Oak Chest, 44. 
 OEcophora pseudospretella, 79. 
 Offer Collection of Bunyans, 14. 
 On, Priests of, 69. 
 Overall (Mr.), Librarian at Guildhall, 16. 
 Ovid, Metamorphoses by Caxton, 10. 
 Oxenforde, Lyf of therle, 10.

 Paper improperly bleached, 25. 
 Papyrus, 68. 
 Paradise Lost, 142. 
 Parchment, slips of, in old books, 112. 
 Parish Registers, carelessness, 62. 
 Parnell’s Ode, 70. 
 Patent Office, destruction of literature at, 65. 
 Paternoster Row, io. 
 Paul, St., 6. 
 Pedlar buying old books, 54, 55. 
 Peignot and hookworms, 79. 
 Pepys (Samuel), his library, 128. 
 Petit (Pierre), poem on bookworm, 70. 
 Philadelphia, wormhole at, 92. 
 Phillipps (Sir Thos.), 129. 
 Pieces of silver or denarii, 5. 
 Pinelli (Maffei), library of, 18. 
 Plantin Museum, 122.
 policemen in Ephesus, 7. 
 Portrait collectors, 127. 
 Priestley (Dr.), library burnt, 11, 12. 
 Printers, the first, 13. 
 Printers’ marks, collection of, 119.
 —­ ink and bookworms, 80. 
 Probrue (Mr.), 120. 
 Ptolemies, the Egyptian, 3. 
 Puttick and Simpson, 15. 
 Pynson’s Fall of Princes, 61.

 Queen Elizabeth’s prayer-book, 98. 
 Quaint titles, collections of, 121. 
 Quadrangle of an old College described) 41.

Rain an enemy to books, 21.  Rats eat books, 97.  Recollet monks of Antwerp, 57. -Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, 130.  Reformation, destruction of books at, 9.  Restoration of burnt books, 11.  Richard of Bury, 47.  Ringwalt’s Encyclopaedia, 92.  Rivets on books, 135.  Rood and Hunte, 53.  Rot caused by rain, 21.  Royal Society, London, 71.  Rubens’ engraved titles in Plantin Museum, 122.
 —­ autograph receipts, 122. 
Ruins of fire at Sotheby and Wilkinson’s, 14.  Rye (W.  B.), 61, 83.  St. Albans, Boke of, 54.  St. Martin’s-le-Grand, French church, 53.  St. Paul’s Cathedral, books burnt in vaults of, 10.  Sale catalogues, extracts from, 119.  Schoeffer (P.), 123.  Schonsperger (Hans), 125.  Schoolmaster and endowed library, 129.  Scorched book at British Museum, 11.  Scrolls of magic, 6.  Serpent worship, 5.  Servants and children as enemies of books, 131-144.  Shakesperian discoveries, 58.  “Shavings” of binders, 31.  Sheldon (Archbishop), portrait by Logan, 126.  Sib’s Bowels opened, 121.  Smith (Mr.), Brighton bookseller, 64.  Sotheby and Wilkinson, 125.
 —­ fire at their rooms, 14. 
Spring clean, horrors of, 133.  Stark (Mr.), bookseller, 55-58.  Stealing a Caxton, 54.  Steam press, 40.  Strasbourg, siege of, 13.  Sun-light of gas, 29, 32.  Sun worship, 5.  Sylvester’s Laws of Verse, 71.

 Taylor, the water-poet, 121. 
 Teylerian Museum, Haarlem, 128. 
 Theurdanck, prints in, 125. 
 Thonock Hall, library Of, 56. 
 Timmins (Mr.), 50. 
 Title-pages, collections sold, 122.
  —­ volumes of, 118. 
 Title-pages, old Dutch, 120. 
 Tomicus Typographus, iox.