SPECIAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES.
Bibliographies of special subjects are more useful than any other books in
the formation of a library. The articles in the new edition of the
_Encyclopædia Britannica_ will be found valuable for this purpose, but
those who wish for fuller information must refer to Dr. Julius Petzholdt's
elaborate _Bibliotheca Bibliographica_ (Leipzig, 1866), or to the
_Bibliographie des Bibliographies_ of M. Léon Vallée (Paris, 1885). The
late Mr. Cornelius Walford contributed a paper "On Special Collections of
Books" to the Transactions of the Conference of Librarians, 1877 (pp.
45-49), in which he specially referred to the subject of Insurance.
In the present chapter I propose to refer to some of the most useful
bibliographies, but to save space the full titles will not be given, and
this is the less necessary as they can mostly be found in the above books
or in that useful little volume we owe to the authorities of the British
Museum--"Hand-list of Bibliographies, Classified Catalogues, and Indexes
placed in the Reading-room," 1881.
_Agriculture._--Weston's Tracts on Practical Agriculture and
Gardening (1773), contains a Chronological Catalogue of
English Authors, and Donaldson's Agricultural Biography
(1854) brings the subject down to a later date. Victor
Donatien de Musset-Pathay published a _Bibliographie
Agronomique_ in 1810, and Loudon's _Encyclopædia of
Agriculture_ contains the Literature and Bibliography of
Agriculture, British, French, German, and American.
_Ana._--In Peignot's _Repertoire de Bibliographies
Spéciales_ (1810) will be found at pp. 211-268, a list of
books of Ana, and Gabriel Antoine Joseph Hécart published at
Valenciennes, 1821, under the name of J.G. Phitakaer, a
bibliography entitled "Anagrapheana." Namur's _Bibliographie
des Ouvrages publiés sous le nom d'Ana_ was published at
Bruxelles in 1839. The late Sir William Stirling Maxwell
made a collection of books of Ana, a privately printed
catalogue of which he issued in 1860.
_Angling._--Sir Henry Ellis printed privately in 1811 a
small octavo pamphlet of 21 pages which he entitled "A
Catalogue of Books on Angling, with some brief notices of
several of their authors," which was an extract from the
_British Bibliographer_. In 1836, Pickering printed a
_Bibliotheca Piscatoria_, which was formed upon Sir Henry
Ellis's corrected copy of the above Catalogue. Mr. J.
Russell Smith published in 1856 "A Bibliographical Catalogue
of English writers on Angling and Ichthyology," which was
soon superceded by the following work by Mr. T. Westwood. "A
new Bibliotheca Piscatoria, or a general Catalogue of
Angling and Fishing Literature." London, 1861 (another
edition, edited conjointly with T. Satchell, 1883). Mr. R.
Blakey published in 1855, "Angling Literature of all
Nations." London, 1855. 12mo. Mr. J.J. Manley, M.A.,
published in 1883, "Literature of Sea and River Fishing," as
one of the Handbooks of the International Fisheries
Exhibition.
_Architecture._--LACROIX (E.). Bibliographie des Ingénieurs,
des Architectes, des Chefs d'Usines industrielles, des
Elèves des Ecoles polytechniques et professionnelles et des
Agriculteurs. Première (--Troisième) Série. Paris, 1864-67.
4to.
_Assurance_ (_Life_).--Lewis Pocock published "A
Chronological List of Books and Single Papers" relating to
this subject in 1836, a second edition of which was
published in 1842.
_Astronomy._--Lalande published his valuable "Bibliographie
Astronomique" at Paris, 1803. Otto Struve's Catalogue of the
Library of the Pulkova Observatory, published at St.
Petersburg in 1860, is highly esteemed by astronomers. The
first part of the Catalogue of the United States Naval
Observatory at Washington, by Prof. E.S. Holden, is devoted
to Astronomical Bibliography.
---- HOUZEAU (J.C.) and LANCASTER (A.), Bibliographie
générale de l'Astronomie. Bruxelles, 1880. 8vo. In progress.
---- Mr. E.B. Knobel, Secretary of the Royal Astronomical
Society, printed in the _Monthly Notices_ of that Society
for November, 1876 (pp. 365-392), a very useful short
Reference Catalogue of Astronomical Papers and Researches,
referring more especially to (1) Double Stars; (2) Variable
Stars; (3) Red Stars; (4) Nebulæ and Clusters; (5) Proper
Motions of Stars; (6) Parallax and Distance of Stars; (7)
Star Spectra. Mr. E.S. Holden's "Index Catalogue of Books
and Memoirs relating to Nebulæ and Clusters of Stars" was
printed in the _Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections_ in
1877.
