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by Nicholas Basbanes


  Brinley collection, 165–66, 174

  Bristol Baptist College, 563n

  Britain, history of collecting in, 83–126

  Britannia (Camden), 90

  British Library, 89–90, 108, 123, 181, 199, 211, 273, 450, 563n

  Britwell Court collection, 196, 202

  Broach, Vance Carter, 294–95

  Broadfoot, Thomas, 441

  Broadsheets, 105

  Broden, Kenneth, 479

  Brodsky, Louis Daniel, 292–301

  Brodsky, Saul, 294, 301

  Bromer, Anne and David, 241, 532

  Brontë, Emily, 423

  Brooker, T. Kimball, 293

  Brooks, Diana D., 527

  Brooks, Mary Ellen, 440

  Brown, Annmary, 13

  Brown, Charles Brockden, 282

  Brown, John Carter, 12–13, 160–62

  Brown, John Nicholas, 11–12, 162–63

  Browne, Thomas, 14

  Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 212, 219

  Browning, Robert, 39, 211–12

  Bruni, Leonardo, 76

  Buck, Pearl S., 279

  Bukowski, Charles, 435–36

  Bullough, Geoffrey, 93

  Bunyan, John, 267–68

  Burden, Carter, 276–85, 357

  Burgess, Anthony, 47, 433

  Burne-Jones, Edward, 446, 449

  Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 378

  Burney, Fanny, Evelina, 324

  Burns, Robert, 177, 212, 324

  Burton, John Hill, 9, 16–17, 172, 176, 275

  Burton, Robert, 43

  Burton, William, 92, 486

  Butler Library, 572n

  Byatt, A. S., 52

  Byrd, William II, 129

  Byron, George Gordon, 178

  Cadillac Jack (McMurtry), xvi

  Caesar, Julius, 66–67

  Cahoon, Herb, 339

  Caldecott, Randolph, 378

  California, book collecting in, 410–64

  Callimachus, 63

  Cambridge University, 100

  Camden, William, 90–91

  Canetti, Elias, 51

  Cardenio (Shakespeare), 47

  Carey, Matthew, 305

  Cargill, Jennifer, 470

  Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Library, 349, 367, 423

  Carlota (Empress of Mexico), 330–31

  Carlton Lake Collection, 351–52

  Carlyle, Thomas, 99, 453

  Carnegie, Andrew, 188

  Carnegie Bookstore, 331

  Carnegie Library (Bradford, Pa.), 319

  Carroll, Lewis, 334; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 4, 210–11, 421–23; Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, 416–17

  Carry Nation (Asbury), 406

  Carter, John, 40, 218–19, 264, 316, 321–24

  Carter, Marcia McGhee, 410

  Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo, 28

  Cassiodorus, 70–71

  Castiglione, Baldassare, 325

  Catalogs, 109

  Catalogue of Honour (Milles), 92

  Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger), 379

  Catherine de Médecis, 28

  Catholicon (Balbus), 273–74

  Cato, 76, 134

  Moral Distichs/De Agricultura, 134–76

  Cato Major (Cicero), 134

  Catullus, 76

  Caus, Salomon de, 288–89

  Cavendish, William, 115

  Caxton, William, 5, 31, 104, 106, 124, 177, 184, 186, 413

  Caxtons, 183–84, 195

  Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 351

  Central Intelligence Agency, 362–66

  Cerf, Bennett, 54

  Cervantes, Miguel de, 47–50, 522

  Chalons, Renier, 118–19

  Champneys, Basil, 126

  Chapin, Alfred C., 19

  Chapman, George, translation of Homer, 182, 187

  Chappuis, Charles, 459

  “Charge of the Light Brigade” (Tennyson), 187

  Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor), 458–59

  Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, 400

  Charlesworth, Dr. James H., 487–88

  Charlotte’s Web (White), 378

  Chaucer, Geoffrey, 324, 444–47, 532

  Cheever, John, 406,

  The Uncollected Stories of John Cheever, 281

  Chef ’s Secret Cookbook, The (Szathmary), 357

  Chernofsky, Jacob L., 369–70

  Chesterfield, fourth Earl of, 26–27, 325

  Chesterton, G. K., 328

  Chew, Beverly, 175, 195, 207

  Cheyney State University, 395

  Children of the Sea, The (Conrad), 413

  Children’s books, 368–82

  Child’s Garden of Verses, A (Stevenson), 455

  Chocolate War, The (Cormier), 379

  Christianity, and bibliomania, 74

  Christie’s, 30, 226–31, 234, 330

  Christina (Queen of Sweden), 29

  Christmas Carol, A (Dickens), 176–77, 421

  Chronological History of New England in the Form of Annals, A (Prince), 138–39

  Chrysoloras, Manuel, 76–77

  Church, E. Dwight, 175

  Churchill, Winston S., 42–43

  Church Library, 175, 179, 182, 194

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 61–62, 66, 73, 238

  Cato Major, 134; De Oratore, 19; Letters to Atticus, 73; Pro Archia Poeta, 61, 73; Rhetoric, 71

