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

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by Nicholas Basbanes

Manney, Richard, 240–41, 520–29

  Manney collection, 331, 524–28

  Manutius, Aldus, 44, 80–81, 446

  Marble Faun, The (Faulkner), 294–95, 297, 300

  Marconi, Guglielmi, 437

  Marcus, Stanley, 193

  Mardersteig, Giovanni, 254

  Marion, John, 240, 520–22

  Mark Antony, 68

  Markings (Bridges), 255

  Marlboro Books, 361

  Marmier, Xavier, 10–12

  Marriage of Figaro (Mozart), 437

  Martial, 69, 74

  Martin, H. Bradley, 221, 228, 260, 331

  Martin, Josiah, 131

  Martin collection, 226, 228, 411, 422, 508

  Massachusetts Historical Society, 142–43, 157, 302

  Massachusetts Laws, 147

  Massachusetts Spy, The, 145

  Massey, Stephen, 227, 230–35, 241, 250, 303, 532

  Master of Ballantrae, The (Stevenson), 455

  Mata Hari (Margarethe G. Z. McLeoud), 365

  Mather, Cotton, 128–29

  Mather, Increase, 305

  Mather library, 147

  Matisse, Henri, 348

  Maugham, W. Somerset, 426

  Maximianus, 76

  Maximilian (Emperor of Mexico), 330–31

  Maxwell, James Clerk, 53

  Medicí, Cosimo de’, 75–76, 78

  Meerman, Gerard, 122

  Meerman, Jean, 122

  “Meeting in Valladolid, A” (Burgess), 47

  Meisei University Library, 453

  Mela, Pomponius, 492

  Melville, Herman

  Moby Dick, 39; Typee, 417

  Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy (Pepys), 104

  Memorabilia, Xenophon, 59

  Mendele Mokher Sefarim, 385–86

  Mendele Moykher Sformin, 386

  Mendelssohn, Felix, 437

  Menus, 358

  Meres, Francis, 216

  Mesnae, Jacques, 459

  Metamorphoses (Ovid), 106–7, 124

  Mexico, books from, 170–71

  Michener, James A., 57, 347–50

  Micrographia (Hooke), 459

  Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Mendelssohn), 437

  Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare), 48

  Milles, Thomas, 92

  Milligan, Joseph, 151

  Milne, A. A., 416

  Milton, John, 238

  Areopagitica, 96; Paradise Lost, 57, 177, 220–21, 527

  Milton (Blake), 181

  Minuet in G (Paderewsky), 437

  Moby Dick (Melville), 39

  Moffett, William A., 484–89

  Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 366

  Molloy (Beckett), 318

  Mommsen, Theodor, 37

  Monastery, The (Scott), 113

  Monihan, William J., 452–54

  Monroe, Henry T., 166

  Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, 239

  Monte Cassino, 69–70, 75–76

  Montefeltro, Federico, 78–79

  Montgomery, Lucy Maud, 379

  Moore, George, 53

  Moorland, Jesse E., 395–96

  Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, 396

  Moral Distichs (Cato), 134

  More, Thomas, 70, 452–53

  Morgan, J. P., Jr., 188–89

  Morgan, J. P., Sr., 188

  Morgan, J. Pierpont, 40–41, 116, 167, 176, 180, 183–84, 199, 207

  Morgan, Junius Spencer, 188

  Morhange, Charles Henri Valentin, 37

  Morris, William, 183, 287, 444, 446–52

  Morris & Co., 447

  Morse, Samuel, 437

  Mount, Charles Merrill, 487

  Mount Holyoke College, 390, 393

  “Moving a Library” (Eagle), 275–76

  Moving Pageant, The (Adelman), 18

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 360, 437

  Muir, Percy, 24, 39–40, 53

  Mulholland, John, 419

