of Books_, 7, 21, 100

---- on the handling of books, 22

---- on the preservation of books, 19, 99

_Blatta Australasia_, a bookboring cockroach, 23

Bookbinding, 52

---- and the bookbinder, 23

---- colour, 49, 54

---- Covers, what to choose, 64

---- errors of taste, 56

---- gilding, 57

---- Good, what is fatal to, 97

---- leather, kind to choose, 54

---- lettering, 58

---- marbling, 55

---- provincial, 7

---- style and colour of, 49

---- style, 49, 54

---- the, remarks on, 61

---- what is good and bad, 5, 6

Books, accidentally destroyed, 12

---- arranging, difficulty of, 17

---- care of, 15, 16

---- ---- maxims for, 24

---- classification of, 87

---- commonplace, 38

---- contents of, how to master the, 31, 32

---- counterfeit, 52

---- dusting, 20, 21

---- enemies of, 7, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23

---- binding, fifteenth-century, 70

---- handling, 22

---- housing of, 100

---- metal bosses on, desks for, 106

---- packing, 24, 25

---- ------ Rare and handsome, 89

---- ------ Reference, 89

---- Rare, what constitutes, 11

---- ------ Why so called, 12

---- How to read, 32

---- Recommending, 33

---- Reference, 42

---- ------ List of good, 44

---- ------ On placing, 89

---- ------ Uses of, 43

---- Repairing, 60, 61

---- Restoring, 60, 61

---- Ruined, how often, 7

---- Shelfmarking, 93

---- Sizes of, as decided upon by the Associated Librarians of Great
Britain, 98

---- Suppressed, 12

---- Treatment of, 108

---- Valueless, 14

Bookcase, the 'Radcliffe' iron, 113

---- revolving, 105

Bookcases, 49, 94

---- at Trinity College, Cambridge, 102

---- beautiful specimens of, 99

---- for rare and beautiful books, &c., 99

---- glass doors undesirable, 100

---- height of, 50, 95

---- in bedrooms, 38

---- lettering and numbering, 93, 99

---- shelves covered with padded leather, 100

---- Tonks' patent fittings advisable, 95

Book-collecting, Revival in, at Florence, 140

Book collectors, early, 71

---- collectors of the eighteenth century, 79

---- hobbies, 65

---- readers, two classes, 34

---- screen, 47

Bookshelves, 130

Book support, metal, 106

---- values, 9

---- ---- how to determine, 9

Booksellers, Old London, 72