  Cigarette papers, 356

  Cim, Albert, 36

  Clap, Thomas, 128

  Claremont Colleges, 473, 493, 513

  Clark, William Andrews, 198, 210, 415

  Clawson Collection, 208–9

  Clemens, Samuel, 41, 371, 427 Huckleberry Finn, 527; Pudd’nhead Wilson, 41

  Clements, William L., 19

  Cleopatra (Queen of Egypt), 62–63

  Cleriadus et Melladice, 182

  Clifford, Henry H., 493–95

  Clifton Waller Barrett Library, 282

  Clinton, De Witt, 528

  Cobb, Thomas R. R., 440

  Cochran, Alexander Smith, 189–90

  Cochrane, Eric, 38

  Cocks, Fraser, 474

  Cocteau, Jean, 328

  Codex, definition of, 73

  Codex Hammer, 227–28; see da Vinci, Leonardo

  Cogswell, Joseph Green, 159

  Cohn, Marguerite, 283, 294

  Cole, George Watson, 164, 199, 201–2

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 43

  CD-ROMs, 262

  Collected Books: The Guide to Values (Ahearn and Ahearn), 55

  Collecting, 225–26

  authors and, 52–55; awards for, 292–93, 452–54; reason for, 451, 457

  Collectors

  characteristics of, 16–18; death of, and fate of books, 9–16, 38–39; women as, 28–31

