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diff --git a/75849-0.txt b/75849-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..33475e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/75849-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3253 @@ + +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75849 *** + + + + + + AGGRAVATING LADIES + + + BEING + A LIST OF WORKS PUBLISHED UNDER THE PSEUDONYM OF + “A LADY,” WITH PRELIMINARY SUGGESTIONS + ON THE ART OF DESCRIBING BOOKS + BIBLIOGRAPHICALLY. + + + BY + + + OLPHAR HAMST + + + “The time is coming when really learned men will again be ashamed of + not seeing the value of all the uses of mind: when nothing but + thoughtlessness or impudence, mercurial brain or brazen forehead, + will aver that no knowledge is practical, except that which ends in + the use of material instruments.”—Prof. De Morgan (Arithmetical + Books 1847, p. 54). + + + LONDON + BERNARD QUARITCH 15 PICCADILLY + 1880. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + CONTENTS. + + ------- + + + PAGE. + + Preface 5 + + Preliminary Remarks 7 + + How to describe a Book 9 + + Cataloguing 10 + + Of different descriptions of books 14 + + Matters to be attended to in Cataloguing 21 + + Style of Printing 27 + + Punctuation 29 + + The beginning and the end 30 + + Of errors 32 + + On the means of identifying the authors of 35 + anonymous and pseudonymous publications + + List of Works by a Lady 40 + + Advertisements 52 + + Index 54 + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + PREFACE. + + ------- + + +In the course of collecting materials for my “Handbook of Fictitious +Names of Authors of the Nineteenth Century,” I came across the titles of +a number of works purporting to be written by “A Lady,” the authorship +of which appeared to be unknown. + +It occurred to me that I might probably ascertain the names of many of +the authors, and also proper descriptions of such of the books as I had +not seen, and was unable to see, if I printed a list of them. As +however, the essential points to be attended to, in the proper +description of a book, are little understood, I thought it would be +desirable to prefix to the list a few suggestions on the way to supply +correct information. These gradually developed, so that I soon found the +subject required more space, more time, and more consideration than I at +first imagined. + +In the hope that I might obtain assistance from others, and with a view +to getting hints and exciting discussion, I wrote an article for “Notes +and Queries,” which was printed in the numbers for January and April of +1872, entitled, “How to describe a Book.” I now go more fully into the +matters that I consider require attention in the proper description of a +book. + +An explanation of the title of this essay will no doubt be looked for in +the preface. It is very simple. In my searches for the Authors’ names, +the ladies in this list have resisted all enquiry in the most +aggravating manner. Therefore I took the title of Aggravating Ladies as +being concise and appropriate. + +The information asked for relates only to English Literature of the 19th +century, to which period I confine myself entirely. The anonymous and +pseudonymous writers during this century being more than sufficient to +occupy a whole life of laborious application. + +I have not included in the list any phrases such as:—A Lady of Rank—A +Lady of Distinction—A Lady of Hebrew faith—A Banished Lady—A Young +Lady—A too generous Young Lady—nor, A Lady of distinction, who has +witnessed and attentively studied what is esteemed truly graceful and +elegant amongst the most refined nations of Europe (!) The pseudonym of +the author of The Mirror of the Graces, or an English lady’s costume +[treating of] ... taste ... grace; modesty ... dress ...; rank ... in +life; ... of accomplishments; ... the mind ... means of preserving +beauty ...; by a lady, &c. London, Crosby & Co., 1811. + +On the other hand I have inserted some titles which have been entered in +different catalogues as by “a lady,” when those words do not occur on +the title. Such works probably being really written by a lady, the +publisher naturally desired they should go forth with that impress of +good faith and with all the prestige attaching to that talismanic little +word. + +As I have already explained, my list comprises only works published in +the present century, whose authors are unknown to me. I have a longer +list of works by “a lady,” whose names are known, and who have therefore +ceased to be aggravating. I do not give the title when I know the name +of the author because I am now seeking not supplying information. + +Another list as long as that I give at the end I have not printed, not +having been able to see the books themselves so as to describe them from +actual inspection. + +I shall be grateful for information as to any of the works, or the lives +of these Aggravating Ladies. + + + 38, Doughty Street, W.C. + + July, 1880. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + PRELIMINARY REMARKS. + + ------- + + What’s in a name? + + Ask the booksellers, and they will tell you, _much_ in + the title-page of a new book.... + + The making up of a taking title-page, seems to have been + the peculiar province of the bookseller, time out of + mind.—_Fly leaves.... London_ [published and edited + by] _John Miller_, 1854. + + +After a perusal of my list I think every gentleman will agree with me +that Ladies really are very aggravating. It would be curious to hear the +exclamation of any lady who has written as “A lady,” upon looking it +over. She would probably exclaim that when she wrote as “A lady,” she +thought she was the only one, or at all events one of the first. + +The authoress of: “How to dress on £15 a year as a lady, by a lady,” +would no doubt be surprised to find such a long list for the present +century alone. I mention this flowing and somewhat vigorously written +little work; but it is of too recent a date for me to make any enquiry +for the author’s name, especially as it is a secret that, from the +present popularity of the book, is not likely to be long kept.[1] For I +have remarked that though these ladies do not like placing their names +on their books, yet there is little desire to disguise the authorship, +and enquiries are generally soon satisfied if a work has attained any +success. They like to see themselves in print, so long as there is no +infringement of the patent of modesty. + +Footnote 1: + + Since this was written (1875) the author’s name has been divulged, and + there has also been a Chancery Suit in relation to the work. I have + put the book in the list which follows as an illustration of some of + my remarks. + +The inference from this is that my list is composed chiefly of works +that have not become famous or popular, which is the fact. If secresy +were their object, it has to the present time been attained, for they +have defied my researches. Nevertheless I believe that to some one of +the author’s friends or relations she has been known, but “no man is a +prophet in his own country,” and friends and relations very often care +too little for what literary ladies are doing to follow Captain Cuttle’s +advice and “make a note” of an author’s name. Knowledge is often the +greatest enemy to the recording of facts. People often know so well whom +a book is by, that they are not even aware of its pseudonimity. The +majority of novel readers never know the name of the author, nor do they +care to enquire, and much prefer reading a novel “By the author of” some +previous work which has interested them. + +In many cases I am asking for information which the authoresses do not +conceal, and which is well known though unknown to me. + +Thus I ascribe my not knowing the name of the author rather to the fact +of there being no one to make a note of it when found, than any desire +on the fair writer’s part to remain unknown. When a lady has written her +first work as “a lady” she seldom adopts that denomination in her second +work; but more frequently uses the term “By the author of” the previous +work, or “By a lady, author of,” etc. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + HOW TO DESCRIBE A BOOK. + + ------- + + “If you are troubled with a pride of accuracy, and + would have it completely taken out of you, print a + catalogue.” (Author unknown). + + Dr. Aikin used to say, that nothing is such an obstacle + to the production of excellence as the power of + producing what is pretty good with ease and rapidity. + _The Circulator_ [1825] quoted in the Manual of + Laconics by John Taylor, 1838, p. 361. + + +Practice is the best, if not the only way to learn how to describe a +book. Simply reading descriptions of what to do is of little use. Indeed +practice is found to teach so much, that we often find authors of +bibliographical books cancelling the early portions of their works in +order to correct those defects and deficiencies which experience has +brought forcibly to their notice. Such was the case with the first part +of Quérard’s France Littéraire, which was called in and cancelled; and +the Bibliotheca Cornubiensis of Boase and Courtney, published by +Longmans in 1874. + +Every one must be guided by their particular requirements; but must +never lose sight of the absolute necessity there is of following a +system rigidly, and of being accurate. + +With these preliminary remarks I will now proceed to give some hints +derived from my own experience. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + CATALOGUING. + + ------- + + “The sheet-anchor of cataloguing-work, as of all other + true work that a man has to do, is accuracy.”—_Edward + Edwards_ (Memoirs of Libraries, 1859, vol. II. 868). + + ... “l’exactitude est le meilleur fondment du succès + des livres de bibliographie.”—Quérard, Omissions et + bévues du livre intitulé La Littérature Française + contemporaine ... 1848, p. xv. + + “As bibliographers, we cannot indeed but wish, that the + catalogue of every library were a bibliographical + dictionary of its books.... There is no species of + literary labor so arduous, or which makes so extensive + demands upon the learning of the author, as that of + the preparation of such works.”—Smithsonian Report on + the construction of catalogues.... By C. C. Jewett.... + 1853, p. 10. + + “It is impossible to labor successfully, without a rigid + adherence to rules. Although such rules be not + formally enunciated, they must exist in the mind of + the cataloguer and guide him, or the result of his + labors will be mortifying and unprofitable.”—Ibid, p. + 17. + + +I have used the word Bibliography, but I must warn the student that it +is meaningless, or, rather, its meanings are so numerous and varied, +being used for every sort of thing connected with books, that for any +scientific purpose the word is useless. Bibliotheca also is used amongst +other things to express a miscellaneous collection of titles; whether +good, bad, or indifferent, matters little. + +What is wanted is a short word which shall express that a book is +accurately described. The word catalogue is worse for its indefinite +meaning than bibliotheca or bibliography. The science or art of +describing books has no technical term.[2] + +Footnote 2: + + The reader can refer to Notes and Queries, 4 Series IX, p. 8, for some + remarks on the inconvenient length of bibliographical words. + +In describing books, accuracy is the one thing to attain. And the object +should be so to describe the book, that anybody else shall be certain +from the description that a particular book they have in hand is the one +described. + +So difficult did Prof. De Morgan consider this, with regard to early +printed books that he said if he had to do his work on “Arithmetical +Books” over again he would invariably describe some defect or error in +the printing. + +I now propose to give some hints on this subject, premising that there +is at present no “Grammar” of Bibliography—nothing settled, no +recognized authority. + +Supposing a person were about to make a catalogue of a library, or even +of a few books, the first thing to do is to lay down certain rules, to +be strictly adhered to, or adopt rules laid down by another for that +purpose. This has been done for many years past by the librarians of our +National Library. So that there at least we have a Catalogue that we can +depend upon so far as it goes: how far that is the rules inform us. +Several of them simply provide against the prevailing loose notions of +cataloguing. Rules for example to tell us that titles are written +straight on as they are found, or in the language in which the book is +written and not in another, read like satires on ignorance. And yet how +necessary they are. + +These rules, invaluable as a guide to every catalogue maker, will be +found printed in the: Catalogue of printed books in the British Museum, +volume 1. London, printed by order of the trustees, MDCCCXLI, in folio; +the Preface is signed by the editor Sir Antonio Panizzi, and examples of +the rules will be found in: A handbook for Readers at the British +Museum, by Thomas Nichols, assistant in the British Museum, London, +Longman, 1866, p. 51. This useful little work unfortunately has no +index. A catalogue drawn up according to the rules of the Museum will be +found in: “A list of the books of reference in the Reading room of the +British Museum.” + +The rules are ninety-one in number but for small libraries where +provision is not required for every language under the sun, a smaller +number would be sufficient.