aire: G. Bengesco, _Paris_, 1882.

* * * * *

Browning: F.J. Furnivall, Browning Society, 1881-2.

Carlyle: R.H. Shepherd, 1882.

Defoe: M. Stace, 1829; Wilson, 1830; Lee, 1862.

Dickens: R.H. Shepherd, 1881.

" J. Cook, Paisley, 1879.

Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb: A. Ireland, 1868.

Ruskin: R.H. Shepherd, 1882.

Shakespeare: J. Wilson, 1827; J.O. Halliwell, 1841; Moulin,
1845; Sillig and Ulrici, 1854; H.G. Bohn, 1864; F. Thimm,
1865-72; K. Knortz, 1876; Unflad, 1880; Justin Winsor
(Poems); Birmingham Memorial Library Catalogue (J.D.
Mullens).

Shelley: H.B. Forman, 1886.

Tennyson: R.H. Shepherd, 1879.

Thackeray: R.H. Shepherd, 1881.

Wycliffe: J. Edmands, 1884.

Dr. Garnett commenced a MS. list of such special bibliographies as he came
across in Treatises on the different subjects. This list is added to and
kept in the Reading Room for use by the Librarians. I was allowed the
privilege of referring to this very useful list.

CHAPTER VII.

PUBLISHING SOCIETIES.

A large amount of important information is to be found in the publications
of the numerous Societies formed for the purpose of supplying to their
subscribers valuable works which are but little likely to find publishers.
These publications have in a large number of instances added to our
knowledge of history and literature considerably. The Societies have much
increased of late years, but no record of the publications is easily to be
obtained, since the full account given in Bohn's Supplement to Lowndes's
_Bibliographer's Manual_.

The earliest of Publishing Societies was the _Dilettanti
Society_, instituted in London in 1734, which issued some
fine illustrated volumes of classical travel. A long period
of time elapsed without any societies of a similar character
being formed.

_The Roxburghe Club_ formed in the year 1812 in
commemoration of the sale of the magnificent library of John
third Duke of Roxburghe (died March 19, 1804). It was
chiefly intended as a Social Club, and a long list of
bibliographical toasts was run through at the banquets. The
publications were not at first of any great literary value,
although some of them were curious and interesting. After a
time competent editors were employed, and some important
works produce