Powis, the Earl of Dufferin, Richard Monckton Milnes, afterward Lord Houghton, Sylvain Van der Weyer, Octave Delapierre (the Belgian Consul), Thomas Erskine Perry, John Perry, John Murray, Thomas Longman, R. S. Holford, Edward Cheney, Evelyn P. Shirley, and the Rev. Walter Sneyd. Lord Acton, Lord Taunton, Peter Cunningham, Henry G. Bohn, Dean Milman, Sir Charles Eastlake (President of the Royal Academy), the Honorable Robert Curzon, and the Honorable T. E. Stonor were among the wellknown men who joined soon after the society was started. The Philobiblon lasted for a quarter of a century, and was then dissolved. Some of the members came to Took's Court for printing on their own account, and for extra copies of their respective Philobiblon papers. I find an account for fifty copies of a small quarto called "Jean, Roi de France," printed on the 17th of March, 1850, for the Duc d'Aumale, who was then living at Twickenham; and in 1856, for the same notability, one hundred copies of a crown octavo entitled "Notes et Documents." To the account of Richard Monckton Milnes, 16 Upper Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, there is charged, in 1850, a small quarto volume called "Fairfax on Witches," of which twelve copies were made, eight being on laid paper, two on tinted paper, and two on vellum. In 1856 Milnes ordered a crown oc tavo called, in the printer's account, "Monument for Scutari," of which he took one hundred copies, as well as seventy-six copies of "Boswelliana." In 1858 his account shows fifty copies of From the Grange," an octavo, and thirty copies of a double post octavo containing papers "On the Apology for the Massacre of St. Bartholomew," "A Funeral Oration," and Keats' "Hyperion," of which collection twenty copies were printed on laid paper, five on tinted paper, and five on vellum. For Octave Delapierre there were printed, between 1856 and 1859, a few copies of little books written or compiled by himself. The Chevalier de Chatelain, who was residing at 27 Grafton Place, Euston Square, had, in 1853, a small edition of Gay's "Fables in French and English"; during the next year five hundred copies of “La Fleur et la Feuille"; in 1856, three hundred of "Les Moins de Kilcrae"; and, in 1857, two hundred and fifty copies of a two-volume edition of "Les Contes de Cantorbery," with a portrait of Chaucer. In 1859, the year in which Longman ordered an edition of Rogers' "Recollections," the Chevalier had many copies of a book called "Cleomades." Lord Vernon had five hundred copies of an imperial quarto edition of Dante's "Inferno." This was in 1854. A year later he had a smaller number of the "Paradiso,” and in 1855 of the "Purgatorio." Who "Paddy" was I know not. But "Paddy, of Southampton Row," is charged, in 1854, with twenty-five copies of each of the following imperial folios: "Grecian Antiquities," "Views of Constantinople," "Panorama of Constantinople." To the account of Frederick Locker, in November, 1857, there is put down the first edition, three hundred copies, of the "London Lyrics," a book of ninety pages published by Chapman and Hall. The Baron Avisani, in 1859, had a goodly edition of “The Peace of Villafranca." Sylvain Van der Weyer had thirty-eight copies on "wove," and twelve on India paper, of a book called "Le Marquis de Sy." This was in 1858, in the month of March, when Sir John Simeon, Bart., ordered twenty-five copies of a post octavo called "Unpublished Poems of Donne." A year later Sir John had twenty-five copies of the "Trial and Execution of the Cenci." Sir Arthur Helps, described by Nephew as "a tall, military-looking man who spoke rapidly, and was so nervous and impatient that he seemed always in a tremendous hurry," had ten works printed in as many years. In '58, also, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "of Bridge Street, Blackfriars," was charged for "composing a book." Rossetti had come to Whittingham with this letter from Coventry Patmore: |