The staff of the Union Catalog of the Library of Congress has located in America editions in the book list not already included in the Catalog; S. P. L. Filon, Esq., of the National Central Library in London, has helped with English books neither in the British Museum nor in the libraries at Oxford and Cambridge; and Dr. Stanley Pargellis has very kindly had Congreve’s list checked for all items in the Newberry Library. The Reserve Division has noted all titles in The New York Public Library.
To His Grace, the Duke of Leeds, and to the Trustees of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society the editor is indebted for kind permission to photostat and publish the list.
Among the many individuals to whom the editor is indebted, special mention should be made of Miss Isabel Fry and Mr. Lyle Wright, of the Huntington Library; Mrs. Edna C. Davis, of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library; Miss Eleanor E. Goehring, Professor John L. Lievsay and Professor Alwin Thaler, of the University of Tennessee; and Dr. Giles E. Dawson, Dr. James G. McManaway, and Dr. Edwin E. Willoughby, of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Many items in the book list might not have been identified except for the kindness and the genius of Dr. Willoughby.
[1] From Riccoboni’s An Historical and Critical Account of the Theatre in Europe, p. 175. One of the last books added to Congreve’s library was Riccoboni’s Histoire du Théâtre Italien, Paris, [1727]. See [Number 314].
[ ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE BOOK LIST]
| BM | The British Museum, London. |
| BN | Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. |
| Brooks | “A Bibliography of John Oldham,” Proceedings of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, v, 1936. |
| Case | A Bibliography of English Poetical Miscellanies, 1521–1750, Oxford, 1935. |
| Clark | The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, California. |
| Folg | The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. |
| Harv | The Harvard Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| Hunt | The Henry E. Huntington Memorial Library, San Marino, California. |
| LC | The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
| Macdonald | John Dryden, a Bibliography of Early Editions and of Drydeniana, Oxford, 1939. |
| NYP | The New York Public Library, New York City. |
| STC | A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640, Oxford, 1926. |
| Wing | A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641–1700, in Three Volumes, New York, 1945–1951. |
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Names of libraries not given in full may usually be filled out by the addition of “Library” or “University Library.”