[Bibliography]
I indicate the libraries where the rare books cited below may be found by the following abbreviations: CU (University of California, Berkeley); DLC (Library of Congress); ICN (The Newberry Library, Chicago); MH (Harvard University Library); NN (New York Public Library). Books for which no locations are given will be found in most large libraries. I have not tried to record all the copies owned in the United States.
Besterman, Theodore. A World Bibliography of Bibliographies. London, 1939-1940. Pp. xxiv, 588; [iv], 644. 2d ed.; London, 1947-1949. Pp. xxviii, cols. 1450; , cols. 1451-3196; , cols. 3197-4111. 3d ed.; Geneva, 1955-. The author index in the third volume of the second edition is printed in three columns. The second edition is cited as Besterman.
Reviewed: Vilhelm Grundtvig, "En Verdensbibliografi over Bibliografier," Nordisk tidskrift för bokväsen, XXVII (1940), 58-65; Marc Jaryc, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, XXXVI (1942), 321-324.
Beughem, Cornelius a. Bibliotheca bibliothecarum. Never published.
Bibliographia bibliographica, I (1898)-VII (1904). Bibliographia universalis, Contribution No. 31. Brussels: Institut Internationale de Bibliographie, 1900-1906.
For a collation see Besterman, I, cols. 324-325 (only vols. I-VI). The first five volumes were issued with a new titlepage as Bibliotheca bibliographica universalis ... 1898-1902 (Brussels, 1904. DLC).
Bibliographic Index. A Cumulative Bibliography of Bibliographies. 1937-1942. New York, 1945. Pp. [xxxiii], 1780. Printed in two columns.
——. —— 1943-1946. New York, 1948. Pp. [xx], 831. Printed in two columns.