  Collins, Wilkie, 426, 532

  Collyer, Homer Lusk, 408–9

  Collyer, Langley, 408–9

  Colonna, Francesco, 44

  Colophon, 268, 273

  Colorado College, 466, 512

  Columbia University, 572n

  Columbus Letter, 161–62

  Commins, Dorothy B., 297

  Commins, Saxe, 297

  Committee to Implement the Articles of Confederation report, 437

  Compleat Angler, The (Walton), 43

  Condell, Henry, 50

  Confederate imprint collection, 155

  Confederate Imprints (Willingham and Parrish), 488–89

  Confederate States of America

  permanent constitution of, 441; provisional constitution of, 440–41

  Confession Amantis (Gower), 186

  Confession of Faith, The, 475–76

  Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist (Lake), 351

  Connecticut State Library, 466, 475, 512

  Connally, John B., 341–42, 345–46

  Connolly, Cyril, 319–320, 492

  Conrad, Joseph, 40, 413, 426

  Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius), 70

  Constitution, New York’s rati
fication of, 437

  Constitution of French monarchy, 437

  Contemporary material, collection of, 40–42

  Coolidge, Archibald Cary, 187–89

  Cooper, James Fenimore, 378

  Copernicus, Nicolaus, 230, 238, 249, 261, 461–63

  Copperfield, David, 419

  Cormier, Robert, 379

  Cornell, Ray, 518–19

  Cosmographia (Ptolemy), 44

  Cosmographia Siue De Situ Orbis (Mela), 492

  Cotton, Robert Bruce, 89–96, 121

  Cotton Genesis, 95

  Cottonian Library, 89–90, 94–95

  Coverly, Nathaniel, 147

  Cowley, Malcolm, 298–99

  Cox, Palmer, 380

  Crawford, James W., 141

  Creighton University, 570n

  Crerar, John, 169

  Crocker, Templeton, 445–46

  “Crooked and Angular Appearance of Lightning, The” (Logan), 132

  Crops and Metal (Shaham), 311

  Crowninshield, Edward A., 140

  Crozet, M. F. M., 119

  Cruikshank, George, illustrations for Oliver Twist, 187

  cummings, e. e., 328

  Cummings, Hilary, 477

  Cummins, James, 241, 532

  Cup of Gold (Steinbeck), 426

  Curie, Marie, 53, 459

  Currer, Richardson, 113

  Custer, George Armstrong, 570n

  Cuthbert, St., 16

  Cutler, Manasseh, 136

  Cynthia (Barnfield), 206

  Dahlgren, John, 490

  Daniel, Samuel, xvi

  Dante, 4, 70, 239, 407

  Dark Ages, 69–72

  Darley, Felix O. C., 379

  d’Arnouville, A. Choppin, 11–12

  Dartmouth College, 466

  Darwin, Charles, 53, 459–60

  Das Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools) (Brant), 46–47

  Daum, Raymond S., 347

  David Copperfield (Dickens), 423–24

  da Vinci, Leonardo, 227

  seventy-two-page notebook, 227–28

  Davis, John, 135

  Davis, Leonard, 245, 250, 259

  Davis, Michael, 234–43, 257–60

  Dawson, Ernest, 415, 455

  Dawson, Glen, 415, 474–76, 481, 492, 509

  Dawson, Muir, 415

  Dawson’s Book Shop, 415–17

  Daye, Stephen, 128, 164

  Dead Sea Scrolls, 487–88

  De Agricultura (Cato), 76

  De Antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae (Parker), 89

  Dearle, Duncan, 449

  de Bry, Theodor, 166

  de Bury, Richard, 83–87

  Decameron (Boccaccio). See English

  Boccaccio; Valdarfer Boccaccio

  De Civitate Dei (St. Augustine), 180

  Declaration of Former Passages and Proceedings betwixt the English and the Narrowgansetts, A, 164–65

  Declaration of Independence, 143

  Dee, John, 81, 91–93

  DeFontaine, Felix G., 441

  De Humani corporis fabrica (Vesalius), 458–59

  Delepierre, Octave, 119

  Delighting All Who Pay: An Essay on Haven O’More’s “Sacrificial Bone Inscriptions” (Waxman), 254–55

  Demerast, Myrtle Rainey, 296–97

  Demetrios Phalereus, 63–64

  Demosthenes, 64

  De Oratore (Cicero), 19

  Depression, collecting during, 213, 215–16, 221–22

  DeRenne, Mrs. George W. J., 441

  De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (Copernicus), 230, 249, 261, 461–63

  Descartes, René, 29

  Deseret Alphabet, 407

  d’Estrées, Gabrielle, 28

  Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, 273

  Devereaux, Robert, Earl of Essex, 356

  De Veritate (Thomas Aquinas), 270

  Devil of Pei-ling, The (Asbury), 406

  Devonshire, Duke of, 115–16

  Devonshire Shakespeare quartos, 197–98

  D’Ewes, Simonds, 94, 108

  Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 25, 94, 114, 120

  Reminiscences of a Literary Life, 113–14

  Dickens, Charles, 39, 362, 378, 414, 420 Bleak House, 421; A Christmas Carol, 176–77, 421; David Copperfield, 423–24; The Ghost’s Bargain, 527; The Haunted Man, 527; The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, 421; presentation copies, 421, 423–24; A Tale of Two Cities, 421

