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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