publisher, size in inches, collation, price, and date, with a fairly good index of titles or subjects, in the same alphabet. Covering much the same ground, as a publishers' periodical, is "The Bookseller," issued monthly since 1858, with lists of the new issues of the British press, and critical notices. In addition to the English catalogue, there is the extensive Whitaker's "Reference catalogue of current literature," published every year, which now makes two large volumes, and embraces the trade catalogues of English publishers, bound up in alphabetical order, with a copious index, by authors and titles, in one alphabet, prefixed. While on English bibliographies, I must note the important work on local history, by J. P. Anderson, "Book of British Topography," London, 1881. This gives, in an alphabet of counties, titles of all county histories or descriptive works of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, followed in each county by a list of town histories or topographical works. The arrangement under each town is chronological. Its only want is a collation of the books. British genealogy, or the history of families, is treated bibliographically in G. W. Marshall's "The Genealogist's Guide," London, 1893, which gives an alphabet of family names, with references in great detail to county and town histories, pedigrees, heralds' visitations, genealogies, etc., all over Great Britain, in which any family is treated. The wide field of foreign bibliography, by countries, cannot here be entered upon, nor can I now treat of the still more extensive range of works devoted to the bibliography of various subjects. Access to shelves, 215-225 American authors, 490 249 Advertising, library, 353-356 tionary of English litera- Alphabeting titles, 380, 388-9 rent, 1895-99, 498 American Library Association foundation of, 499 on open shelves, 223 on size-notation, 390 Americana, bibliographies of, what are, 473 Anderson (J. P.) book of British topography, 500 Arabic figures, 81 Bad books, 20-24, 281-2 accessibility of, 463-4 472-493 selection of works in, 462 desiderata in, 52 how a bibliomaniac binds, importance of, 87 lettering titles, 72, 78-83 machine methods, 62-3 marbling and gilding, 68-9, 73 materials for, 53 rebinding methods, 64 Biography, 4-7, 17 discrepancies in, 210-12 Boccaccio of 1471, sale of, 46 Book binding, 50-87, 93-4 Bulwer-Lytton (E. L.) writ- ings of, 23, 174 Burnham (T. O. H. P.), 44 Capitals, how to be used in Card catalogue system, 393 how obviated, 394-6 life of Cromwell, 148 on reading, 171 Carnegie (Andrew) Catalogue of all books print- abridging titles, 382-3 auction, 38-9 card system for, 393 389, 398 Caxton's press, books, 451 194-6 Chambers' Cyclopaedia of English literature, 499 Choice of books, 3-32, 277, 335 Classic authors, 30 Classification of books, 362- application of, 366 British museum, system of, Brunet's system of, 367 Cleaning books, 103-4, 127-130 Cleveland public library fiction experience, 27 Collier, J. Payne, as a cata- rationale of, 406, 409 416 aggregate copyrights en.. and Library of Congress, books not entered, 474 Cutter (C. A.) Boston Athen- rules for catalogue, 375 Cutting edges, 60-61, 67 Damage to books, see Injuries remark by, 433 Dictionary catalogues, 373-5, Dictionary of national biog- Dime novels, 21, 281 Duplicates in libraries, 31, Durrie (D. S.) Bibliographia 491 Dust, in libraries, 101-103 Editions, to be always noted, first, 46, 388, 452 Emerson (R. W.) cited, 172, 185 Encyclopaedia Britannica, scope and limitations of, Enemies of books, 101-118 uses dictionary form, 383 Facsimile reproduction, 132- Fiction, 12, 18-28, 179 Fires, in libraries, 106-8, 131, destruction of books by, First editions, 46, 388, 452 index to periodicals, 169 rich in pamphlets, 150 Gas, an enemy of books, 105 George IV, library of, 212 Gesner (C.) Bibliotheca uni- Gould (Jay) History of Dela- Graesse, Trésor des livres Greece, libraries of, 288-9 Heat, an enemy of books, 104 Helps to readers, 191-214 of libraries, 287-320 (local) bibliography, 491, 500 Homer, 173, 184, 458 184 |