[3] + +Footnote 3: + + Since the above was written a most exhaustive and useful work + rendering a reference to any other almost superfluous has been + published, entitled “Rules for a printed dictionary catalogue by + Charles A. Cutter,” forming part II of the Special Report on public + libraries in the United States, Washington, 1876. + +Whatever rules are determined upon should be printed in the catalogue, +so that those who consult it may know at once whether or not they are +likely to find what they want and how. + + ------- + +The first question that arises is the amount of title page information +to be given. To abbreviate or not abbreviate becomes the difficult +question. It generally resolves itself into one of expense, and +abbreviated titles are determined upon. + +I now therefore treat of the matter as it is, and not as it should be, +for if I treated it as it should be, namely with full titles, I should +have little to say. + +He must have been a bold man who first began to abbreviate titles for a +catalogue. It is a most unsatisfactory practice, though now having long +precedent for its use. It is like cutting off a leg or an arm, the body +can still go on, it is true, but it is nevertheless mutilated. + +The more title page information a bibliotheca gives the greater will be +its usefulness. Everything, however, is subordinate to the proper +description of the book. If that is done upon certain principles and +rules, the cataloguer will at least be consistent, which few of the +present day are. + +Every word of a title may be given and yet be inaccurate, on the other +hand half the title may be left out and yet be accurate[4] though not +perfect as I shall presently show. + +Footnote 4: + + Instead of “inaccurate” and “accurate,” I had written the words + “unbibliographical” and “bibliographical,” but as I have already + explained that word does not at present necessarily include accuracy, + which word will better explain what I wish to impress on the student. + +The ordinary and most popular way of referring to or describing a book +is to reverse everything and alter the title. For example, let us +suppose it is stated that in 1868 Messrs. Longman published an octavo +volume of 800 pages by George Brown, entitled a Treatise on the best +mode of ventilation. Here everything is topsy turvy, besides being +incorrectly called a treatise instead of an essay.[5] The proper title +being: An historical essay on ventilation, by George Brown, London, +Longman, 1868, octavo, pp. xv. 786. + +Instances of this kind of thing the student will find at every turn, in +every publication, periodical or otherwise. + +Footnote 5: + + Refer to the remarks of Bolton Corney “On the new general Biographical + dictionary”, p. 33. + +Another bad practice is cutting short the title page and explaining in a +note what the book is about almost in the words of the author, so that +all the necessary information is given, only incorrectly instead of +correctly, an example of which, taken from Lowndes, will be found in my +list. + +The difficulty is not to find instances of looseness in describing +books, but to find instances where they are properly described. I know +of few bibliothecas, English or foreign, that can be relied on. + +Probably these will appear to some trivial matters. Yet what thought and +anxious consideration do most authors give to the titles of their works, +before they finally suit their fancy; frequently, indeed, not being +satisfied with them as sent forth to the world. How has the author +considered whether he will put his own name, or whether he will write +under a fictitious name, or his initials, or simply call himself “A +Gentleman,” or designate himself by the office he holds as “A +Magistrate.” Then, with what difficulty has he at last settled upon a +publisher, and for what a number of reasons may he have done so. And yet +some ruthless barbarian, who is totally ignorant of all the trouble that +has been taken, and who knows nothing of the subject, cuts down our +author’s title without hesitation. Or perhaps, what is still more +astonishing, an author himself, although he has given the matter so much +thought, will sometimes on being asked, send a list of his works, in +which not a single title shall be correct, in which he will leave out +all the first words, erroneously state the subject as in the book +instead of as it appears on the title page: omit to say when published, +whether with his own name or not; and, finally, and almost invariably, +leave out the publisher’s name, which cost him so much pains to decide +on. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + OF DIFFERENT DESCRIPTIONS OF BOOKS. + + ------- + + Catalogues must have nothing to do with distinctions + between celebrity and obscurity. They must aim at + serving the tyro no less than the professor.—_Edward + Edwards_ (Memoirs of Libraries, 1859, II., p. 836). + + +Books may be classed under four heads, namely (1) Autonymous—(2) +Polyonymous—(3) Pseudonymous, and—(4) Anonymous. + +1. Autonymous, the first and most common is with the author’s name +either on the title-page, or if not on the title-page, signed to a +preface, introduction, letter, or dedication, or in some part of the +book, or at the end. Speeches though usually anonymous with regard to +the reporting or editing, are frequently catalogued under the name of +the speaker as autonymous. + +2. Polyonymous, is with several authors’ names. It is usual to enter +them under the name of the first author, with cross references from the +others. + +3. Pseudonymous, without the author’s name, but with a fictitious name +or designation, thus giving some indication as to the author, though +possibly a very slight one. No matter in what part of the book the +pseudonym appears, the work is pseudonymous.[6] + +In cataloguing, the pseudonym should no more be left out, than the +author’s name. If an author uses a pseudonym on the title, but gives his +real name in the book, it is not pseudonymous, but must be catalogued as +autonymous. In this case, as in all others, the pseudonym should be +given, even if the title is abbreviated. In fact the pseudonym for +bibliographical purposes takes the place of the author’s name. I have +not space here to enumerate the different classes of pseudonyms, of +which there are many varieties.[7] + +Footnote 6: + + For a curious instance see the Handbook of Fictitious Names, p. 94. + One who is BUT an attorney; and One who thinks for himself _i.e._ T. + Truewit. + +Footnote 7: + + A list, unfortunately containing many errors, will be found at the end + of “A notice of the life and works of J. M. Quérard by Olphar Hamst: + London, J. R. Smith, 1867.” This list is adopted by John Power in his + “Handy-book about books,” with all my errors and a good stock of his + own to boot. There is an extended treatise on pseudonyms in the + introduction to either edition of Quérard’s “Supercheries Littéraires + Devoilées.” The subject is also treated of in M. Octave Delepierre’s + “Supercheries littéraires, pastiches,” Londres, Trübner, 1872. + Probably the earliest treatise is that entitled “Auteurs déguisez,” + Paris, 1690, by Adrien Baillet, but published without his name. + +4. Lastly an Anonymous book is one without the author’s name, whether on +the title page, or any part of the book. The word anonymous has been and +still is very indiscriminately used to include pseudonymous. The +cataloguer must be careful not to be betrayed into this error so +fruitful of inaccuracy. This class of books has resisted the most +strenuous efforts of the learned to bring it within rules, every rule +for cataloguing such books requiring an exception. With anonymous works +having simple titles, such as “Aggravating Ladies” (supposing a work to +be published anonymously with such a title) the task is easy. Though +even this example will illustrate the difficulty of the subject, for +there are only two words and there are two ways of cataloguing, each +having advantages. By one system it would come under “Aggravating” and +by the other under “Ladies.” According to the system of Audiffredi[8] +and of Barbier[9] and of a similar work on English authors[10], it would +be catalogued by the first word, and for such works this is the most +approved method[11]. According to the Rules of the British Museum it +would be catalogued under Ladies. + +Footnote 8: + + Audiffredi’s work, referred to in the Report on the British Museum + (1850, p. 469), it is entitled “Bibliothecæ Casanatensis catalogus + librorum typis impressorum,” tom 1-4, A-K. Roma, 1761-1788, fol., and + is quoted by Barbier at p. xlviii of the work referred to in the next + note. + +Footnote 9: + + Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes ... par A. A. + Barbier ... Paris, 1806, 4 vols, 8o. It is curious to note that + Barbier had not settled in his own mind at the date of the above the + first edition, what was an anonymous work. He describes it as one upon + the title page of which the author is not named, and he then states + that sometimes the author’s name is found in the work; but he says it + is the custom to class them all as anonymous and not to distinguish + different degrees of anonymity. In the second edition in 1826 he very + properly eliminated so far as he was able such works as contained the + authors’ names. For many things the first edition is better than the + second, in which many of the titles we are told were abbreviated. In + the third and last and best edition, part of which was published in + 1872, his son, (see p. xxix., note) has so far as he was able, + re-instated such titles because so many editors and others still + continue to consider a work anonymous if the author’s name does not + occur on the title page. This is a step backwards, and the sooner M. + Olivier Barbier throws the editors and others overboard the better. + +Footnote 10: + + A prospectus was issued in 1872, with the title: A dictionary of the + anonymous and pseudonymous literature of Great Britain by the late + Samuel Halkett.—See Notes and Queries 4 s. IX., p. 403. + +Footnote 11: + + And is recommended in a pamphlet entitled: Hints on the formation of + small libraries, by W. E. A. Axon, London, Trübner [1869] reprinted + in: A handy book about books, by J. Power, Lond., J. Wilson, 1870, p. + 156, and he adopts it in: The literature of the Lancashire dialect, a + bibliographical essay, by W. E. A. Axon, 1870. + +It affords matter for consideration when we find it stated that “An +anonymous work is seldom read with confidence or quoted as an +authority.”[12] + +Footnote 12: + + Bolton Corney, “On the new general Biographical dictionary,” 1839, p. + 15. + +Many publications intended expressly for youth, and therefore requiring +some guarantee that they are fit for the purpose, are published without +the author’s name, though frequently with an indication of sex. + +It may probably be that little as is the credit given to the anonymous +or pseudonymous work, for in the above quotation both are meant, it +would obtain less if it had the author’s real name[13]. + +Footnote 13: + + For examples see Notes and Queries 3rd s. XII, 394, and the Handbook + of Fictitious Names. + +To shew that a book was published without the author’s name, whether +anonymous or pseudonymous, some bibliographers have put an asterisk or +star at the beginning of the title. I am not aware that this, or indeed +any plan has systematically been adopted in any English work, except +within the last few years. In his learned Essay On the Literature of +Political economy, p. x, J. R. McCulloch says: “When the name of the +author of a work is included between brackets, it shows that it was +published anonymously.” He uses anonymous here in the sense of without +the author’s name, and to include pseudonymous. I made use of the star +in the Handbook of Fictitious Names in 1868, but only to indicate +anonymity, and not as Quérard uses it. In Notes and Queries for the 6th +April, 1872, I suggested the adoption of a line — to shew that a book +was published pseudonymously. And I made use of both signs in my +Bibliographical list of Lord Brougham’s publications. These signs have +the advantage of attracting the eye, and declaring at once the class of +book. On the other hand they cannot be used for foot notes, are likely +to be overlooked in printing, and there is always great difficulty in +getting readers to find out what signs mean. On the whole after much +consideration I have determined for the future to use simply +abbreviations of the words anonymous and pseudonymous which everybody +understands without explanation. + +As in describing a book the principal object is to enable the student to +identify it, so that there may be no doubt that the cataloguer’s remarks +upon a certain book apply to that for which the reader is searching. It +is less important that autonymous works should be catalogued so fully as +anonymous, because the author’s name is at once a guide. For though two +autonymous works bear the same title their authors’ names would be +different. But not so with two anonymous works having the same title. + +Pseudonymous works, in which the pseudonym is a name and not a phrase or +denomination, would come in the same category. + +For anonymous, and frequently for pseudonymous works it is not only +desirable to give the full title, but to supplement it with any further +information that will help identification. As for example, if the book +is printed at a different place to that of sale or publication[14] or if +dated and addressed from what would appear to be the author’s residence, +or if there is any allusion in the work or the advertisements[15] to +other publications of the same author. Examples of all will be found in +my list. Though a book be anonymous so far as the title page informs us, +yet if pseudonymous from the preface or introduction being signed with a +fictitious name, or with initials or denomination, or other +qualification, it should be catalogued as pseudonymous. Thus following +the rule with regard to autonyms. Except when signed:—The Author, The +Editor, The Translator, Himself, or Herself, of which it is best to take +no notice, even if on the title. Such works should be considered +anonymous without even giving cross-references from those words. + +Footnote 14: + + Many London publishers have printing houses out of town, in such cases + the place of printing is no guide. + +Footnote 15: + + Advertisements should generally be preserved. If, however, a book has + been through a binder’s hands there is little chance of their + surviving. Never send a book to the binder without special + instructions to preserve the advertisements and covers or wrappers, + and mark every page intended to be kept, otherwise there is a + barbarous custom amongst binders, arising from ignorance or cupidity, + of denuding every pamphlet of the covers and advertisements which + frequently teem with matter useful in after years. Binders like to + treat books like convicts, and shave their heads. + +Of whatever description, whether autonymous, or anonymous, or +pseudonymous, the first words of the title, or the half title, should be +quoted correctly, and exactly as they occur, and to this rule there +should be no exception, whether for bibliographical lists, or for the +purpose of citation as an authority. For in the latter case, however +familiar the work cited may be, there are sure to be readers unfamiliar +with it, to whom a loose reference will cause trouble. The half title or +any abbreviation of the title, if used by the author of the book may be +adopted. + +Few things cause greater waste of time amongst literary men than the +habitually careless manner in which they give references. Not only +should a book be correctly described, but the edition or date and page +ought to be added. Bibliographers (which term I here use to mean persons +who have concerned themselves with the description of books) have sinned +terribly in this respect by giving descriptions of books at second, or +even third-hand, and repeating the mistakes and blunders of the original +authority. Title pages are like rumours, the oftener they are repeated +the more incorrect they become. The student should never rely upon a +catalogue for the description of a book, unless the compiler has adhered +strictly to rules. A statement in bibliothecas, biographical +dictionaries, or catalogues, that a work is anonymous, can never be +relied upon[16]. + +Footnote 16: + + Those who desire to see examples of several classes of errors to be + avoided can refer to the following works. On the new general + Biographical dictionary: a specimen of amateur criticism in letters + [signed Bolton Corney] to Mr. Sylvanus Urban [motto] London: Shoberl, + 1839, 8o. A remarkable piece of criticism indispensable to every + biographer or bibliographer. + + Arithmetical books ... being brief notices of a large number of works + drawn up from actual inspection by Augustus de Morgan ... London, + 1847. See the preface and introduction to this valuable and + interesting work. The English catalogue of books, 1864, makes an + edition of this work with the date 1853, at 2s 6d. Being desirous of + possessing this, I wrote to the learned Professor to know where it was + to be obtained, and what difference there was, he replied:—“The + difference between the 1st and 2nd edition of my Arithmetical Books, + is the difference between something and nothing, which, let Hegel say + what he will, is a very great difference. There is not any second + edition, nor I think, will be.” Refer also to an article by De Morgan + in the Companion to the Almanac for 1853, entitled “On the difficulty + of correct description of books,” pp. 5 to 19, full of various and + useful matter. + + Handbook of Fictitious names of authors of the XIXth Century ... by + Olphar Hamst ..., 1868, p. xi. + + Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes par A. A. Barbier, 3e. ed., 1872, + see the note by Olivier Barbier on the second page of the + advertisement to the first volume. + +After the first few words of the title every abbreviation or omission +should be indicated by three dots ... close together not thus. . . . +This is a better method than using an “etc.,” a sign which from the +carelessness of authors is frequently found on title-pages of books, and +if used by both authors and cataloguers we should never know which. As +few authors could explain the meaning of an “&c.” on the title, it is +not likely that readers can guess. + +It has been customary to omit mottoes without any indication of the +omission, and this has been done in one of the most bibliographical +works published in England[17]. I only know of one work of importance +where special notice is taken of such omissions.[18] + +Footnote 17: + + A descriptive catalogue of Friends’ books, ... by Joseph Smith, in two + vols, ... 1867. + +Footnote 18: + + This is the: Catalogue of the Manchester free library, reference + department, prepared by A. Crestadoro, ... 1864, where the omission is + indicated by three stars. + + In my “List of works on Swimming,” I give full titles, including + mottoes of all the books I was able to see. In my “Bibliographical + list of Lord Brougham’s publications,” I indicate the place of the + motto on the title. + +If a title page has a motto its omission should be shewn thus [motto]. + +To print mottoes when numerous or lengthy in an extensive work seems +quite out of the question. When short it is a luxury the bibliographer +may occasionally indulge in. I confess that this is one of the points I +have felt extremely puzzled about. I never abbreviate or omit anything +from a title-page without fear and trembling, which is intensified in +the case of mottoes. They frequently in one short verse, or sentence, +give the pith of a book, and my fear is that some one in the future +should wonder how I could be so stupid as to suggest their omission. + +All additions should be indicated with the same care by placing them +between brackets [ ]. Additions in titles should be as few and as +short as possible, all explanatory matter can be given in a note. + +Sometimes authors use brackets or parentheses on the title pages. When +this is the case, if of no use or unimportant, they should be left out +by the cataloguer. For instance, when an author has the words [Reprinted +from, &c.] in the title. To omit the brackets is the least misleading, +for if left in it would look as if this information were not supplied by +the author, and if (_sic_) were put it would not be understood as +referring to the brackets. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + MATTERS TO BE ATTENDED TO IN CATALOGUING. + + ------- + + In arranging a number of rules, it is difficult to + please every reader. I have frequently been unable to + satisfy myself; and therefore, cannot expect that the + arrangement which I have at last adopted will give + universal satisfaction.—W. LENNIE, The principles of + English grammar ... 34th ed., Edinb., 1854, p. 4. + + Cataloguers may comment upon, but should never alter + what it has been deemed right to state on the title + page of a book by those who have framed it.—Art of + making catalogues, &c. [by A. Crestadoro], 1856, p. + 14. + + +In cataloguing or describing a book six points at least should be kept +in view as necessary to its identification.[19] + +(1.) Title. + +(2.) Name of author, and sometimes description. + +(3.) Place of publication. + +(4.) Publisher’s name, and sometimes address. + +(5.) The date of publication. + +(6.) The size. + +Footnote 19: + + The student may refer to the useful little pamphlet above quoted, + entitled: The art of making catalogues of libraries, or a method to + obtain in a short time, a most perfect, complete, and satisfactory + printed catalogue of the British Museum library, by a reader therein + [Dr. Crestadoro], Lond. 1856, p. 38. + +If full titles (that is, an exact transcript of the title from beginning +to the end), are given, it will only be necessary for the cataloguer to +supply in its proper, or most suitable place, such of the above +information as is not on the title-page. + +If abbreviations be adopted several considerations arise. + +(1.) As to so much of the title as occurs before the author’s name we +have already said that the first few words should be copied word for +word, and afterwards every omission should be denoted by dots. + +(2.) The name of the author should not be abbreviated, if it renders it +difficult to distinguish between two with the same initials. If the +author’s qualifications are omitted or abbreviated, dots ... of omission +should be inserted. A description after a name is often very important +and useful in determining the degree of credit to be attached to the +work, but they are frequently so numerous that they are too long for +most catalogues. + +Works in more than one volume generally have the number on the title, as +“In three volumes, vol 1.” Take no notice of “Vol I.,” but invariably +state the number of volumes in the order in which it occurs on the +title-page. The number of volumes, however, is not always stated; in +some works each volume simply has “Vol I,” or “Vol II,” on the title, +when this is so, the number of volumes should be stated after the date +thus: “1873, in three volumes, octavo.” The reader would then know +whether the number of volumes was stated on the title or not. + +There will be cases where this rule will not sufficiently indicate the +fact, as for instance, when the first does not, but the second does, +state the number of volumes. A note will meet this case, if necessary. + +It may appear to some that so trifling a matter is unworthy of note, but +with this the cataloguer has nothing to do. His business is to note +facts however trivial, whether anybody should ever require them is not +in his province. + +(3.) Place of publication. Several places of publication are frequently +given in the imprint of a book, when this is the case, the first place +should, at all events, be given, and if the book is not printed as well +as published there, the place where it is printed should be stated. + +(4.) The Publisher’s name we seldom find in any list of books. I never +recollect to have seen it in any catalogue of a library, and in very few +bibliographical works. And yet it is often of great importance. In +cataloguing works without the author’s name it should seldom if ever be +omitted, however much the title is abbreviated. The publisher’s address +may often be added with advantage, especially in cases where he is +little known. For many firms who have been issuing works from the same +house for a century or even longer, it seems superfluous.[20] + +Footnote 20: + + I must remind the student that I am only writing for present century + books, I have no experience of cataloguing old books. + +Both name and address of publishers may be abbreviated without marks of +omission, a rule having been made to that effect, so that the reader may +be apprised of the fact. Some small elementary works have as many as ten +or fifteen places and double that number of publishers in the imprint, +these of course would not be given in full unless with some special +object. + +The publisher’s name when well known is also important as frequently +giving a character, or guarantee, if not of the literary worth of a +book, at all events of its sincerity. + +If the publisher is also the author, but does not signify that fact, the +book must be considered anonymous. The publisher’s name (that is the +author’s) must be repeated, as would be the case if written by another +person. + +Privately printed[21] works are frequently issued without the name of a +publisher or bookseller, though less frequently without that of a +printer, which if not on the title should be supplied in parenthesis or +in a note. + +Footnote 21: + + For examples the student can refer to the only English work on the + subject, of which two editions have been issued, viz., Martin’s + Bibliographical catalogue of privately printed books. It is necessary + to have both editions in consequence of the death of the author, + unfortunately interrupting the completion of the second. + +(5.) The date of publication, if not on the title, will like the +author’s name, be frequently found in some other part of the book. It +should then be supplied after the last word on the title in parenthesis. +If not in the book, it should be put between brackets [ ], and if +uncertain with a note of interrogation. + +Stereotyped books are generally without dates of publication for certain +commercial reasons. Only superficial readers are duped by the artifice, +for the first object of the literary student would be to determine +approximately the date of issue. When the preface is not dated it is no +doubt as often through thoughtlessness as intention. + +In quoting a work that has passed through numerous editions, it is often +useful to give the date of the first. + +There is a practice amongst publishers of post dating books issued +towards the end of a year.[22] This practice will account for the dates +of books in some bibliothecas, biographies and catalogues, sometimes +being a year earlier than the date on the book. The title having been +copied from an advertisement or a review of the work apparently before +publication. When known to the cataloguer the actual year of issue +should be supplied in brackets immediately after the date of the title. + +Footnote 22: + + See the article referred to (p. 19) by Prof. De Morgan, in the + Companion to the Almanac. + +(6.) With the different descriptions of sizes of books Professor De +Morgan was so exasperated that after giving descriptions of how the +sheets of a book are folded he says, “The words _folio_, _quarto_, +_octavo_, _duodecimo_, _decimo-octavo_, refer (in his book) entirely to +size, as completely as in a modern sale catalogue, the maker of which +never looks at the inside of a book to tell its form. All the very +modern distinctions of _imperial_, _royal_, _crown_, _atlas_, _demy_, +&c., &c., &c., I have relinquished to paper-makers and publishers, who +alone are able to understand them.”[23] + +Footnote 23: + + Arithmetical Books, p. xii. + +All the words in use to describe sizes are useless. They convey no +definite idea to the reader, for the simple reason that nothing definite +as to size is meant. The only definite meaning is that the paper is +folded into certain divisions, and not that the paper or print is of a +particular size. A quarto is often the size of an octavo, and an octavo +the size of a quarto, duodecimo, or anything else. Nevertheless though +not certain, the terms do in most cases, enable us to guess at the +probable or approximate size. The only way to be certain of the size is +to state it in inches.[24] Probably few literary men would put up with +the trouble of measuring. + +Footnote 24: + + This plan is advocated in a work I cannot too strongly recommend. It + is indispensable to every librarian. The learned author thoroughly + studied all the various systems in vogue, and founds almost a code for + the cataloguer upon them. It is the:—Smithsonian Report on the + construction of catalogues of libraries and their publication by means + of separate stereotyped titles, with rules and examples, by Charles C. + Jewett, Librarian of the Smithsonian Institution, second edition. + Washington, published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1853, 8vo, pp. + xii., 96. Since the above was written Mr. Cutter’s Rules have appeared + (see p. 11), and should be referred to. + +Compilers of Catalogues of modern books may content themselves in most +cases with the terms at present in use.