- Atkyns’s ‘Gloucestershire,’ 244
- Aubrey’s ‘Surrey,’ 244
- Auchinleck library, 173
- Auction, use of the word, 105
- Auction sales: In the seventeenth century, 104-125 In the eighteenth century, 126-146 In the nineteenth century, 147-178
- Auctioneer, print of, by Nicholls, 45
- Auctioneers, 37-48
- Augustinus, ‘De Civitate Dei,’ 192
- Aungerville (Richard) = Richard de Bury, 3
- Authors, remuneration of, 2, 14
- Averages of book sales, 177
- Aylesford (Earl of), his library, 171, 176
- Bacon’s Henry VII., price, 94
- Baker (Samuel), auctioneer, 134
- Ballard (Thomas), auctioneer, 128, 130
- Bancroft’s (T.) epigrams (1639), 216
- Barnes’s (Juliana) ‘Treatyse of Fysshynge,’ 216
- Barnfield’s (R.) ‘Lady Pecunia’ (1598), 216
- Barrois collection of MSS., 72
- Bateman (Lord), his library, 174
- Bateman heirlooms, 173
- Beauclerk (Topham), sale of his library, 140
- Beaumont and Fletcher’s works, 221
- Beckford (William), sales (1823) 158, (1882-3) 166, 175 ‘Poetical Sketches,’ 256
- Bedford Missal, 75
- Bedford (Francis), his library, 170