Transcribed from the 1881 Macmillan and Co. edition by DavidPrice, email ccx074@pgflaf.org

THE LIBRARY

BY
ANDREW LANG

WITH ACHAPTER ON
MODERN ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED BOOKSBY
AUSTIN DOBSON

London
MACMILLAN & CO.
1881

The rightof reproduction is reserved.

p. viPrinted by R. & R. Clarke, Edinburgh.

p. viiTO
DR. JOHN BROWN
AUTHOR OF
RAB AND HIS FRIENDS.

p.ixPREFATORY NOTE

The pages in this volume onilluminated and other MSS. (with the exception of some anecdotesabout Bussy Rabutin and Julie de Rambouillet) have beencontributed by the Rev. W. J. Loftie, who has also written onearly printed books (pp. 94–95).  The pages on theBiblioklept (pp. 46–56) are reprinted, with theEditor’s kind permission, from the Saturday Review;and a few remarks on the moral lessons of bookstalls are takenfrom an essay in the same journal.

Mr. Ingram Bywater, Fellow of Exeter College, and latelysub-Librarian of the Bodleian, has very kindly read through theproofs of chapters I., II., and III., and suggested somealterations.

Thanks are also due to Mr. T. R. Buchanan, Fellow of All SoulsCollege, for two plates from his “Book-bindings in AllSouls Library” (printed for private circulation), which hehas been good p.xenough to lend me.  The plates are beautifully drawnand coloured by Dr. J. J. Wild.  Messrs. George Bell &Sons, Messrs. Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., and Messrs. Chatto& Windus, must be thanked for the use of some of the woodcutswhich illustrate the concluding chapter.

A. L.

p.xiCONTENTS.