a fire, 15.
-- scarce before printing, 2.
-- sold to a cobbler, 52, 149.
-- too tight on shelves, 137.
-- their claims to be preserved, 151.
-- used to bake "pyes," 10.
-- which scratch one another, 134.
Book-sale in Derbyshire, 145.
Bookworm, the, 67-93.
-- attempt to breed, 81-3.
-- from Greece, 82.
-- in paper box, 89.
-- in United States, 91.
Bookworms' progress through books, 84.
-- race by, 86.
Bosses on books, 135.
Boys injuring books, 139.
-- in library, story of, 140.
Brighton, black letter fragments, 59.
British Museum, Boccaccio's Fall of Princes, 61.
British Museum free from the "worm," 83.
-- burnt book exhibited at, 11.
Brown spots in books, 24.
Bruchium, 3.
Burckhardt's Arabic MSS., 77.
"Bug" Bible, 95.
Burgundy (Duchess of), 130.

Cambridge Market, 97.
Caskets (the three), Shakspeare, 60.
Caspari (Mr.), a collector, 124.
Cassin (Convent of Mount), 49.
Caxton, William, 130.
--his use of waste leaves, 90.
--Canterbury Tales, used to light a fire, 53.
-- Golden Legend, ditto, 52.
--Lyf of oure Ladye, 89.
Caxtons saturated by rain, 22.
--spoilt in binding, 107.
--discovered in British Museum, 108.
Charles II, portrait by Logan, 126.
Chasles (Philarete), 52.
Child tearing books, 139.
Children as enemies of books, 138.
Choir boys injuring MSS., 124.
Christians burnt heathen MSS., 7.
early, 6.
Clarendon (Earl of), portrait by Logan, 126.
Clasps on books, injury from, 135.
Clergymen as biblioclasts, 64.
Clulow (Mr. George), 144.
Coal fires objectionable in libraries, 27.
Codfish, book eaten by a, 96.
Cold injures books, 26.
Collectors as enemies of books, 117.
College quadrangle, 41.
Colophon in Schoeffer's book, 123.
Colophons (collections of), I IS.
Commonwealth quartos, 44.
Communal libraries in France, 48.
Cotton library; partially burnt, 10.
Cowper, the poet, on burnt libraries, 12.
Crambus pinguinalis, 76.
Cremona, books destroyed at, 8.
Croton bug, 95.

Damp, an enemy of books, 24.
Dante, 50.
-- The Inferno, 106.
Derbyshire, book sale in, 145.
Dermestes vulpinus, 89.
De Rome, the binder, 47, 48, 110.
De Thou, 110.
Devil worship, 5.
Devon and Exeter Museum, 101.
Diana, Temple of, 6.
Dibdin (Dr.), 110.
--sale of his Decameron