There is a significant difference between the idea of a bibliography as a complete record of books on a particular subject or of a particular kind and that of bibliographies of bibliographies as they have been ordinarily made. To some extent every bibliography serves a practical need, but bibliographies of bibliographies have at first served this need somewhat unconsciously and have served it more and more deliberately as time has passed. As my comments in this essay have shown, the bibliography of bibliographies has been characteristically a tool having immediate practical usefulness. There are few exceptions to this rule: Namur's careless book of 1838, Besterman's book that we have just examined, and Josephson's bibliography of bibliographies of bibliographies that we shall mention at the end of this chapter include works that the compilers regarded as having historical interest rather than practical value. Conrad Gesner named in 1548 a considerable number of classical Greek and Latin works because they seemed to his contemporaries to serve their needs. This aspect of immediate contemporary usefulness has remained characteristic of bibliographies of bibliographies down to the present time. References to classical authorities had still a certain degree of practical value for Labbé (1664) and Teissier (1686, 1705). They have disappeared completely or almost completely from later bibliographies of bibliographies. During the last century this emphasison immediate contemporary usefulness has perhaps expressed itself more clearly in acts than in words. For example, Peignot in 1812 is already looking in this direction. Although subsequent bibliographers may include outmoded books, their eyes turn, as Petzholdt's did in 1866, more and more consciously to modern writings. The four most recent bibliographies of bibliographies recognize fully that they intend to be primarily guides to the best modern sources of information.
In spite of its brave title,Internationale Bibliographie der Bibliographien(1939-1950), this book by Hanns Bohatta (1864-1950), Walter Funke, and Franz Hodes belongs on the level of bibliographies by Durey de Noinville and Michael de San José. It will only rarely aid either the beginner or the more advanced scholar. It is a selective bibliography and the choice of titles will satisfy no one. Obvious books are lacking[203]and worthless compilations are present.[204]The authors pay little attention to the categories that they set up.[205]The references are incompleteand inaccurate.[206]The comments are often misleading or erroneous. For example, the remark that Giuseppe Fumagalli,La bibliografia, is much less complete than Giuseppe Ottino and Giuseppe Fumagalli,Biblioteca bibliografica italiana, is a fundamental misapprehension of both works. The first is a handbook of general bibliography; the second is a bibliography of bibliographies written in Italian or concerned with Italy. The second book belongs elsewhere and the supplements to it should be cited at length because they were written, in part, by other authors. A comparison of the two books is without point. With all its faults this disorderlyInternationale Bibliographie der Bibliographienyields useful information.[207]
The most ambitious and the best of these four modern selective bibliographies is L.-N. Malclès,Les Sources du travail bibliographique, I (Geneva, 1950). This deals with general works and cites almost exclusively bibliographies. A second volume (2 pts., Geneva, 1952), which deals with the humanities, has recently appeared. A third volume, which will deal with the sciences, is promised. An abbreviated edition has been published even though volume 3 has not yet been issued. Both the second and the promised third volume are subject bibliographies and therefore needno mention here. The first volume contains some information about books that are not bibliographies, although they are somewhat similar in nature to bibliographies. There is, for example, a very interesting chapter on encyclopedias (pp. 213-224) and another chapter (pp. 225-237) on collective biographies. The wholly practical spirit of Mlle. Malclès's endeavor appears clearly in her list of German encyclopedias. She is right in thinking that a modern worker will rarely look at a German encyclopedia older than Ersch and Gruber ("1818-1889, 97 vol. 4o[A-Z]"). The reference is, incidentally, not quite accurate, since large portions of the alphabet were never written. We hear nothing of the early German encyclopedist J. H. Alsted, who lived and wrote two generations before Louis Moréri (he is mentioned as the first French author of an encyclopedia on p. 219), or of Krünitz and Zedler, who wrote vast encyclopedias almost two centuries ago. Such German works are not appropriate to Mlle. Malclès's purpose, but their absence means that her book does not serve a student who wishes to inform himself about the historical development of encyclopedias. In other words, Mlle. Malclès has deliberately and successfully satisfied the needs of French scholars.
Mlle. Malclès's admirably organized and very rich list of currently useful bibliographies is, as Joris Vorstius says in his review, indispensable to every librarian. Particularly interesting are the introductory remarks in each chapter. These describe the general nature of the works listed and offer comparisons and critical comment on the value and purpose of the different works. This excellent orientation supplements the brief descriptive remarks attached to the titles. As I have already implied,Les Sources du travail bibliographiquehas been written for French reference librarians. For this reason Mlle. Malclès is often content to cite secondary authorities for bibliographies not written inFrench or concerned with subjects of minor interest to French students. This admirable book stands at the peak of selective bibliographies of bibliographies and is therefore a companion to Besterman's comprehensive work.
