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[Decoration]
The Book-Lover's Library.
Edited by
Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A.
HOW TO CATALOGUE A LIBRARY
by
Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A.
Author of "How to Form a Library," "The Dedication of Books,"
etc., etc.
[Decoration]
London
Elliot Stock, 62 Paternoster Row
1889
PREFACE.
_Those who are interested in library work are constantly asked where a
statement of the first principles of cataloguing may be found, and the
question is one which it is not easy to answer. Most of the rules which
have been printed are intended for large public libraries, and are
necessarily laid down on a scale which unfits them for use in the making
of a small catalogue. I have divided out the subject on a plan which I
hope will commend itself to my readers, and, after discussing the most
notable codes, I have concluded with a selection of such rules as I
trust will be found useful by those who are employed in making
catalogues of ordinary libraries.
Here I must express the hope that my readers will excuse the frequent
use of the personal pronoun. If the use of "I" could have been avoided,
I would gladly have avoided it; but as the main point of the book is the
discussion of principles and theories, it seemed to me that such value
as the book may possess would be entirely destroyed if I did not give my
own opinions, founded upon a somewhat long experience.
In dealing with a subject such as this, I cannot hope to convince all
my readers, but I trust that those who disagree with my arguments will
be willing to allow them some force.
The compilation has been attended with constant feelings of regret in
my own mind, for almost every page has brought up before me the memory
of two men with whom I have at different times discussed most of the
points here raised,--two men alike in their unselfish devotion to the
cause of Bibliography. Mr. Henry Bradshaw's work was more widely known,
but Mr. Benjamin R. Wheatley's labours were scarcely less valued in the
smaller circle where they were known, and both brought to bear upon a
most difficult subject the whole force of their thoroughly practical
minds. I have learned much from both, and I have felt a constant wish to
consult them during the preparation of these pages.
All those who prepared the British Museum rules are gone from us; but
happily cataloguers can still boast of Mr. Cutter of Boston, one of the
foremost of our craft. Mr. Cutter has prepared a most remarkable code of
rules, and has not only laid down the law, but has also fearlessly given
the reasons for his faith, and these reasons form a body of sound
opinion. May he long live to do honour to Bibliography, a cause which
knows no nationality._
H. B. W.
_October, 1889._
CONTENTS.
CHAP. PAGE
I. INTRODUCTION.
What is a Catalogue?--Vulgar Errors--A Good Cataloguer
attempts to put himself in the Seeker's Place--Judicious
Shortening of Titles--Difference between Cataloguing
and Bibliography-making--A Universal Catalogue--Printing
of the British Museum Catalogue--Different Classes of
Catalogues--Classified and Alphabetical--Catalogue
Raisonné--Index Catalogues--Mr. Bradshaw's View--Need of
Care--No Jumping to Conclusions--Different Styles of
Catalogues--Purton Cooper's Sale Catalogues 1
II. BATTLE OF THE RULES.
British Museum Foremost in the Race--Printed Catalogues
of the Museum--Panizzi's Fight--Evidence before the Royal
Commission--Payne Collier's Defeat--The Museum Rules--
Jewett's Rules--Cambridge University Library Rules--Library
Association Rules adopted by Bodley's Librarian--Cutter's
Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue--Triumph of the Museum 25
III. PRINT _versus_ MANUSCRIPT.
Panizzi's Objection to Print--Parry in Favour of Print--
The British Museum again Foremost in the Race, this time
in Printing, thanks to Mr. Bond--Mr. Cutter on the Advantages
and Disadvantages of Printing--How to keep a Printed
Catalogue up to Date--Card Catalogues--Stereotyping--Henry
Stevens's Photo-Bibliography--Co-operative Cataloguing 49
IV. HOW TO TREAT A TITLE-PAGE.
_Author:_ Cutter's Definition of an Author--Compound Names--
Prefixes--Imaginary Authors--The Name by which a Man is
generally known to be preferred to that by which he is not
known--Official Names--Names of Peers--Personal Names--
Sovereigns, Saints, and Friars--Oriental Names--Contraction
for Christian Names--Distinction between Christian and
Surnames--Treatment of Changed Names--Married Authoresses--
Greek and Roman Authors--Difficulties in deciding as to the
Author of a Book--Corporate Authorship--Academical Dissertation.