[25] + +Footnote 25: + + For what these are, and how to know them, I must refer the reader to + the Smithsonian Report, previously quoted, or to a note by Charles + Naylor on “the size of a book” in Notes and Queries for 10 Feb., 1872, + 4th s., ix. p. 122. + +Novels are generally described in the advertisements as “post octavo,” +which is not octavo at all, but duodecimo. The mis-description is of +little importance, for everybody knows about the size of the modern +three volume novel, a little larger now than at the beginning of the +century. + +It is annoying that so small a matter as the size of a book should +occupy so much space. It has always been a subject of difficulty. A +bookseller as such, in his sale catalogues, will describe a book as +12mo, but when he compiles a bibliographical list he will describe it +correctly as octavo, though the actual size is what is looked upon as +duodecimo. + +These points are strictly necessary for ordinary catalogues, but they +will not satisfy all enquiries, for we cannot tell from them whether it +is a book or a pamphlet that is described. It is therefore desirable to +add the number of pages. In the paging we have as much variety as in the +sizes, authors, publishers, and printers, not having the slightest +thought for bibliographers, and the infinite trouble of collation. + +A book should be paged in as simple a manner as possible. This is a rule +that has never been attended to, and so long as authors do not know +their own minds never can be. If the printer begins the paging +regularly, and the author thinks irregularly, and recollects something +that has been left out, irregular paging will be the result.[26] + +Footnote 26: + + The most disorderly book I know in this respect is:—A universal + alphabet grammar and language, ... by George Edmonds, ... [1856] + quarto:—The following is the collation. Its length would generally + preclude its being given in a bibliotheca. First we have the preface + vii pages, then a table of contents vii pages; the introduction 34 + pages, a half-title unpaged, then 152 pages, then another half-title + unpaged, then pp. 44 and iii., then corrigenda pp. ix., then a + half-title and “the Dictionary,” forming a third of the book entirely + unpaged, then the addenda paged separately pp. 3. Sometimes the + figures of paging are at the side, sometimes in the middle, sometimes + at the top and sometimes at the bottom! Timperley in his “Printer’s + Manual” (1838) p. 18, says, “Running titles may be set to an index, + but folios are seldom put unless with a view to recommend the book for + its extraordinary number of pages; for as an index does not refer to + its own matter by figures, they are needless in this case.” When the + trouble that a variety of pagings gives the bibliographer, is + considered, it is to be hoped that the simplicity I recommend will be + adopted as much as possible. + +Always count from the very first printed page belonging to the book, +excluding advertisements. Give the paging as printed, that is, in the +same characters. If leaves occur unpaged, either before those paged or +after, use arabian numerals to denote those unpaged. + +Sometimes an octavo book begins with, say xii. numbered pages and then +occur four unnumbered, and then we have page 1 on signature B, numbered +consecutively to page 253, and three pages of appendix and errata +beyond. Describe it thus: octavo pp. xii., and 4, and 253, and 3. But if +4 and 3 are numbered with roman numerals, it should be thus:—octavo, pp. +xii., and iv., 253, iii., because this is more accurate. We use the same +kind of numerals used in the book. It is, however, not a matter of much +moment, provided the correct number of pages is given in the collation. + +I do not use the sign plus (xii.+iv.+iii.) because it makes the figures +look more uninteresting, and signs enough occur in the titles +themselves. + +The price at which a book is published is often unascertainable, and it +is useful to insert it, though it has nothing to do with its literary or +scientific value. But in this as in every other particular it is +impossible to say what the student may require, and its omission might +make a man of genius waste precious hours which it is the special object +of the true bibliographer to save. + +If the price is mentioned on the title page, accuracy requires that it +be given in its regular order, whether at the beginning or end of the +title. Instances will be found in the list of works by a lady at the +end. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + STYLE OF PRINTING. + + ------- + + +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. + +I prefer this title-page for catalogue purposes to be printed thus: + +Speeches by the lord chancellor [Lyndhurst], 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 judgment appended from Mr. +Gurney’s shorthand notes. Edinb. James Gall and son [1842], 8o, pp. +36, 1s. The improvement in appearance of this title and the facility +in reading, counterbalance all such objections as that we are +accustomed to Lord, and not lord, or Tuesday, and not tuesday. The +compilers of the [English] Law List have long since discarded +capitals for the names of streets with great advantage, for example +they print, “gray’s-inn-square,” not Gray’s Inn Square: “court of +exchequer”; “house of lords,” &c. The Catalogue of the Advocates +library, lately printed, is a good example; refer for instance to +the title under Bullion, vol I., 1867, p. 763, a title that in +ordinary catalogues would bristle with capitals. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + PUNCTUATION. + + ------- + + +The punctuation should also be carefully considered. Everything in +bibliography is at present very much over punctuated, half, if not two +thirds, might be dispensed with to the lessening of the expense, and the +great advantage in the appearance. + +Imagine you are copying a sentence instead of a title page, and +punctuate and put capitals accordingly. If writing that a work was by an +author, nobody would write By, neither need it have a capital for a copy +of a title. + +Mr. Henry Stevens has advocated and adopted this method in his later +catalogues and notably in the:—“Bibliotheca geographica and historica or +a catalogue of a nine days sale of rare & valuable ... books ... et +cetera ... with an essay upon the Stevens system of photobibliography by +Henry Stevens GMB [_i.e._ gatherer of musty books] ... [with a +photograph of] Ptolemy’s World by Mercator 1578 Part I. to be dispersed +by auction by Messrs Puttick and Simpson ... London Henry Stevens at the +Nuggetory 4 Trafalgar square July 25 1872.” + +The title, which I have abbreviated nearly one third, has upwards of two +hundred words in it without a single mark of punctuation, except after +“Part I.” where it seems to have got in by accident. Throughout his +titles, he uses stops very sparingly. Any word which is complete +requires no stop. Thus: “vols” requires no stop after it, because it is +a finished abbreviation, but vol. does[28]. + +Footnote 28: + + Mr. Stevens’ work contains an essay on catalogues, teeming with useful + suggestions, as indeed might be expected from one who has had such + long and varied experience. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + THE BEGINNING AND THE END. + + ------- + + The unwise seem to be of opinion that any fool can + index, but we have already seen that the wise think + differently.—Wheatley’s What is an index? 1879, p. 41. + + +The beginning of every book should be a table of contents, or an +analytical table, or both, and the end a good index. + +I can scarcely over estimate the importance which I attach to the index. +A book may almost as well be unwritten, as be without an index. + +The publications by “a lady,” are exceedingly deficient in indexes. It +is amazing that authors who must have felt the want of indexes in the +works of others should publish their own without such helps. + +It would occupy too much space to give all the opinions I have collected +of different authors entreating others never to publish a book without +an index. Allibone never loses an opportunity, in his Dictionary of +English Literature, of impressing upon his readers the importance of +indexes. See more particularly an article of absorbing interest under +the name of Samuel Ayscough of the British Museum, celebrated for his +most useful indexes to Shakespeare, to that grand storehouse of +information “The Gentleman’s Magazine” (obit. 1868), to “the Monthly +Review,” and other works. Of such importance indeed does Allibone +consider indexes, that, not content with insisting on them throughout +his three ponderous volumes, he, on the very last page, gives a note +“Concerning Indexes.” Often a good index obtains for a book a prominent +position it might not otherwise obtain; as, for example, Godfrey +Higgins’s “Anacalypsis,” which is said to be in the reading room of the +British Museum, from its containing[29] “thousands of statements cited +from all quarters, and very well indexed.” What would Watt’s Bibliotheca +Britannica be without its two volumes of index to two volumes of +authors. Bibliographical and biographical works beyond everything +require the most minute indexes. + +Footnote 29: + + Athenæum, 2 Aug. 1856, p. 953, quoted by Allibone in his Dictionary, + p. 843. See also p. 3140, and refer also to Ayscough, Mary Cowden + Clarke, Godfrey Higgins, John Nichols, and other articles in Allibone + and to his Alphabetical Index to the New Testament, Phil. [1868], + published under his initials only. + +Formerly I was in love with the scientific look of a number of indexes, +but I am now convinced that two heads are not better than one in this +case and that one index is more useful than two. A person who consults +an index wants to find something as quickly as possible, if there is +only one index he cannot consult the wrong one first. + +It has been suggested by Prof. De Morgan that historians by having no +indexes, think to oblige their readers to go through their works from +beginning to end. The contrary being the result. + +If book buyers made a rule of not buying a book without an index, +authors and publishers would then supply that want. + +Beware, however, of snares, for such there are in this as in all else, +big books with lean, lanky, and starved indexes. + +Since the above was written the “Index Society” has come into existence, +and published an indispensable little work, entirely devoted to this +subject entitled: What is an index? a few notes on indexes and indexers +by Henry B. Wheatley ... [motto] London, Longmans 1879. Besides being +useful this is a most amusing book. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + OF ERRORS. + + ------- + + What still remains to be taken notice of are the + _errata’s_,... Sometimes they are put by themselves on + the even side of a leaf, so as to face the title. But + though this is very seldom done, it is a pity that it + should ever have come into the thoughts of anyone to + do it at all; for it is a maxim to bring errata’s into + as narrow a compass as we conveniently can, and to put + them in a place where they can make no great show: + since it is not to the credit of a book, to find a + catalogue of its faults annexed. It is therefore wrong + policy in those who make errata’s appear numerous and + parading, in hopes of being thought very careful and + accurate; when they only serve to witness an author’s + inattention at a time when he should have been of the + opposite inclination. But the subterfuges that are + used by writers upon this occasion, are commonly + levelled at the printer, to make him the author of all + that is amiss; whereas they ought to ascribe it to + themselves: ... whoever has any ideas of printing, + must consequently know that it is impossible to + practice that art without committing errors; and that + it is the province of an author to rectify them. For + these several reasons it will appear how material + it is not to make an erratum of every trifling + fault....—John Smith’s Printer’s grammar, 1755, quoted + in Timperley’s Printer’s Manual, 1838, p. 19. + + Le nouvel _Errata_, je le répète, est long, d’une + longueur inaccoutumée. Les auteurs semblent avoir + honte d’avouer les fautes qu’ils ont commises, ou + qu’on commet pour eux; je n’ai pas cette pudeur + menteuse; je confesse les fautes de mon livre.—A. JAL: + préface de la seconde édition du Dict. Crit. de + Biographie et d’histoire, 1872. + + +It is next to impossible to avoid errors, more especially in +bibliographical works, with numbers of names and figures. All that can +be done to avoid them, of course, should be; but with the most minute +and constant supervision errors will creep in and oversights occur. + +This, however, is no reason for adopting eccentricities. For example, +Professor De Morgan in his “Arithmetical Books,” adopted the singular +plan of giving the dates twice, in figures and in words, the latter +being abbreviated, and after all, as he himself shows, he was still +liable to commit the very errors he desired to provide against. + +His plan never has been, and I hope, never will be adopted by any one +else. It is original, but highly inconvenient and unbibliographical in +the extreme. It is to be hoped that if a new edition is ever published +we shall have proper title page information in a proper manner, and be +spared such eccentricities as beginning the title-page from the bottom +instead of the top. + +I may here remark that the learned Professor went upon the right +principle, he excluded no book on the ground of unimportance, or +worthlessness. He described no book unless he had seen it, which was +also J. R. McCulloch’s plan in his “Literature of Political Economy” +(1845), but he unfortunately described only select works, without even +giving a brief list of what he considered rubbish, simply saying, “We +have proceeded on a principle of selection; and neglecting the others, +have, with exceptions, noticed those works only which appear to have +contributed to develop sound principles, or to facilitate their +adoption.” The consequence is if we find a book unmentioned by him, it +at once becomes a question whether he excluded it because it was +worthless, or because he had not seen it. + +There is a large class of errors arising from the habit of one writer +copying another, instead of each going to original sources. + +The errors prevalent in biography and bibliography were pointed out by +Mr. Bolton Corney years ago. I think it is unnecessary for me to give +here any further criticisms on the method which should be pursued. The +student who wishes to go deeper into the subject can refer to Bolton +Corney’s pamphlet: “On the New General Biographical Dictionary,” already +noticed. + +The work I have quoted above by M. Jal is a large volume consisting +almost entirely of articles in correction of those existing in other +works. + +No statement of any former writer should be taken for granted, if there +is any more original source. Compilers of Dictionaries sin greatly in +this respect. The reason is probably that to be correct requires so much +time and research that it does not pay to be accurate if much time is +consumed. + +The safest way to avoid errors would be to compare the proof of every +title page with the book itself, but the labour would be enormous, and I +doubt if it is practicable in most cases. Nevertheless, it is the surest +way. At the same time I would not discourage anybody from attempting a +catalogue or bibliotheca, although nobody can expect to do anything of +much value without accuracy, the greater the accuracy the greater the +value. + +Nothing is satisfactory but actual inspection of the books themselves. +We have quite enough of descriptions of books at second, third, or +fourth hand, in nearly all existing works, and it is time now to go upon +“a new and improved principle.” Mr. W. Carew Hazlitt in the preface to +his “Collections and Notes,” 1876, has some interesting remarks on this +subject to which the student can refer. