bale, John, 88–89

  Ball, Elisabeth W., 380

  Bancroft, George, 159

  Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 169–72, 395

  Bancroft Library, 172, 453

  Barbary Coast, The (Asbury), 406

  Barclay, Alexander, 46

  Barker, Margery, 422

  Barker, Nicolas, 5, 250–51, 267, 317, 411, 46n

  Barnes Foundation, 261

  Barnfield, Richard, Cynthia, 206

  Barrett, Clifton Waller, 18, 221, 282, 453

  Barrett, Oliver R., 427–29

  Barrett collection, 428

  Baskerville, John, 548n

  Baskin, Hosea, 286

  Baskin, Leonard, 285–92

  Baskin, Lisa, 285–92

  “Battle of Marathon, The” (E. Browning), 212

  Baudelaire, Charles, 350

  Baum, L. Frank, The Wizard of Oz, 378,381, 532

  Bay Psalm Book, 5, 128, 140–42, 147, 162, 164, 166, 179

  Bean, Robert, “Some Racial Peculiarities of the Negro Brain,” 395

  Bech Is Back (Updike), 54–55

  Beckett, Samuel, 317–18, 433, 435

  Beckett’s Bums (Beckett), 318

  Beckwith, Robert Todd Lincoln, 430

  Bédoyère, Henri de la, 36

  Beebe, Lucius, 193

  Beethoven, Ludwig van, 30, 272, 437

  Beet Queen, The (Erdrich), 281

  Beinecke, Edwin, 376–77

  Beinecke, Frederick, 377

  Beinecke Library, 376–82, 493

  Bélin, Théophile, 178, 182

  Belknap, Jeremy, 139, 142–14

  Belknap, Joseph, 144

  Bell, Alexander Graham, 53, 437

  Bellow, Saul, 406

  Belter, John Henry, 526

  Bemelmans, Ludwig, 361, 378–79

  Benchley, Robert, 55–56

  Benedict, Saint, 69–71

  Benedictine Order, 70–71, 87

  Benjamin, Walter, 17

  Bennett, Richard, 183

  Bentinck-Smith, William, 188

  Benton, Thomas Hart, 347

  Benvenuto, 76

  Beowulf, 89–90

  Beresford, James, 26

  Berg, Albert A., 214

  Berger, Sanford L., 444–52

  Berger, Sidney E., 418

  Bergstrom, Howard, 479, 484, 514

  Berkeley, George, 128

  Bessels, Emil, 36

  Bettmann Archive, 261

  Bible, 177, 360. See also Bay Psalm Book; Bishop’s Bible; Book of Job; Cotton Genesis; Eliot Indian Bible; Gospel of Matthew; Gutenberg Bible; Lindisfarne Gospels; New Testament; September Testament; Septuagint; Stonyhurst Gospel

  American, 305; Ashburnham, 176; Complutensian Polyglot, 265; Douay, 305; Doves, 324; Great, of Mainz, 44; Hebrew, 177; Icelandic, 271; Jensen, 218; King James, 527; 1643 English, 413

  Bibliographical Decameron (Dibdin), 114

  Bibliographical Guide to American Literature (Trübner), 158

  Bibliomania, 27–28 as court defense, 480; novels on, 51–52; origin of term, 25–27

  Bibliomaniac, definition of, 9, 27–28

  Bibliomania (Dibdin), 110

  “Bibliomania” (Ferriar), 110

  “Bibliomania” (Flaubert), 34

  Bibliophile, definition of, 9

  Bibliotheca Alessandrina, 29

  Bibliotheca Parsoniana, 67

  Bibliothèque Nationale, 142, 273

  Bierstadt, O. A., 174

  Bigelow, John, 179

  Bigger, Mary Beth, 339–40

  Bill of Rights, 439, 443

  Bird, Robert Montgomery, 282

  Birds of America (Audubon), 4–5, 152, 228

  Bishop’s Bible, 470

  Bisticci, Vespasiano dè, 78

  Bixby,
William K., 185

  Black Genealogy (Blockson), 401

  Blades, William, 101, 118

  Blake, William, 196, 233, 328, 413 illustrations for Book of Job, 176, 183; Milton, 181; Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, 44, 187, 251–52

  Blandford, Marquis of, 115–16

  Bleak House (Dickens), 421

  Blegen, Theodore C., 17

  Blickling Homilies, 267

  Blind stamping, 447

  Bliss, Leslie E., 205, 209

  Blockson, Charles L., 398–404

  Bloomer, H. R., 455

  Blotner, Joseph, 54, 296

  Blumberg, Henry, 497, 499–502, 504–5, 517

  Blumberg, Stephen Carrie, 1–3, 5, 465–519, 570n–71n

  Blumberg collection, 465–519, 570n

  Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 459

  Blumenthal, Florence, 356

  Blumenthal, Walter Hart, 407

  Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 397

  Board, Fred J., 404–9

  Boccaccio, Giovanni, 74–76. See also English Boccaccio; Valdarfer Boccaccio

  Bodleian Library, 49–50, 381

  Boethius, 70–71, 238

  Bohatta, Hanns, 9

  Bonaparte, Napoleon, 362

  Book Collector, The, 53, 186, 324–25

  Booked Up, 410

  Book Hunter’s Holiday, A (Rosenbach), 28

  Bookmen’s Bedlam (Blumenthal), 407

  Book of Common Prayer, 273

  Book of Job, illustrated by Blake, 176, 183

  Book of Martyrs (Foxe), 265

  Book of Saint Albans, The, 113, 180, 183

  Book of the Dead, The, 240

  Book of the General Lawess and Libertyes Concerning the Inhabitants of the Massachusetts, The, 179

  Book Peddler, The, 393

  Books

  borrowers of, 43; curses on thieves of, 35; murder for, 33–34; theft of, 1–3, 5, 34–36; victims of, 36–37

  Booth, John Wilkes, 427–28, 431

  Bordas-Demoulins, Jean Baptiste, 36–37

  Boston Antiquarian Book Fair, 241

  Boston Athenæum, 154–57

  Boston Public Library, 5, 141

  Boswell, James, Life of Samuel Johnson, 417

  Boyd, Julian P., 172, 269

  Boyle, Elizabeth, 216

  Bracciolini, Poggio, 77–78

  Bradbury, Ray, 51

  Bradford, William, 139

  Bragg, Mabel C., 378

  Brant, Sebastian, 46–47

  Breslauer, Bernard, 231

  Bridges, Marilyn, 255

  Bridgewater House library, 195

  Brigham, Clarence S., 197–98, 200–5

  Brinley, Charles A., 164, 166

  Brinley, George, 141, 163–166, 260, 263, 302–3, 306, 491–92

 

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