_Headings other than Author Headings:_ Trials--Catalogues--
Bible--Liturgies--Voyages--Anonymous and Pseudonymous Works--
Evidence before the Commission of 1847-49--Arrangement under
Initials, under Pseudonyms. _The Title:_ Shortening of Titles--
Indication of Editions--Addition to Title-Pages. _Place of
Publication:_ Date--Use of Chronograms--Greek Dates.
_Size-Notation:_ Difficulties--Attempted Solution of these
Difficulties. _Collation_ 74
V. REFERENCES AND SUBJECT INDEX.
References and Cross-References--Press-Marks to References--
Mode of Referencing--Subject Index advocated by Panizzi 180
VI. ARRANGEMENT.
Use of the English Alphabet--I and J--U and V--Order--
Arrangement of Titles under an Author's Name--Transactions
of Societies--Pamphlets not to be divided from Books--
Journals and Magazines 198
VII. SOMETHING ABOUT MSS.
The British Museum Collections--Arrangement of an Ordinary
Collection--The Museum Catalogues--Catalogues of Manuscripts
more Readable than Catalogues of Printed Books 228
VIII. RULES FOR A SMALL LIBRARY.
_Headings:_ Author (1-11)--Non-Author (12-19)--The
Title (20, 21)--Place of Publication (22)--Date (23, 24)--
Size-Notation (25)--Collation (26)--Abstract of
Contents (27)--References (28-31)--Arrangement (32-45)--
Manipulation (52) 235
APPENDIX. LIST OF LATIN NAMES OF PLACES 247
INDEX 255
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HOW TO CATALOGUE A LIBRARY.
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CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
Before we can answer the question implied in the title of this little
book, it will be necessary for author and reader to agree as to what a
catalogue really is.
The word "catalogue" is used to mean a list or enumeration of men or
things. Thus we have a catalogue of students, but in actual use we
differentiate the two words, and a list ("a mere list") is understood to
mean a common inventory, often in no particular order (although we can
have alphabetical or classified lists); while a catalogue implies
something fuller and something disposed in a certain order. What the
limit of that something fuller and what that certain order as applied to
a catalogue of books really are, it will be for us now to consider.
It was formerly very much the fashion for those who knew little of the
subject to speak as if nothing was easier than to make a catalogue. All
you had to do was to have a sheet of paper and the book to be catalogued
before you, and then to transfer the title to the paper. No previous
knowledge was necessary. But those who were better acquainted with the
difficulties that beset even the cataloguer, realized that Sheridan's
joke about "easy writing being damned hard reading" was applicable to
the work produced under these circumstances. Since the discussion on the
British Museum Catalogue, and the consequent attention to the first
principles of bibliography, these ignorant views are not so generally
held, but still many erroneous opinions are abroad. One of these is that
the clerical portion of the work of cataloguing or indexing is
derogatory to a superior person, and therefore that he should have an
inferior person to help him. The superior person dictates, and the
inferior person copies down; and the result in practice is that endless
blunders are produced, which might have been saved if one person had
done the work.
Another vulgar error is that cataloguers form a guild, with secrets
which they wish to keep from the public. This is a grievous mistake. The
main object of the good cataloguer should be to make the consultation of
his work easy. He knows the difficulties, and knows that rules must be
made to overcome these difficulties; but he does not care to multiply
these rules more than is absolutely necessary. The good cataloguer will
try to put himself into the place of the intelligent consulter--that is,
the person who brings ordinary intelligence to bear upon the catalogue,
but has not, necessarily, any technical knowledge. Some persons seem to
think that everything is to be brought down to the comprehension of the
fool; but if by doing this we make it more difficult for the
intelligent person, the action is surely not politic. The consulter of a
catalogue might at least take the trouble to understand the plan upon
which it is compiled before using it.
Formerly it was too much the practice to make catalogue entries very
short, and to leave out important particulars mentioned on the
title-page; but now the opposite extreme of writing out the whole title,
however long, is more common. It should be remembered that in the
judicious compression of a title-page the art of the cataloguer is
brought into play, for any one can copy out the whole of a long title. I
cannot help thinking that this latter extreme is caused by some
misunderstanding of the relative conditions necessary for the production
of bibliographies and catalogues. Of course catalogues form a section of
the class Bibliography; but we understand also by the word
"bibliography" a collection of titles of books on a special subject, or
belonging to a particular literature.
