ne Club, 284 _et seq._
--Scott's song for festivities of, 285.

Barclay, Colonel, a Quaker, anecdote of, 9 _note_.

Bargain hunters and their leanings, 162.

Baskerville, the Birmingham printer, inaccuracy of, 67.

Bede on the Saints, 379.

Bentham, words in one sentence of an Act of Parliament counted by, 144.

Bethune, Rev. Dr, Waltonian Library of, 87 _et seq._

Bible, inaccurate editions of, 67 _et seq._
--old editions comparatively numerous, 218.

Bibliognoste, definition of, 5 _note_.

Bibliographe, definition of, 5 _note_.

Bibliographers, function of, a cruel one, 237 _et seq._
--victimising each other, 242.

Bibliographical Decameron, various quotations from, 93, 294 _et seq._

Bibliographies, 233 _et seq._
--on special subjects, 235
--those devoted to the best books, 239.

Bibliomane, definition of, 5.

Bibliomania a disease, 13.

"Bibliomania," Dibdin's, quotations from, 18
--Ferriar's, quotation from, 86, 87 _note_.

Bibliophile, definition of, 5.

Bibliotaphe, definition of, 5.

_Bibliotheque bleue_, anecdote connected with the, 50.

Bibliuguiancie discussed by Peignot, 220.

"Bill-books" of compositors, 79 _et seq._

Binders, famous, 28.

Bindings, "Inchrule" Brewer's love of, 28
--bindings as relics, 30.

Boccaccio, _editio princeps_ of, 91
--cause of its extreme rarity, 92
--sold at the Roxburghe Library sale, 94 _et seq._

Bodleian Library, origin of, 198.

Bohemian of literature, 108 _et seq._

Bohun, Edmond, a Jacobite and last English licenser, 208.

Bollandus, his great work on the Saints, 355 _et seq._
--the persistent labours of his successors, 356.

Book-caterers, 20 _et seq._

Book-clubs, 243 _et seq._
--their structure, 251
--advantages of, 255 _et seq._
--confining their attention to books of non-members, 257
--the Sydenham Club, 265
--the Roxburghe Club, _ib. et seq._, &c.
--their gradual growth, 266 _et seq._
--Dibdin's description of the origin of the Roxburghe Club, 267
--their secrecy, 271
--the Bannatyne Club, 284 _et seq._
--book-club men, _ib. et seq._
--character of their editors, 307, 315
--value of such clubs to history, 309
--their literature, 311
--Camden Club, _ib._
--Chetham Club, 312
--Surtees Club, _ib._
--Maitland Club, _ib._
--Spalding Club, _ib._
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