As a palæographer, whose life had been spent among MSS., Sir Edward Bond could not be expected to take the same warm interest in the Library Association that may reasonably be looked for in a librarian chiefly conversant with printed books, but he well understood the duty in this respect imposed upon him by his office as Principal Librarian, and evinced this by presiding over the London meeting of 1887. He married a relative, Miss Caroline Barham, daughter of the famous author of the "Ingoldsby Legends." Lady Bond survives her husband, and he has left five daughters, all married. He wrote no independent work, but edited the _Statutes of the University of Oxford_, the _Trial of Warren Hastings_, and several books for the Hakluyt and other Societies, besides contributing numerous memoirs to the _Transactions_ of his own special creation, the Palæographical Society.
[335:1] Contributed to _The Library_, May 1898.
Abbas the Great, Shah of Persia, wishes to introduce printing into Persia, 119
Africa, question as to first introduction of printing into, 123
Aldrich, Stephen J., of the British Museum, an authority on incunabula, 208
Antequera Castro, Joseph, author of a book printed in Paraguay, 133
Baber, Rev. H. H., his Museum catalogue, 85; his plan for an improved catalogue, 90
Bailey, J. B., on subject indexes to scientific periodicals, 225
Beresford, General, prints proclamations in Buenos Ayres, 136
Bethnal Green Library, its contrivance for the accommodation of books, the prototype of the British Museum sliding-press, 267
Bible, the foundation of the system of classification adopted at the British Museum, 212
Blades, William, his "Enemies of Books," 283-287
Bond, Sir Edward Augustus, K.C.B., Principal Librarian of the British Museum, his services to the British Museum Printed Catalogue, 15; his negotiations with the Treasury, 65, 73, 94; memoir of, 335-339
Bonifacius, Joannes, author of the first book printed by Europeans in China, 121
British Museum Catalogue, how far a model for other catalogues, 7
Canevarius, Antonius, collector of books and amateur of bindings, 164-166
Classed indexes to Museum Catalogue, how to be made, 106
Classification of Books on the shelves of the British Museum, Library, 211