The uses of a bibliography, either of a national literature or of a
subject such as _History_, are to find out what books have been
written, either by a particular author or on a particular subject; to
find whether a certain point is dealt with in a certain book; or, it may
be, to see whether a book you possess is the right edition, or whether
it is wanting in some particular. For these purposes it is most
important to have full titles, and collations with necessary additional
information given in the form of notes. Very often the particulars
included in the bibliography will be sufficient in themselves to save
the consulter from the necessity of searching for the book.
The uses of a catalogue are something quite different. This is in the
same house as the books it describes, and is merely a help to the
finding of those books. It would be absurd to copy out long titles in a
catalogue and be at the cost of printing them when the title itself in
the book can be in our hands in a couple of minutes. Sufficient
information only is required to help us to find the right book and the
right edition. How far this should be given will be discussed in a
later chapter. It is necessary for us, however, to remember that when
the catalogue is printed and away from the library it becomes to some
extent a bibliography, and therefore when a library contains rare or
unique books it is usual, for love of the cause, to describe these
fully, as if the catalogue was a bibliography. This is the more
necessary because we are so deficient in good bibliographies. The ideal
state, from which we are still far off, would be a complete and full
bibliography of all literature, and then cataloguers could be less full
in their descriptions, and reference might be made to the bibliography
for further particulars. It is a standing disgrace to the country that
we have no complete bibliography of English authors, much less of
English literature generally.
It has long been the dream of the bibliographer that a universal
catalogue might be obtained by the amalgamation of the catalogues of
several collections. Thus it was the intention of Gerard Langbaine,
Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, and Keeper of the University
Archives, to have made a classified catalogue of the Bodleian Library,
and to incorporate with it all the books not in the Bodleian but in
other Oxford libraries, public and private, so as to show at a glance
all the books that existed in Oxford. He died, however, on February
10th, 1657-58, without having carried his design into execution. Dr.
Garnett, in his valuable paper on "The Printing of the British Museum
Catalogue" (_Transactions_, Fourth and Fifth Meetings of the Library
Association of the United Kingdom, 1884, pp. 120-28), gave words to his
aspiration "that the completion of the Museum Catalogue in print may
coincide with the completion of the present century," and he continued
that no better memorial of the nineteenth century could be produced than
a "register of almost all the really valuable literature of all former
centuries." This is very true; but I think that catalogues can only form
the groundwork for bibliographies, and are not sufficiently satisfactory
to supersede them. Moreover, each country should produce its own
national bibliography.
Mr. Cutter divides libraries into (1) those for study, and (2) those for
reading; and this division must always be kept in view. We shall chiefly
consider the first division, although it will not be right altogether to
pass over the latter. Libraries for reading have been rightly considered
in the light of educational institutions; and the various points
connected with the information to be given to readers, as to what they
should read, and how they should read, perhaps belong more properly to
Education than to Bibliography.
As to the order in which the catalogue should be disposed we have
considerable choice, and Mr. Cutter has given in the _United States
Special Report_ (pp. 561-67) a most elaborate classification of the
different species of catalogues, but the main divisions are the
classified and the alphabetical. Years ago the classified was considered
the ideal; but when this ideal was brought down to practice it usually
failed, and the result was almost useless. The late Professor De Morgan
made the following pertinent remarks on this point:--
"A classed catalogue is supposed to be useful to those who want to
know what has been written on a particular subject. Now, in the
first place, who are the persons who look at a book list with any
such view? Not beginners in a wide field of research. Did any one in
his senses ever go to a library to learn geometry, for instance, and
take the subject in a classed catalogue, and fall to work upon some
author because he was therein set down? This attempt to feed the
mind _à la carte_ would certainly end in an indigestion, if, which
is rather to be hoped, it did not begin in a surfeit."[1]
Again:--
"Any one who is willing to trust the maker of a catalogue, however
highly qualified, with the power of settling what books he can want
in reference to a given subject, is either a person who consults
only the most celebrated works, and has nothing to do with research,
or one who is willing to take completeness upon trust, and to
content himself with blaming another person if he do not reach
it."[2]
It is a common mistake to speak of a classified catalogue as a Catalogue
Raisonné. A Catalogue Raisonné is a catalogue with bibliographical
details and notes, in which the merits or demerits of the books are
discussed. Therefore a Catalogue Raisonné can be alphabetical as well as
classified. An alphabetical catalogue can be either one of authors, or
of subjects, or what the Americans have styled the Dictionary Catalogue.
