Groliers may be imitated to deceive even the expert, but in respect to more elaborate toolings, such as those of Le Gascon, we are safe, because to imitate these successfully would cost so great an expenditure of time, that the forgery would be worth almost as much as the original. FOOTNOTES: [60] “Memoir of William Oldys,” 1862, p. 104. [61] Nichols’s “Literary Anecdotes,” vol. i. p. 593. [62] Lang’s “Books and Bookmen,” p. 13. INDEX Adam the royal goldsmith, 58 Æsopus (1485), 185 Albani Missal, vicissitudes of, 75 Alchorne (Stanesby), his library, purchased by Lord Spencer, 154 Allen (Thomas), his library, 144 Althorpe library purchased by Mrs. Rylands, 16 Americana, growth in value, 221 Anacreon, 1554, 185 Apponyi (Count Louis), his library, 173 Ariosto (1516), 190 Aristoteles (1483), 185; copy on vellum, 143 Arnold’s (Matthew) poems, 256 “Arthur (King),” 1557, 216 Ashburnham (Earl of), sale of his library, 174, 176; Ashburnham MSS., 70 Ashmole’s (Elias) library, 9 Ashwell (Rev. George), sale of his library, 119 Askew (Anthony), sale of his library, 138; MSS., 141 Astle (Edward), his library, 156 Atkyns’s ‘Gloucestershire,’ 244 Aubrey’s ‘Surrey,’ 244 Auchinleck library, 173 Auction, use of the word, 105 Auction sales: In the seventeenth century, 104-125 In the eighteenth century, 126-146 In the nineteenth century, 147-178 Auctioneer, print of, by Nicholls, 45 Auctioneers, 37-48 Augustinus, ‘De Civitate Dei,’ 192 Aungerville (Richard) = Richard de Bury, 3 Authors, remuneration of, 2, 14 Averages of book sales, 177 Aylesford (Earl of), his library, 171, 176 Bacon’s Henry VII., price, 94 Baker (Samuel), auctioneer, 134 Ballard (Thomas), auctioneer, 128, 130 Bancroft’s (T.) epigrams (1639), 216 Barnes’s (Juliana) ‘Treatyse of Fysshynge,’ 216 Barnfield’s (R.) ‘Lady Pecunia’ (1598), 216 Barrois collection of MSS., 72 Bateman (Lord), his library, 174 Bateman heirlooms, 173 Beauclerk (Topham), sale of his library, 140 Beaumont and Fletcher’s works, 221 Beckford (William), sales (1823) 158, (1882-3) 166, 175 ‘Poetical Sketches,’ 256 Bedford Missal, 75 Bedford (Francis), his library, 170 Beloe (William), 20 Bentley (T.), auctioneer, 118 Bent’s ‘General Catalogue,’ 93 Beresford-Hope (Rt. Hon. A. J. B.), his library, 170 Berri (Jean Due de), inventory of his library, 56 Berri (Duchesse de), her library, 159 Bernard (Charles), sale of his library, 127 Bernard (Dr. Francis), sale of his library, 119, 126 Berwick (Lord), his library, 162