Preface.--Memoir [by W. A. Shaw]--Notes on Mr. Christie's collection of books [by J. Cree]--Bibliography of Mr. Christie's writings.--Essays and papers: Biographical dictionaries. The forgeries of the Abbé Fourmont. Clenardus. Pomponatius. Was Giordano Bruno really burned? Vanini in England. The Scaligers. Chronology of the early Aldines. The Aldine anchor. An incunabulum of Brescia. Marquis de Morante and his library. Catalogues of the library of the duc de La Vallière. The Bignon family. Elzevier bibliography. De tribus impostoribus. The earliest appearance in print of the first idyll of Moschus. Le chevalier d'Eon.--'Spectator' reviews: The chevalier d'Eon. Giordano Bruno. George Buchanan. The Venetian printing press. Sébastien Castellion.--Appendices: The relations of the church to the state in respect to ecclesiastical law. A charge delivered to the churchwardens of the diocese of Manchester at the chancellor's visitation of 1889.--General index.