The cataloguing rules of the Library Association of the United Kingdom, as revised in 1883, and published in the Library Chronicle of February, 1885, differ from the A. L. A. rules in the following points:
1. The order of the imprint is to be: edition, number of volumes, if only one volume, the number of pages, the number of separate illustrations, maps, or portraits, the size, the place of publication, the place of printing when different from that of publication, the publisher’s name, and the year.
2. All anonymous works to have the abbreviation “Anon.” added.
3. Entry under the chief subject-word of the titles of anonymous books, with a cross-reference, where advisable, under any other noticeable word.
4. Service and Prayer books used by any religious community are to be placed under the head of Liturgies, with a subhead of the religious community.
5. Names of translators, commentators, editors, and preface writers, if they do not occur in the title-page, may be added within square brackets, a cross-reference being made in each case. {104}
6. It should be noticed that sometimes the respondent and defender of a thesis are joint authors.
7. All persons generally known by a forename are to be so entered, the English form being used in the case of sovereigns, popes, ruling princes, Oriental writers, friars, and persons canonized.
[This is like the A. L. A., but differently expressed.]
8. [References are required to be always made to the first word under which a society is entered] from the name of the place where its headquarters are established.