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + ON THE MEANS OF IDENTIFYING THE AUTHORS OF ANONYMOUS AND PSEUDONYMOUS + PUBLICATIONS. + + ------- + + +It constantly happens that “a lady,” in one of her later publications +will mention a former one. In this case it is necessary to look at the +publication so referred to, when it will be ascertained if it is +anonymous. Works are also advertised at the end of others, either as +published, or forthcoming, and these works themselves must all be looked +at. + +A most extensive library is requisite for references such as these. +Indeed, it frequently happens that the works required cannot be found +even in the enormous library of the British Museum. + +To take the following as an example, in Mrs. H. Mozley’s: Louisa, or the +bride, by the author of the fairy bower [motto]. London, James Burns, +Portman street, and Henry Mozley & sons, Derby, 1842, 12o, pp. 302. + +It is pseudonymous. We find advertised at the end by the same author: +Bessie Gray, or the dull child. Hymns for children on the Lord’s Prayer, +our duty to God and scripture history. Robert Marshall, or the cleverest +boy in the school. The Stanley Ghost. The old Bridge. Some published, +others in the press, none of them, however, have I (1872), been able to +find in the Catalogue of the Library of the British Museum[30]. They may +be there nevertheless. + +Footnote 30: + + I have lately (May 1880) searched again, but still do not find them. + +As another example, I have traced the following works to the same +author, without, however, ascertaining the author’s name. + +Spain yesterday and to-day, by a lady, London, Harvey and Darton +[1829?], sm. 8o.—Portugal, or the young travellers, ... 1830.—The new +estate, or the young travellers in Wales and Ireland, by the author of +Portugal, ... 1831.—The East Indians at Selwood, or the orphans’ home, +by the author of Portugal; the new estate, &c., &c., Lond. Darton and +Harvey, 1834, small 12o.—Gleanings from many fields, by the author of +Portugal, the new estate, &c., &c., Lond., Darton and Harvey, 1834, 12o. + +Sometimes it is possible to make a tolerably certain guess at the +author, from the similarity in style, or some trick of the author, as in +the punctuation, or the use of italics, as by Archbishop Whately, or the +constant use of the dash, as in the works of James Flamank. + +But in all cases corroborative evidence is necessary. For how wrong a +guess of this kind may be has been amply illustrated in Notes and +Queries. + +Every celebrated man has had numerous publications attributed to him by +people who professed themselves quite certain of the authorship, from +the style and subject matter. + +There is at present no book which will give any help in an investigation +like the present. In the “Handbook of Fictitious Names,” at pages 7 and +8, only seven real names of ladies are revealed, with a note to the +effect that there were upwards of fifty works unknown. + +The very useful series of catalogues published by Messrs. Bent, Hodgson, +and Sampson Low, the English Catalogue of the latter being the best of +the kind, afford great assistance. + +The London catalogue of books, 1814-1851, has a classified index, and in +this anonymous works are frequently attributed to their real authors, +though without any indication of their anonymity. + +The British catalogue also has a subject index. + +The following include the majority of publications from 1800 to the +present time, except pamphlets and privately printed works. + +The London catalogue of books ... since the year 1800 to March 1827, +Lond. pub. for the executor of the late W. Bent by Longman &c. 1827, 8o. + +The London catalogue ... 1814 to 1846. + +The London catalogue ... 1816 to 1851, Lond., Thomas Hodgson 13 +Paternoster row and sold by Longman &c., 1851, 8o. + +The classified index to the London catalogue ... 1816 to 1851, London T. +Hodgson 1853, 8o. + +The British catalogue of books published from oct. 1837, to dec. 1852 +... by Sampson Low, vol. 1. general alphabet, Lond. S. Low & son, 1853. + +In this the dates of publication were added for the first time. The +author published an Index to the above in 1858, in which he acknowledges +the assistance of Dr. Crestadoro. + +The English catalogue of books, published from january, 1835, to +january, 1863, comprising the contents of the “London” and the “British” +catalogues, and the principal works published in the United States of +America and Continental Europe ... compiled by Sampson Low [and +assistants], London, S. Low Son & Marston, 1864, r. 8o. And +continuations to the present time. So that we thus have names of authors +and index of subjects from 1814 to the present time. For the years from +1800 to 1814, Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica can be referred to. + +I will now give an illustration. + +Information we will say, for example, is sent to the following effect:— + +“Sir,—Seeing that you are collecting, with a view to publication, names +of authors of the nineteenth century, I beg to say that I was well +acquainted with Miss Seaman, who died about the year 1830, a notice of +whom you will find in the Ryde papers. She wrote ‘Some Observations on +Girl’s Schools and Boarding Schools,’ but whether with her name or not I +forget. Also, about 1822, was published, by Smith of London, an +interesting religious tale called Lily, and in 16o, 1825, a capital +little work on the choice of books, with advice about Miss Edgeworth’s +Novels.” + +It will be evident to anyone that the whole of the above requires +verification, a labour of hours, perhaps days, which might have been +saved by a little bibliographical knowledge on the part of our +informant. + +On investigation it appears, then, that our informant has scarcely given +a single date or title correctly.—1. Miss Seaman died in 1829, not +1830.—2. The reference to the Ryde papers is useless, as too wide for +verification, and inaccessible.—3. The title of each of her works is +given from recollection, or rather, from no recollection, and they are +all incorrect.—4. The titles are made up.—5. Words not in the +title-pages are interpolated without notice.—6. The size of the book is +placed before the date—_i.e._ it is interpolated, and in fact everything +is reversed. + +The above information might be best put in this form. + +SEAMAN (Lucy) the daughter of a Captain in the Royal Navy, born at Ryde, +the 23 May, 1801, wrote several works which are held in high estimation, +and died of consumption on the 15 September, 1829. The following are the +only publications I know of from her pen; but as she published without +giving her name, there are probably others that are unknown. + +(1.) Remarks on education, as at present conducted, especially with +reference to private tuition and the system of boarding schools for +young ladies, London (printed at Ryde), for the author, 1822, 12mo, pp. +iv. 33, anon. + +The authoress says, that her father’s early death making her, while very +young, acquainted with the routine of teaching, was the cause of her +publishing these remarks. + +(2.) Little Lily, a moral tale for children, by a lady, author of +Remarks, &c., Lond. J. Smith, 1823, 8o, pp. 115, 2s 6d, pseudon. + +This is the first edition of this excellent little book, the second and +subsequent editions of which were published with her name. + +We observe that a book entitled “Little Lily’s travels, Lond. Nelson, +1860,” has been published; but it is a different work to the above. + +(3.) Miss Maria Edgeworth’s tales compared with other works of fiction; +to which is added advice for the selection, and a list of works most +suitable for children, by the author of Little Lily, &c., Lond., J. +Smith, 1826 [1825], 18o, pp. xi and 200, 3s, auton. + +In this she complains of her failing health, and expresses her great +respect for the writings of her friend Miss Edgeworth. + +Here it will be observed that the first work is strictly anonymous, as +the abbreviation “anon,” indicates, that is to say, it has no name on +the title-page, nor any name, pseudonym, nor initials to the preface; +and has in fact no clue whatever as to who is the author, as the +reference to her in the imprint cannot be considered such. But from the +book being printed at Ryde for the author, though published in London, +it may be inferred that she resided at Ryde at the time. + +The second work is pseudonymous, as the abbreviation “pseudon,” +indicates. + +The third work would appear also by the title-page to be pseudonymous, +it is not so, as the preface is signed by the authoress, and the +abbreviation “auton,” warns us that it is autonymous. + +In conclusion, I hope that my observations will not dishearten the +student who is ambitious of being bibliographical. Let every one strive +to do his best. But let no man suppose he can make a good catalogue +simply from his desire to do so and without previous study. It is no use +saying a man must be accurate, he cannot until he has studied the art of +bibliography, and learned what has already been done in that science; so +that by taking note of the errors of his predecessors, he may attempt a +catalogue on the most modern and improved principles, and thereby +contribute towards the advancement and improvement of bibliography. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + LIST OF WORKS BY A LADY. + + ------- + + “Bibliography is a dry occupation,—a caput mortuum,—it + is a borrowed production, which brings very little + grist to the mill; and so difficult and tedious is the + object, of laying before our eyes all the real or + reported copies or editions of the works enumerated, + that almost every line of our reports may be suspected + of falsehood.”—James Atkinson, Medical Bibliography, + 1834, 8o [he stopped with letter B]. + + It is probable that every great national library + contains more works without authors’ names than with + them. Of these anonymous books, a considerable + proportion will, doubtless, belong to authors whose + names are either known to, or conjectured, more or + less plausibly, by the learned bibliographer. But if + conjecture be allowed to govern the _place_ of a book + in a catalogue, all reliability on it ceases.—Edward + Edwards, in the Encyclopædia Britannica, eighth + edition, 1857, Art. Libraries, p. 378. + + +1. An account of the celebration of the jubilee, on the 25th oct. 1809, +being the 49th anniversary of the reign of Geo. III. ... collected and +published by a lady. Birmingham [1809], 4o. + + I should observe that I have not, out of regard to space, put in the + pagination, price, &c., and that nearly all the places of + publication are abbreviated. I have seen every book which I here + describe, mostly in the Library of the British Museum. + +2. Ailzie Grierson ... by a lady. Edin. Johnstone 1846, 16o. + +3. Almeda, or the Neapolitan revenge, a tragic drama, by a lady. Lond. +Symonds 1801, 8o. + + This is in five acts and in verse. The advertisement states that + part of the plot, which relates to the revenge of the Countess + (Almeda) was taken from the “Life of Rozelli.”—The author’s name + was not known to the editors of the Biographia Dramatica 1812. + +4. An alphabet of animals, by a lady. Lond. 1865. + +5. An anecdotal memoir of the princess royal of England from her birth +to her marriage [with prince Frederick William of Prussia] by a lady. +Lond. Houlston 1858, small 12o. + + Prefixed are some verses signed “Mary Bennett.” + +6. Anecdotes of animals selected by a lady for the amusement of her +children. Lond. Darton and Harvey 1832, square 16o. + +7. An appeal to the women of England to discourage the stage, by a lady. +Lond. Joseph Masters 1855, 24o. + +8. The arithmetical class-book, or preparatory studies in arithmetic, by +a lady; for the use of schools, and particularly designed as an +assistant for female teachers. Lond. Harvey and Darton 1824, 12o, pp. +IV. 62. + + In the preface, dated from “Clapham road place,” the authoress says + she has had long experience. This little work is not mentioned by + De Morgan in his list of Arithmetical books. + +9. The Astrologer, a legend of the Black Forest, by a lady [motto] in +two volumes. Lond. Saunders & Otley 1846. + +10. The beauties of scripture history for the use of young persons +learning English, by a lady. Paris, Ch. Duniol, 29 rue de Tournon 1855. + +11. Beauty, what it is, and how to retain it, by a lady: a companion +volume to [but not by the authoress of] How to dress on £15 a year.... +Lond. Warne [1873] 12o. + +12. The book of costumes, or annals of fashion ... by a lady of rank, +illustrated ... new edit. Lond. Colburn 1847. + +13. The boy’s own text book, containing a text from the old and new +Testaments ... selected by a lady [motto] Lond. J. F. Shaw 1857. + + I need scarcely say that this has nothing in common with “_The_ + Boys’ Own Book,” as to which I had a note in “Notes & Queries” of + 27 April, 1878, p. 329. See no. 71. + +14. A brief guide to happiness [through religion] by a lady, 2nd edit. +revised. Lond. Hope & Co. 1851. + +15. Buds and blossoms, or stories of children, by a lady. Lond. Hatchard +[1842?]