Sermons on national subjects. Kingsley, C. 2v. 1872
The arrangement is alphabetically by the words of the titles as in the case of any other title-entries, and not by the names of the authors.
95.—Dramas, Dramatic Works, are also forms calling for similar treatment to Poems, Essays, or Sermons. Collections of letters by individuals are simply entered under the names of the writers with references from the editors.
96.—There is a form of entry occasionally seen in catalogues that is so obviously absurd that it scarcely needs to be more than referred to, viz., a heading “Pamphlets.” Here, presumably, all the thin or unbound books in a library are entered. Under an arrangement of this description, work should be facilitated, as but two headings would be requisite—one “Books” and the other “Pamphlets”—the dividing line between the two to be fixed by the number of pages.
Almost in a line with such a ridiculous heading is the lazy cataloguer’s method of taking volumes consisting of a number of pamphlets bound together, whether upon the self-same subject or as many different subjects as there are pamphlets in the volumes, and lumping them with entries like these:
Miscellaneous pamphlets. v.d.
Pamphlets, Miscellaneous. 37 v. v.d.
Sermons, Miscellaneous. v.d.
Political pamphlets. v.d.
Of course, each pamphlet must be dealt with in precisely the same way as if it were a separate book, the fact that it is a thin book not entering into the question, unless it happens to be of so very trifling or ephemeral a character as to be unworthy of an entry, when it should either be withdrawn from the library (unless the fact of its being bound up with others prevents) or properly catalogued.