Henry Benjamin Wheatley.
What is an Index?: a few notes on indexes and indexers.
BiblioBazaar. 1878
[p.27]
The reporter was the learned Francis Douce, who said to Mr. Thoms,
“Sir, my friend John Baynes used to say that
the man who published a book without an index
ought to be damned ten miles beyond Hell,
where the Devil could not get for stinging nettles.”2
2 Notes and Queries, 5th series, vol. viii. p. 87.
2 Notes and Queries, 5th series, vol. viii. p. 87.