. The same work, only anonymous, was also published by +Groombridge 1852. + +16. Caroline and her mother ... principally upon entomological subjects, +by a lady [mottoes] Lond. Hatchard 1827. + +17. Catechism for the use of young people [motto] by a lady. Paris, +published by Galignani 1834. + +18. A catechism of the history of England, by a lady. Lond. Dolman 1850. + + One of a series called Dolman’s [Catholic] catechisms. The history + of France and Germany in the same series are written by A. M. S., + and are attributed, with a query, at the British Museum, to Agnes + M. Stewart. + +19. Cato, or interesting adventures of a dog, interspersed with real +anecdotes, by a lady, author of Infant’s friend—Easy rhymes, &c. [motto] +3rd edition. Lond. J. Harris, St. Pauls’ churchyard [1820?] 12o, pp. +175. + + Dedicated to “my little girl,” by her mother. “Easy rhymes” appears + to be the only one of the above three works in the London + Catalogue. + +20. The child’s guide to knowledge ... by a lady. + + The 2nd edit. 1828, the 39th edit. Lond. Simpkin, 1866. + +21. The child’s manual of prayer, by a lady ... Lond. Dolman 1849. +Approved ✠ by Nicholas, bishop of Melipotamus. + +22. The child’s own book on New-church doctrine, by a lady. Lond. 1837. + +23. The child’s pathway through the history of England, by a lady, +second edition. Lond. Jarrold (Norwich printed) [1858?] + + The preface is signed Ida, Nottingham, 1855, and I think it may + safely be assumed that the authoress lived there. + +24. The child’s treasure, or reading without spelling effectually +simplified ... by a lady. Lond. C. H. Law, 1851. + +25. Choice descriptive poetry ... selected by a lady. Lond. Whittaker, +Birmingham (printed) [1852]. + +26. Chollerton ... by a lady. Lond. Ollivier 1846, 8o, pp. 381. + +27. The christian’s daily preacher ... by a lady [motto] Weymouth, 1826. + +28. Christmas 1846 and the new year 1847 in Ireland, letters from a +lady; edited by W. S. Gilly ... price one shilling: the proceeds of the +sale to be given towards relieving the distress in Ireland. Durham, +Andrews, 1847, 12o. + + “A lady,” not wishing her name published, the editor puts his as a + guarantee of good faith. + +29. A compendium of ancient geography, compiled for the young princess +M. L. B*N*P**TE de M⸺T, intended as a sequel to the abbé Gaultier’s +excellent Modern geography, as a companion to “Tales of the Classics,” +and inscribed to governesses ... by a lady. Lond. Hailes, 1835. + +30. A compendium of British geography, with questions, by a lady, the +author of First lessons in geography. Lond. Hailes 1828(?) + +31. Compendium of universal history, by the author of 1000 questions on +the old and new Testaments. Lond. Jarrold 1844. + + In both the London and English Catalogues, said to be by “a lady,” + but those words do not occur on the title. + +32. Conversations on important scriptural subjects by, a lady. Lond. +Ford, Islington 1837, 16o, pp. 102. + +33. Conversations on the lord’s prayer, by a lady [motto] Lond. +Simpkin—Benson and Barling. Weymouth [1851?] + + The illustration is signed E. J. P. + +34. Cookery made easy, by a lady [1841?] 11 edit. 1854. + + We have from this author: Cheap, nice, and nourishing cookery, or + how working people may live well upon a small income ... by the + author of “Cookery made easy.” Lond. Dean [1841]. + +35. The cottage home ... by a lady. Lond. [1864]. + +36. The cottager’s assistant, or the wedding present, 2nd edit., ... by +a lady, price 2s. 6d. with plates. Lond. Rodwell & Martin 1824, 12o, pp. +VIII. & 47. + + Inscribed to the Viscountess Cremorne. + +37. A course of ... prayers ... selected by a lady. Lond. Lyntot, price +2s. 6d., 1804, 8o. + +38. Cousin Rachel’s visit, by a lady. Wellington, Salop, printed by and +for Houlston, London 1827. + +39. The Cousins, being amusing and instructive lessons in the French +language, 2 parts. Lond. Derby, printed [1850]. + +40. Craigh-Melrose priory; or memoirs of the Mount Linton family, a +novel in four vols, by a lady. Lond. Chapple 1815. + +41. The crucifixion, a poem ... by a lady. Lond. Cadell 1817. + +42. Daily bread, or a text of scripture ... selected by a lady. 2nd +edit.... Liverpool 1821. + + The same published by Seeley, Lond. and Grapel, Liverpool, 1840. + +43. Dartmoor legends and other poems, by a lady. Exeter, Roberts 1857. + + Dedicated to her father’s friend Arthur Howe Holdsworth. + +44. Dates of the kings of England, in easy triplets, by a lady. Lond. +[1874]. + +45. Domestic economy and cookery, for rich and poor ... English, Scotch, +French, Oriental and other foreign dishes ... by a lady. Lond. John +Murray 1827, 12o. + + Several editions to the present time, and if not the first, at all + events one of the earliest was published by Longmans. + +46. An earnest address to young communicants, by a lady. Lond. +Rivingtons 1865. + + Dedicated by permission to the bishop of Oxford. + +47. Easy and familiar sermons for children, by a lady. Lond. printed for +the author, Crew and Spencer, 27 Lamb’s conduit street and Simpkin and +Marshall 1830. + +48. Easy lessons in the history of England, by a lady, third edit. Lond. +Harvey & Darton 1839. + +49. Easy questions and answers from the Pentateuch ... by a lady [1855]. + +50. Economical cookery for young housekeepers ... by a lady. Lond. 1824, +4th edit. R. Clarke 1839. + +51. Educational outlines and other letters on practical duties, to which +is added a journal of a summer’s excursion made by the author and her +pupils, by a lady. Lond. Groombridge 1850, 8o, pp. 8 and 116, with an +illustration of Versailles. + +52. Edward Beaumont, or the efficacy of prayer, a narrative founded on +facts, by a lady. [motto] Dublin, S. B. Oldham,—Whittaker, Lond. 1844. + +53. Effie’s and the Doctor’s tales ... by a lady, with (five) +illustrations by the same. Lond. Darton [1859] + +54. Eight days’ journey to Matlock, by a lady. Wakefield, printed for +John Robinson, Express Office 1860. + +55. An elementary compendium of music for the use of schools, by a lady. +Lond. John Murray 1835, quarto, pp. VII. and 72, price 12s. + +56. Emily Trevor, or the Vale of Elwy, by a lady. Lond. Simpkin, Denbigh +(printed by) T. Gee 1850. + + This is inscribed to Mrs. Maconochie of Meadow-bank house. + +57. English history, in the way of question and answer, by a lady, new +edit. Lond. [1839?]. + +58. The English mother, or early lessons on the church of England, by a +lady [mottoes] Bath (printed) W. Pocock. Lond. Simpkin 1840, 8o, pp. +xii, 84: list of subscribers. + +59. Enquiries for the truth between the divided church militant +denominated Roman and Protestant, by a lady. Canterbury (printed by) +Henry Ward. Lond. Hatchard 1851. + +60. Esthwaite water, a poem in three parts ... by a lady. Lond. +Whittaker: Kendal (printed by) J. Hudson 1854, 8o, pp. 44, with an +engraving signed W. Banks, _sc._ Edin. + +61. Every lady her own cook; or a few practical hints as to how the +patent Crimean cooking stove can be used to the best advantage, by a +lady. Dublin, McGlashan 1857. + +62. Every lady’s guide to her own greenhouse ... by a lady. Lond. Orr +1851. + +63. An explanation of the ten commandments, by a lady; revised by a +clergyman of the church of England. Lond. Tabart 1802, small 12o, pp. +40. + +64. An explanation of the two sacraments and the occasional rites and +ceremonies of the church of England, in a series of dialogues between a +mother (Mrs. Vernon) and her daughters (Louisa and Mary) intended for +the use of young persons. Lond. John Murray 1828, 8o. pp. XI. and 1 and +271. + + Inscribed to Mr. Justice Parke. + + As catalogued by Lowndes in the “British Librarian,” p. 782, this + little work well illustrates some of my previous observations. + Lowndes gives part of the title, and afterwards puts a note in the + words of the rest of the title. His date is later than mine, but + he does not say it is a new edition. The following is a copy of + Lowndes’ entry:—“629. An Explanation of the Two Sacraments and the + occasional Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, by a + Lady, London, 1831, sm. 8vo, publ. at 5s. 6d. A series of + dialogues between a mother and her daughters, intended for the use + of young persons.” + +65. Extracts of letters to a christian friend, by a lady, with an +introductory essay by Thos. Erskine, esq., advocate, author of “Remarks +on the internal evidences for the truth of revealed religion,” etc., +etc. R. B. Lusk Greenock. Glasgow 1830. + +66. Familiar dialogues, on interesting subjects ... by a lady. Lond. +Rivington 1821. + + It might occur to any one that the publishers would give the + author’s name, my enquiries from this source were so constantly + and uniformly unsuccessful that I never resort to publishers now. + +67. Flora and Thalia, or germs of flowers and poetry; being an +alphabetical arrangement of flowers, with appropriate poetical +illustrations [selected from various authors] embellished with coloured +plates (M. Spratt del.): by a lady [motto] Lond. Washbourne 1835, small +12o, pp. XII. 200. + + Dedicated by permission to the duchess of Kent and the princess + Victoria. The preface is addressed from “King’s road Chelsea.” + +68. Florence Nightingale and the Russian war, a poem, by a lady. Lond. +Hatchard 1856. + + The authoress says “she had the honour of being nearly connected + with one of the greatest naval commanders of the age in which he + lived.” + +69. Footprints for little christians, by a lady, price sixpence. +Salisbury. Lond. Simpkin [1860]. + +70. Garden of language [motto] London, Fisher son & co. Newgate street +1835, 16o, pp. 31, with illustrations. + + This is a sort of English grammar, and is said in the London + Catalogue to be by a lady. + +71. The girls’ own text book, containing a text ... for every morning +and evening in the year: selected by a lady. Lond. J. F. Shaw 1858, 32o, +see no 13. + +72. Glimpses of natural history, by a lady [motto] London, Darton & +Harvey (1843) [afterwards bought by R. Clarke] square 16o, pp. VI. 199, +with illustrations, some signed J. B. + +73. A glimpse of Oriental Nature, pictures with verses by a lady, with a +preface by ... G. R. Gleig. Lond. Dean & Son 1865, 4o. + +74. Grandmamma’s first catechism, by a lady, second edition. Oxford +(printed) and London, J. H. Parker 1854, 24o, pp. 23. + +75. “Guess if you can”! a collection of enigmas and charades in verse, +together with 50 in the French language, by a lady. Lond. Bogue 1851, +8o. + +76. A guide for the sick chamber, consisting of prayers, hymns and +portions of scripture selected ... by a lady. Edinburgh 1837, 12o. + +77. Harp of Salem, a collection of historical poems from the scriptures, +together with some reflective pieces, by a lady. Edinb. James Taylor, +Smith & co. Hunter square 1827, 12o, pp. v. 224. + +78. The history of David the King of Israel, in two parts, by a lady +[motto] London, printed by H. Teape, Tower hill, sold by Blanchard, City +road; Kent, Hamilton; and Keene, Dublin 1817, 12o, pp. 4 and 184. + + The advertisement states that this was originally written for the + Youths Magazine, and that the first part appeared in the tenth + volume of that publication. + +79. The home book, or young housekeeper’s assistant, forming a complete +system of domestic economy and household accounts, with estimates of +expenditure, &c., &c., in every department of housekeeping founded on +forty-five years’ experience, by a lady [motto] London, Smith, Elder & +co. 1829, 12o, pp. VII. 175. + + Starts upon the assumption that the lady’s husband has not less than + £1000 a year. + +80. Hours with the Leslies, a tale for children, and Phantasie’s +birthday, a fairy tale, by a lady. London, Hope & co. 16 Great +Marlborough street 1853 [1852] large 16o, pp. 4 and 200. + +81. How to dress on £15 a year as a lady, by a lady [Mrs. Millicent +Whiteside Cook] Lond. Warne 1873. + + This little work was the subject of a Chancery suit, Warne the + original publisher against Routledge, the publisher of a second + edition before Warne’s was exhausted. Mrs. Cook’s royalty was one + penny per copy sold, and Warne very shortly paid her £100.—See Law + Reports. Master of the Rolls 12 June 1874 xviii. 497. + +82. Hymns and thoughts for the sick and lonely, by a lady. London. +Nisbet [Bath 1848] 12o. + + New edition Nisbet 1859. + +83. Hymns for times of sickness and sorrow selected from various authors +by a lady, the profits of the work will be given to the Cholera orphan +home, Ham Common near Richmond ... London, Wertheim and Macintosh 24 +Paternoster row [1849] small 12o, pp. 34. + + Inscribed to rev. Joseph Brown, rector of Christ church, Surrey, + dated from Keythorpe Hall. + +84. Ines, and other poems [motto] London, printed for Allman 1816, 8o, +pp. 4 and 208. + + The London Catalogue says this is by a lady, but those words do not + occur on the title. + +85. Jesus the Messiah, or the Old testament prophecies fulfilled in the +New testament scriptures, by a lady, the profits to be devoted to +charitable purposes. London, Seeley and Burnside 1828, 12o, pp. XIX. +264. + + Dedicated to the right rev. Charles Richard lord bishop of + Winchester. + +86. The juvenile gardener written by a lady, for the use of her own +children, with a view of giving them an early taste for the pleasures of +a garden and the study of botany [motto] Lond. printed for Harvey and +Darton and sold by John Rodford, Hull 1824, 12o, pp. 126. + +87. Kaisersworth Deaconesses, including a history of the Institution: +the ordination service and questions for self examination, by a lady. +Lond. Masters 1857, 12o. + +88. The ladies’ guide to life assurance: briefly shewing the necessity +for its more extended practice amongst the female community, by a lady. +Lond. Partridge, Oakey & co. 34 Paternoster row 1854, 18o, pp. 32. + + It is dedicated by permission to the duchess of Hamilton and + Brandon. The preface is signed J. B. and dated Greenwich 24 Nov. + 1854. + +89. The lady’s guide to the ordering of her household and the economy of +the dinner table, by a lady. London, Smith & Elder 1861, 8o, pp. XVI. +500. + +90. Letters on confirmation, a manual of moral and religious duties, +designed for the young of her own sex in the upper ranks of society, by +a lady. London, Cleaver 1846, 16o. + +91. Letters to my unknown friends, by a lady. Lond. printed for Longman, +&c. 1846, 8o, pp. VI. 294; also 1849 and 1853. + + Also author of Some passages in Modern history. + +92. The life of Mary, mother of our Lord ... by a lady. Lond. 1851, 8o. + +93. Lilias, or fellowship with God ... by a lady [with an introduction +by ... C. B. Tayler] Edin. 1859, 8o. + +94. Lines addressed to prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg on the death of +his consort the princess Charlotte of Wales, by a lady. Colchester, +printed and sold by Swinborne and Walter; Hatchard, London 1817, 8o, pp. +7. + +95. Little Christian’s sunday alphabet, by a lady, woodcuts. 