Bouchot navigation page;   Preface, pp. i-viii;   Chapter 1, pp. 1-32;   Chapter 2, pp. 33-97;   Chapter 3, pp. 98-150;   Chapter 4, pp. 151-183;   Chapter 5, pp. 184-217;   Chapter 6, pp. 218-238;   Chapter 7, pp. 239-252;   Chapter 8, pp. 253-289;   Chapter 9, pp. 290-304.



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ALBI, first printer at, 47.
Alciati, books of emblems, 126.
Alding, Henry, printer in Sicily, 35.
Aldus Manutius, son-in-law of Torresani, 51 ; printer in Venice, 99, 103, 128 ; books for Grolier, 260.
America, North, printing in, 216.
Antwerp, early printing at, 67 ; Plantin, 140.
Ars Memorandi, block book, 10.
Ars Moriendi, block book, 8.
Asola, Andrew d', successor of Jenson, 50.
Audran, C., engraver, 158.
Augsburg, Formschneiders at, 58.

BADIER, FLORIMOND, bookbinder, 280.
Badius, Jodocus, printer in Paris, 122, 246.
Baldini, designs for early Italian books, 54.
Ballard, printer for music, 186.
Bamberg, early printing at, 25, 29.
Barcelona, first printer, 36.
Bartolozzi, engraver, 209.
Baskerville, printer of Birmingham, 208.
Basle, first printer, 36 ; school of engraving, 125.
Beaujoyeux, Balthasar de, Ballet Comique, 136.
Bechtermuncze, Henry, pupil of Gutenberg, 25, 36.
Bedford, Francis, bookbinder, 288.
Belfort, Andrew, printer at Ferrara, 35.
Berlin, Imperial Library of, 301.
Bernard, le petit, designer, 128.		   Bewick, Thomas, engraver, 209, 213, 225, 234.
Bible, Gutenberg's, 15, 20 ; of 1462, the Mayence, 27 ; first English, 146 ; Authorised Version, 182 ; the Polyglot, Plantin's, 141 ; Richelieu's, 173.
Biblia Pauperum, block book, 8.
Bignon, Jerome, royal librarian, 293.
Binding, early, 253.
Biziaux, bookbinder, 287.
Blind Asylum, printers in 1786, 216.
Bocard, Andrew, printer in Paris, 88.
Bodleian Library, 300.
Bohn, H. G., publisher, 223.
Bologna, Francisco da, engraver of type, 100.
Bonhomme, printer in Lyons, 128.
Book, the, earliest forms of, 1, 6.
Books of Hours, 70, 112 ; for English use, 147.
Booksellers of Paris, 170, 186, 190, 196.
Bosse, Abraham, engraver, 170.
Botticelli, plates to Dante, 55.
Boucher, designer, 188.
Bourdichon, John, artist, 69.
Boydell, Alderman, publisher, 210.
Boyet, bookbinder, 287.
Brandt's " Ship of Fools," 65.
British Museum, library, 301.
Brothers of Common Life, printers, 1468, 36.
Browne, H. K., book illustrator, 235.
Bruges, early printing at, 37, 67.
Buckinck, Arnold, printer at

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Rome, printed the first atlas, 55.
Budé, Guillaume, royal librarian, 291.