  Mulholland Library of Conjuring and the Allied Arts, 419–20

  Munby, A. N. L, 110–11, 120–21, 124, 333

  Muniments of Battle Abbey, 207

  Musophilus (Daniel), xvii

  My Life on the Plains, or, Personal Experiences with Indians (Custer), 570n

  Name of the Rose, The (Eco), 51–52

  Narrative of the life of James Allen, alias Burby Grove (Allen), 154

  Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New-England (Hubbard), 147

  Narrowgansett Declaration, 164–65

  Nash, Frederick, 371

  National Gallery of London, 261

  National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser, 150–51

  National Yiddish Book Center, 384, 387–89, 391, 393

  Natural History (Pliny the Elder), 73–74

  Naudé, Gabriel, 29

  Neal, John, 282

  Nebula Award, 492

  Needham, Paul, 273–74

  Neely, Mark E., Jr., 431–32

  Neff, Wallace, 228

  Negro Book Collectors Exchange, 396

  “The Negro Digs Up His Past” (Schomburg), 398

  Negro Makers of History (G. Woodson), 402

  Neleus, 65

  Newberry, Walter Loomis, 168

  Newberry Library, 5, 168, 320, 323–24

  Newbery, John, 378

  Newburgh Address, 143

  Newell, Lynne, 475–76

  Newell, Peter, 532

  New-England Primer, The, 378

  Newman, Joseph and Josalyn, 392

  Newman, Ralph, 428, 431, 532

  New Picture Primer, The, 379

  New Testament, 570n

  Tyndale translation, 563n–64n

  Newton, A. Edward, 185–86

  Newton, Isaac, 5, 104, 130, 459

  Principia Mathematica, 5, 104, 130

  New-York Historical Society, 143, 165

  New York Public Library, 123, 162, 261, 355–57

  New York State Library, 165–66

  New York University, 333–34

  Niccoli, Niccolò de, 75–76

  Nicholas V (Pope), 78

  Nickerson, Don C., 475, 496

  Nijinsky, Vaslav, 239

  Nikirk, Robert L., 238, 316

  Norman, Haskell F., 336, 457–64

  Norman, Jeremy, 457–58, 460, 463

  Northern Voice Toward Dissolution of the Union (Stockton), 404–5

  Nostromo (Conrad), 413

  “Notes on Bibliokleptomania” (Thompson), 34–35

  Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson), 166, 239

  Notices of Public Libraries in the United States of America (Jewett), 156

  Nuremberg Chronicle, 270, 475, 483

  Nyesbaum, Ken, 509

  Oath of a Freeman, The, 304

  Oberlin College Library, 485

  O’Brien, Tim, 280

  Occidental College, 493

  Oceans of Life (Silverstone), 255

  Ochs, Jonas, 510

  Octavo, 81, 151

  Of All Things (Benchley), 55–56

  Oldham, Estelle, 297

  Old South Church, 139–41

  Oliphant, Dave, 329

  Oliver Twist (Dickens), illustrated by Cruikshank, 187

  Olson, Dwaine, 479, 484, 494

  Omar (Caliph), 69–70

  O’More, Haven, 229–62, 463, 521

  Sacrificial Bone Inscriptions, 243, 254–56

  O’More, Lorea, 233–34, 239, 242, 247– 48, 250, 253

  Onassis, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, 32

  “One Hundred Books Famous in the History of Science,” 461

  Opie, Iona and Peter, 381

  Osborne, Edgar, 380

  Osborne, Lucy E., 20

  Osborne, Mabel, 380

  Osborne, Thomas II, 108–10, 131

  Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books, 380–81

  Ovid

  Ibis, 74; Metamorphoses, 106–7, 124

  Oxford University, 98, 384

  Oxler, David, 509
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  Paderewsky, Ignacy, 437

