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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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'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

WILLIAM BECKFORD, BOOK-COLLECTOR 48

GEORGE JOHN, EARL SPENCER 51

JOHN, DUKE OF ROXBURGHE, BOOK-COLLECTOR 52

A CORNER IN THE ALTHORP LIBRARY 53

MICHAEL WODHULL, BOOK-COLLECTOR 57

GEORGE NICOL, THE KING'S BOOKSELLER 60

THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN, BIBLIOGRAPHER 63

REV. C. MORDAUNT CRACHERODE, M.A., BOOK-COLLECTOR 65

J. O. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS 71

CANONBURY TOWER, GEORGE DANIEL'S RESIDENCE 73

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 76

LAMB'S COTTAGE AT COLEBROOK ROW, ISLINGTON 77

WILLIAM HAZLITT 78

THOMAS HILL, AFTER MACLISE 79

SAMUEL ROGERS'S HOUSE IN ST. JAMES'S PLACE 81

SAMUEL ROGERS 82

ALEXANDER DYCE, BOOK-COLLECTOR 83

W. J. THOMS, BOOK-COLLECTOR 88

HOLLINGBURY COPSE, THE RESIDENCE OF THE LATE MR.
HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS