| Addison, Joseph (1672-1719). |
| The Legacies of Genius | 14 |
| The Authors' Advantage | 60 |
| The evil that Men do | 80 |
| A great Book is a great evil | 119 |
| Chance Readings | 145 |
| A Lady's Library | 209 |
| Books for a Lady's Library | 211 |
| Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888). |
| The Fellowship of Books | 6 |
| Alcuin or Ealwhine (735-804). |
| An Episcopal Library | 311 |
| Arblay, Frances, Madame d' (1752-1840). |
| Royal Patronage of Books | 253 |
| Armstrong, John (1709-79). |
| Read without Prejudice | 127 |
| Arnold, Matthew (1822-88). |
| The Grand Mine of Diction | 297 |
| Ascham, Roger (1515-68). |
| Books that do Hurt | 77 |
| Epitomes | 138 |
| Athenian Mercury, The |
| Whether 'tis lawful to read Romances | 85 |
| Aungervile. See Bury. |
| Austen, Jane (1775-1817). |
| Only a Novel | 87 |
| Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam and Viscount St. Albans (1561-1626). |
| Enduring Monuments | 46 |
| Old Authors to Read | 65 |
| Dedications | 97 |
| 'Books will speak plain' | 113 |
| Studies | 124 |
| Commonplace Books | 141 |
| Over-reading | 157 |
| A great Necromancer | 287 |
| The Shrines of the Ancient Saints | 325 |
| Bailey, Philip James (1816-1902). |
| 'Worthy Books' | 5 |
| Bale, John, Bishop of Ossory (1495-1563). |
| A most Horrible Infamy | 325 |
| Barclay, Alexander (1475?-1552). |
| Envoy to Fools | 218 |
| Barnes, William (1801-86). |
| Learning | 173 |
| Barrow, Isaac (1630-77). |
| He that loveth a Book will never want | 3 |
| Barton, Bernard (1784-1849). |
| Composed in the Rev. J. Mitford's Library | 324 |
| Baxter, Richard (1615-91). |
| Romances are Pernicious | 84 |
| Books preferred to Preachers | 108 |
| Bayly, Thomas Haynes (1797-1839). |
| A Novel of High Life | 88 |
| Beaconsfield, Earl of. See Disraeli, Benjamin. |
| Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887). |
| The Bodleian: a Dead Sea of Books | 364 |
| Beresford, James (1764-1840). |
| Bibliosophia | 225 |
| Eye-worship | 242 |
| Blackie, John Stuart (1809-95). |
| Overrating the Value of Books | 162 |
| Blanchard, Samuel Laman (1804-45). |
| The Double Lesson | 192 |
| The Art of Book-keeping | 280 |
| Blount, Charles (1654-93). |
| The Imprimatur | 119 |
| Boswell, James (1740-95). See also Johnson. |
| Shakespeare in Heaven | 48 |
| Reading according to Inclination | 128 |
| Johnson's Cursory Reading | 148 |
| Talking from Books | 153 |
| The Dog and the Bone | 170 |
| Books you may hold in your hand | 247 |
| Brant, Sebastian (1458-1521). |
| The Chief Fool | 216 |
| Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-82). |
| Superfluous Books | 58 |
| Browne, Sir William (1692-1774). |
| Oxford and Cambridge: an Epigram | 113 |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-61). |
| 'Books are men of higher stature' | 39 |
| Reading as Intellectual Indolence | 159 |
| The Poets | 205 |
| The World of Books | 206 |
| A Forced Sale | 259 |
| The Library in the Garret | 318 |
| Browning, Robert (1812-89). |
| Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis | 236 |
| The Find | 257 |
| Brydges, Grey, Lord Chandos (1579?-1621). |
| The greatest Clerks be not always the wisest Men | 149 |
| Buckingham, Duke of. See Sheffield. |
| Bulwer. See Lytton, Lord. |
| Bunyan, John (1628-88). |
| The Scriptures: what are they? | 292 |
| Burney, Fanny. See Arblay. |
| Burns, Robert (1759-96). |
| The Bookworms | 249 |
| The big Ha'-Bible | 298 |
| Burton, John Hill (1809-81). |
| A Sense of Humour | 18 |
| A Course of Reading | 134 |
| Definitions | 235 |
| Burton, Robert (1577-1640). |
| An extraordinary Delight to study | 26 |
| 'Though they write contemptu gloriae' | 51 |
| Every Man his Due | 89 |
| Read the Scriptures | 290 |
| To be chained with good Authors | 356 |
| Bury, Richard de, Bishop of Durham (1281-1345). |
| The Desirable Tabernacle | 13 |
| Books as Memorials | 43 |
| Woman and Books | 203 |
| Of Handling Books | 239 |
| Deductions from Scripture | 240 |
| Mammon and Books | 273 |
| Butler, Joseph (1692-1752). |
| The Habit of Casual Reading | 147 |
| Butler, Samuel (1612-80). |
| Superficial Readers | 151 |
| Butler, Samuel (1835-1902). |
| Books in a New Light | 330 |
| Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824). |
| A Lasting Link of Ages | 52 |
| ''Tis pleasant, sure' | 95 |
| Love and the Library | 198 |
| To Mr. Murray | 268 |
| Calverley, Charles Stuart (1831-84). |
| Of Reading | 135 |
| Campion, Thomas (1567?-1620). |
| The Writer to his Book | 261 |
| Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881). |
| The Miraculous Art of Writing | 42 |
| The Virtue of a True Book | 52 |
| The Real Working Effective Church | 109 |
| The True University of These Days | 112 |
| A Very Priceless Thing | 295 |
| Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616). |
| 'There is no Book so bad' | 117 |
| The Burning of Don Quixote's Books | 155 |
| Chandos, Lord. See Brydges. |
| Channing, William Ellery (1780-1842). |
| Books the True Levellers | 19 |
| The Diffusion of Books and its Effect upon Culture | 60 |
| Folly generated by Books | 156 |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340 ?-1400). |
| To Drive the Night Away | 169 |
| Farewell to Books in Springtime | 172 |
| The Oxford Scholar and his Books | 216 |
| Chesterfield Earl of. See Stanhope. |
| Churchyard, Thomas (1520 ?-1604). |
| Books is Nurse to Truth | 33 |
| Cobbett, William (1762-1835). |
| The Danger of Poets and Romances | 86 |
| A Birth of Intellect | 184 |
| Coleridge, Hartley (1796-1849). |
| Suitable Bindings | 246 |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834). |
| Books as Fruitful Trees | 129 |
| Reading to kill Time | 153 |
| The Pilgrim's Progress | 293 |
| Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726). |
| Of the Entertainment of Books | 34 |
| Colton, Charles Caleb (1780 ?-1832). |
| 'We should choose our Books' | 6 |
| 'There are many Books written' | 120 |
| Readers and Writers | 123 |
| Title-readers | 154 |
| Books and Men | 159 |
| Cook, Eliza (1818-89). |
| Old Story Books | 177 |
| 'Cornwall, Barry.' See Procter, B. W. |
| Cowley, Abraham (1618-67). |
| 'May I a small house' | 12 |
| Material for Poesy | 295 |
| Pindaric Ode | 360 |
| Cowper, William (1731-1800). |
| Books bad and good | 81 |
| Swallowing the Husks | 158 |
| 'Twere well with most, if Books' | 208 |
| An Ode to Mr. John Rouse (translated from Milton) | 357 |
| Crabbe, George (1754-1832). |
| The Prouder Pleasures of the Mind | 26 |
| The Old Bachelor's Books | 21 |
| The Peasant's Library | 317 |
| The Library | 337 |
| Crashaw, Richard (1613 ?-49). |
| Upon the Book of St. Teresa | 106 |
| On a Prayer-Book sent to Mrs. M. R. | 200 |
| On George Herbert's The Temple, sent to a Gentlewoman | 201 |
| Cross, Mary Ann. See Eliot. |
| Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619). |
| Immortality in Books | 46 |
| O Blessed Letters | 51 |
| To the Countess of Bedford | 195 |
| Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). |
| Love's Purveyor | 192 |
| Davenant, Sir William (1606-68). |
| Hidden Treasure | 92 |
| Davies, Sir John (1569-1626). |
| What profits it | 163 |
| Davy, Sir Humphry (1778-1829). |
| Permanence for Thought | 41 |
| Dawson, George (1821-76). |
| The Consulting-room of a Wise Man | 309 |
| The Reference Library | 327 |
| Denham, Sir John (1615-69). |
| For wisdom, piety, delight, or use | 33 |
| De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859). |
| Instruction or Amusement | 36 |
| The Distraction of Choice | 61 |
| Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847). |
| An Unworthy Professor | 227 |
| A Bibliomaniac | 228 |
| Book Illustrations and Nightmare | 247 |
| Dickens, Charles (1812-70). |
| Early Reading | 188 |
| What a Heart-breaking Shop | 272 |
| Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-65). |
| Reading in Bed | 169 |
| Dillon, Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon (1633 ?-85). |
| 'Choose an author as you choose a friend' | 7 |
| Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-81). |
| 'Lady Constance guanoed her mind' | 88 |
| Biography preferred to History | 99 |
| 'The author who speaks about his own Books' | 154 |
| D'Israeli, Isaac (1766-1848). |
| Golden volumes! richest treasures | 226 |
| A Malady of weak Minds | 227 |
| Accidents to Books | 275 |
| Dodd, William (1729-77). |
| In Prison | 15 |
| Donne, John (1573-1631). |
| Valediction to his Book | 190 |
| The Library and the Grave | 305 |
| Dovaston, John Freeman Milward (1782-1854). |
| The Cure for Bookworms | 253 |
| Drayton, Michael (1563-1631). |
| Immortality in Song | 56 |
| Translations from the Classics | 100 |
| Drummond, William (1585-1649). |
| The Strange Quality of Books | 47 |
| The Book of Nature | 283 |
| Of Libraries: The Bodleian | 355 |
| Dryden, John (1631-1700). |
| A Learned Plagiary | 91 |
| Under Mr. Milton's Picture | 106 |
| Dudley, Earl of. See Ward. |
| Dyer, George (1755-1841). |
| 'Libraries are the wardrobes of literature' | 306 |
| Ealwhine. See Alcuin. |
| Earle, John, Bishop of Salisbury (1601 ?-65). |
| 'His Invention is no more' | 94 |
| A Critic | 114 |
| A Pretender to Learning | 150 |
| An Antiquary | 219 |
| 'Eliot, George' (1819-80). |
| The Vocation | 260 |
| 'Wise books, For half the truths they hold' | 287 |
| Of The Imitation of Christ | 299 |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-82). |
| A Company of the Wisest and the Wittiest | 6 |
| The Theory of Books | 21 |
| The Book the Highest Delight | 28 |
| The pleasure derived from Books | 29 |
| Our Debt to a Book | 29 |
| A Sort of Third Estate | 74 |
| On Reading Translations | 99 |
| Merit in Quotation | 103 |
| The Need of a Guide to Books | 111 |
| The Final Verdict upon Books | 116 |
| 'Talent alone cannot make a writer' | 116 |
| Reading between Lines | 122 |
| Rules for Reading | 132 |
| A Diet of Books | 133 |
| Erasmus, Desiderius (1466 ?-1536). |
| The Royal Road | 123 |
| Faber, Frederick William (1814-63). |
| The English of the Bible | 297 |
| A College Library | 365 |
| Ferriar, John (1761-1815). |
| The Bibliomania | 220 |
| Fielding, Henry (1707-54). |
| The filial piety of Books | 118 |
| Fletcher, John (1579-1625). |
| The Library a Glorious Court | 305 |
| Fletcher, Phineas (1582-1650). |
| Upon my Brother's Book | 106 |
| Foster, John (1770-1843). |
| The Influence of Books | 38 |
| Reflections in a Library | 332 |
| Fuller, Thomas (1608-61). |
| The Multiplicity of Books | 57 |
| Printers gain by bad Books | 79 |
| 'A commonplace Book contains many notions' | 142 |
| Garnett, Richard (1835-1906). |
| Our master, Meleager | 95 |
| Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-65). |
| Books for the Salon | 304 |
| Gay, John (1685-1732). |
| The Elephant and the Bookseller | 264 |
| On a Miscellany of Poems | 265 |
| Gibbon, Edward (1737-94). |
| Abstracts of Books | 138 |
| Early Reading | 183 |
| Women's Want | 210 |
| Gilfillan, George (1813-78). |
| The True Poem on the Library | 335 |
| Gissing, George (1857-1903). |
| The Mood for Books | 40 |
| The Scent of Books | 310 |
| Glanvill, Joseph (1636-80). |
| 'That silly vanity of impertinent citations' | 102 |
| The Mote and the Beam | 118 |
| Godwin, William (1756-1836). |
| The Depositary of everything honourable | 15 |
| Bad Books and debauched Minds | 83 |
| Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-74). |
| Sweet Unreproaching Companions | 4 |
| The Reading of New Books | 67 |
| Literary Hypocrisy | 115 |
| 'I love everything that is old' | 269 |
| Greene, Robert (1558-92). |
| Books for Magic | 288 |
| Hale, Sir Matthew (1609-76). |
| No Book like the Bible | 293 |
| Hales, John (1584-1656). |
| The Method of reading profane History | 136 |
| Hall, John (1627-56). |
| Men in their Nightgowns | 98 |
| When to Read | 164 |
| Hall, Joseph, Bishop of Exeter and Norwich (1574-1656). |
| How to spend our Days | 125 |
| Reading and Meal Times | 170 |
| On the Sight of a Great Library | 331 |
| Hamilton, Sir William (1788-1856). |
| Underscoring | 140 |
| Hare, Augustus William (1792-1834), and Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855). |
| In the Seat of the Scorner | 115 |
| Books of One Thought | 121 |
| Purple Patches | 122 |
| Books that provoke Thought | 131 |
| Desultory Reading | 148 |
| Brains squashed by Books | 156 |
| Harington, Sir John (1561-1612). |
| Against writers that carp | 114 |
| Hazlitt, William (1778-1830). |
| The only Things that last for ever | 49 |
| On Reading Old Books | 69 |
| On Reading New Books | 71 |
| The best Books the commonest | 182 |
| The visionary Gleam | 189 |
| The enviable Bookworm | 228 |
| Ears nailed to Books | 229 |
| Helps, Sir Arthur (1813-75). |
| Biography | 99 |
| Thoughts in a Library | 334 |
| Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (1793-1835). |
| To a Family Bible | 294 |
| Herbert, George (1593-1633). |
| The Parson's Accessory Knowledge | 140 |
| Herrick, Robert (1591-1674). |
| To His Book | 45 |
| 'Thou art a plant.' |
| 'Make haste away.' |
| 'If hap it must.' |
| 'The bound, almost.' |
| 'Go thou forth.' |
| His Prayer for Absolution | 77 |
| Virginibus Puerisque | 84 |
| Lines have their linings, and Books their buckram | 242 |
| Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871). |
| A Taste to be Prayed For | 27 |
| Novels as Engines of Civilization | 87 |
| Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679). |
| 'If I had read as much as other men' | 158 |
| Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-94). |
| Old and New Books | 74 |
| Presentation Copies | 98 |
| 'The foolishest Book' | 118 |
| The Literary Harem | 233 |
| Purchasing an Act of Piety | 258 |
| The Study | 307 |
| The Library as a Key to Character | 309 |
| 'Every library should try to be complete' | 318 |
| Hood, Thomas (1799-1845). |
| Rich Fare | 29 |
| Howell, James (1594?-1666). |
| The Choice of Books | 125 |
| Marriage and Books | 198 |
| The Value of Book Borrowing | 275 |
| Hunt, James Henry Leigh (1784-1859). |
| On Parting with my Books | 9 |
| Love that is large | 16 |
| Authors as Lovers of Books | 20 |
| The Authors' Metamorphosis | 50 |
| A Library of One | 62 |
| A Literatura Hilaris | 167 |
| Early Reading | 187 |
| Kissing a Folio | 233 |
| Delight in Book-Prints | 248 |
| The Second-hand Catalogue | 256 |
| Borrowing and Lending | 278 |
| Wedded to Books | 278 |
| The Book of Books | 294 |
| Literary Geography | 300 |
| Scotland | 300 |
| England | 301 |
| Ireland | 302 |
| The Library as Study | 305 |
| Charles Lamb's Library | 323 |
| Irving, Washington (1783-1859). |
| True Friends that Cheer | 9 |
| Jago, Richard (1715-81). |
| To a Lady furnishing her Library | 212 |
| Jefferies, Richard (1848-87). |
| When Translations are to be preferred | 101 |
| In the British Museum Library | 328 |
| Jerrold, Douglas William (1803-57). |
| 'A blessed companion is a Book' | 12 |
| Johnson, Lionel (1869-1902). |
| Oxford Nights | 366 |
| Johnson, Samuel (1709-84). See also Boswell. |
| Why Books are Read | 37 |
| An ignorant Age hath many Books | 60 |
| The Moons of Literature | 67 |
| Books of Morality | 108 |
| The Secret Influence of Books | 109 |
| Dead Counsellors are safest | 109 |
| Reading According to Inclination | 128 |
| Marginal Notes and Commonplace Books | 143 |
| Getting a Boy forward | 181 |
| At Large in the Library | 181 |
| Early Reading | 183 |
| Jonson, Ben (1573 ?-1637). |
| To Sir Henry Goodyer | 10 |
| To my Book | 76 |
| Book-makers and Plagiarists | 91 |
| To George Chapman | 101 |
| What Shakespeare hath left us | 103 |
| On the Portrait of Shakespeare | 105 |
| The first Authors for Youth | 180 |
| To my Bookseller | 261 |
| Keats, John (1795-1821). |
| On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | 100 |
| King, William (1663-1712). |
| A Moth | 252 |
| A Modern Library | 311 |
| Kingsley, Charles (1819-75). |
