[165] Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, XX (1903), 406-407.
[166] Biblioteca bibliografica antica e moderna d'ogni classe e d'ogni natione (2 v.; Guastella, 1782-1783: MH). Those who cite this as a bibliography of bibliographies cannot have looked beyond the title page.
[167] He cites this book by the title Speciminis antiquarum lectionum supplementa decem, which is the title of the appendix to Labbé's book. See Chapter II, n. [63]. Did Vallée actually see the work that he is citing?
[168] See, as examples, a list of characters performed on the stage by Jehn Bannister (No. 31) and a book on how to tell a Caxton (No. 844). Checklists of batrachia (No. 1687 bis) and other zoological genera (several entries after No. 1712) are accepted by Besterman, although he does not include these particular works because they are not separately published books.
[169] The description of the Catalogue de la bibliothèque du roy (No. 1336) is incorrect and incomplete, Nos. 2307 and 2398 bis should have been entered under the author's or the compiler's names. Francesco Agostino della Chiesa di Saluzzo (No. 2526) should not be under "F." Growaeus Sudovolgiensis (No. 2875) is William Crowe; see Donald Wing, A Short-Title Catalogue, C 7868. A cross-reference to Danz (No. 783) is needed under Walch (No. 6631).
[170] Bibliographies of classical authors found in standard editions might have been omitted; see No. 2652 (Aulus Gellius), Nos. 5897 and 5898 (Seneca). Bibliographies found in biographies (No. 4048) and bibliographies in doctoral dissertations (No. 2923) could be omitted without serious loss.
[171] See "Allemagne" (pp. 600-602), "Amérique" (pp. 603-604), and "Imprimerie" (pp. 685-687).
[172] Cited in the Bibliography below.
[173] "La synthèse de toutes les bibliographies publiées jusqu'à la fin de l'année 1896" (Introduction, p. ).
[174] See pp. 637-710. For a bibliography of such indexes see Vilhelm Grundtvig, Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, XX (1903), 428-430, 438-439. See such recent compilations as Norma Olin Ireland, An Index to Indexes. A subject bibliography of published indexes. Useful Reference Series, No. 67 (Boston, 1942); D. C. Haskell, Checklist of Cumulative Indexes to Individual Periodicals in the New York Public Library. (New York, 1942).