With this gathering together of scraps and clippings I will bring my volume to a close. Most of what I have said, and a very great deal besides, is well known to the students of book-plates; but to them, I fancy, this work is not intended to appeal. It is meant for the public at large, to the majority of whom book-plates are unconsidered trifles. To promote wholesale book-plate _collecting_ in albums and portfolios is certainly not my intention. If it were, it would be a very undesirable intention, for so far as it succeeded it would unquestionably lead to the wholesale disfigurement and destruction of books, without regard to their value. What I have aimed at is to awaken a wider interest in book-plates, and a wider observation of them in their abiding places, by those who either possess them already, or acquire them hereafter. If I have succeeded in doing this, my work will, I am vain enough to believe, be not altogether unsuccessful; for book-plates possess really an artistic and general interest, which will be heightened the more our stock of knowledge concerning them is increased. INDEX ACLAND, FRANCES ANNE, 196. Adams, John, 157. Adamson, Benjamin, 208, 210. Adderley, John, 178. Adramytteum, Suffragan-Bishop of, 127. Æsculapius, represented on a book-plate, 84, 128. Affleck, J. H., 112. Allegory, in English book-plates, 34, 36, 72, 97, 190, 200. ----, wildness of on French book-plates, 142. ----, ---- on American book-plates, 159, 160. Allen, ---- 107. ---- Charles Dexter, 150, 156, 159, 160. ---- George, 106. American book-plates, 150-161. Amman, Jost, 124, 125, 126. Ancestry, pride in, expressed on book-plates, 179. Anderson, 154. ---- John, 112. Anson, Thomas, 91. Apthorpe, East, 60. 'Armorial style,' the, 52. Atkinson, Buddle, 112. Avranches, Bishop of, 138.