A catalogue of authors will contain the description of anonymous books
under headings in the same alphabet, and it may either have an index of
subjects, or subject cross-references included in the general alphabet.
But as the rules to be considered later on relate chiefly to the
catalogue of authors, it is not necessary to say more on this point
here. Again, De Morgan has made some excellent remarks on the catalogue
of authors:--
"An alphabetical catalogue has this great advantage, that all the
works of the same author come together. Those who have had to hunt
up old subjects know very well that of all lots which it is useful
to find in one place, the works of one given author are those which
occur most frequently. Again, those who go to a library to read upon
a given subject generally know what authors they want; and an
alphabetical catalogue settles the question whether the library does
or does not contain the required work of the author wanted. We
believe that of those who go into a place where books are collected,
whether to read, buy, borrow, (or even steal), nineteen out of
twenty know what author they want; and to them an alphabetical
catalogue is all-sufficient."[3]
Mr. Cutter has written the history of the Dictionary Catalogue in the
_United States Special Report_ (pp. 533-39), and he traces it back in
America to about the year 1815.
Mr. Crestadoro, in his pamphlet, _The Art of Making Catalogues of
Libraries_, 1856, recommended an inventorial catalogue of unabridged
titles arranged in no order, but numbered, and an alphabetical index to
the numbers of this inventory. The index thus formed was somewhat
similar to the Dictionary Catalogue (_United States Special Report_, p.
535). Mr. Bradshaw held very strongly the view that an alphabetical
catalogue was an index, and that a full shelf catalogue was the real
catalogue; and few things he enjoyed more than to read through a list of
the books as they stood on the shelves.[4] In a letter to me, dated
September 9th, 1879, he wrote:--
"It is a cardinal point with me that an alphabetical catalogue of a
library is really an index, or should be so, to any other kind of
catalogue you choose to make; while if you once lose sight of this
fact you are quite sure to cumber the catalogue up with
bibliographical details which are entirely out of place."
Scientific cataloguing is of modern invention, and to the British Museum
it is that we owe the origination of a code of rules--rules which form
the groundwork of all modern cataloguing. Good catalogues were made
before rules were enunciated, but this is accounted for by the fact that
bibliographers, like poets, are more often born than made.
Carefulness must be one of the chief characteristics of the cataloguer,
for he will frequently find himself beset with difficulties. Mr. W. F.
Poole, the author of that most useful work the _Index to Periodical
Literature_, states this very forcibly when he writes:--
"The inexperienced librarian will find the cataloguing of his books
the most difficult part of his undertaking, even after he has made a
diligent theoretical study of the subject. He will find after he has
made considerable progress that much of his work is useless, and
scarcely any of it correct."[5]
The cataloguer must not jump to conclusions upon insufficient authority,
or, as some persons have proposed, take a short list from the books and
amplify the titles from bibliographies. Such a course will lead to
endless blunders, and create confusion like that described by Professor
De Morgan:--
"Lalande, in his _Bibliographie Astronomique_, wrote from his own
knowledge the title of the second edition of the work of
Regiomontanus on Triangles, Basle, folio, 1561. He knew that the
first edition was published about thirty years before, and so he set
it down with the same title-page as the second, including the
announcement of the table of Sines, Basle, 1536. Now, as it
happened, it was published at Nuremberg in 1533, and there was no
table of Sines in it. The consequence is that Apian and Copernicus
are deprived of their respective credits, as being very early (the
former the earliest) publishers of Sines to a decimal radius. No one
can know how far an incorrect description of a book may produce
historical falsehood; but there are few writers who have the
courage to say exactly how much they know, and how much they
presume."[6]
Before concluding this Introduction it may be well to say something
about a few catalogues that have been issued in the different styles.