CÆSARIS, PETER, and John Stol, second Paris printers, 68.
Callot, engraver, 167.
Cambridge, first printing at, 149.
Cars, Laurent, engraver, 189.
Cases for type, 243.
Caslon, William, type-founder, 208.
Catherine de Medicis, bindings for, 270.
" Catholicon," the, of 1460, printed by Gutenberg, 23.
Caxton, William, first English printer, 37, 92, 240.
Cazin, publisher, 200.
Cerceau, Bastiments de France, 1576, 135.
Chaillot, Robin, publisher in Paris, 82.
Challeux, James le, wood engraver, 137.
Chamot, bookbinder, 287.
Champfleury, Geoffroy Tory's, 116, 261.
Characters, variety of, 243.
Charles VII. sends Jenson to Mayence, 38.
Charles VIII., royal library, 291.
Charles IX., bindings for, 274.
Charles of Angoulême, books specially printed for him, 78.
Chauveau, Francis, engraver, 179.
Chess, Caxton's book on, 92.
Chodowiecki, engraver, 208.
Choffard, engraver, 198, 211.
Clement V., Constitutiones, 1460, printed by Schoeffer, 26.
Clément, Nicholas, royal librarian, 294.
Clennell, Luke, wood engraver, 215, 225, 234.
Cochin the younger, engraver, 191. 		  Colbert, bindings for, 272, 282.
Collines, Simon de, type-founder, 241.
Cologne, first printer, 36.
" Cologne Chronicle," 58.
Colonna, Francis, Poliphilus of, 1499, 56 ; in French, 1545, 123.
Colophons, use of, by early printers, 88.
Commin, Vincent, bookseller in Paris, 82.
Companies of printers in France, 165.
Copper plate engraving, 135 ; in England, 149.
Coster, Laurent, alleged inventor of printing, 6, 30.
Cousin, John, designs for books, 132.
Cramoisy, Sebastian, printer of Paris, 155, 165 ; director of bindings for Louis XIV. 281.
Cranach, Lucas, his Passional Christi, 106.
Cranmer's Catechism, 1548, 148.
Cruikshank, George, book illustrator, 235.
Curmer, publisher of Paris, 230.

DANCES OF DEATH, 58, 72, 85, 124.
Dante, 1481, with engraved plates, 54 ; 1491, with Botticelli plates, 55 ; 1487, printed by Bonnini, 58.
Day, John, printer, 146.
Della Bella, engraver, 168.
Deromes, bookbinders, 286.
Desportes, Philip, bindings for, 272.
Devéria, engraver, 227.
Dibdin, T. F., bibliographical works, 223.
Didot, François, printer of Paris, 194.
Didot, Pierre F., printer of Paris, 216, 219.
Didot family, 218, 242.

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Dijon, first printer at, 47.
Diodorus Siculus, Geoffroy Tory's edition, 118.
Donatus, the Latin syntax of, 4, 30.
Doré, Gustave, influence on illustration, 234.
Doyle, Richard, book illustrator, 235.
Dritzehen, Andrew, associate of Gutenberg, 13.
Dubois, Gilles, bookbinder, 281.
Dubuisson, Peter Paul, bookbinder, 286.
Duchesne on wood engraving, 225.
Duplat, relief engraving on stone, 213.
Duplessis-Bertaux, engraver, 206.
Du Pré, John, printer of Books of Hours, 80.
Dupuy brothers, bindings for, 272, 282 ; royal librarians, 293.
Durand's Rationale, 1459, printed by Schoeffer, 26.
Dürer, Albert, pupil of Wohlgemuth, 60 ; "Apocalypse," 62, 104 ; influence on Geoffroy Tory, 116.
Duseuil, bookbinder, 287.

EISEN, engraver, 196.
Eltvil, first printer, 36.
Elzevirs, printers at Leyden, 162.
Emblems, books of, 126, 135.
England, bookbinding in, 288 ; public libraries, 300.
English books, in the fifteenth century, 92 ; in the sixteenth century, 144 ; seventeenth century, 181 ; eighteenth century, 208 ; nineteenth century, 222, 234 ; school of engraving eighteenth century, 209.
Engraved plates, first book with, 52 ; in France, 134, 190.
Engravers, employed by Plantin, 142 ; in relief, the first, 3.
Engraving, introduction of metal 		  plates for, 32 ; the process, 52 ; in the Books of Hours, 71.
Erasmus, visit to Aldus, 101.
Estienne, Robert, printer in Paris, 121, 242.
Etching, process of, 189.
Eustache, William, printer of Books of Hours, 82.
Eve, Nicholas, bookbinder, 274.

