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Odyssey, from the voyage, blue : the classictil law books,because the titles were in red letters, were called libri rubri-cati, hence the French denomination, les rubriques, and ourrubric, as applied to prayer-books.

The first book-case noticed in our history was the one givenby the celebrated Earl Godwin to the monks of Worcester .

The first instance of an exclusive right to the sole printingand publishing of a book, is noticed in the 16th vol. of theFcedera, 1591, being a patent granted by Queen Elizabethto Richard Wright of Oxford, to publish a translation ofCornelius Tacitus into English , forbidding any one to printthe same during his life, or to import any English trans-lation of it from beyond sea.

BOOK-KEEPING. The method of recording the pecu-niary transactions of merchants by the system of double entryis supposed to have originated at Venice in the fifteenthcentury,- the first treatise on the subject was written byLucco de Burgo about the year 1495, and the method appearsto have been adopted in our mercantile houses about theclose of the sixteenth century.

BOOK-SELLERS were by the ancients named bibliopilce,their office being distinct from that of the librarii. Pettydealers or venders of small ware were distinguished by thediminutive appellation of libeliones. At Rome the argiletHmwas the mart for books, as Paternoster-row was considered,in London . Formerly the offices of book-sellers and printerswere united in the same persons

BOOTS. The Romans had leather spatterdashes, havingbuttons on the sides, and probably introduced the practice ofwearing them into this country, as they were common amongthe Anglo-Saxons , being worn by persons of all ranks andconditions, as well clergy as laity. Robert, the eldest son of