In all subsequent illustrations the position in the Dewey Classification will be shown by the number attached to each principal entry, as if it were the shelf ("finding" or "location") number in the dictionary catalogue, and this will obviate the necessity for any separate statement relating to the classified catalogue unless it seems to be required.
CHAPTER X.
First Name Entry.
Monarchs. Queens. Order of Arrangement. Princes. Popes. Series Entries. Saints. Friars. Mediæval Names. Artists, &c.
Among other names rather puzzling to the cataloguer are those of persons who have no surnames in the ordinary accepted sense, and who are known and entered by their Christian or forenames, such as potentates, popes, saints, and mediæval writers. Their names will arise more frequently for subject-entry than as authors, but the style of entry remains the same in either case.
To take the names of royal personages first, the book chosen is catalogued as
| Victoria, Queen. Letters: a selection, 1837-61; | |
| ed. by Arthur C. Benson and Viscount Esher. | |
| 3 v. ports. 1907 | 942.081 |
This would be a sufficiently full entry for most catalogues, yet the title-page of the first volume reads