BODLEY--DIGBY--LAUD--SELDEN--ASHMOLE 124
CHAPTER XII.
GROLIER AND HIS SUCCESSORS 139
CHAPTER XIII.
LATER COLLECTORS: FRANCE--ITALY--SPAIN 158
CHAPTER XIV.
DE THOU--PINELLI--PEIRESC 169
CHAPTER XV.
FRENCH COLLECTORS--NAUDE TO RENOUARD 183
CHAPTER XVI.
LATER ENGLISH COLLECTORS 202
INDEX 221
List of Illustrations
PORTRAIT OF PEIRESC _Frontispiece_
(From an engraving by Claude Mellan.)
INITIAL LETTER FROM THE 'GOSPELS OF ST. CUTHBERT' 18
SEAL OF RICHARD DE BURY 38
PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD PRAYING BEFORE ST. GEORGE 59
(From the Book of Hours commonly known as the 'Bedford Missal.')
PORTRAIT OF MAGLIABECCHI 74
(From an engraving in the British Museum.)
BINDING EXECUTED FOR QUEEN ELIZABETH 112
(English jeweller's-work on a cover of red velvet. From a
copy of 'Meditationum Christianarum Libellus,' Lyons,
1570, in the British Museum.)
PORTRAIT OF SIR ROBERT COTTON 117
(From an engraving by R. White after C. Jonson.)
PORTRAIT OF SIR THOMAS BODLEY 126
(From an engraving in the British Museum.
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