[119] Mr. Trübner died in London March 30, 1884. Cf. memorial in The Library Chronicle, April, 1884, p. 43, by W. E. A. Axon; also a “Nekrolog” by Karl J. Trübner in the Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, June, 1884, p. 240.
[120] Cf. notice by Mr. Brevoort in Magazine of American History, iv. 230.
[121] There is a paper on “Edwin Tross et ses publications relatives à l’Amérique” in Miscellanées bibliographiques, Paris, 1878, p. 53, giving a list of his imprints which concern America.
[122] Jackson, nos. 689, 703, 717.
[123] Vol. IV. chap. viii. editorial note. There is an account of Muller and his bibliographical work in the Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, November, 1884.
[124] Jackson, nos. 650-654; Trübner, Bibliographical Guide, p. xix; Sabin, Bibliog. of Bibliog., p. cv; Petzholdt, Bibliotheca Bibliographica.
[125] More or less help will be derived from the American portion of the Liste provisoire de bibliographies géographiques spéciales, par James Jackson, published in 1881 by the Société de Géographie de Paris,—a book of which use has been made in the preceding pages.
[126] See the chapter on the libraries of Boston in the Memorial History of Boston, vol. iv.
[127] The extent of Dr. Dexter’s library is evident from the signs of possession which are so numerously scattered through the 7,250 titles that constitute the exhaustive and very careful bibliography of Congregationalism and the allied phases of religious history, which forms an appendix to his Congregationalism as seen in its Literature, New York, 1880. He explains in the Introduction to his volume the wide scope which he intended to give to this list; and to show how poorly off our largest public libraries in America are in the earliest books illustrating this movement, he says that of the 1,000 earliest titles which he gives, and which bear date between 1546 and 1644, he found only 208 in American libraries. His arrangement of titles is chronological, but he has a full name-index.
The students of the early English colonies cannot fail to find for certain phases of their history much help from Joseph Smith’s Descriptive Catalogue of Friends’ Books, London, 1867; his Bibliotheca Anti-Quakeriana, 1873; and his Bibliotheca Quakeristica, a bibliography of miscellaneous literature relating to the Friends, of which Part I. was issued in London in 1883.