_Bible._--The famous Le Long published at Paris, in 1713,
his "Discours historiques sur les principales éditions des
Bibles polyglottes," and in 1723, in two volumes, folio, his
great work "Bibliotheca Sacra." This was edited and
continued by A.G. Masch, and published at Halæ Magd. in five
volumes, quarto. 1774-97. T. Llewelyn published in 1768
"Historical Account of the British or Welsh Versions and
editions of the Bible." A privately printed "List of various
editions of the Bible" was issued in 1778, which has been
attributed to Dr. Ducarel. John Lewis's "Complete History of
the several Translations of the Holy Bible and New Testament
into English" was published in 1818, and Dr. Henry Cotton's
"List of Editions" (Oxford, 1821, 2nd edition, 1852) was
intended as an Appendix to that work. Orme's _Bibliotheca
Biblica_ was published at Edinburgh in 1824, and Hartwell
Horne's _Manual of Biblical Bibliography_ at London in 1839.
Bagster's _Bible in Every Land_ (1848), although not
strictly bibliographical, must be mentioned here, because it
gives under each language a notice of all versions published
in that language. Lowndes' British Librarian or Book
Collector's Guide. Class I. Religion and its History.
London, 1839. 8vo. Parts 1, 2, 3 are devoted to Holy
Scriptures, Biblical Commentaries, Biblical Disquisitions,
Scripture Biography, Scripture Geography, etc. The work
itself was left incomplete Dr. H. Cotton published at
Oxford, in 1855, a work entitled "Rhemes and Doway. An
Attempt to show what has been done by Roman Catholics for
the diffusion of the Holy Scriptures in English." In 1859
J.G. Shea published at New York a "Bibliographical Account
of Catholic Bibles, Testaments, and other portions of
Scripture translated from the Latin Vulgate, and printed in
the United States," and in 1861 E.B. O'Callaghan published
at Albany a "List of editions of the Holy Scriptures and
parts thereof, printed in America previous to 1860." E.
Reuss published at Brunswick, in 1872, a Bibliography of the
Greek New Testament. Dr. Isaac Hall printed a Critical
Bibliography of American Greek Testaments at Philadelphia in
1883. Mr. Henry Stevens, the eminent bibliographer, is a
special authority on Bibles, and his work, entitled "The
Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition, 1877, or a bibliographical
description of nearly one thousand representative Bibles in
various languages, chronologically arranged" (London, 1878),
contains some of the information he possesses.
_Biography._--Oettinger's _Bibliographie Biographique
Universelle_ (1854) is a most useful work, although it is
now unfortunately somewhat out of date.
_Book-keeping._--B.F. Foster's _Origin and Progress of
Book-keeping_ (1852) contains an account of books published
on this subject from 1543 to 1852.
_Botany._--Pritzel's _Thesaurus Literaturæ Botanicæ_ (1851,
another edition 1872-77) is _the_ Bibliography of the
subject, and this work is supplemented by Mr. Daydon
Jackson's Index of Botany, published by the Index Society.
Trimen's Botanical Bibliography of the British counties,
London, 1874. 8vo.
_Chemistry._--R. Ruprecht, Bibliotheca Chemica et
Pharmaceutica, 1858-70. _Göttingen_, 1872.
_Classics._--Dr. Edward Harwood published his "View of the
various editions of the Greek and Roman Classics" in 1790.
He was followed in 1802 by Thomas Frognall Dibdin, whose
work was much enlarged, and reappeared in several editions;
the fourth and best being published in 1827 (2 vols. 8vo.).
J.W. Moss published his "Manual of Classical Bibliography"
in 1825, 2 vols. 8vo. Henry G. Bohn's General Catalogue,
Part II. Section I. 1850, contains a valuable list of Greek
and Latin Classics. Engelmann's Bibliotheca Scriptorum
Classicorum et Græcorum et Latinorum (1858) is an elaborate
work on the subject, and Professor John E.B. Mayor's
translation and adaptation of Dr. Hübner's Bibliographical
Clue to Latin Literature will be found to be a very useful
handbook.
_Commerce._--See _Trade_.
_Dialects._--Mr. J. Russell Smith published, in 1839, a
useful "Bibliographical List of the Works that have been
published towards illustrating the Provincial Dialects of
England" (24 pages). When the Rev. Professor Skeat started
the English Dialect Society, he at once laid the foundation
of an extensive Bibliographical List to include MSS. as well
as printed works. This Bibliography is being published by
the Society in parts.