One of the best classified catalogues ever published in England is that
of the London Institution, which was first printed in 1835, and
completed in 1852.[7] This has indexes of subjects, and of authors and
books. The catalogue is very useful as a bibliography; and as the
library was well selected, the reading of its pages is very instructive;
but what shows the general uselessness of a classified catalogue for the
work of a library is that in actual practice an alphabetical finding
index has been in more constant use than the fuller catalogue.
Of an alphabetical catalogue of subjects an example may be found in that
of the Library of the Board of Trade, which was published in 1866. Here
the authors are relegated to an index, and all the titles are arranged
under the main subject. This may be convenient under some circumstances,
but it is not satisfactory for general use. The idea of the scheme was
due to the late Mr. W. M. Bucknall, then librarian to the Board of
Trade; but the catalogue itself was made by the author of this book. The
system adopted was to use the subject-word of the title as a heading;
but an exception was made in the case of foreign words which were
translated. For instance, there is a heading of Wool. Under this first
come all the English works; then the French works under sub-headings of
_Laine_, _Laines_, and _Lainière_; then German under _Schafwollhandel_
and _Wollmarkt_. From these foreign words in the alphabet there are
references to WOOL. There is, however, no more classification than is
absolutely necessary; and it may be said that if all the books had been
anonymous the scheme would have been an admirable one.
The Dictionary Catalogue mostly flourishes in America; but a very
satisfactory specimen of the class was prepared by Mr. D. O'Donovan,
Parliamentary Librarian, Queensland. It is entitled, _Analytical and
Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Parliament of Queensland_
(Brisbane: 1883. 4to). The books are entered under author and subject
with full cross-references, and all the entries are arranged in one
alphabet. There are abstracts of the contents of certain of the books,
and references to articles in reviews. In the preface Mr. O'Donovan
writes:--
"I have made a catalogue of authors, and index of titles, and an
index of subjects, a partial index of forms, and having thrown the
whole together into an alphabetical series, the work may be referred
to as an ordinary dictionary."
Of the usefulness of the Dictionary Catalogue there cannot be two
opinions, but the chief objection is that it is a waste of labour to do
for many libraries what if done once in the form of a bibliography would
serve for all.
A most important example of this class of catalogue is the
_Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United
States Army_, of which nine large volumes have been issued. This owes
its existence to Dr. J. S. Billings, and the publication was commenced
in 1880. An enthusiastic friend is inclined to describe it as the best
of published catalogues.
Authors' catalogues are the most common, and it would be invidious to
point out any one in particular for special commendation.
It is rather curious that the United States, which is now to the fore in
all questions of bibliography, should have produced in former times many
singularly bad catalogues. There is one classified catalogue which may
be mentioned as a typical specimen of bad work. There is an index of
authors, with such vague references that in some cases you have to turn
over as many as seventy pages to find the book to which you are
referred.[8]
The oddities of catalogue-making would form a prolific subject, and we
cannot enter into it at the end of this chapter; but space may be found
for two odd catalogues which owe their origin to the Secretary of the
old Record Commission.
The sale catalogue of portions of Mr. Charles Purton Cooper's library[9]
is a literary curiosity. It contains two hundred and fourteen pages, but
only one hundred and eighteen of these are devoted to the catalogue of
books for sale, and the remaining pages are filled with appendixes which
contain many amusing notes. The first appendix consists of a "Catalogue
of Books mostly in English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh History and
Biography now at Autun, which will be included in the sale of further
portions of Mr. Purton Cooper's Library unless previously disposed of by
private agreement." On page 159 is this note to a catalogue of a
collection of grammars and dictionaries "now at Louvain": "My passion
for languages (a very unwise one) ceased many years ago." Mr. Cooper
notes on page 167, in relation to some books of miscellaneous
antiquities "now at Brussels," that "the most expensive of the following
works are presents from Foreign Sovereigns, Universities, Cities, and
Towns, principally in the period 1831-1840." To the catalogue of
miscellaneous books on page 182 is appended this queer autobiographical
note: "These books, formerly kept in the house in New Boswell Court, so
long used by me as chambers (1816-1850), and from whence all my
correspondence as Secretary of Records was dated (1831-1838), are now in
chests waiting some place of deposit. What will be their destination I
know not. Grove End Road is let. Denton Court (near Canterbury, my new
residence) has undergone such changes in the hands of its last literary
owner (the late Sir Egerton Brydges) that it will hardly afford
convenient space for a schoolboy's collection." Mr. Cooper goes on to
say: "Indifferent as I am become to the mere possession of books, still
the selection was a task with which (having no check but my own will) I
dared not trust myself."
