Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue / U. S. Bureau of Education Special Report on Public Libraries—Part II, Third Edition

by Charles A. Cutter

• AMERICAN.
  • ALLIBONE. Dict. of Eng. literature. Phila., 1858–71. 3v. O. $22.50.
  • CUSHING. Anonyms. Camb., 1889. 2 pts. [A–Main]. O.
  • CUSHING. Initials and pseudonyms. N. Y., 1885. O., and 2d series. N. Y., 1888. O.
  • DRAKE. Dict. of Amer. biog. Rev. ed. Bost., 1875. O. $6.
  • HARRISSE. Biblioth. Amer. vetustissima; works rel. to Amer. pub. 1492–1551. N. Y., 1866. O. $20.
  • LEYPOLDT. American catalogue; books in print July 1, 1876. N. Y., 1880–81. 2 v. F.—1876–84. N. Y., 1885. 2 v. F.
  • SABIN. Dict. of books rel. to Amer. N. Y., 1868, etc. Q. $5 per vol.
  • SPRAGUE. Annals of the American pulpit. N. Y., 1857–69. 9 v. O. $36.
  • THOMAS. History of printing in America. 2d ed. Albany, 1874. 2 v. O. $8

The following may sometimes be of use: ROORBACH’S Biblioth. Amer., 1820–61. 4 v. O., and KELLY’S Amer. catalogue, 1861–71. N. Y., 1866–71. 2 v. O; and the general catalogues of colleges. {130}

ANONYMS AND PSEUDONYMS.

The most useful books are mentioned under their respective languages, American (CUSHING), English (HALKETT and LAING), French (BARBIER and QUÉRARD). A list of new discoveries is published each month in the Library Journal.

• ART.
  • MEYER. Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon. 2. Aufl. von Nagler’s Künstler-Lexikon. 1.–3. Bd.: A–Bez. Lpz., 1872–85. O.
  • NAGLER. Die Monogrammisten. München, 1858–79. 5 v. O.
  • POLLEN. Universal catal. of books on art. Lond., 1858–77. 2 v. and suppl. sq. O. 29s.
  • THIES. Catalogue of the engravings bequeathed to Harvard College by F. C. Gray. Camb., 1869. Q.

• BELGIAN.
  • BRUSSELS. ACAD. ROY. DE BELGIQUE. Biographie nationale [A-H]. Brux., 1866–87. 9 v. O.

• DANISH.
  • BRICKA. Dansk. biog. Lex. 1. Bind [A–Bea]. Kopenh., 1887. O.

• BOTANY.
  • PAXTON. Botanical dictionary. New ed. London, 1868. O. 25s.

• DUTCH.
  • KOBUS and RIVECOURT. Biog. handwoordenboek. Zutphen, 1854–61. 3 v. O. About $4.
  • Convenient; for fuller details use
  • AA. Biog. woordenboek. Haarlem, 1852–78. 21 v. O.

• ENGLISH.
  • ALLIBONE. Dict. of Eng. literature. Phila., 1858–71. 3 v. O. $22.50.
  • A continuation is in preparation.
  • BURKE. Dormant and extinct peerages. New ed. Lond., 1866. O. 42s.
  • BURKE. Landed gentry. 7th ed. Lond., 1886. 2 v. O.
  • BURKE. Peerage and baronetage. 51st ed. Lond., 1888. O. 38s.
  • COLLIER. Bibliog. account of the rarest works in English. Lond., 1868. 2 v. O., or N. Y., 1868. 2 v. O. $16.
  • DARLING. Cyclopædia bibliog.: Authors. Lond., 1854. O. 52s. 6d.
  • Chiefly English theol. works. {131}
  • DOYLE. Official baronage of England. Lond., 1886. O. 8º. 105s.
  • HALKETT and LAING. Dict. of the anon. and pseudon. lit. of Gr. Britain. Edin., 1882–88. 4 v. O. 168s.
  • HAYDN. Book of dignities. Lond., 1851. O. 25s.
  • LOWNDES. Bibliog. manual of Eng. literature. New ed., enl. by H. G. Bohn. Lond., 1857–64. 6 v. D. 33s.
  • NICOLAS. Historic peerage. Lond., 1857. O. 30s.
  • STEPHEN. Dict. of national biography. Vol. 1–20: A–Garner. Lond., 1885–89. 20 v. O.
  • THOMAS. Handbook of fictitious names; by Olphar Hamst [pseud.]. Lond., 1868. O. 7s. 6d.
  • WALFORD. County families. New ed. Lond., 1888. O. 50s.
  • WARD. Men of the reign. Lond., 1885. D. 15s.
  • WATT. Bibliotheca Britannica. Edin., 1824. 4 v. Q. Antiq. £4 15s.