FERRARA, first printer, 35.
Fichet, William, ascribes invention of printing to Gutenberg, 31.
Flemish, illustration, 66 ; printers, early, 36, 106.
Florence, National Library of, 302.
Foligno, first printer, 35.
Fontainebleau school of engraving, 128.
Fornazeris, J. de, engraver, 158.
Foucquet, John, artist, 69.
Fount of type, 243.
Fouquet, Superintendent, bindings for, 272, 282.
Fournier, type-engraver, 242.
France, early printing in, 47.
Francis I., father of letters, 120 ; bindings for, 266 ; royal library, 291.
Frankfort, books of the seventeenth century, 159.
Franklin, Benjamin, printer at Philadelphia, 217 ; founded first American public library, 303.
French book illustration, 68, 76, 106, 166, 203 ; provinces, public libraries of, 298.
Fresne, Trichet du, corrector of Royal Printing House, 166.
Furne, publisher of Paris, 232.
Fust, John, 12 et seq. ; in partnership with Gutenberg, 15.

GARAMOND, CLAUDE, type-founder, 121, 166, 241.
Gaultier, Leonard, engraver, 142, 154.

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Gavarni, designer, 233.
Ged, William, inventor of stereo-type, 220.
Gering, Freyburger, and Crantz, first printers in Paris, 41.
German books, in the seventeenth century, 158; eighteenth century, 208; nineteenth century, 224.
German public libraries, 299.
Gigoux, John, vignettist, 228.
Gillot, Claude, engraver, 180, 186.
Giunta, Lucantonio, printer at Venice, 102.
Gondi, bindings for, 272.
Gourmont, John de, wood engraver, 137.
Grandjean, Philip, royal printer, 242.
Grandville, designer, 233.
Gravelot, Hubert Francis, engraver, 196, 213.
Grolier, John, bindings for, 256.
Guadagnino, artist of Venice, 102.
Guise, Henri de, "Le Balafré," bindings for, 274.
Gutenberg, John, 12 et seq. ; at Mayence, 15 ; death of, 29.

HAARLEM, book illustration at, 67.
Hachette, publisher of Paris, 234.
Hagenbach, Peter, printer at Toledo, 36.
Hahn, Ulrich, printer at Rome, 35 ; printed first illustrated book in Italy, 48.
Hardouins, printers of Books of Hours, 82.
Haye, Cornelis de la, painter, 130.
Heilmann, Andrew, associate of Gutenberg, 13.
Heinlein and Fichet introduce printing into Paris, 40.
Henri II., Entrée à Lyon, 1549, 130 ; bindings for, 270 ; royal library, 292.
Henri III., bindings for, 274. 		  Henri IV., royal library, 292.
Hoe printing machines, 249.
Holbein, " Dance of Death," 86, 124 ; Cranmer's Catechism, 148.
Holland, artists in the seventeenth century, 160.

ILLUSTRATIONS, first, in books, 47 ; in the sixteenth century, 123.
Imposition, process of, 245.
Ink, composition of, 252.
Ipswich, first printer, 149.
Isaac, Jasper, engraver, 156.
Italian, books in the seventeenth century, 159 ; influence on French illustration, 125 ; on bindings, 256.
Italic type introduced, 100.
Italy, public libraries of, 302.

JENSON, NICHOLAS, sent to Mayence to learn type-founding, 38 ; printer at Venice, 38, 103.
Johannot brothers, engravers, 227.
John of Cologne, master à la navette, 67.
Jombert, printer of Paris, 192.
Junius, Hadrian, narrator of the Coster legend, 6, 12.

KERVER, THIELMAN, printer of Books of Hours, 80, 88.
Knight, Charles, publisher, 223.
Koburger, first printer at Nuremberg, 36, 60.
Koelhof, first printer to use signatures, 36.

LABARRE, JOHN DE, royal librarian, 291.
Laborde, Chansons, 202.
Laferté, bookbinder, 287.
La Fontaine, the Contes, 198.
La Marche, Oliver de, his Chevalier Delibéré, 67.

