The following examples are introduced, for the purpose of
illustrating the rules, and of furnishing specimens of different
kinds of titles, as well as of showing the general appearance of
the proposed catalogues. In some respects, these are not average
specimens; but have been selected, partly on account of their
containing difficulties. Some titles would require a large number of
cross-references. Only so many are here inserted as are necessary for
the purpose of illustration.
It has not been convenient to give examples of titles in languages
which use other than Roman letters. Our printing-office is not yet
supplied with the requisite variety of type. For the same reason, in
some of the titles, words are spelled in full, which, in the books,
are printed with signs of abbreviation. There is a branch of this
invention which promises to furnish us with the means of engraving,
with facility, any desired characters, and of stereotyping them from
the engraved plates.
The application of the rules to the examples will, in most cases,
be sufficiently obvious, but, it may not be amiss to make some
explanations respecting a few of them.
Rule 1 to 3. The examples illustrating these rules need not be
specially pointed out. Abridgments are frequent; but the rules for
omissions could not be illustrated without giving a great number of
full titles, with abridgments of the same. When an author has only
one Christian name, the full name is supplied, if not given in the
title; when more than one, the initials not given are supplied.
Errors in titles, even to accidental faults in punctuation, have been
scrupulously copied.
Rule 4. See the titles under _Plinius Secundus_ and _Orosius_.
Rule 7. See _North American review_, _American quarterly review_ and
_Bell_. The last journal, being completed, is catalogued according to
the principle of Rule 20, under the first editor's name.
Rule 20. See _Cobbett_ and _Nyerup_.
Rule 21. See _Gale_ and _Historiæ Augustæ scriptores_.
Rule 21, Expl. 1. See _Ancient Irish histories_ and _Autobiography_.
Many of the special titles to the latter are omitted.
Rule 22. See _Linnean society_, _Great Britain_ and _Massachusetts_.
Rule 22, Expls. 2, 3. See _London library_, _University of Oxford_
and _Grenville_.
The catalogues of private libraries are placed under the names of the
proprietors.
Rule 23. See _Méthode_, _Riqueti_ and _Oriental historical mss_.
Rule 28. See _Bombet_, _Gualdi_, _Decanver_ and _Voltaire_.
Rule 28, Expl. 3. See _C._, _La Rochefoucauld_ and _M * * *_.
Rule 29. See _Mémoires_, _Most_ and _Harwood_.
Rule 29, Exc. 1. See _Arc_ and _Dubois_.
Rule 29, Exc. 2. See _Bossuet_ and _Morgues_.
Rule 29, Expl. 1. See _Barbié du Bocage_.