  Palladis Tamia (Meres), 216

  Palmart, Lambert, 33

  Pamphlets, 96–99

  Paradise Lost (Milton), 57, 177, 220–21, 527

  Parchment, 65

  Parker, Matthew, 89

  Parkman, Francis, 155, 160

  Parks, Stephen, 190–91, 293

  Parrish, Maxfield, 379

  Parrish, T. Michael, 488–89

  Parsons, Edward Alexander, 67–68

  Passage to India, A (Forster), 330

  Passe, Crispen van De, 286

  Pasternak, Boris, 311

  Pasteur, Louis, 459

  Pat the Bunny (Kunhardt), 378

  Paulding, James K., 282

  Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich, 53

  Paxtot, Augustino, 33

  Penn, William, 129–30

  Pennsylvania’s Black History (Blockson), 401

  Penrod (Tarkington), 379

  Penrose, Boies, 191–92, 552n

  Pepys, Samuel, 99–100, 102–4

  Pepys Library, 99–107

  Pergamum, rivalry with Alexandria, 64–65, 68

  Perot, H. Ross, 349

  Perry, Marsden J., 197–98, 553n

  Perry library, 196–97, 199

  Petersen, Carl, 295–96, 299–300

  Peterson, William S., 451

  Petrarch (Francesco di Petracco), 71–74, 76, 85

  Pforzheimer, Carl, Jr., 193

  Pforzheimer, Carl H., 210, 219, 367–68

  Pforzheimer, Walter, Jr., 362–68

  Pforzheimer, Walter, Sr., 367–68

  Phelps, William Lyon, 189–91

  Philadelphia Museum, 261

  Phillipps, Thomas, 106, 120–22, 162, 206–7, 273, 333

  Phillipps collection, 122–25, 340–42

  Philobiblion (de Bury), 84–86

  Philobiblon, The (periodical), 118

  Philobiblon Club, 216

  Philoponus, John, 69

  Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, 136

  Phiz

  illustrations for Little Dorrit, 187; illustrations for The Pickwick Papers, 176

  Picasso, Pablo, 348

  Piccus, Jules, 385

  Pickwick Papers, The (Dickens), illustrated by Phiz, 176

  Pierpont Morgan Library, 40–41, 146, 265, 450

  Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan), 267–68

  Pinkerton, Alan, 364

  Pitkin, Timothy, 152

  Plato, 82, 253

  editio princeps, 239

  Pliny (the Elder), 64, 69, 73–74.

  Plutarch, 238

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 211, 337, 423

  Tamerlane and Other Poems, 5, 142, 195, 213, 336–37, 421, 522, 527

  Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Burns), 212

  Poetic Garland, The, 374

  Poitiers, Diane de, 28

  Pollard, Graham, 40, 218–19

  Polock, Moses, 536n

  Pompadour, Madame de, 28

  Pompeius, commentary on Donatus’ Ars maior, 76

  Poole, William F., 155

  Pope, Abbie Ellen Hanscom, 31

  Pope, Alexander, 108–109

  Pornography collection, 306–7

  Portrait books, 289

  Posidonus, 66

  Possession (Byatt), 52

  Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, The (Dickens), 421

  Potter, Beatrix, 532

  Pound, Ezra, 317

  Powell, Lawrence Clark, 411, 453

  Power, Eugene, 107

  Pownall, William, 267

  Prescott, William H., 159

  President’s Commission on Pornography and Obscenity, 307

  Priapeia (Ausonius), 74

  Price, Reynolds, 57

  Prices, 182–83, 198, 533. See also Auctions, record sums spent at

  Prince, Thomas, 138–39, 142

  Prince library, 139–41

  Princeton University, 185

  Principia Mathematica (Newton), 5, 104, 130

  Printed books, public response to, 78–79

  “Printing and the Mind of Man,” 267

  Printing press, invention of, 78

  Pro Archia Poeta (Cicero), 61, 73

  Proofs, 280

  “Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania” (Franklin), 134

  Proust, Marcel, 239, 413

  Prozess gegen die Juden von Trent, 44–46

  Ptolemy, 63, 238

  Almagest, 132–34; Cosmographia, 44

  Ptolemy I Soter (King of Egypt), 63–64

  Ptolemy V Epiphanes (King of Egypt), 65

  Puccini, Giocomo, 437

  Pudd’nhead Wilson (Clemens), 41

  Pushkin, Alexander, 397

  Putnam, George Haven, 71

  Putnam, Samuel, 406

  Pyle, Howard, 379

  Pynson, Richard, 46, 104

  Quaritch, Alfred, 178, 181–82

  Quaritch Ltd., 186, 211, 233, 252, 522

  Quarto, 96

  Queen Mab (P. Shelley), 211, 213

  Queen of Hearts, The (Collins), 532

  Quinn, John, 40

  Quintilian, Marcus Fabius, 69, 73, 77

  Rabbits’ Wedding, The (Williams), 379

  Rainbow, The (Lawrence), 318

  Raleigh, Walter, 92

  Ramírez, José Fernando, 171

  Ramírez collection, 171

  Ransom, Harry Huntt, 312–54

  Rape of Lucrece, The (Shakespeare), 190

  Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship, 418

  Rasselas (Johnson), 30

  Rationale divinorum officiorum (Durandus), 272

  Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 378

  Reade, Linda R., 5, 469, 484, 496, 507, 509, 518

  Recollections of James Lenox (Stevens), 153

  Redden, David, 226, 240, 527

  Redouté, Pierre-Joseph, 489–90

  Reese, William S., 293, 303, 532

  Rees-Moog, William, 320

  Regulus, 69

  Rembrandt van Rijn, 291–92

  Reminiscences of a Literary Life (Dibdin), 113–14

  Renaissance, book collecting in, 71–82

  Rendell, Kenneth, 474, 509

  Renouard, A. A., 25

  Revere, Paul, 143

  Reynard the Fox, 104

  Rhetoric (Cicero), 71

  Rheuban, Carl M., 419

  Rhodes, Kenneth J., 468–74, 479, 485, 494, 516–18

  Ricci, Seymour de, 110, 121, 123

  Rice, John A., 167

  Rice University, 469–70

  Rich, Obadiah, 154, 157–60

  Richard III (Shakespeare), 190

  Ridge, John Rollin, 493, 495

  Rimbaud, Arthur, 350

  Ring and the Book, The (R. Browning), 39

  Rite of Spring (Stravinsky), 437

  Rivers, Larry, 347

  Rizik, Jim, 306

  Robert, Maurice, 275

  Robert Berol Collection, 334

  Roberts, Julian, 49–50

  Roberts, Warren, 315–19, 329–31, 353

  Robeson, Paul, 396

  Robinson Brothers, 123–24, 340–42

  Rockefeller, John D., 198

  Rockwell, Norman, 528

  Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), bad quarto, 190

  Rosenbach, A. S. W., 17–18, 30, 32, 39–40, 45, 123, 141, 182, 186–87, 210–12, 267–68, 413, 536n