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Laserre, luxury in bindings for, 278.
La Tour, bookbinder, 281.
Lavoignat, wood engraver, 230.
Lebé, William, type-founder, 140, 242.
Le Brun, painter, 175.
Leclerc, Sébastien, engraver, 176.
Leech, John, book illustrator, 235.
Leeu, Gerard de, printer at Antwerp, 67.
Le Gascon bindings, 276.
Le Jay and the Polyglot Bible, 173.
Le Maire, John, Illustrations de la Gaule, 107.
Le Monnier, bookbinder, 287.
Lenoir, Philip, bindings for Francis I., 268.
Lepautre, engraver, 179.
Lesné, poet of bookbinding, 287.
Letters of Indulgence, the first printed, 17.
Lettou, John, early English printer, 95.
Leu, Thomas de, engraver, 142, 154.
Levasseur, bookbinder, 281.
Lewis, Charles, bookbinder, 288.
Leyden, the Elzevirs at, 162 ; public library of, 299.
Libraries, 290.
Library, National, of Paris, 291.
Lipsius, Justus, employed by Plantin, 140.
Logography, invention of, 216.
Lorenzo, Nicholas di, printer of El Monte Santo di Dio, first book with engraved plates, 52.
Loslein, Peter, printer at Venice, 35.
Louis XII., ordinance on printing, 108 ; bindings for, 256, 264 ; royal library, 291.
Louis XIV., bindings for, 281 ; regulations for bookbinders, 282.
Louvain, printer in 1474, 37. 		  Lutzelburger, Hans, engraver of " Dance of Death," 125.
Lyons, first printing at, 47 ; in the sixteenth century, 124 ; seventeenth century, 158.

MACHLINIA, WILLIAM, early English printer, 37, 95.
Macon, first printer at, 47.
Magasin Pittoresque, 226.
Mainyal, George, associate of Gering, 47.
Maioli, Thomas, bindings for, 259.
Mansfeldt, Count, bindings for, 272.
Mansion, Colard, printer at Bruges, 1473, 37.
Manuscripts, influence of printing upon, 34.
Manutius. See Aldus.
Marchant, Guyot, his " Dance of Death," 86 ; bindings for Francis I., 268.
Marinoni printing press, 249.
Marnef, Geoffroy and Gilbert, French printers, 107.
Mayence, revolution at, in 1462, 27 ; printing in the seventeenth century, 158.
Mayer, Henry, printer at Toulouse, 47.
Mazarin, Cardinal, bindings for, 280 ; his library, 293.
Meissonier, designer on wood, 230.
Mellan, Claude, engraver, 156.
Menzel, Adolph, book illustrator, 224.
Mer des Histoires, 1488, 70, 107.
Mérius, bookbinder, 281.
Meslier, Denis, publisher in Paris, 82.
Metal plates used for illustration, 134.
Metlinger, printer at Dijon, 47.
Milan, printing in the sixteenth

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century, 103 ; public libraries of, 302.
Montenay, Georgette de, his emblems, 135.
Monteregio, Calendario, first book with title-page, 50.
Montmorency, Anne de, bindings for, 272.
Moreau the younger, engraver, 200.
Moretus, printer of Antwerp, 141.
Mosaic bindings, 284.
Motte, Houdart de la, his " Fables," 186.

NECKER, JOST, engraver of the Theuerdanck, 105.
Neumeister, John, printer at Albi, 47.
Neumeister, John, printer at Foligno, 35.
Nevers, Duc de, book published in 1577, 138.
Notary, Julian, early English printer, 96.
Noyers, Sublet de, superintendent of Royal Printing House, 166.
Nuremberg, first printer, 36 ; books of the sixteenth century, 104 ; Chronicle, 1493, 62 ; books of the seventeenth century, 159.

