[145] See II, 140-167, Nos. 131-720.
[146] See "Bibliographies of Bibliographies," The Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of America, III (1911), 50-53.
[147] For brief comment on these bibliographies see below.
[148] In the eighteenth century J. M. Francke, who compiled the great Catalogus Bibliothecae Bunavianae (3 v.; Leipzig, 1750-1756), came, with the Bünau library, to the Dresden library. In the first quarter of the nineteenth century F. A. Ebert completed the Allgemeines bibliographisches Lexikon in the same library.
[149] Pp. 20-65.
[150] Leipzig, 1850; 2d ed., Brussels, 1854. These are many later indexes to biographies. See, as examples, Max Arnim, Internationale Personalbiographie, 1850-1935 (Leipzig, 1936) and a second edition (Leipzig, 1944-1952) that has been expanded backwards and forwards to cover the years between 1800 and 1943 and Luigi Ferrari, Onomasticon. Repertorio biobibliografico degli scrittori italiani dal 1500 al 1850 (Milan, 1947).
[151] I do not see what principle guides him in the choice of bibliographies published in the editions of an author's works. He does not include, for example, a very curious bibliography in Marcus Meibomius (ed.), Diogenes Laertius, De vitis, dogmatibus et apophthegmatibus clarorum philosophorum (Amsterdam, 1692). It is the first bibliography, as far as I know, to give systematically the locations of the books cited. The first example of a reference to the place where a book may be found is, I believe, in Giovanni Nevizzano (Johannes Nevizzanus), Quaestiones (ed. L. Gómez; Venice, 1525). I quote it from Wilhelm Fuchs, "Die Anfänge juristischer Fachbibliographie," Archiv für Bibliographie, Buch- und Bibliothekswesen, II (1929), 49.
[152] See, for example, a list of men named Alard (p. 167).
[153] "Petzholdt redivivus. Zur Theorie und Praxis eines allgemeinen internationalen Bibliographienverzeichnisses," Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, LXIV (1950), 413-438.
[154] I am of course aware that the Guide to Reference Books originally written by Alice Kroeger has passed through many editions and has had two subsequent editors. Its well-deserved success is no very strong argument for the usefulness of a classified arrangement. The Guide is, it must be recognized, a very special sort of reference work. It has been intended from the beginning to serve reference librarians and has been improved and enlarged for that use. In other words, it has always had very limited and highly trained readers familiar with its special methods. The latest edition is by Constance M. Winchell (7th ed.; Chicago, 1951).