Robert L. Collison,Bibliographies Subject and National. A Guide to their contents, arrangement and use(London, 1951) is a pleasant little book containing the information promised in its title. It is a rare example of a bibliography written in a descriptive style that relieves the tedium of a list. The author has intended to offer no more than a brief handlist of currently useful works with some interpretative comments. He has succeeded well in his purpose.[208]
A recently published German counterpart to Malclès and Collison is Wilhelm Totok and Rolf Weitzel,Handbuch der bibliographischen Nachschlagewerke(1954). Less comprehensive than the French book and much richer thanthe English one, it is a meritorious compendium of currently useful bibliographies in all fields. The authors list bibliographies, library catalogues, biographical and biobibliographical handbooks, general and specialized encyclopedias, and treatises of various sorts that contain bibliographical information. Historical and descriptive remarks that are often very instructive introduce the chapters and sections and critical comments usually are appended to the titles cited. The choice of titles will, as the authors no doubt intended, serve best German readers. For example, no Spanish, Latin American, or Russian dictionaries of anonyma and pseudonyma are mentioned (pp. 70-73). I should scarcely agree with the opinion (p. 70) that interest in dictionaries of this sort subsided after the first decades of this century. An emphasis on modern writing often leads the authors to overlook earlier bibliographies that have not lost their usefulness. For example, Mundt's incomplete list (extending only to R) of European dissertations published before 1900 (p. 75) is not "the only means of identifying older university publications (dissertations)." TheCatalogus dissertationum academicarum quibus nuper aucta est Bibliotheca Bodleiana MDCCCXXXII(Oxford, 1834) will serve this purpose very well and extends to the end of the alphabet. Bibliographies of university dissertations were, moreover, published in the early eighteenth century. I cannot understand why the authors chose to omit John Meier's enormous bibliography of German folklore in Hermann Paul, ed.,Grundriss der germanischen Philologie, III (2d ed., Strassburg, 1909) or why they preferred Wilhelm Pessler's handbook of German folklore to the exclusion of the convenient bibliography in Adolf Spamer,Die deutsche Volkskunde(2d ed. [unchanged], Berlin, 1934-1935). Suggestions of this sort occur readily enough to any attentive reader and are intended to characterize the book rather than to point out its deficiencies. In my opinion, the authors have succeededwell in their intention which was to write a book occupying a position between a bulky guide to information and a beginner's handbook ("Vorwort," p. v).
We have come finally to the last bibliography of all. Its date (1901) entitles it to the first place in this chapter, but it stands last because it is an even more specialized compilation than a bibliography of bibliographies. This bibliography of bibliographies of bibliographies, that is to say, a bibliography in the third degree, is entitledBibliographies of Bibliographies. The author is Aksel G. S. Josephson, a former member of the staff of the John Crerar Library. It is a chronological list of one hundred and fifty-six bibliographies of bibliographies. The conception is not new, but this pamphlet is the first separate publication of such a list. Similar lists are found of course in Peignot'sRépertoireof 1812, Petzholdt'sBibliotheca bibliographicaof 1866, and a great variety of other reference works. The pertinent sections in handbooks of library science, bibliography, and the like are usually of little interest or value, but Josephson lists them carefully. Perhaps forty titles that he names are significant. He has chosen the strange plan of a chronological arrangement of titles and adds to its inconvenience by providing neither an author nor a subject index. He has yielded to the temptation to include titles of no pertinence like treatises on systems of cataloguing (Nos. 41, 43),[209]H. B. Wheatley'sWhat Is an Index?(No. 59), a guide for making a pastor's library (No. 77), a list of fictitious books (No. 80), and guides to the use of a library (Nos. 67, 69, 104). The many references to bibliographies in theNeuer Anzeiger für Bibliographie und Bibliothekswesenare no doubt pertinent but are scarcely as important as they are numerous. He has probably more references to bibliographical lists published in journals of libraryscience than any other source of information.[210]The value of Josephson's pamphlet lies in an arrangement that makes apparent the historical development and emphasizes the growth of bibliographical lists in journals. Mistakes seem to be few.[211]
In making a second edition of theBibliography of BibliographiesJosephson profited greatly from the long criticism by Vilhelm Grundtvig that we have already discussed. He replaced the chronological arrangement by a classified arrangement, within which he arranged titles chronologically. He added many new titles that he had found or had excerpted from Grundtvig's criticism. His retirement from active duty and long delays in publication greatly handicapped him in producing a satisfactory piece of work.