_Dictionaries._--William Marsden printed privately, in 1796,
a valuable "Catalogue of Dictionaries, Vocabularies,
Grammars, and Alphabets."
_Dictionaries._--Trübner's Catalogue of Dictionaries and
Grammars (1872, second edition 1882) is a very useful work.
H.B. Wheatley's account of English Dictionaries was
published in the Transactions of the Philological Society
for 1865.
_Drama._--A notice of some books in the English Drama will
be found in Chapter IV. The _Bibliothèque Dramatique de
Mons. de Soleinne_ (1843-44, 5 vols.), with its continuation
to 1861, is a splendid Catalogue, in which the books are
fully described, with valuable notes and preface.
_Earthquakes._--Mr. Robert Mallet's Bibliography of
Earthquakes will be found in the British Association Report
for 1858, and Mons. Alexis Perrey's Bibliographie Seismique
in the Dijon _Memoires_ for 1855, 1856, and 1861.
_Electricity._--Sir Francis Ronalds' Catalogue of Books and
Papers relating to Electricity, Magnetism, and the Electric
Telegraph (1880) contains a large number of titles. O.
Salle's Bibliography of Electricity and Magnetism, 1860 to
1883, was published in 1884.
_Entomology._--Dr. Hagen's Bibliotheca Entomologica
(Leipzig, 1862-63) is a carefully compiled and useful book.
_Epigrams._--There is a list of books connected with
Epigrammatic Literature appended to _The Epigrammatists_, by
the Rev. Philip Dodd. 8vo. London, 1870.
_Fine Art._--The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of
Books in Art, compiled for the use of the National Art
Library and the Schools of Art in the United Kingdom.
London, 1870. 2 vols. Sm. 4to. Supplement. London, 1877.
---- Essai d'une Bibliographie de l'Histoire spéciale de la
Peinture et de la Gravure en Hollande et en Belgique
(1500-1875), par J.F. van Someren, Amsterdam, 1882. 8vo.
_Freemasonry._--GOWANS (W.). Catalogue of Books on
Freemasonry and kindred subjects. New York, 1858. 8vo.
---- HEMSWORTH (H.W.). Catalogue of Books in the Library at
Freemasons' Hall, London. Privately printed.
There is a list of books on Freemasonry in Petzholdt's
Bibliotheca Bibliographica, pp. 468-474. Mr. Folkard printed
privately a Catalogue of Works on Freemasonry in the Wigan
Free Library in 1882, and in the Annals of the Grand Lodge
of Iowa, Vol. IX. Part I. (1883) is a Catalogue of Works on
this subject in the Library of the Grand Lodge of Iowa.
_Future Life._--Catalogue of Works relating to the Nature,
Origin, and Destiny of the Soul, by Ezra Abbot. Appended to
W.R. Alger's Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future
Life. Philadelphia, 1864. 8vo. Reprinted, New York, 1871.
_Geography._--See _Voyages and Travels_.
_Health._--Catalogue of the International Health Exhibition
Library. Division I. Health. Division II. Education. London,
1884. 8vo.
_Heraldry._--Thomas Moule's valuable _Bibliotheca Heraldica
Magnæ Britanniæ_ was published in 1822. There is a "List of
the principal English and Foreign Text-Books on Heraldry" at
the end of _The Handbook of Heraldry_, by J.E. Cussans,
London, 1869.
_History_ (_General_).--BRUNET (J.C.). Table Méthodique en
forme de Catalogue raisonné, Histoire. Paris, 1865. 8vo.
---- OETTINGER (E.M.). Historisches Archiv. Archives
historiques, contenant une classification de 17,000 ouvrages
pour servir à l'étude de l'histoire de tous les siècles et
de toutes les nations. Carlsruhe, 1841. 4to.
(_Great Britain and Ireland._)--Bishop Nicholson's English,
Scotch, and Irish Historical Libraries, 1776, will still be
found useful. Mr. Mullinger's portion of the Introduction to
the Study of English History (1881) gives the latest
information on the subject. Sir Duffus Hardy's "Descriptive
Catalogue of Materials relating to the History of Great
Britain and Ireland to the end of the reign of Henry VIII."
is an invaluable book, but is unfortunately incomplete.
(_France._)--LELONG (J.). Bibliothèque Historique (1768-78,
5 vols, folio). "Les Sources de l'Histoire de France," by A.
Franklin, was published in 1877.
