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.
INDEX.
- Access to shelves, [215]-[225]
- Accuracy, rarity of, [254]-[257]
- Adams (O. F.) Dictionary of American authors, [490]
- Adams (W. H. D.) Dictionary of English literature, [499]
- Administration, faculty of, [249]
- Advertising, library, [353]-[356]
- Aids to readers, [190]-[214]
- Alexandrian library, [107], [289]
- Allibone (S. A.) Critical dictionary of English literature, [494]-[495]
- Alphabeting titles, [380], [388]-[389]
- American book prices, current, 1895-99, [498]
- American catalogue, 1876-1899, [481]-[484]
- American Library Association
- Americana,
- Anderson (J. P.) book of British topography, [500]
- Arabic figures, [81]
- Art of reading, [171]-[189]
- Art, lesson from, [24]
- Assistants in libraries
- Astor library, N. Y., [35], [306]
- Auction sales, [38]-[40], [45]-[47], [457]
- Authorship, [271]-[2]
- Bad books, [20]-[24], [281]-[2]
- Bartlett (J. R.) catalogue of J. Carter Brown library, [493]
- Bay Psalm book, [455]
- Beckford library sale, [74], [457]-[8]
- Beecher (H. W.) on books, [15]
- Bibliography, [459]-[500]
- Binding of books, [50]-[87], [93]-[94]
- Biography, [4]-[7], [17]
- Blake (A. V.) American booksellers' trade-list catalogue, [479]
- Boccaccio of 1471, sale of, [46]
- Bolton (H. C.) catalogue of scientific and technical periodicals, [492]
- Book binding, [50]-[87], [93]-[94]
- Book buying, [33]-[49]
- Book covering, [97]
- Book-marks, [115]
- Book plates, [90]-[93], [97]-[100]
- Book prices
- Book shops, second hand, [42]-[45], [458]
- Book supports, [96], [110]
- Book worms, [108]
- Books, cheap and poor editions of, [30]
- Books, choice of, [3]-[32]
- Books for public libraries, selection of, [15]-[32], [361]
- Books of reference, [16], [462]-[463]
- Books, three classes of, [182]
- Books which have helped me, [183]
- Books,—see Reading
- Bores, how to treat, [259]
- Boston Athenaeum library, [305], [485]
- early pamphlets in, [149]
- Boston public library, [315]
- Bowker (R. R.)
- British Museum library
- Brown (J. Carter) library of Americana, [493]
- Brunet (J. C.) Manuel du libraire, [467]
- Bry (De) Voyages, [449], [451]
- Buildings, library, [321]-[333]
- Bulwer-Lytton (E. L.) writings of, [23], [174]
- Burnham (T. O. H. P.), [44]
- Bury, Richard de, [292]
- Buying of books, [33]-[49]
- Calf binding, [55]
- Campbell (John), [45]
- Capitals, how to be used in catalogues, [378], [387]
- Card catalogue system, [393]
- Cards, for catalogues, [393]
- Carlyle (Thomas)
- Carnegie (Andrew) gifts to libraries, [315]
- Catalogue of all books printed in the U. S. 1804, [478]-[479]
- Catalogues, [373]-[399]
- abridging titles, [382]-[383]
- accession, [386]
- auction, [38]-[39]
- card system for, [393]
- chronology of authors, [381], [389], [398]
- classed, [374]-[5], [383]
- collations in, [379]
- cross references, [377]
- Cutter's rules for, [375]
- deficiencies of American, [473]-[476]
- dictionary, [373]-[5], [383]-[384]
- English, [383], [495]
- errors in, [384]-[385], [388]
- imprints, how given, [379]
- kinds of, [373]
- of British Museum library, [396]-[399], [498]
- printing, advantages of, [395]-[396]
- rules for, [375]-[381]
- sale, value of, [33]-[34], [37]
- shelf, [386]
- size-notation in, [389]-[391]
- use of capitals in, [378], [387]
- Caxton's press, books, [451]
- Census of wealth, futility of, [194]-[196]
- Chambers' Cyclopaedia of English literature, [499]
- Children's books, [276], [278]
- Choice of books, [3]-[32], [277], [335]
- Chronology of authors, [381], [398]
- Classic authors, [30]
- Classification of books, [362]-[372]
- application of, [366]
- Bibliothèque nationale, system of, [368]
- British museum, system of, [368]
- Brunet's system of, [367]
- close classification, [364]-[365]
- conflict of systems, [362]-[363]
- Crunden's verses on, [430]
- Cutter, system of, [369]
- Dewey, system of, [370]
- Fletcher, system of, [372]
- fixed shelf location, [371]
- Library of Congress, system of, [368]
- Cleaning books, [103]-[104], [127]-[130]
- Clergymen, some book-abusing, [138], [140]
- Cleveland public library
- Cogswell (J. G.), [35]
- Collation, [61], [379]
- Collier, J. Payne, as a cataloguer, [385]
- Congressional library—see Library of Congress
- Copy tax,
- Copyright
- Counting a library, [350], [386]
- Courtesy, in libraries, [250], [261]
- Croton bug, [109]
- Crowding of books on shelves, [116]-[117]
- Crunden (F. M.) verses on classification, [430]
- Cutter (C. A.) Boston Athenaeum catalogue, [485]
- Cutting edges, [60]-[61], [67]
- Damage to books, see Injuries
- Damp, an enemy of books, [104]
- Dates, errors in, [210]-[212]
- Dates of books, ancient expression of, [391]-[393]
- Decimal system, [370], [390]
- Denis (F.) Nouveau manuel de bibliographie, [468]-[469]
- Dewey (Melvil)
- Dictionary catalogues, [373]-[375], [383]-[384]
- Dictionary of national biography, [197], [497]
- Dime novels, [21], [281]
- Documents (U. S. public) catalogues, [492]
- Dogs-earing books, [114]
- "Dont's," list of proper warnings, [134]
- Duplicates in libraries, [31], [167]-[168]
- Durrie (D. S.) Bibliographia genealogica Americana, [491]
- Dust,
- Duyckink's Cyclopaedia of American literature, [490]
- Eames (W.) continuation of Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana, [485]
- Editions,
- Education, [245], [282]-[283]
- Egypt, libraries of, [287]-[289]
- Elzevirs, [424], [457]
- Emerson (R. W.) cited, [172], [185]
- Encyclopaedia Britannica, scope and limitations of, [14], [197]-[199], [245]
- Enemies of books, [101]-[118]
- English catalogue,
- Errors
- Essays, [9], [17]