lackmore, Richard Doddridge, tribute to Shakespeare, 110.

Blue and Gold editions, a favorite book size, 24-26.

Bodoni, Giambattista, his type commended, 58, 129, 130.

Book, "The background of the book," 79-86;
"blown" books, 35;
"The book beautiful," 49-62;
"The book of to-day and the book of to-morrow," 33-37;
Chinese, 84, 85, 87-91;
"The clothing of a book," 97-101;
a constructive critic of the, 38-43;
elements of, 4-6;
"Fitness in book design," 9-13;
its structural contradiction, 52;
materials, 92;
of the future, 95, 96;
on its physical side an art object, 3;
pre-Columbian Mexican, 6;
printed, a "substitute" for manuscript, 4;
subject to laws of esthetics and economics, 115;
tests of its utility, 115;
well-made, not extremely costly, 7,
not identical with beautiful, 52;
worth writing three times, 44.
_See also_ Design; Size.

Book buyers, how to educate, 37;
spoilers of books, 40, 42.

Booklovers, "Books and booklovers," 3-8;
must first know books, 7;
service in improvement of books, 48, 61, 62.

Book production, 105;
elements added by printing, 14.

Books, as a librarian would like them, 44-48;
"Books and booklovers," 3-8;
the greatest, few, 66;
intellectual riffraff, 9;
learning to love, 7;
"Lest we forget the few great books," 104-114;
perishable, 34, 45, 46;
progress in legibility of, 132, 133;
small, commended by Dr. Johnson, 20;
"The student and the library," 139-144;
that are not books, 105, 106;
world's annual publication of, 105.

Books of Hours, dainty volumes, 20.

Boston Athenaeum Library, size in 1875, 104.

Boston Public Library, Address in, 3, _footnote_;
size in 1875, 104.

Brandes, Georg, his "Shakespeare: a critical study," 72.

Brass, used for book of India, 85.

British Poets, rival editions of, by Pickering and by Little and Brown,
23, 24.

Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes, on Aldus and his italic type, 20.

Brown, John Carter, patron of Henry Stevens, 38.

Brown University, misprint in quoting its charter, 154, 155.

Browne, Charles Farrar, adopts a misprint, 157.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, her "Wine of Cyprus" quoted, 67, 68.

Buchanan, George, his Latin poems, commended by Dr. Johnson, 23;
published by the Elzevirs, 23.

Bulk, in books, 92-96.

Bunyan, John, debt to the Bible, 110.

Burma, book of, _see_ India.

Burns, Robert, Hazlitt on, 142.

Burnside, General Am