1849, 16o. + +96. Mandeville, or the Lynmouth visitors, Barnstaple printed by +Brightwell & son, sold also by Longman & co., Whittaker & co., Lond.; +Roberts, Exeter; Nettleton, Plymouth 1839, 8o, pp. VII. 164. + +97. Mary Queen of Scots, an historical ballad with other poems by a +lady. Lond. printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly 1800, 16o, pp. 89, +2s. 6d. + +98. Method for teaching plain needlework in schools, by a lady (second +edition). London, Robert Hardwicke 192 Piccadilly [1861] 8o. + + The title page is lithographed. The preface is signed M. E. B., + Decr. 1861. I have not seen the first edition of 1857. The + authoress says she received her information thirty years before + 1861. + +99. Metrical remembrances, by a lady [motto from Isaiah xl. 29] London +1832, 16o. + + No publisher’s name, S. Bagster, Junr. printer. + +100. Modern household cookery, a new work for private families, by a +lady, with an introduction on the philosophy of cookery. London, Nelson +1860, 8o, pp. XV. 396, and plates. + +101. The modern cookery, written upon the most approved and economical +principles, and in which every receipt has stood the test of experience, +by a lady, second edition, with considerable additions by the author. +Derby, printed by and for Henry Mozley 1820, 12o. + +102. Murray’s modern cookery book. Modern domestic cookery based on the +well-known works of Mrs. Rundell, but including all the recent +improvements in the culinary art: founded on principles of economy and +practical knowledge and adapted for private families, by a lady, with +illustrative woodcuts. Lond. John Murray 1851, 8o, XXVIII. 675. + + “The arrangement of the whole work, previously enriched with the + valuable contributions of the late Miss Emma Roberts (whose + receipts are marked E. R.) has been placed under the careful + inspection of a lady well versed in the art of which it treats. + The book has had the further advantage of being thoroughly revised + by a professional gentleman of great repute in London, who has + also supplied several valuable receipts.”—Preface. + +103. Moral maxims from the wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach, or the +Ecclesiasticus, selected by a lady, and enriched with six engravings +from drawings of her own. Lond. Harris 1807. + +104. My Norske note book; or a month in Norway, by a lady. Lond. +Westerton 1860 [1859] 8o. + +105. Natural history of quadrupeds, for children ... by a lady, 2nd +edit., with plates. Lond. Harvey and Darton 1824, 12o, 4s. 3rd edit. +182‒? + +106. The new estate, or the young travellers in Wales and Ireland, by +author of Portugal, &c. Lond. printed for Darton and Harvey 1831, 12o, +pp. VII. 302, with illustrations. + + The same names and persons occur in “The young travellers in + Portugal.” The authoress acknowledges having availed herself of a + small work called “Fairy Legends” [by Croker] in speaking of + popular superstitions. The “New Estate” is in Ireland. + +107. The Orb of light; or the Apocalyptic vision (with the text of the +Revelation) by a lady. Lond. Wertheim, 1860, 8o. + +108. Original fables [in verse] by a lady; dedicated to her royal +highness the princess Charlotte of Wales, embellished with fifty-four +elegant engravings on wood. Lond. printed for B. Crosby & co. 1810; 12o, +other editions 1812 and 1815. + +109. Outlines of truth by a lady. London, Hatchard 1825, 12o. + +110. The philanthropist, or selfishness and benevolence illustrated: a +tale, by a lady [mottoes] London, Wm. Ball 1836, 8o, pp. VI. 389. + + Announced as by the same author ‘The spirit of sectarianism,’ 8o, + pp. 75, 1s. 6d. This is a different work to the Philanthropist by + P. S. Goss. + +111. Plain lectures on Genesis for family reading, by a lady. Lond. +Pickering 1841, 8o. + +112. Poems for children, by a lady. Lond. Darton and Harvey 1834, 12o, +pp. IV. 66. + +113. A poetical picture of America, being observations made during a +residence of several years at Alexandria and Norfolk in Virginia ... +1799 to 1807, by a lady. London, printed for the author and sold by +Vernor Hood & Sharpe 31 Poultry 1809, small 8o, pp. 14 and 177. + + W. Wilson, printer, St. John’s square. It has a list of subscribers. + +114. Portions of Scripture, with ... a view to promote the observance of +the Lord’s day, by a lady. Lond. J. Hatchard & Son 1837, price 3d, or 2s +6d a dozen, 12o, pp. 12. + +115. Portugal, or the young travellers, being some account of Lisbon and +its environs, and of a tour in the Alemtéjo; from a journal kept by a +lady during three years’ actual residence. Lond. Darton & Harvey 1830, +12o. + +116. Private memoirs of the Court of Louis XVIII. by a lady, 2 vols +Lond. Colburn 1830, 8o. + +117. Prayers, hymns, and texts, by a lady. Lond. Seeley 1846, 12o. + +118. Ravensdale, a tale by a lady [of Dublin] 2 vols. Dublin, Curry & +co.; Lond. Longman 1845, 12o. + +119. Recollections of a seven years’ residence at the Mauritius or Isle +of France, by a lady. London, James Cawthorn 1830, 8o, pp. XI. 208. + + The work is dedicated to Ellen & Mary. The preface is signed by + their “Mother.” She speaks of her daughters as orphans. + +120. The Redeemed Rose, or Willies rest, by a lady. Lond. 1853, 8o. + +121. A residence at Sierra Leone, described from a journal kept on the +spot and from letters written to friends at home, by a lady [edited by +the Hon. C. E. S. Norton] Lond. 1849, 16o. + + One of Murray’s Home and Colonial Library. + +122. The restoration of the works of art to Italy, a poem by a lady +[motto] Oxford, printed by W. Baxter for R. Pearson High street, Oxford, +and J. Ebers, Old Bond street, London 1816, 8o, pp. 23. + +123. Return to my native village; and other poems chiefly on sacred +subjects, by a lady. Oxford and Lond. Parker 1853, 16o. + +124. The Rev. Jabez Bunting, or begging; with other poems by a lady, +printed at the request of friends of the authoress. William Illingworth, +printer, top of Kirkgate, Leeds 1833; entered at Stationers’ Hall, 12o, +pp. 14. + +125. The rich old bachelor, a domestic tale [in verse] in the style of +Dr. Syntax [by W. Combe] by a lady [motto] Ward, Printer, Canterbury +1824, 8o, pp. 312. + +126. The Sceptic, by a lady. Lond. J. Russell Smith 1850, 8o, pp. VIII. +168. + + Crewkerne (Somersetshire) printed by G. P. R. Pulman, Market-place. + +127. A scriptural guide to the duties of every-day life ... compiled by +a lady. Lond. Saunders and Otley 1846, 12o. + +128. Selina, a novel, founded on facts, by a lady, in three volumes. + + ⸺ Is there not a hand, + Which operates unseen, and regulates + The vast machine we tread on? Dr. Hurdis. + +Lond. printed for C. Law Ave maria lane, by Bye and Law, St. +John’s-square, Clerkenwell 1800, 12o. + + The authoress’s first work. + +129. A series of reflections on the sacred oratorio of the Messiah [by +Handel] by a lady. London, Hatchard 1812, 8o. + + For full title see the British Critic, XL. 201. + +130. The siege of Mansoul a drama in five acts [and in verse] the +diction of which consists altogether in an accommodation of words from +Shakespeare and other poets, by a lady [motto] Bristol, sold by W. +Bulgin No. 3 Wine street, sold also by Matthews, strand. Longman, &c., +Lond.; and S. Hazard, Bath 1801, 8o, VI. 82. + + “The composition of a lady now deceased.” Part of the preface is + written by the Rev. H. Sulger. It is not in Baker’s Biog. + Dramatica, 1812. + +131. Sketch of ancient geography, by a lady for the use of her own +pupils. Brighton & Lond. Whittaker 1857, 8o. + +132. Spain yesterday and to-day, by a lady. Lond. Harvey & Darton [1829] +sm. 8o. + +133. The stepping stone to astronomy, by a lady. Longmans 1858, 16o. + +134. Suspirium sanctorum, or holy breathings, a series of prayers for +every day in the month, by a lady. Lond. Saunders & Otley 1826, 8o. + +135. Tales from the German, by a lady. Lond. Anderson [1825?] 8o. + +136. Tales of the classics, a new delineation of the most popular +fables, legends and allegories commemorated in the works of poets, +painters and sculptors, selected and written by a lady for the amusement +and instruction of her own daughters [mottoes] in three volumes. London, +Colburn and Bentley, 1830, 12o, vol I. XXIV. 302, vol. II. IV. 302, vol +III. 370 the pagination of the appendix is continuous. + + Dedicated to H.R.H. the princess Victoria of Kent, dated from + “Wadlands,” July 1829. + +137. A text book [religious] for the sick and afflicted, selected by a +lady. Lond. J. F. Shaw 1858, 16o. + +138. Tales original and translated from the Spanish, by a lady, +embellished with eight engravings on wood. London J. J. Stockdale, 41 +Pall Mall 1810, 8o, pp. 391. + + Dedicated by the publisher to Anna Eliza Chandos, Countess Temple. + The advertisement dated from Whitchurch, Hampshire, states that + these are the production of a young lady unknown in the + metropolis, and unused to writing for the public. + +139. Thoughts on our national calamity in a letter to a friend in +Ireland, by a lady [motto] London, Rivington 1817, 8o, pp. 66. + + On the death of the princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales. + +140. Translations and sketches of biography from the German, Italian, +Spanish, Portuguese, and French languages, by a lady. Lond. Saunders & +Otley 1839, 8o. + +141. Twelve years ago, a tale, by [a lady] the author of Letters to +unknown friends. Lond. Longman 1847, 16o. + +142. Twice Married, my own story, by a lady. Lond. Ward & Lock 1855, 8o. + +143. Two fairy tales in a dramatic form, by a lady [Miss Clode formerly +of Wooton under Edge?] Lond. A. Hall 1851, 12o. + +144. Variety, a collection of original poems, by a lady. London, printed +by J. Davison, White-friars, for James Wallis, Paternoster row, and +Christopher and Jennet, Stockton 1802, small 8o, pp. VIII., 167 and 1. + +145. “Vater Unser,” a tale for children, illustrative of the Lord’s +prayer, translated freely from the German, by a lady. Lond. Whittaker & +Co. 1844, 12o, pp. 48. + + Dedicated to A**** M***** B******, a child of seven years old, by + her mother. + +146. Village incidents, or religious influence in domestic scenes by a +lady. London, Hatchard 1828, 12o, pp. VIII. 145. + +147. Woman as a virgin, wife, and mother, by a lady. Lond. Mitchell +[1838] 16o, 1s. 6d. + +148. A word in favor of female schools, addressed to parents guardians +and the public at large, by a lady [motto] London, Longman 1826, 24o, +pp. 74, 2s. 6d. + +149. Workwoman’s guide; containing instructions in cutting out and +completing those articles of wearing apparel, etc., which are actually +made at home, etc. Lond. Simpkin, Birmingham, print. 1838, 4to. + + New edit. Simpkin 1840, 4to, 21s. + +150. Ward’s illustrated geography in question and answer, a sequel to +“First lessons in geography by a lady.” Lond. Ward [Bungay printed 1853] +12o, 4 edit. 1859. + +151. The young lady’s friend, by a lady. Glasgow, W. R. McPhun 1857, +16o, pp. 128. + + A book of advice and etiquette. The English catalogue 1835-1862 p. + 855 gives a work with this title published by Parker & son 1852. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + ADVERTISEMENTS. + + + WORKS BY THE AUTHOR. + + ------- + + +A martyr to bibliography: a notice of the life and works of Joseph-Marie +Quérard, bibliographer. 1867. Only 200 copies printed: price 3s 6d. + + ------- + +Handbook of fictitious names, being a guide to authors chiefly in the +lighter literature of the XIXth century, who have written under assumed +names, and to literary forgers, impostors, plagiarists, and imitators, +1868. + + This work is out of print. + + “A useful and amusing guide, especially to English authors of the + lighter literature of this century.”—Encyclopædia Britannica, + ninth edition. 1875, vol III. p. 658. + + “A slight and tentative, though useful production, is the only work + yet published on the anonymous and pseudonymous literature of + Britain.”—Chambers’ Cyclopædia, London, 1874, vol. II. p. 84. + + I could quote numerous other notices. Articles have also been + written since this work was published on the subject, mostly + acknowledging the source of their information. + + I have now determined to limit my collections on this subject, with + the end of the year 1879. I have been so many years engaged in + obtaining materials that I think there will be more chance of + publishing if I confine myself to revising and correcting what I + have already collected. I make this declaration so that any body + else who may be inclined may take up the subject where I leave + off, as the presumption that I am collecting might deter others + from doing so. + + This period, 1800-1879 is alone sufficient to occupy a lifetime. + + ------- + +A bibliographical list of lord Brougham’s publications arranged in +chronological order. 1873. Only 100 copies separately printed. Price 1s. + + ------- + +A few words on Swimming, with practical hints, by R. Harrington; to +which is added a bibliographical list of works on swimming by Olphar +Hamst. Price one shilling. + + I had a few thick paper copies of the list struck off separately + with the following title:— + + Swimming: a bibliographical list of works on swimming, by the author + of the handbook of fictitious names, 1868. + + I put the word “Swimming” at the head and used a phrase for + pseudonym, so that it might be catalogued under the subject at the + British Museum instead of being buried under my name. + + ------- + +Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of J. A. M. Whistler. 1874, with +an etching by Percy Thomas of Whistler, after a portrait by himself. +Only fifty copies printed. One guinea each. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + INDEX. + + + (Pub. = Publisher.) + + ------- + + + Accuracy in bibliography, 10, 11, 12. + + Abbreviation discussed, 12; + should be indicated, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. + + Additions in cataloguing titles should be indicated, 20. + + Advertisements in books should be preserved, 17. + + Advocates Library catalogue of, 28. + + Aggravating ladies, why this title taken, 6; + anonymous work, 15; + list of works by, 40. + + Aikin, Dr., 9. + + Ailzie Grierson, 40. + + Alemtéjo, 49. + + Alexandria, 49. + + Allibone, Dictionary of English Literature, 30; + index to New Testament, 31. + + Allman, pub., 46. + + Almeda, 40 + + Alphabet of animals, 40. + + America, Public Libraries in, 11; + Picture of, 49. + + Anacalypsis, 30. + + Anderson, pub., 50. + + Andrews, pub., 42. + + Anecdotes of Animals, 41. + + Anonymous works, 14; + cataloguing, 17; + Dictionary of, 15, 16, 19; + means of identifying authors of, 35; + not read with confidence, 16; + proportion of, in libraries, 40; + statement that work is anon, not to be relied on, 18. + + Arithmetical books, list of, 11, 19, 33, 41. + + Arithmetical class-book, 41. + + Astrologer, the, 41. + + Astronomy, 50. + + Atkinson’s medical bibliography, 40. + + Audiffredi, G. B., 15. + + Auteurs Déguisez, 15. + + Autonymous books, 14, 17. + + Apocalyptic vision, 48. + + Axon, W. E. A., 16. + + Ayscough, 30, 31. + + Bachelor, rich old, 49. + + Baillet, A., 15. + + Ball, pub., 48. + + Banks, W., 44. + + Barbier, A. A., 15. + + Barbier, Olivier, 16, 19. + + Beauty, 41. + + Bennett, Mary, 40. + + Benson & Barling, pub., 42. + + Bent, publisher, 36. + + Bessie Gray, 35. + + Bibliographers, have been careless in their descriptions, 18. + + Bibliography, too many meanings to the word, 10, 12. + + Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, 9. + + Bibliotheca geographica, 29. + + Biographia Dramatica, 40. + + Black Forest, legend of the, 41. + + Boase & Courtney’s Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, 9. + + Bogue, pub., 45. + + Book of Costumes, 41. + + Book, how to describe a, 5, 9, 37; + different descriptions of, 14; + Handy-book about books, 15, 16. + + Book paging should be simple, 25. + + Bookbinders tear away advertisements, 17. + + Botany, study of, 46. + + Boy’s own book, 41. + + British Almanac, 23. + + British Catalogue, the, 36, 37. + + British Critic, 50. + + British geography, 42. + + British Librarian, the, 44. + + British Museum catalogue, 11, 35, 41, 53; + report on, 15; + rules, 16; + Library, 35, 40. + + Brougham, Lord, publications, 17, 19, 27, 52. + + Brown, George, an imaginary author cited as an example, 12. + + Brown, rev. J., 46. + + Buds & blossoms, 41. + + Bunting, Rev. Jabez, 49. + + Cadell, pub., 43. + + Capital letters in titles, 29. + + Caroline and her mother, 41. + + Catalogues, 10, 14; + not to be relied on, 18; + should not alter titles, 21; + Art of making, 21. + + Catechism, a, 41, 45. + + Cato, a tale, 41. + + Cawthorn, pub., 49. + + Chambers Cyclopædia on the Handbook of Fictitious names, 52. + + Chapple, pub., 43. + + Charades, 45. + + Charlotte, princess, 47, 48, 51. + + Child’s Guide, 42. + + Child’s Manual, 42. + + Child’s Own Book, 42. + + Child’s Pathway, 42. + + Child’s Treasure, 42. + + Cholera orphan home, 46. + + Chollerton, 42. + + Christian’s preacher, 42. + + Christian’s Sunday alphabet, 47. + + Christmas in Ireland, 42. + + Christopher, pub., 51. + + Clarke, pub., 43, 45. + + Clarke, M. Cowden, 31. + + Cleaver, pub., 47. + + Colburn, pub., 41, 50. + + Combe, W., 49. + + Commandments, the ten, 44. + + Communicants, address to, 43. + + Companion to the almanac, 19. + + Confirmation, on, 47. + + Cook, Mrs., 46. + + Cookery, 42, 43, 44, 47, 48. + + Corney, Bolton, 12, 16, 18, 33. + + Cottage Home, 42. + + Cottager’s Assistant, 43. + + Cousin Rachel’s visit, 43. + + Cousins, The, 43. + + Craigh-Melrose Priory, 43. + + Cremorne, viscountess, 43. + + Crestadoro, A., 19-21, 37. + + Crimean Cooking, 44. + + Croker, J. W., 48. + + Crosby, pub., 48. + + Crew & Spencer, pub., 43. + + Crucifixion, The, 43. + + Cutter, C. A., 11, 24. + + Cuttle, Captain, advice quoted, 8. + + Dartmoor Legends, 43. + + Darton & Harvey, publishers, 35, 36, 41, 43, 44-45-46, 48, 49, 50. + + David, history of, 46. + + Dean, pub., 45. + + Delepierre, O., 15. + + De Morgan, Professor, his Arithmetical books, referred to, 1, 11, 19, + 24, 41; + article in the Companion to the Almanac, 23; + on sizes of books, 24; + on errors, 33. + + Dictionaries, compilers of copy one another, 33. + + Dictionary catalogue, 11; + of anonymous authors, 15, 16. + + Dolman, pub., 41, 42. + + Domestic economy, 43, 46. + + Dots of omission, 22. + + Duniol, pub., 41. + + East Indians, 36. + + Easy rhymes, 41. + + Ebers, pub., 49. + + Ecclesiasticus, 48. + + Edgeworth, Miss, fictitious reference to her, 37, 38. + + Edmonds G., 25. + + Edward Beaumont, 44. + + Edwards (Edward), 10, 14, 40. + + Effie’s tales, 44. + + Elwy, vale of, 44. + + Emily Trevor, 44. + + Encyclopædia Britannica on anonymous works, 40; + on the Handbook of Fictitious Names, 52. + + England, Church of, 44. + + England, history of, 41, 42, 43, 44. + + English Catalogue, the, 19, 36, 37, 42, 51. + + English cookery, 43. + + English grammar, Lennie’s, 21. + + Enigmas, 45. + + Errors, difficult to avoid, 32. + + Erskine, T., 45. + + Esthwaite water, 44. + + Etchings, 53. + + Fairy Tales, 48, 51. + + Familiar Dialogues, 45. + + Fictitious names of authors, Handbook of, 5, 14, 16, 19, 36, 52. + + Fisher, pub., 45. + + Flamank, J., 36. + + Flora & Thalia, 45. + + Ford, pub., 42. + + France Littéraire (La), 9. + + Frederick William, Prince, 40. + + French Biography, 51. + + French Cookery, 43. + + French, enigmas in, 45. + + Friend’s books, 19. + + Galignani, pub., 41. + + Garden, Pleasures of a, 46. + + Garden of Language, 45. + + Gaultier’s Geography, 42. + + Genesis, 48. + + Gentleman’s Magazine, 30. + + Geography, Ancient, 50. + + Geography, British, 42. + + Geography, First lessons in, 42, 51. + + Geography, Modern, 42. + + George III. jubilee, 40. + + German Biography, 51. + + Gilly, W. S., 42. + + Girl’s Text Book, 45. + + Gleanings from many fields, 36. + + Goss, P. S., 48. + + Greenhouse, guide to, 44. + + Grammar of bibliography, there is none, 11. + + Grammar of English, 21, + Universal, 25. + + Groombridge, pub., 41, 43. + + Hailes, pub., 42. + + Halkett, S., 16. + + Hall, pub., 51. + + Hamilton, duchess of, 47. + + Hamst, Olphar, 15, 52. + + Handbook of fictitious names, 5; + criticisms on, author determined to stop collecting with the year + 1879, 52. + + Handel, 50. + + Happiness, Guide to, 41. + + Hardwicke, pub., 47. + + Harp of Salem, poems, 45. + + Harris, pub., 41, 48. + + Harvey see Darton. + + Hatchard, pub., 41, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51. + + Hazlitt, W. C., 34. + + Hegel, G. W. F., 19. + + Higgins, G., 30, 31. + + History, Modern, 47. + + History, Universal, 42. + + Hodgson, publisher, 36. + + Holdsworth, A. H., 43. + + Hope & Co., pub., 41, 46. + + Houlston, pub., 40-43. + + Housekeeper’s assistant, 46. + + How to dress on £15 a year, 7, 41, 46. + + Hurdis, Dr., 50. + + Hymns, 35, 46, 49. + + Ida, 42. + + Index, necessity for an, 30; + one better than two, 31; + bad, 31; + Society, 31. + + Ines and other poems, 46. + + Infant’s friend, 41. + + Ireland, 51; + distress in, 42; + Travellers in, 48. + + Italian Biography, 51. + + Italy, works of art, 49. + + Jal, A., 32, 33. + + Jarrold, pub., 42. + + Jesus the Messiah, 46, 48. + + Jewett, C. C., 10, 24. + + Johnstone, pub., 40. + + Kaisersworth Deaconesses, 47. + + Kent, duchess of, 45. + + Laconics, manual of, 9. + + Lancashire dialect, Literature of, 16. + + Law, pub., 42. + + Law List, 28. + + Lennie, W., 21. + + Leopold, prince, 47. + + Leslies, the, 46. + + Letters to my unknown friends, 47. + + Life assurance, guide to, 47. + + Linton, Mount, family, 43. + + Lisbon, 49. + + Literary men, careless in their references, 18. + + Little Lilly, a moral tale, a supposititious publication, 38. + + Little Lilly’s Travels, a real book, 38. + + London Catalogue, the, 36, 42, 46. + + Longman, pub., 36, 47, 49, 50, 51. + + Lord’s Prayer, on the, 42. + + Louis XVIII., court of, 49. + + Low, publisher, 36, 37. + + Lowndes, W. T., 13, 44. + + Lusk, pub., 45. + + Lynmouth Visitors, 47. + + Lyntot, pub., 43. + + Maconochie, (Mrs.), 44. + + Manchester free library catalogue, 19. + + Mandeville, 47. + + Martin’s Catalogue of privately printed books, 23. + + Mary, queen, 47. + + Mary, Virgin, 47. + + Masters, pub., 41, 47. + + Matlock, Journey to, 44. + + Mauritius, 49. + + McCulloch, J. R., 16, 33. + + McGlashan, pub., 44. + + McPhun, pub., 51. + + Mansoul, siege of, 50. + + Memoirs of Libraries, 10, 14. + + Messiah, The, 50. + + Metrical Remembrances, 47. + + Miller, John, his Fly Leaves, 5. + + Mirror of the graces, 6. + + Mitchell, pub., 51. + + Moral Maxims, 48. + + Motto, on title page, 19. + + Mozley, pub., 48. + + Mozley, Mrs., works by, 35. + + Murray, pub., 43, 44, 48, 49. + + Music for schools, 44. + + My Norske note Book, 48. + + Natural history, 45, 48. + + Naylor, C., 24. + + Needlework, 47. + + Nelson, publisher, 38, 47. + + New-church doctrine, 42. + + New Estate, The, 36, 48. + + Nicholas, Bishop of Melipotamus, 42. + + Nichols, John, 31. + + Nichols, T., 11. + + Nightingale, F., 45. + + Nisbet, pub., 46. + + Norfolk, 49. + + Norton, hon. C. E. S., 49. + + Norway, month in, 48. + + Notes and Queries, 5, 10, 16, 17, 24, 36, 41. + + Old Bridge, the, 35. + + Orb of Light, 48. + + Oriental Cookery, 43. + + Oriental Nature, a glimpse of, 45. + + Original Fables, 48. + + Orr, pub., 44. + + Outlines of Truth, 48. + + Oxford, bishop of, 43. + + Panizzi, Sir A., 11. + + Parke, Justice, 44. + + Parker, pub., 45, 49, 51. + + Partridge, pub., 47. + + Pentateuch, questions from the, 43. + + Phantasie’s birthday, 46. + + Philanthropist, the, 48. + + Pickering, pub., 48. + + Pocock, pub., 44. + + Political economy, literature of, 16, 33. + + Polyonymous books, 14. + + Portugal, a tale, 35, 48, 49. + + Portuguese Biography, 51. + + Power, John, 15, 16. + + Prefaces not dated, 23. + + Printing, style of, 27. + + Privately printed books, 23. + + Protestant Church, 44. + + Pseudonymous books, 14, 17; + means of identifying authors of, 35; + list of, 40, 52. + + Public libraries in the United States, report on, 11. + + Publication, place of, 22; + date of, 23. + + Publisher’s names not often found in book lists, 22; + when important, 23. + + Punctuation of titles, 29. + + Quérard, J. M., 9, 15, 17, 52. + + Ravensdale, 49. + + Redeemed Rose, the, 49. + + Revelation, 48. + + Rivingtons, pub., 43, 45, 51. + + Robert Marshall, 35. + + Roberts, pub., 43, 47. + + Roberts, Emma, 48. + + Robinson, pub., 44. + + Rodwell & Martin, pub., 43. + + Roman Church, 44. + + Routledge, pub., 46. + + Rozelli, Life of, 40. + + Rules for cataloguing, 10, 11. + + Ryde, 37, 38. + + Sacraments, the Two, 44. + + Saunders & Otley, pub., 41, 50, 51. + + Sceptic, The, 50. + + Scotch Cookery, 43. + + Seaman, Miss, a fictitious name used for the purpose of illustration, + 37; + supposed works of, 38. + + Seeley, pub., 46, 49. + + Selina, a novel, 50. + + Sermons for children, 43. + + Shaw, pub., 41, 45, 50. + + Sierra Leone, 49. + + Simpkin, pub., 42, 43, 44, 45, 51. + + Shakespeare, indexes to, 30; + words from, 50. + + Smith, pub., 45, 46, 47. + + Smith, J., fictitious publisher’s name, 38. + + Smith, John, Printer’s manual, 32. + + Smith, John Russell, pub., 50. + + Smith, Joseph, 19. + + Smithsonian Report, 24. + + Spain yesterday and to-day, 35, 50. + + Spanish Biography, 51. + + Spelling simplified, 42. + + Spratt, M., 45. + + Stanley Ghost, 35. + + Stereotyped books, 23. + + Stevens, H., on catalogues, 29. + + Stewart, Agnes M., 41. + + Stockdale, pub., 47, 51. + + Sulger, H., 50. + + Supercheries Littéraires, 15. + + Swimming, list of works on, 19, 53. + + Symonds, pub., 40. + + Syntax, Dr., 49. + + Tabart, pub., 44. + + Tales of the Classics, 42, 50. + + Titles from the German, 50. + + Titles from the Spanish, 51. + + Taylor, pub., 45. + + Taylor, J., Manual of Laconics, 9. + + Temple, countess, 51. + + Testament, Old and New, 42, 46. + + Thomas, Percy, portrait of Whistler by, 52. + + Timperley’s Printer’s manual, 25, 32. + + Title page, 12, 13, 18. + + Truewit, T., pseud., 14. + + Twelve years ago, 51. + + Twice married, 51. + + Urban, Sylvanus, pseudonym of the editors of the Gentleman’s Magazine, + 18. + + Vater Unser, a tale, 51. + + Ventilation, an essay on, supposititious title given as an + illustration, 12. + + Vernon, Mrs., 44. + + Versailles, 43. + + Victoria, princess, 45, 50. + + Village incidents, 51. + + Virginia, 49. + + Wales, Travellers in, 48. + + Wallis, pub., 51. + + Ward, pub., 44, 49, 51. + + Warne, pub., 41, 44, 46. + + Washbourne, pub., 45. + + Wertheim, pub., 46, 48. + + Whately, Arch., 36. + + Wheatley, H. B., on indexes, 31. + + Whistler, catalogue of his etchings, 52. + + Whittaker, pub., 42, 44, 47, 50, 51. + + Woman, 51. + + Workwoman’s guide, 51. + + Winchester, Bishop of, 46. + + Youth’s magazine, 46. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + + + + Transcriber’s Notes + + +This file uses _underscores_ to indicate italic text. + +There were significant errors and inconsistencies in the printed index; +to address these, ditto marks and some dashes have been expanded, and +punctuation in the index, including for entries and sub-entries, has +been silently corrected and standardized. Some entries that were +originally out of alphabetical order have been reordered. + +In the list of works, all punctuation has been retained as printed, +except for a few apparent printer’s errors. + +Itemized changes from the original text: + + • Table of Contents: Corrected page number for section “Of different + descriptions...” from 15 to 14 to match actual pagination + • p. 16, n. 12: Missing comma supplied after “Bolton Corney” + • p. 17: Corrected “bcause” to “because” + • p. 25, n. 26: Opening quotation mark omitted before “A universal + alphabet...” + • p. 32: Corrected “lankey” to “lanky” + • p. 38: Supplied period after “1” to match other list entries + • p. 41: Supplied period after “by a lady” in entry 44 + • p. 41: Replaced center dot with period after “by a lady” in entry 17 + • p. 47: Supplied period apparently omitted by printer after “Lond” in + entry 92. + • p. 51: Supplied period apparently omitted by printer after “Countess + Temple” in entry 138. + • p. 52: Corrected “Twelve years a go, atale” to “Twelve years ago, a + tale” in entry 141 + • p. 52: Corrected “Encyclopœdia Brittanica” to “Encyclopædia + Brittanica” + • p. 53: Added dividing line before “A few words on Swimming” for + consistency + • p. 58: Corrected “Arithmetical class book” to “Arithmetical + class-book” in index to match reference in text + • p. 54: Corrected “different discriptions of” to “different + descriptions of” + • p. 55: Corrected “Fictious names of authors” to “Fictitious names of + authors” + • p. 57: Corrected “Spain yesterday and to day” to “Spain yesterday and + to-day” + • p. 58: Corrected “Truewitt, T.” to “Truewit, T.” in index to match + reference in text + +Ditto marks in the index have been replaced with text. + +New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public +domain. + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75849 *** |