_History_ (_Germany._)--Bibliographical Essay on the
Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum, by A. Asher, was published in
1843.
(_Holland._)--NIJHOFF. Bibliotheca Historico-Neerlandica. La
Haye, 1871.
(_Italy._)--LICHTENTHAL (P.). Manuale Bibliografico del
Viaggiatore in Italia. Milano, 1844. A Catalogue of Sir
Richard Colt Hoare's Collection of Books relating to the
History and Topography of Italy was printed in 1812. The
Collection was presented to the British Museum by Hoare in
1825.
(_Portugal._)--FIGANIERE. Bibliographia Historica
Portugueza. Lisboa, 1850.
(_Spain._)--MUNOZ Y ROMERO. Diccionario
bibliografico-historico ... de Espana. Madrid, 1858.
_Language._--See _Dictionaries_, _Philology_.
_Law._--Mr. Stephen R. Griswold contributed an article on
Law Libraries to the U.S. Report on Libraries (pp. 161-170).
He writes, "Law books may be classified generally as
follows: Reports, Treatises, Statute Law. The practice of
reporting the decisions of the Judges began in the reign of
Edward I., and from that time we have a series of judicial
reports of those decisions. In the time of Lord Bacon, these
reports extended to fifty or sixty volumes. During the two
hundred and fifty years that have passed since then, nothing
has been done by way of revision or expurgation; but these
publications have been constantly increasing, so that at
the close of the year 1874 the published volumes of reports
were as follows: English, 1350 volumes; Irish, 175 volumes;
Scotch, 225 volumes; Canadian, 135 volumes; American, 2400
volumes. With respect to treatises (including law
periodicals and digests), and without including more than
one edition of the same work, it is safe to say that a fair
collection would embrace at least 2000 volumes. The statute
law of the United States, if confined to the general or
revised statutes and codes, may be brought within 100
volumes. If, however, the sessional acts be included, the
collection would amount to over 1500 volumes. It is thus
seen that a fairly complete law library would embrace more
than 7000 volumes, which could not be placed upon its
shelves for less than $50,000."
_Law._--There is a useful list of legal bibliographies in
the "Hand-list of Bibliographies in the Reading-room of the
British Museum" (pp. 40-44). Clarke's _Bibliotheca Legum_,
which was compiled by Hartwell Horne (1819), is a valuable
work. Marvin's _Legal Bibliography_, which was published at
Philadelphia in 1847, contains 800 pages. The Catalogue of
the Law Library in the New York State Library (1856), forms
a useful guide to the subject, and Herbert G. Sweet's
"Complete Catalogue of Modern Law Books" is one of the
latest catalogues of authority.
_Mathematics._--A really good bibliography of Mathematics is
still wanting. The following books, however, all from
Germany, are useful.
_Mathematics._--MURHARD (F.W.A.). Bibliotheca Mathematica.
Lipsiæ, 1797-1804. 4 vols.
---- ROGG (J.). Handbuch der Mathematischen Literatur.
Tübingen, 1830.
---- SOHNCKE (L.A.). Bibliotheca Mathematica. 1830-54.
Leipsic, 1854.
---- ERLECKE (A.). Bibliotheca Mathematica. Halle-a.-S.,
1873.
---- Professor De Morgan's Arithmetical Books (1847) is a
model of what a good bibliography ought to be.
_Medical._--Dr. Billings contributed a chapter on "Medical
Libraries in the United States" to the U.S. Report on Public
Libraries (pp. 171-182), in which he wrote--"The record of
the researches, experiences, and speculations relating to
Medical Science during the last four hundred years is
contained in between two and three hundred thousand volumes
and pamphlets; and while the immense majority of these have
little or nothing of what we call 'practical value,' yet
there is no one of them which would not be called for by
some inquirer if he knew of its existence." The writer added
a list of works of reference which should be in every
Medical Library.
There have been a specially large number of Medical
Bibliographies, from Haller's works downwards. James
Atkinson's Medical Bibliography (1834, A and B only), is an
amusing book, but of little or no utility. The most useful
books are Dr. Billings's Index Catalogue of the Library of
the Surgeon-General's Office (Washington, 1880) and the
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Medical and
Chirurgical Society (3 vols. 1879), by B.R. Wheatley.