ORLEANS, public library at, 298.
Os, Peter van, his Biblia Pauperum, 67.
Oswen, John, first printer at Ipswich, 149.
Oxford, first printer, 37 ; Bodleian Library, 300.

PALERMO, first printer, 35.
Palmart, Lambert, printer at Valencia, 1477, 36.
Pannartz, Arnold, printer at Rome, 35.
Paper, manufacture of, 249.
Papillons, wood engravers, 212.		   Paris, Fust's visit to, 27 ; first book printed at, 42 ; public libraries of, 298.
Pasdeloup, bookbinder, 284.
Pasquier-Bonhomme, printer in Paris, 68.
Pass family, engravers, 160.
Pasti, Matteo, designs for Valturius, 49.
Paulin, publisher of Paris, 228.
Payne, Roger, bookbinder, 288.
Perréal, John, artist, 69.
Pfinzfing, Theuerdanck, 104.
Pfister, Albert, printer of Bamberg, 25.
Philippe, Laurent, publisher in Paris, 82.
Photography, use in illustration, 233.
Picart, Bernard, engraver, 180.
Picart, John, engraver, 156.
Piccini, engraver, 159.
Pickering, William, publisher, 223.
Pictor, Bernard, printer of Venice, 35.
Pigouchet, Philip, printer of Paris, 68, 70.
Plantin, Christopher, printer of Antwerp, 140.
Pluvinel, Manège Royal, 160.
Poitiers, Diane de, bindings for, 270.
Poliphilus, printed by Aldus, 1499, 56 ; by Kerver, 1545, 123.
Polytypes, invention of, 216.
Pompadour, Madame de, bindings for, 272.
Portraits as illustrations, 89, 123, 137.
Prault, publisher of Paris, 192.
Prayer-book, Queen Elizabeth's, 146 ; Edward VI's., 148.
Presses, printing, 248.
Press work, process of, 246.
Printers' marks, 87.
Prohibitions on printers, 152, 185.

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Promptuaire des Médailles, printed by Roville, 130.
Psalter of 1457, the first dated book, 23.
Ptolemy, 1478, first printed atlas, 55.
Pynson, Richard, early English printer, 37, 95, 146.

RACINE, works, the Louvre edition, 219.
Raffet, wood engraver, 232.
Ratdolt, Erhardt, printer at Venice, 35 ; printed first title-page, 50, 103.
Rembold, Berthold, associate of Gering, 47.
Richelieu, Cardinal, his library, 297.
Roffet, Peter, bindings for Francis I., 267.
Rogers, Samuel, his poetical works, 222.
Roman character, 38, 240.
Rome, first printers, 35 ; public libraries of, 302.
Rood, Theod., first printer at Oxford, 37.
Roville, printer of Lyons, 128, 130.
Royal Printing House in Paris, 166, 215.
Royer, John le, printer for mathematics, 1560, 132.
Ruette, bookbinder, 282.
Rüppel, Berthold, first printer at Basle, 36.

ST. ALBANS, first printer, 37.
St. Aubin, designer and engraver, 192, 200.
St Pierre, Bernardin de, and the Didots, 221.
Salomon, Bernard, designer, 128.
Sanlecque, James, type-founder, 242.
Schäufelein, designs for the Theuerdanck, 105.
Schiedam, early printing at, 67. 		  Schoeffer, Peter, associate of Gutenberg and Fust, 16.
Schongauer, Martin, influence on French art, 72.
Schönsperger, printer of Augsburg, 105.
Séguier, bindings for, 282.
Siberch, John, first printer at Cambridge, 149.
Sicily, first printer, 35.
Sizes of books, 147, 189.
Sloane, Sir Hans, founder of the British Museum, 300.
Smirke, Robert, book illustrator, 210.
Southwark, first printer at, 149.
Spain, book illustration in, 106.
Speculum Humanæ Salvationis, 7.
Spindeler, Nicholas, printer at Barcelona, 36.
Spire, John and Vendelin of, printers at Venice, 35.
Spyes, Weigand, pupil of Gutenberg, 25.
Stanhope press, 248.
Steel plates for illustrations, 232.
Stereotype, invention of, 220.
Stothard, Thomas, book illustrator, 210, 222, 234.
Strasbourg, Gutenberg's retreat to, 13.
Sweynheim, Conrad, printer at Rome, 35.

