Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Christine D., Lisa Reigel, and the booksmiths at http://www.eBookForge.net Transcriber's Note: Some typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected. A complete list follows the text. Words in Greek in the original are transliterated and placed between +plus signs+. Words italicized in the original are surrounded by _underscores_. THE BOOK-HUNTER IN LONDON. [Illustration] [Illustration: '_His soul was never so staked down as in a bookseller's shop._' ROGER NORTH.] THE BOOK-HUNTER IN LONDON Historical and other Studies of Collectors and Collecting _WITH NUMEROUS PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS_ BY W. ROBERTS _Author of 'The Earlier History of English Bookselling,' 'Printers' Marks,' etc._ LONDON ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. 1895 CONTENTS. PAGE PREFACE xiii INTRODUCTION xv EARLY BOOK-HUNTING 1 BOOK-HUNTING AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF PRINTING 12 FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW 44 BOOK-AUCTIONS AND SALES 98 BOOKSTALLS AND BOOKSTALLING 149 SOME BOOK-HUNTING LOCALITIES 168 WOMEN AS BOOK-COLLECTORS 259 BOOK THIEVES, BORROWERS, AND KNOCK-OUTS 274 SOME HUMOURS OF BOOK-CATALOGUES 293 SOME MODERN COLLECTORS 299 INDEX 323 [Illustration] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE 'HIS SOUL WAS NEVER SO STAKED DOWN AS IN A BOOKSELLER'S SHOP.'--ROGER NORTH _Frontispiece_ IN A SCRIPTORIUM 2 LAMBETH PALACE LIBRARY 5 ROMAN BOOKS AND WRITING MATERIALS 11 EARL OF ARUNDEL'S BADGE 16 SIR ROBERT COTTON 21 SIR JULIUS CAESAR'S TRAVELLING LIBRARY 22 ARCHBISHOP USHER 26 WOTTON HOUSE IN 1840 28 MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD 29 SIR HANS SLOANE'S MONUMENT 30 LITTLE BRITAIN IN 1550 33 CHARLES, THIRD EARL OF SUNDERLAND 37 LONDON HOUSE, ALDERSGATE STREET, 1808 40 ST. BERNARD'S SEAL 43 MR. AUSTIN DOBSON 45