Neale's Medical Digest (1877) forms a convenient guide to
the medical periodicals. The two great French
dictionaries--Raige-Delorme and A. Dechambre, Dictionnaire
Encyclopédique des Sciences Médicales (4 series, commenced
in 1854, and still in progress); Jaccoud, Nouveau
Dictionnaire de Médecine et de Chirurgie Pratiques (1864,
and still in progress)--contain very valuable references to
the literature of the various subjects. Of special subjects
may be mentioned H. Haeser's Bibliotheca Epidemiographica
(1843), John S. Billings's Bibliography of Cholera in the
Report of the Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States
(1875, pp. 707-1025), Beer's Bibliotheca Ophthalmica (1799),
Dr. E.J. Waring's Bibliotheca Therapeutica (1878-79, 2 vols.
8vo.), and Bibliography of Embryology, in Balfour's
Embryology, vol. ii.
_Meteorology._--A full bibliography of books and papers upon
Meteorology is being prepared at the United States Signal
Office, and it is reported that 48,000 titles are now in the
office. There have been several articles on this subject in
_Symons's Meteorological Magazine_, the last being in the
number for December, 1885.
_Mineralogy._--DANA (J.D.). Bibliography of Mineralogy.
1881. 8vo.
_Mining._--Wigan Free Public Library Index Catalogue of
Books and Papers relating to Mining, Metallurgy, and
Manufactures. By Henry Tennyson Folkard, Librarian.
Southport, 1880. Roy. 8vo.
_Motion (Perpetual)._--Perpetuum Mobile; or, search for
Self-Motive Power during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries,
illustrated from various authentic sources in papers,
essays, letters, paragraphs, and numerous Patent
Specifications, with an Introductory Essay. By Henry Dircks,
C.E. London, 1861. Sm. 8vo. Second Series. London, 1870. Sm.
8vo.
_Music._--ENGEL (C.). The Literature of National Music.
London, 1879. 8vo.
---- Catalogue of the Library of the Sacred Harmonic
Society. A new edition [by W.H. Husk]. London, 1872. 8vo.
---- RIMBAULT (F.). Bibliotheca Madrigaliana, a
Bibliographical Account of the Musical and Poetical Works
published in England during the 16th and 17th centuries,
under the titles of Madrigals, Ballets, Ayres, Canzonets,
etc. London, 1847. 8vo.
There are bibliographies of the subject in F.L. Kilter's
History of Music, London, 1876, and F. Clement, Histoire
générale de la Musique Religieuse. Paris, 1861.
_Natural History._--Dryander's Catalogue of Sir Joseph
Banks's Library, now in the British Museum, is the most
famous bibliography of this subject, although made so many
years ago. It consists of 5 vols. 8vo. (1798-1800). Vol. 1,
General Writers; Vol. 2, Zoology; Vol. 3, Botany; Vol. 4,
Mineralogy; Vol. 5, Supplement.
_Natural History._--ENGELMANN (W.). Bibliotheca
Historico-Naturalis. Leipzig, 1846.
---- ZUCKOLD (E.A.). Bibliotheca Historico-Naturalis,
Physico-Chemica et Mathematica. Göttingen, 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 Association
(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--ccclxxxvi.
_Printing._--BIGMORE (E.C.), and WYMAN (C.W.H.). A
Bibliography of Printing, with Notes and Illustrations.
London, 1880. 4to.
---- The Literature of Printing. A Catalogue of the Library
illustrative 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 éditions. Par Ant. Aug. Renouard.
Paris, an XII. Seconde édition. 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 title: 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 à Anvers. Par L. Degeorge.
Deuxième édition, augmentée d'une liste chronologique des
ouvrages imprimés par Plantin à Anvers de 1555 à 1589.
Bruxelles, 1878. 8vo.
_Stephens._--Annales de l'Imprimerie des Estienne, ou
Histoire de la Famille, des Estienne et de ses éditions. 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 Parémiologique_ 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 Cyclopædia
Bibliographica (1854-59), Malcom's Theological Index
(Boston, 1868), and Zuchold's Bibliotheca Theologica
(Göttingen, 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 principal 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 Association, 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 Association, 1879 (pp. 54-60), entitled "Special
Collections of Books in Lancashire and Cheshire," 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.
Devonshire: J. Davidson, 1852.
" Plymouth (Three Towns' Bibliotheca), R.N. Worth, 1872-73.
Dorsetshire: C.H. Mayo, privately printed, 1885.
Gloucestershire: Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis, J. Washbourn,
1823-25.
Gloucestershire: Collectanea Glocestriensia, J.D. Phelps,
1842.
Hampshire: Bibliotheca Hantoniensis, H.M. Gilbert, 1872?
" List of Books, Sir W.H. Cope, 1879.
Herefordshire: J. Allen, jun., 1821.
