58.—The order of arrangement for books written by an author who is also a joint-author is to give first those books written by him alone; then those books in which he has collaborated, with his name occupying the leading place upon the title-page; and lastly the references to other authors with whom he has joined, but with his name in a secondary place. The entries would be separately alphabetical in each of these divisions. The following illustrates this point:—
Stevenson, Robert L. The black arrow.
⸻ Weir of Hermiston.
⸻ and Fanny. The dynamiter.
⸻ and Lloyd Osbourne. The ebb-tide.
⸻ The wrecker.
⸻ See also Henley, W. E.
59.—As in this illustration the repeat dash has been used, it may be here stated that its purpose is to save the repetition of the author’s name in each entry after the first, and, as shown in the case of “The wrecker,” it is unnecessary to give more than a single dash in any instance, as the position of the entry denotes that it is by the same authors as the preceding book. It was owing to the misuse of this dash that the old catalogue joke arose of
Mill, J. S. On liberty.
⸻ On the Floss.