  A Book Hunter’s Holiday, 28; and Hogan, 214–21; and Huntington, 194, 196–99, 205–9; and Scheide, 267, 270–72; The Unpublishable Memoirs, 215

  Rosenbach, Philip, 209, 270

  Rosenbach Company, 196, 214–15

  Rosenbach Museum and Library, 39

  Rosenberg, Raymond, 496, 509

  Rosenthal, Robert, 166–68

  Rosenwald, Lessing J., 44–45, 210, 221, 453

  Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 15

  Rossetti, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, 15

  Rota, Anthony, 449

  Roth, Philip, 280

  Roualt, Georges, 349<
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  Roxburghe Club, 114, 119

  Roxburghe collection, 114–16

  Royal Library (Berlin), 122

  Russell, John, 284

  Russia, German books held by, 543n

  Rutherford, Ernest, 459

  Rylands, Enriqueta Augustina Tennant, 125–26

  Rylands, John, 125–26

  Rylands Library, 273

  Sabellico, Marcantonio, 79–80

  Sabin, Joseph, 167

  Sacks, Patricia, 486

  Sacrificial Bone Inscriptions (O’More), 243, 254–56

  Sacy, Silvestre de, 10

  SADEV, 236, 254–56

  Sadleir, Michael, xvi, 24

  Sagan, Carl, 58

  Saint Bonaventure University, 319

  Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 455

  Salinger, J. D., 379

  Salutati, Coluccio, 76

  Samaritan Pentateuch, 91

  Sandburg, Carl, 371, 427, 429

  Sander, Max, 33

  Sandwich, John Montagu, fourth earl of, 362

  Sandys, John Edwin, 71

  Sanudo, Marino, 79

  Saur, Christopher, 305

  Sawyer, Albion T., 249

  Scammon, Jonathan Young, 166

  Schad, Robert O., 205, 207

  Schaefer, Jacob, 392

  Schäfer, Otto, 453

  Schedel, Hartmann, 475

  Scheide, John Hinsdale, 210, 264

  Scheide, John Taylor, 267, 270

  Scheide, William H., 5, 142, 221, 233, 250, 263–74, 453

  Scheide, William Taylor, 264, 269–70

  Scheide Library, 265, 269, 273–74

  Schiller, Justin G., 233, 251–52, 372–74, 376–77, 532

  Schöffer, Peter, 272

  Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 356, 394–404

  Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 394, 398

  Schoonover, David, 359

  Schøyen, Martin, 173–74

  Schratt, Katharina, 359

  Schreiber, Fred, 253–54

  Schwartz, Jacob, 317

  Science fiction collections, 417–18

  Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL), 261

  Scott, Walter,

  biography of Swift, 187; Ivanhoe, 176–77; The Monastery, 113

  Scouting for Boys (Baden-Powell), 53

  Sears, David, 157

  The Secret Garden (Burnett), 378

  Self, Peggy, 422–26

  Self, William, 336–37, 420–26

  Selznick, David O., 340

  Sendak, Maurice, 378–79

  Seneca, 61, 68

  Sense and Sensibility (Austen), 212

  Sentimental Library, The (Smith), 39

  September Testament, translated by Martin Luther, 239, 273

  Septuagint, 64

  Serendipity Books, 279

  Serra, Junípero, 442

  Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The (Lawrence), 318

  Sewter, Charles, 451

  Sforim, Mendele Moykher, 385–86

  Shaffer, Ellen, 455–57

  Shaham, Nathan, 311

  Shakespeare, William, 47–49, 92–93, 238, 240, 413. See also Gwynne volume; Palladis Tamia

  Devonshire quartos, 196–98; First Folio (1623), 48, 50, 166, 183, 217, 260, 521, 527–28; folios, 412, 414; Fourth Folio (1685), 260, 521, 527–28; Hamlet, 197; Julius Caesar, 197; King John, First Part, 197; King John, Second Part, 197; King Richard the Second, 199; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 48; quartos, 190; The Rape of Lucrece, 190; Richard III, 190;

 

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