Four centuries have elapsed since Conrad Gesner published the first modern bibliography of bibliographies in thePandectaeof 1548. Although it was only a section in a general subject index, it shows Gesner's clear understanding of the task and a competent choice and arrangement of materials. Few later efforts have been equally successful. His definition of a bibliography is both narrower and broader than the one that has since found general acceptance. He does not include, for example, biobibliographical accounts of religious orders and nations. He was familiar with them but probably looked upon them as historical rather than bibliographical compilations. Like most later bibliographers, he does not include publishers' catalogues and catalogues of books owned by institutions and individuals. In 1598 Israel Spach employed what is virtually the modern definition of a bibliography. Like Gesner, he includes bibliographers who wrote in classical times. In 1628 Francis Sweerts almost takes the decisive step of making an independent list composed of bibliographies of bibliographies. The three folio pages in hisAthenae Belgicaeon which this list appears have no organic connection with that biobibliographical dictionary. Sweerts includes, furthermore, no ancient bibliographers. His work has a modern look.
In 1643 the bibliography of bibliographies comes of age with the announcement of Jodocus a Dudinck,Bibliothecariographia. The book is lost or more probably was never published, but its subtitle shows a clear comprehension of the nature of a bibliography of bibliographies. PhilipLabbé published a bibliography of bibliographies in 1653 and a new edition of it in 1664. His loyalty to Catholicism and his exclusively French associations hindered its wide acceptance and use. Few of his contemporaries understood what he had done, and few learned how to use his book. Even Antoine Teissier, who revised and enlarged it, showed an imperfect understanding of its nature. The age was not ready for a bibliography of bibliographies. Cornelius a Beughem, a man of many bibliographies, may have perceived the situation, for he never published the compilation that he had announced in 1680. With the publication of a supplement to Teissier's revision of Labbé, efforts to make a bibliography of bibliographies came to a dead stop in 1705. They had resulted in a formulation of the task.
After 1705 no bibliography of bibliographies appeared for more than a century. The fragmentary tradition of listing books entitledbibliotheca, i.e. bibliography or catalogue, that might have led to one produced only withered shoots and ended in 1758 with Durey de Noinville's wretched compilation. During the eighteenth century the bibliography of bibliographies is, at best, only a chapter in surveys of learning. No doubt the great encyclopedias of the time satisfied scholarly demands so well that men did not perceive the place that a bibliography of bibliographies might fill.
Conrad Gesner, whom I regard as the first modern writer of a bibliography of bibliographies, aimed at comprehensiveness and included works of all ages as far as they came to his knowledge. He named Amphicrates and his contemporary Jakob Rueff in the same list without making a distinction between them. Almost immediately the bibliography of bibliographies became a guide to currently useful reference works and it has retained that function. Writing in the early years of the seventeenth century, Paul Bolduan and Francis Sweerts took a step away from comprehensiveness.They included no classical Greek and Latin authorities and very few medieval ones. This exclusion of classical writers runs parallel to the similar treatment of classical writers of history. In a list of classical historians we no longer cite Xenophon and Caesar along with Grote and Gibbon. No one thinks of naming a bibliographer like Cicero, Suetonius, or St. Jerome in the company of Petzholdt and Brunet. Although this rejection of ancient bibliographers began in the early seventeenth century, neither Labbé in 1664 nor Teissier in 1705 fully accepted it.
By 1812 we find a completely modern conception of bibliography. Gabriel Peignot cites no bibliographer from classical times and names only such older writers of the Renaissance as have not been superseded by more recent authorities. This definition of the bibliography of bibliographies makes it practically useful to the writer's contemporaries. With the exception of Theodore Besterman, the subsequent writers of bibliographies of bibliographies have been practical men who see a modern librarian's needs and more especially, when that functionary is invented, the needs of a reference librarian. Julius Petzholdt admits many old bibliographies to hisBibliotheca bibliographicaof 1866, but gives them room only for historical reasons or in the absence of a modern work. Joseph Sabin goes somewhat farther by restricting himself to British and American bibliographies with only a side glance at those in other than European languages. Léon Vallée, Henri Stein, W. P. Courtney, and those who come after show a more and more definitely acknowledged restriction to modern works and especially those within the easy reach of their readers. The bibliography of bibliographies becomes an ever more skilfully fashioned key to unlock modern learning and modern libraries. In the last two generations cooperative effort has become characteristic of much bibliographical work and the publication of periodical surveys limited tobrief periods and cumulated for longer intervals reflect both the difficulty of the task and the emphasis on contemporary usefulness. The standards of accuracy and, within the limits that have been accepted, the standards of completeness have enormously improved.
