y the Elzevirs, 22;
his italic type and its effect on the size and price of books, 20, 21;
Pickering and other followers of, 23, 24;
vexed by misprints, 156.

Alphabet, Chinese, picture writing, 80, 81;
derivation from picture writing, 81;
scientific and actual, 147;
varieties in use, 146.
_See also_ Type.

American Journal of Psychology, contains Sanford's study on "The
relative legibility of the small letters," 122.

Arnold, Edwin, misprints in his "Light of Asia," 159.

Art, art aspect of the book, 3, 49, 115;
shares the prehistoric background of the book, 79, 80.

Artists not opposed to criticism, 62.

Assyrian clay tablet, 4.

Astor Library, size in 1875, 104.

Audubon, John James, his elephant-folio "Birds of America," 55.

Authors, reading by single authors and groups, 74-76;
spoilers of books, 40.

Authorship, rules of, 44.

BABYLONIAN book, 82.

Back numbers, unimportant contemporary works become, 77.

"Background of the book," 79-86.

Bacon, Francis, Lord, quoted, 106, 112.

Baird, John Wallace, directs Clark University studies on legibility, 124.

Ballads, Old English, Hazlitt on, 142.

Balzac, Honore de, expanded his novels in proof, 15.

Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de, acknowledged his indebtedness to the
Elzevirs, 22.

Bamboo, source of Chinese paper, 85.

Barlow, Joel, place of his "Columbiad" in modern printing, 10.

Bartlett, John, quoted, 128.

Baskerville, John, his smooth paper, 5.

Beauty, _see_ Esthetics.

Beecher, Henry Ward, his "Norwood" in three volumes, 12;
John Beattie Crozier on his sermons, 111.

Beethoven, his Ninth Symphony as a product of genius, 65.

Bellarmin, Cardinal, list of errata in his works, 160.

Best books, need of provision for daily reading, 107.
_See also_ Books.

Bible, Hazlitt on its poetry, 141;
influence on Bunyan, on Calhoun, 110;
misprints in, 154, 156;
various folio editions, 19.

Bible of humanity, Socrates in, 68.

Bigness, in books, 35, 36, 45, 47.

Binder, a spoiler of books, 40, 42;
what the librarian asks of him, 48.

Binding, as an element of the book, 6;
"The clothing of a book," 97-101;
of the book beautiful, 52-55;
of the Chinese book, 88, 89;
of the well-made book, 52;
"Parchment bindings," 102, 103;
unnecessary rebindings, 46.

Bion, as characterized by Mrs. Browning, 68.

Birch bark, used for book of India, 85.

Bismarck, misprint concerning, 155.

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