Bibliographies of the works of Carlyle, Swinburne, Ruskin, and Tennyson, as well as those of Dickens and Thackeray, have been compiled by R. H. Shepherd, and of the works of Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, and Lamb by Alexander Ireland. That famous artist George Cruikshank illustrated a large number of books, all of which are eagerly sought after by certain bodies of collectors. As in the case of other illustrated books, the value mainly depends upon the earliness of impression of the plates, and the condition; and consequently original editions are more highly esteemed than those which followed. Some capacity for judging engravings is required of the amateur who makes this branch of the subject a speciality, but in other respects he will find almost everything he is likely to require in G. W. Reid's _Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of George Cruikshank_ (London, 1871, 8vo). Bewick collectors have an infallible guide in the Rev. T. Hugo's _Bewick Collector, a Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of T. and J. Bewick_ (published, with the supplement, in 2 vols., 1866-8, 8vo). It is related of this author that he once found a battered and ragged specimen of a child's book got up on strong-laid paper by the famous engraver. Only one or two copies are known to exist, as Bewick found the enterprise too expensive to pay, and accordingly discontinued it. The owner of this treasure was an old woman, who had derived her infant ideas of lions and tigers from its well-thumbed leaves, and who refused to part with an old friend, though sorely and even desperately pressed to do so. How often is the enthusiastic book hunter thwarted when his hopes are on the point of being realised; how often must he succumb to what he may consider to be nothing better than prejudice or obstinacy? This is a question which every amateur learns in time to answer for himself. FOOTNOTES: [3] To those who do not read French or do not possess _Les Elzevier_, Mr. Goldsmid's _The Elzevir Presses_, published as part of his _Bibliotheca Curiosa_, may be of some assistance. It is a species of compendium of the work of M. Willems, and was issued in 1889. It is somewhat faulty and incomplete; but not without its value to beginners in the study of the Elzevir press. CHAPTER III. PAPER-MAKING--DIFFERENT SIZES OF PAPER--DIFFERENT SIZES OF BOOKS--MEASUREMENTS WATER-MARKS--BOOKS TO CONSULT.