, January, 1884.

[28] Parker, _Domestic Architecture_.

[29] Putnam, _Books and their Makers_, vol. i.

[30] See _ante_, p. 8.

[31] Many interesting references to Pepys' Collections are found in Mr.
H. B. Wheatley's _Pepys, and the World he Lived in_. The following
extracts are taken from the same writer's new and final edition of the
_Diary_:--

_May 15, 1660._--'After that to a bookseller's and
bought for the love of the binding three books:
the French _Psalms_ in four parts, Bacon's
_Organon_, and Farnab. _Rhetor_.'[32]

_Dec. 26, 1662._--'Hither come Mr. Battersby; and
we falling into a discourse of a new book of
drollery in verse called _Hudebras_,[33] I would
needs go find it out, and met with it at the
Temple: cost me 2_s._ 6_d._'

_July 8, 1664._--'So to Paul's Churchyarde about
my books, and to the binder's, and directed the
doing of my _Chaucer_,[34] though they were not
full neate enough for me, but pretty well it is;
and thence to the clasp-maker's to have it clasped
and bossed.'

_Jan. 18, 1664-65._--'Up and by and by to my
bookseller's, and there did give thorough
direction for the new binding of a great many of
my old books, to make my whole study of the same
binding, within very few.'

_Aug. 24, 1666._--'Up, and despatched several
businesses at home in the morning, and then comes
Sympson to set up my other new presses[35] for my
books, and so he and I fell into the furnishing of
my new closett, and taking out the things out of
my old, and I kept him with me all day, and he
dined with me, and so all the afternoon till it
was quite dark hanging things, that is my maps and
pictures and draughts, and setting up my books,
and as much as we could do, to my most
extraordinary satisfaction.'

_Dec. 17, 1666._--'Spent the evening in fitting my
books, to have the number set upon each, in order
to my having an alphabet of my whole, which will
be of great ease to me. This day Captain Batters
come from sea in his fireship and come to see me,
poor man, as his patron, and a poor painful wretch
he is as can be. After supper to