How to Form a Library Part 19

_Natural History._--ENGELMANN (W.). Bibliotheca Historico-Naturalis. Leipzig, 1846.

---- ZUCKOLD (E.A.). Bibliotheca Historico-Naturalis, Physico-Chemica et Mathematica. Gottingen, 1852.

---- See _Zoology_.

_Philology._--MARSDEN (W.) Bibliotheca Marsdenia, Philologica et Orientalis. London, 1827. 4to.

---- ENGELMANN (W.). Bibliotheca Philologica. Leipzig, 1853.

---- See _Dictionaries_.

_Political Economy._--MCCULLOCH (J.R.) The Literature of Political Economy, London, 1845.--This is a very valuable work up to the date of publication, but a good bibliography of the subject is still a desideratum. The late Professor Stanley Jevons proposed to draw up a Handy Book of the Literature for the Index Society, but, to the great loss of bibliography, was prevented by other work from undertaking it. He contributed a list of Selected Books in Political Economy to the _Monthly Notes_ of the Library a.s.sociation (Vol. 3, No. 7).

_Poor._--A Catalogue of Publications in the English Language on subjects relative to the Poor will be found in Eden's _State of the Poor_, vol. iii. pp. ccclxvii--ccclx.x.xvi.

_Printing._--BIGMORE (E.C.), and WYMAN (C.W.H.). A Bibliography of Printing, with Notes and Ill.u.s.trations.

London, 1880. 4to.

---- The Literature of Printing. A Catalogue of the Library ill.u.s.trative of the History and Art of Typography, Chalcography, and Lithography, by R.M. Hoe. London, 1877.

8vo.

The following is a list of some of the bibliographies of the productions of the chief printers:

_Aldus._--Annales de l'Imprimerie des Alde ou Histoire des trois Manuce et de leurs editions. Par Ant. Aug. Renouard.

Paris, an XII. Seconde edition. Paris, 1825. 8vo. 3 vols.

_Caxton._--The Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's first Printer, with evidence of his typographical connection with Colard Mansion, the Printer at Bruges.

Compiled from original sources by William Blades. London, 1861-63. 2 vols. 4to. A condensed edition was published under the following t.i.tle: The Biography and Typography of William Caxton, England's first Printer. By William Blades.

Second edition. London, 1882. 8vo.

_Elzevirs._--Willems (A.). Les Elzevier. Histoire et Annales Typographiques. Bruxelles, 1880. 8vo.

---- C. Pieters. Annales de l'Imprimerie des Elsevier. Gand, 1858. 8vo.

_Plantin._--La Maison Plantin a Anvers. Par L. Degeorge.

Deuxieme edition, augmentee d'une liste chronologique des ouvrages imprimes par Plantin a Anvers de 1555 a 1589.

Bruxelles, 1878. 8vo.

_Stephens._--Annales de l'Imprimerie des Estienne, ou Histoire de la Famille, des Estienne et de ses editions. Par A.A. Renouard. Paris, 1837-38. 8vo. 2 parts.

_Privately Printed Books._--The second edition of John Martin's Bibliographical Catalogue of Privately Printed Books was published in 1854, and a newer work on this important subject is much required. Mr. W.P. Courtney has been engaged in the production of such a work for some years, and the labour could not be in better hands.

_Proverbs._--The _Bibliographie Paremiologique_ of Pierre Alexandre Gratet-Duplessis (1847), is one of the most elaborate and carefully compiled bibliographies ever published. Sir William Stirling Maxwell printed privately a catalogue of his collection of books of proverbs, in which were specially marked those unknown to Duplessis, or those published since the issue of his catalogue.

_Science._--An article on the Scientific Libraries in the United States was contributed by Dr. Theodore Gill to the U.S. Report on Public Libraries (pp. 183-217). It contains an account of the various periodical records of work in the various departments of science.

_Shorthand._--Thomas Anderson's History of Shorthand, London (1882), contains Lists of Writers on Shorthand in different languages.

_Theology._--There is an article on Theological Libraries in the United States, in the U.S. Report on Public Libraries (pp. 127-160). The following extract contains some particulars respecting these.--"There are reported twenty-four libraries, which contain from 10,000 to 34,000 volumes; and these twenty-four libraries belong to ten different denominations. Three Baptist, two Catholic, two Congregational, three Episcopal, one Lutheran, two Methodist, seven Presbyterian, one Reformed (Dutch), one Reformed (German), and two Unitarian. And, if we include those libraries which contain less than 10,000 volumes, the list of different denominations to which they belong is extended to fifteen or sixteen."

A considerable number of Bibliographies of Theology will be found in the British Museum Hand-list. Darling's Cyclopaedia Bibliographica (1854-59), Malcom's Theological Index (Boston, 1868), and Zuchold's Bibliotheca Theologica (Gottingen, 1864), may be specially mentioned.

_Topography._--Gough's British Topography (2 vols. 4to.

1780) is an interesting and useful book, and Upcott's Bibliographical Account of the princ.i.p.al works relating to British Topography, 3 vols. 8vo. (1818), forms one of the best specimens of English bibliography extant.

_Topography._--Mr. J.P. Anderson's Book of British Topography (1881) is an indispensable book. Mr. Robert Harrison has prepared for the Index Society an Index of Books on Topography, arranged in one alphabet of places, which has not yet been published. Mr. W.H.K. Wright contributed a paper on "Special Collections of Local Books in Provincial Libraries" to the Transactions of the First Annual Meeting of the Library a.s.sociation, 1878 (pp. 44-50).

Another paper on the same subject, by Mr. J.H. Nodal, appears in the Transactions of the Second Annual Meeting of the Library a.s.sociation, 1879 (pp. 54-60), ent.i.tled "Special Collections of Books in Lancas.h.i.+re and Ches.h.i.+re," and in the Appendix (pp. 139-148) is a full account of these collections in Public Libraries and private hands.

An indication of some of the chief bibliographies of particular counties and places is here added--

Cornwall: Boase & Courtney, 1874-82. 3 vols. A model bibliography.

Devons.h.i.+re: J. Davidson, 1852.

" Plymouth (Three Towns' Bibliotheca), R.N. Worth, 1872-73.

Dorsets.h.i.+re: C.H. Mayo, privately printed, 1885.

Gloucesters.h.i.+re: Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis, J. Washbourn, 1823-25.

Gloucesters.h.i.+re: Collectanea Glocestriensia, J.D. Phelps, 1842.

Hamps.h.i.+re: Bibliotheca Hantoniensis, H.M. Gilbert, 1872?

" List of Books, Sir W.H. Cope, 1879.

Herefords.h.i.+re: J. Allen, jun., 1821.

Kent: J. Russell Smith, 1837.

Lancas.h.i.+re: H. Fishwick, 1875.

Man (Isle of): W. Harrison, 1876.

Norfolk: S. Woodward and W.C. Ewing, 1842.

Nottinghams.h.i.+re: S.F. Creswell, 1863.

Suss.e.x: G.S. Butler, 1866.

Yorks.h.i.+re: Rt. Hon. John Smythe, Pontefract, 1809.

" E. Hailstone, 1858.

" W. Boyne, 1869.

_Trade and Finance._--Catalogue of Books, comprising the Library of William Paterson, Founder of the Bank of England, in vol. iii. of the Collection of his "Writings, edited by Saxe Bannister," (3 vols. 8vo. London, 1859).

---- Enslin und Engelmann. Bibliothek der Handlungswissenschaft 1750-1845. Leipzig, 1856.