The notes to this list are very comical. This book was given to him by a
duke, that by a regius professor, another was bought at Fontainebleau,
and still another "of a soldier in an English regiment, badly wounded at
the disastrous assault upon Bergen-op-Zoom, and then in hospital at
Breda." An edition of Aristophanes was bought at Frankfort for nine
shillings, and "Lord Harrowby (then Lord Sandon, fresh from Oxford)
observed that so cheap a purchase must be a piece of luck rarely
occurring." An Edinburgh edition of Livy cost Mr. Cooper five shillings
in 1810, "and," he adds, "not a bad bargain, considering the purchaser
had not attained his seventeenth year." One of the notes said to be
copied from a French book of prayers (1789), is interesting; but its
substance would be said to be incredible if we did not know of the
rampant villainy of the times. "In the summer of 1794 (it was somewhat
late in the day) two travellers stopped at a chateau in a southeastern
department of France, one of them having a slight acquaintance with the
owner of the chateau, who had the misfortune to belong to the ancient
noblesse of the country. Both were invited to partake of the family
dinner. A dinner which in those circumstances might be considered
sumptuous was served up; and the conversation, as generally happens on
such occasions, became more than usually gay. When, however, the dessert
was placed on the table, the conversation was suddenly interrupted by
one of the travellers taking from his pocket a paper constituting
himself and his companion Commissioners of the Convention, and
authorizing them to seize the chateau and its contents, and forthwith to
guillotine the 'aristocrat,' its proprietor. The reading of this paper
was immediately followed by an intimation that a guillotine with the
usual assistants had during dinner arrived in the courtyard of the
chateau. The repast was discontinued for a few minutes, whilst the two
guests hurried their host to the courtyard of his chateau and saw him
guillotined; it was then resumed." This curious catalogue has at the end
a folding coloured plate of Mr. Cooper's library at Grove End Road, with
this note: "The view of the library is here introduced for the purpose
of mentioning that Mr. Cooper wishes to dispose, by private agreement,
of eight mahogany book-cases of the kind there represented."
In 1856 a sale catalogue of a further portion of Mr. Cooper's library
was issued.[10] It consisted of a hundred and fifty-one pages, only
thirty-four of which are occupied by the list of books for sale by
auction. The rest of the pages are filled with lists of books to be
disposed of at some future time in some other manner, but there are not
notes of the same amusing character as in the former catalogue.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] _Dublin Review_, October 1846, p. 7.
[2] _Dublin Review_, October 1846, p. 12.
[3] _Dublin Review_, October 1846, p. 6.
[4] I remember very vividly a pleasant day spent in the Pepysian Library
with Mr. Bradshaw, under the kindly guardianship of Professor Newton.
Mr. Bradshaw was specially delighted with Pepys's own MS. catalogues.
[5] "On the Organization and Management of Public Libraries" (_United
States Special Report_, p. 490).
[6] _Dublin Review_, October 1846, p. 20.
[7] _Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution, Systematically
Classified._ London: 1835-52. 4 vols., royal 8vo.
[8] _Catalogue of the Library of Congress in the Capitol of the United
States of America_: Washington, 1840. 8vo. The third entry in the Index
is _Abdy_, and the reference "xxix. 215. i.;" xxix. applies to the
class, which is _Geography_; the title is to be found in section v.,
_America_; so that actually seventy pages of the catalogue have to be
glanced through before the work of Abdy can be found.
[9] "_Bibliotheca Cooperiana._ Catalogue of Portions of the Extensive
and Valuable Library of Charles Purton Cooper, Esq., Q.C.... These
portions will, by Mr. Cooper's direction, be sold by auction by Messrs.
S. Leigh Sotheby and John Wilkinson ... on Monday, April 19th [1852],
and seven following days."
[10] "_Catalogue of a Further Portion of the Library of Charles Purton
Cooper, Esq., Q.C._ ... This further portion, deposited with Messrs.
Sotheby and Wilkinson in the summer of 1852, will, by Mr. Cooper's
direction, be sold by them by auction in the spring of the ensuing year.
December 1856."
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