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I now come to a few minor points of printing, for in a catalogue nothing
is so trivial as not to require attention.
In the previous observations I have treated of things that are
invariable, they must be attended to, in any list of books, there is no
room for exercise of taste, they go to the very root of a good
catalogue, and are laws dictated by accuracy.
But the manner in which a title is printed in a list or catalogue, or
biography is a matter of taste, and we therefore give the following
hints merely as suggestions[27], hoping that they will commend
themselves to all who print title-pages. Have as few capitals as
possible in the title, none except for names of persons or places.
Titles of persons may well be printed without capitals, as prince,
marquess, lord, not Prince, Marquess, Lord.
Footnote 27:
Most of which have been acted on, if not carried to their fullest
extent in my study, already referred to: “A bibliographical list of
lord Brougham’s publications,” printed in Lord Brougham’s Works, ...
Edinb., A. and C. Black, 1873, vol XI., pp. 463 to 486.
Take for example the following title, which, printed according to the
usual method would be:—
“Speeches by the Lord Chancellor; Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham; and
Lord Campbell, in The House of Lords, on Tuesday the 9th, August, 1842,
at giving Judgment in the Appeal, the Rev. John Ferguson and others,
Appellants, against the Earl of Kinnoull, and the Rev. R. Young,
Respondents, with the Judgments appended, from Mr. Gurney’s Shorthand
notes,” &c.