e whole of his life, and
his last work, _Love's Last Labour not Lost_, was published in 1863.
Daniel was fond of convivial society, and numbered Charles Lamb and
Robert Bloomfield among his acquaintances, and he was also intimate with
many of the principal actors of the day. He died at his son's house, The
Grove, Stoke Newington, on the 30th of March 1864. The cause of his
death was apoplexy.

Daniel formed a very choice and valuable library in his residence, 18
Canonbury Square, Islington, which was chiefly remarkable for rare
editions of old English writers, and very fine collections of
Elizabethan black-letter ballads and Shakespeariana. The Elizabethan
ballads would alone be sufficient to render any library famous. They
were one hundred and forty-nine in number, and he is said to have
purchased them for fifty pounds from Mr. William Stevenson Fitch,
Postmaster at Ipswich, who is believed to have obtained them from the
housekeeper at Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, the residence of the Tollemache
family. Of these ballads seventy-nine were sold to Mr. Heber by Mr.
Daniel for seventy pounds, and the remaining seventy were bought at the
sale of his library for seven hundred and fifty pounds by Mr. Huth, who
had them printed for presentation to the members of the Philobiblon
Society. The Shakespearian collection comprised splendid copies of the
first four folios and eighteen of the quarto plays, together with the
1594 and 1655 editions of _Lucrece_, the 1594 and 1596 editions of
_Venus and Adonis_, and the first editions of the _Sonnets_ and _Poems_.
The library also contained a large number of early Jest-Books,
Drolleries, Garlands and Penny-Histories; and among the rare editions of
English writers were works by John Skelton, Edmund Spenser, Anthony
Chute, Robert Chester, Anthony Munday, Ben Jonson, Patrick Hannay,
George Herbert, Robert Herrick, John Milton, and many others. Several
very beautiful manuscripts were also to be found in it.

Daniel's library was sold by auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge on
the 20th of July 1864, and the nine following days. There were eighteen
hundred and seventeen lots, which realised thirteen thousand nine
hundred and eighty-four pounds, eleven shillings; the water-colour
drawings, engravings, portraits, coins, etc., of which there were four
hundred and sixty-one lots, were sold at the same time, and produced one
thousand eight hundred and eighty pounds, eleven shillings more.

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