Kent: J. Russell Smith, 1837.
Lancashire: H. Fishwick, 1875.
Man (Isle of): W. Harrison, 1876.
Norfolk: S. Woodward and W.C. Ewing, 1842.
Nottinghamshire: S.F. Creswell, 1863.
Sussex: G.S. Butler, 1866.
Yorkshire: 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.
_Trials._--The Catalogue of the Library of the Philosophical
Institution of Edinburgh (1857) contains (pp. 297-319) a
very useful list of trials in an alphabet of the persons
tried. The table is arranged under name, charge, date of
trial, and reference.
_Voyages and Travels._--Locke's Catalogue and character of
most books of Voyages and Travels is interesting on account
of Locke's notes. (Locke's Works, 1812, 10 vols. 8vo., vol.
x. pp. 513-564.)
There are catalogues of books of travels in Pinkerton's
collection (1814), and Kerr's collection (1822).
---- Boucher de la Richaderie, Bibliothèque Universelle des
Voyages, Paris, 1808. 6 vols. 8vo.
---- Engelmann (W.). Bibliotheca Geographica. Leipzig, 1858.
_Zoology._--Agassiz's Bibliographia Zoologicæ et Geologicæ,
published by the Ray Society, 1848-54, was a useful book in
its day, but it is of no value bibliographically, and the
titles being mostly taken at second-hand, the work is full
of blunders.
---- Carus and Engelmann's Bibliotheca Zoologica, Leipzig
1861, forms a Supplement to the Bibliotheca
Historico-Naturalis of Engelmann.
* * * * *
A large number of bibliographies of particular authors have been published
in this country and abroad, and it may be useful here to make a note of
some of these.
Ariosto, Orlando Furioso: Ulisse Guidi, _Bologna_, 1861,
1868. G.J. Ferrazzi, _Bassano_, 1881.
Boccaccio: M. Landau, _Napoli_, 1881.
Burns: J. Mackie, _Kilmar_, 1866.
Calderon: E. Dorer, _Leipzig_, 1881.
Camoens: Adamson's Life of Camoens, vol. 2, 1820.
Cervantes: E. Dorer, _Leipzig_, 1881.
Corneille: E. Picot, _Paris_, 1876.
Dante: Bibliografia Dantesca, _Prato_, 1845-46. C.U.J.
Chevalier, 1877. G.A. Scartazzini, Dante in Germania, 1881.
J. Petzholdt, _Dresden_, 1880.
Goethe: S. Hirzel, 1878.
Luther: E.G. Vogel, _Halle_, 1851. J. Edmands,
_Philadelphia_, 1883.
Manzoni: A. Vosmara, _Milano_, 1875.
Molière: P. Lacroix, _Paris_, 1875.
Montaigne: J.F. Payer, _Paris_, 1837.
Persius: J. Tarlier, _Bruxelles_, 1848.
Petrarch: Marsand, _Milano_, 1826.
" A. Hortis, _Trieste_, 1874.
" G.J. Ferrazzi, _Bassano_, 1877. C.U.J. Chevalier,
Montpéliard, 1880.
Rabelais: J.C. Brunet, _Paris_, 1852.
Schiller: L. Unflad, _München_, 1878.
Tasso: G.J. Ferrazzi, _Bassano_, 1880.
Voltaire: G. Bengesco, _Paris_, 1882.
* * * * *
Browning: F.J. Furnivall, Browning Society, 1881-2.
Carlyle: R.H. Shepherd, 1882.
Defoe: M. Stace, 1829; Wilson, 1830; Lee, 1862.
Dickens: R.H. Shepherd, 1881.
" J. Cook, Paisley, 1879.
Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb: A. Ireland, 1868.
Ruskin: R.H. Shepherd, 1882.
Shakespeare: J. Wilson, 1827; J.O. Halliwell, 1841; Moulin,
1845; Sillig and Ulrici, 1854; H.G. Bohn, 1864; F. Thimm,
1865-72; K. Knortz, 1876; Unflad, 1880; Justin Winsor
(Poems); Birmingham Memorial Library Catalogue (J.D.
Mullens).
Shelley: H.B. Forman, 1886.
Tennyson: R.H. Shepherd, 1879.
Thackeray: R.H. Shepherd, 1881.
Wycliffe: J. Edmands, 1884.
Dr. Garnett commenced a MS. list of such special bibliographies as he came
across in Treatises on the different subjects. This list is added to and
kept in the Reading Room for use by the Librarians. I was allowed the
privilege of referring to this very useful list.