Bacon, Roger, 6 Bagford, John, 30, 31, 204, 268 Bagster, S., 235 Bain, James, 240 Baker, Mr. E. E., 91 Baker, H., 249 Baker, Samuel, 100 _note_, 102, 103, 223 Baker, Thomas, 34 'Balbi Catholicon,' the, 127, 300 Baldwin and Cradock, 210 Bale, John, 13 Bale's 'Image of Both Churches,' 196 Balfour, Mr. A. J., 305 Ballads, 74 Ballard, T. and E., 103 Ballards of Little Britain, 173 Banks, Dr., 219 Bannatyne Club, the, 62 _note_ Baptist Library at Bristol, 138 Barbican, the, 176, 177 Barclay's 'Ship of Fools,' 120, 121 Barnard, Sir John, 238 Barnfield's 'Encomion of Lady Pecunia,' 41 'Baroccio,' 69 Barrett, Thomas, 35 Barton, Bernard, 76, 296 Bassett, Thomas, 219 Batemans of Little Britain, 171 Bates, Dr., 39 Bath, Marquis of, 304, 305 Bathoe, Sam., 103 Bathoe, W., 234 Baudelaire, 'Les Fleurs de Mal,' 314 Bauduyn (Piers), stationer, 10 Baylis, Alderman, 223 Baynes, W., 211 Beauclerk, Topham, 55 and _note_, 111 Beckett-Denison, C., 117 Becket, Thomas, 176 _note_, 236 Beckford, Peter, 49, 297, 298 Beckford, William, 48-50, 256 Bede, the Venerable, 3 Bedford, Francis, 87 Bedford, John, Duke of, 9, 17 Bedford Missal, the, 9, 109 Bedford Street, Strand, 241 Beet, Thomas, 251 Bell and Sons, George, 244 Benedict Biscop, 2, 3 Bennett, T., 187 Bentham, W., 61 Bentley, Dr. R., 116, 195, 196 Benzon, Mrs., 270 Berkeley, Earl of, 25 Bernard, Dr. Francis, 34, 132 Bernard, Sir Thomas, 71 Berthelet, Thomas, 261 Bibles and New Testaments, 136-140, 212, 261, 262, 285, 291, 302, 306 'Biblia Pauperum,' 272 Coverdale's (1535), 72, 89, 138, 263, 268, 302 Cranmer's (1540 and 1553), 72, 302 Cromwell's (1539), 302 Douay (1663), 120 Eliot's Indian, 119 Fust and Schoeffer (1462), 126, 300 German, 95 Graeca Septuaginta, 192 _note_ Gutenberg (or Mazarin) (1455), 58, 72, 89, 90, 114, 125, 126, 255, 300 Hayes (1674), 21 Matthew's (1537), 72, 302 Tyndale's (1525-1526, 1533), 89, 137, 138 St. Jerome's MS., 140 Bibliomania, the decay of, 69 Bibliomaniac, A, 78 Bibliomaniac, the 'Library' of a, 200 Bibliophile, A, 78 Bibliophobia, 108 Bindley, James, 43, 66, 108, 109 Birrell, Mr. A., 145, 319 Bishopsgate Churchyard, 161 Black-letter books, 136 Black-letter booksellers, the, 236 Black-letter collectors, 'Father' of, 27 _note_ Black-letter mania, 59 Blackwell's 'Herbal,' 105 Blake, W., 93 Blandford, Marquis of, 61 _note_, 109, 124 Block book, 89 Bloomfield, R., 154 Boccaccio, the Valdarfer, 52, 61, 93, 123-125 Boccaccio, 'Les Illustres Malheureux,' 50 Bodleian, the, 23, 67 Bodley, Sir T., 22, 283 Boethius, 'Consolation of Philosophy,' 4 Bohn, H. G., 50, 243, 244, 255 Bohn, James, 243 Bohn, J. H., 243, 244 'Boke of St. Albans,' 136, 322 Bolland, Sir W., 61, 69