k, Earl of, 106

Waterton, E., 96, 97

Watson, Dr. T., 100

Weskett, 'On Insurances,' 152

Wesley, Charles, 35

Wesley and Sons, 234

West, James, 59, 60, 111, 179

Westell, Mr. J., 106, 200, 201

Westminster Hall, 247-249

Westmoreland, Countess of, 9, 260

Wheare's 'Method and Order of Reading Histories,' 85

Wheatley, Benjamin, 69, 114

Wheatley, Mr. H. B., 100 _note_, 293

Wheldon, John, 211

Whethamstede, 10

Whiston, John, 103, 219

Whitechapel, 155, 187, 188

White, Benjamin (Sr. and Jr.), 219-221

White, Gilbert, 221

White, John, 221

White, Joseph, 194

White Knights Library, 109

Whittington, Sir Richard, 8

Whytforde's 'Lyfe of Perfection,' 309

Wilbraham, R., 61

Wilcox, Thomas, 103

Wilkes, John, 54, 55, 108, 183, 311

Wilkinson, John, 105

Williams, Dr. David, 39

Willis, G., 246

Willoughby, Lord, 31, 193

Willoughby, Sir H., 84

Wills, John, 219

Wilson's 'Art of Logic,' 74

Wimpole Library, the, 89, 90

Winchelsea, Earl of, 173

Wingrave, F., 236

Winstanley's 'Views of Audley End,' 292

Wise, Mr. T. J., 316, 317

Wodhull, Michael, 57, 58, 128

Women as book-collectors, 259-273

Women as book-thieves, 279-280, 285

Wood, Anthony a, 8, 21, 32

Wordsworth, W., 76, 78

Worsley, Dr. B., 100, 213

Wulfseg, Bishop of London, 3

Wyndham, 238

Wynkyn de Worde, 54, 111, 119, 216, 301, 306

Yates's 'Castell of Courtesie,' 222

York, Duke of, 108

Zouche, Lord, 304

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_Uniform with 'The Book-Hunter in London.'_

THE BOOK-HUNTER IN PARIS.

BEING

Studies Among the Bookstalls of the Quays.

By OCTAVE UZANNE.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUGUSTINE BIRRELL,
AUTHOR OF 'OBITER DICTA,' 'RES JUDICATAE,' ETC.

_AND 144 CHARACTERISTIC ILLUSTRATIONS INTERSPERSED IN THE TEXT_.

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EVERY bibliophile who by chance finds himself in Paris, whether on
urgent affairs or on pleasure intent, invariably manages to visit that
richest of hunting-grounds, the book-lined quays, where, perhaps, more
unexpected treasures have been picked up than in any other city of
Europe. It is of this happy hunting-ground and those who haunt it--the
book-hunters and the