  Die Blendung (Auto-da-fé) (Canetti), 51

  Diodorus Siculus, 58, 65

  Diophantus, 63

  Disraeli, Benjamin, 121–22

  Divine Comedy, The, (Dante), 4

  Dobie, J. Frank, 346

  Dr. Seuss, 378

  Dodd, Ada S., 213

  Dodgson, Charles. See Carroll, Lewis

  Doheny, Edward, 214, 216, 228

  Doheny, Carrie, 29–30, 215, 217–18, 221, 228, 260, 415, 456

  Doheny collection, 218, 228, 411, 431, 508

  Dolphin Realty Trust, 244, 249

  Donne, John, 453

  Don Quixote (Cervantes), 47–50, 522

  Dorsey, William, 394–95

  Dos Kleyne Mentschele (The Little Man) (Mendele Mokher Sefarim), 385

  Doubly Gifted (Hjerter), 328

  Douglas, Norman, 406

  Doves Bindery, 447

  Doyle, Arthur Conan, 527

  Dracula (Stoker), 527

  Drake, Samuel Gardner, 163

  Druyan, Ann, 58

  Dubnow, Simon, 391

  Duda, Gary Zippidy, 489

  Dufief, Nicholas Gouin, 137

  Duke University, 466, 509–11

  Dulles, Allen, 365–66

  Dulles, John Foster, 346

  Dunciad, The (Pope), 109

  Dunham, Katherine, 406

  Dunlap, Ellen, 335, 347

  Duodecimo, 119

  Durandus, Guillielmus, 272

  Dürer, Albrecht, 47, 475

  Duschenes, Philip C., 356

  Dutch Vespucius, 162

  Each in Its Ordered Place: A Faulkner Collector’s Notebook (Petersen), 295

  Eagle, Solomon, 275–76

  Eames, Wilberforce, 140, 207

  Eames collection, 207

  Eaton, J. Lloyd, 418

  Eccles, David, 32

  Eccles, Mary Hyde, 31–32, 221, 453

  Eco, Umberto, 51–52

  Edel, Leon, 282

  Edgar Allan Poe Award, 492

  Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library, 228

  Einstein, Albert, 53

  Eiseley, Loren, 406

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 362

  Elementae Geometriae (Euclid), 270

  Eliot, George, 30, 414

  Eliot, John, 128–29

  Eliot, T. S., 317

  Eliot Indian Bible, 19, 128–29, 146, 163, 303, 305, 412, 414, 527

  Elizabethan Club, 190–91

  Ellesmere Chaucer, 195

  Ellis, Ralph N., 20–21

  Ellison, Ralph, 406

  Elzevier, 105–6, 177

  Emancipation Proclamation, 431, 437

  “Emperor” Concerto (Beethoven), 437

  Emperor system, 90

  Enders, Clifford, 348–49

  Enemies of Books, The (Blades), 101, 118

  English Boccaccio, 185

  Enquiry Into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, An (Carter and Pollard), 218–19

  Ephemera, 146

  Ephemerides (Argoli), 132

  Epstein, Raymond, 532–33

  Epstein collection, 285, 531–33

  Erasmus, Desiderius, 81, 87, 238

  Eratosthenes, 63, 275

  Erdrich, Louise, 281

  Erwin, Frank C., Jr., 343–46

  “Escape from Slavery: The Underground Railroad” (Blockson), 401

  Esdaile, Arundell, 88

  Essayes (Bacon), 186, 190, 527

  Etruscan Places (Lawrence), 330

  Euclid, 63, 238, 270

  Eumenes II (King of Pergamum), 65

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nbsp; Eumenes (King of Pergamum), 64

  Evelina (Burney), 324

  Evelyn, John, 103, 106

  Everett, Edward, 159

  Example of Virtue, The (Hawes), 104

  Experimenta Et Meletemata de Plantarum Generatione (Logan), 132

  Fables (Aesop), 123

  Fabrica. See De Humani corporis fabrica

  Fabricius, Johann Albrecht, 132–33

  Faerie Queene (Spenser), 216

  Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), 51

  Fales, DeCoursey, 332–34

  Fales Library, 333–34

  Falkner, W. C., 294

  Farewell to Arms, A (Hemingway), 292–93

  Farnham, Luther, 155–56

  Farrand, Max, 203

  “Father Abraham” (Faulkner), 355–56

  Faulkner: A Biography (Blotner), 296

  Faulkner, William, 54, 279, 292–97, 309, 330, 412

  A Fable, 297; “Father Abraham,” 355–56; Go Down, Moses, 294; The Marble Faun, 294–95, 297, 300; The Sound and the Fury, 293, 298–99; The Wishing Tree, 297–98

  FBI Omaha Book List, 492

  Federalist, Washington’s copy of, 155, 331

  Federal Writers Project guidebooks, 404–6

  Feldman, Lew David, 106–7, 124, 230, 329–39, 424–25, 463

  Fenno, John, 154

  Fenwick, Thomas FitzRoy, 122

  Ferber, Edna, 2

  Ferdinand V (King of Castile), 443

  Ferriar, John, 25–26, 110

  Field, Eugene, 14, 28, 444

  Fielding, Henry, 536n

  Fields, Annie Adams, 41–42

  Fields, James T., 41

  Fine Arts 5e, 191–93

  Firestone Library, 265

  Firmin-Diderot, A., 182

  First Edition Club, 52

  First editions

  contemporary, 433; modern, 309

  First Folio. See Shakespeare, William, First Folio (1623)

  Fisher, John, Cardinal, 88

  Fishman, Joshua A., 388

  Fisk University, 398

  Fitzpatrick, Thomas Jefferson, 20–21

  Flamsteed, John, 132

  Flaubert, Gustave, 34

  Fleming, Ian, 53–54

  Fleming, John, 230, 232–33, 320–23, 337, 425, 462

  Flores, Jaime, 327–28

  Folger, Emily Jordan, 197, 285, 424

  Folger, Henry Clay, 14, 184–85, 197–99, 206, 208, 285, 424

  Folger Shakespeare Library, 4, 146, 285

  Folio, 151

  Folter, Mary Ann, 124–25

  Folter, Roland, 274

  Forbes, John W., 528

  Forbes, Malcolm, 438–40

  Force, Peter, 159

  Ford, Worthington C., 147

  Forster, E. M., 52

  Howards End, 52; A Passage to India, 330

  Fortsas, Count, 116–19

  Fowles, John, 433

  Foxe, John, Book of Martyrs, 265

  Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (M. Shelley), 533

  Frankenthaler, Helen, 347

  Franklin, Benjamin, 129, 132, 134, 136, 145

  Autobiography, 4, 136–37, 179; obituary for Logan, 135; “Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania,” 134

 

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