Tailleurs d'images of the Middle Ages, 3.
Tauchnitz, Baron, publisher of Leipzig, 224.
Tessier, bookbinder, 287.
Ther-Hoenen, Arnold, first printer using Arabic numerals for pages, 36, 58, 88.
Theuerdanck, printed at Nuremberg, 104.
Thevet, books with plates, 135.
Thompson brothers, wood engravers, 225.

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Thou, James Augustus de, royal librarian, 293.
Titian, influence on book illustration, 103.
Title-page, the first, 50, 86 ; illustrated, 133, 142.
Toledo, first printer, 36.
Tornes, Hans de, printer in Lyons, 128.
Torresani, Andrea, succeeded Jenson, 50.
Tortorel and Perrissin, plates on the religious wars, 137.
Tory, Geoffroy, printer and engraver, 110, 241, 261.
Toulouse, first printer, 47.
Travel, books of, 148, 182.
Treschel, John, printer at Lyons, 88, 124.
Treves, Peter of, first printer at Southwark, 149.
Trithemius, account of Peter Schoeffer, 16.
Turner, J. M. W., designs for Rogers' works, 222.
Type-founding, 239, 243.

UNITED STATES, printing in, 216 ; public libraries in, 302.
Utrecht, early printers at, 36, 67.

VALDARFER, CHRISTOPHER, printer at Venice, 35.
Valencia, first printer, 36.
Valladier, Andrew, Métanéologie, 155.
Valturius, De Re Militari, 1472, 49.
Veldener, John, printer at Louvain, 67.
Venice, first printers, 35 ; first title-page printed at, 50 ; sixteenth century work, 102 ; seventeenth century, 159 ; libraries of, 302.
Verard, Antony, printer in Paris, 68, 76 ; his Books of Hours, 78.
Versailles, printing office of the Minister for War, 215. 		  Vinci, Leonardo da, influence on book illustration, 103.
Vitré, Antoine, publisher of Paris, 172.
Voragine, "Golden Legend," Venice, 1518, 103.
Vostre, Simon, printer in Paris, 68 ; his Books of Hours, 70.
Vyel, Andrew, printer at Palermo, 35.

WALCHIUS, story of Fust's visit to Paris, 28.
Walter, John, printer of the Times, 216, 249.
Water marks in paper, 251.
Watervliet, Marc Laurin de, bindings for, 272.
Watteau, engraver, 187.
Wechel, printer in Paris, 128.
Wensler, Michael, printer at Macon, 47.
Westminster, Caxton first printer at, 37.
Westphalia, John of, printer at Louvain, 1474, 37, 67.
Whittingham, Charles, printer, 223.
Woériot, Peter, engraver of emblems, 135.
Wohlgemuth, Michael, designs for the Schatzbehalter, 60.
Wolfenbüttel, public library of, 299.
Woodcuts, first book printed with, 48.
Wood engraving, revival of, 209, 213, 230.
Wynken de Worde, early English printer, 37, 95.

XYLOGRAPHS of the fifteenth century, 8.

ZAINER, GUNTHER, printer at Augsburg, 58.
Zell, Ulrich, pupil of Gutenberg, 25, 30, 36.
Zwoll, book illustration at, 67.



Bouchot navigation page;   Preface, pp. i-viii;   Chapter 1, pp. 1-32;   Chapter 2, pp. 33-97;   Chapter 3, pp. 98-150;   Chapter 4, pp. 151-183;   Chapter 5, pp.184-217;   Chapter 6, pp. 218-238;   Chapter 7, pp. 239-252;   Chapter 8, pp. 253-289;   Chapter 9, pp. 290-304.