This brief historical summary makes it plain that a bibliography is or, at least, it has become a reference work that gives a limited amount of information of a very special kind. It is immediately useful in an emergency and less likely to be helpful in surveying historically any particular field of study. A corollary is the fact that a bibliography of bibliographies will ordinarily give a student little or no new information about a subject with which he is familiar, but can be a valuable aid to him in an unfamiliar field. A student of Renaissance English literature will not consult a bibliography of bibliographies to learn of such works as theCambridge Bibliography of English Literatureor A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave, AShort-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England ... 1475-1640. He already knows them. He may be very glad to find the titles of bibliographies of theology, history, or science that meet his needs. He should consult, also, the older books that Besterman alone among modern writers of the bibliography of bibliographies is likely to cite. Joris Vorstius rightly emphasizes the fact that a bibliography of bibliographies serves primarily a reference librarian.[212]I should only enlarge upon his remark by saying that the older bibliographies of bibliographies are invaluable and all too little known aids to understanding the historical development of a discipline or the background of an earlier period.
With all their faults and insufficiencies—and whathuman works lack them?—bibliographies of bibliographies are very valuable aids to scholars. As an introduction to a strange field one will naturally consult only the most recently published examples, beginning with Julius Petzholdt,Bibliotheca bibliographica(1866) or perhaps even with Theodore Besterman,A World Bibliography of Bibliographies(2d ed., 1947-1949; 3d ed., 1955-). In studying the historical development of a discipline or subject one can neglect the four oldest bibliographies of bibliographies. Gesner'sPandectae, Spach'sNomenclator, and Bolduan'sBibliotheca philosophicaare general subject bibliographies of a sort that I hope to discuss at another time. These books and Sweert'sAthenae Belgicaecontain little or nothing as far as bibliographies are concerned that cannot be more easily found in other books. With the sole exception of Labbé'sBibliotheca bibliothecarum, which was absorbed into Teissier'sCatalogus auctorum, a student of the historical aspect of a subject must consult all the bibliographies of bibliographies printed after 1664. They are independent or almost independent compilations and supplement one another. Fortunately they are not extremely difficult to obtain. In consulting them the modern scholar should give thanks to those who have labored so diligently in his behalf.
I indicate the libraries where the rare books cited below may be found by the following abbreviations: CU (University of California, Berkeley); DLC (Library of Congress); ICN (The Newberry Library, Chicago); MH (Harvard University Library); NN (New York Public Library). Books for which no locations are given will be found in most large libraries. I have not tried to record all the copies owned in the United States.
Besterman, Theodore.A World Bibliography of Bibliographies.London, 1939-1940. Pp. xxiv, 588; [iv], 644. 2d ed.; London, 1947-1949. Pp. xxviii, cols. 1450; [i], cols. 1451-3196; [i], cols. 3197-4111. 3d ed.; Geneva, 1955-. The author index in the third volume of the second edition is printed in three columns. The second edition is cited as Besterman.
Reviewed: Vilhelm Grundtvig, "En Verdensbibliografi over Bibliografier,"Nordisk tidskrift för bokväsen, XXVII (1940), 58-65; Marc Jaryc,Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, XXXVI (1942), 321-324.
Reviewed: Vilhelm Grundtvig, "En Verdensbibliografi over Bibliografier,"Nordisk tidskrift för bokväsen, XXVII (1940), 58-65; Marc Jaryc,Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, XXXVI (1942), 321-324.
Beughem, Cornelius a.Bibliotheca bibliothecarum.Never published.
Bibliographia bibliographica, I (1898)-VII (1904). Bibliographia universalis, Contribution No. 31. Brussels: Institut Internationale de Bibliographie, 1900-1906.
For a collation see Besterman, I, cols. 324-325 (only vols. I-VI). The first five volumes were issuedwith a new titlepage asBibliotheca bibliographica universalis ... 1898-1902(Brussels, 1904. DLC).
For a collation see Besterman, I, cols. 324-325 (only vols. I-VI). The first five volumes were issuedwith a new titlepage asBibliotheca bibliographica universalis ... 1898-1902(Brussels, 1904. DLC).
Bibliographic Index. A Cumulative Bibliography of Bibliographies. 1937-1942.New York, 1945. Pp. [xxxiii], 1780. Printed in two columns.
——. —— 1943-1946.New York, 1948. Pp. [xx], 831. Printed in two columns.
The Bibliographic Indexappears in quarterly issues, which are cumulated in annual volumes. The first annual volume was that for 1937 and was issued in 1938. The annual volumes are cumulated in volumes of irregular extant. For a collation see Besterman, I, cols. 328-329.Reviewed: H. B. Van Hoesen,The Library Quarterly, X (1940), 272-274.
The Bibliographic Indexappears in quarterly issues, which are cumulated in annual volumes. The first annual volume was that for 1937 and was issued in 1938. The annual volumes are cumulated in volumes of irregular extant. For a collation see Besterman, I, cols. 328-329.
Reviewed: H. B. Van Hoesen,The Library Quarterly, X (1940), 272-274.
Bibliographie des Bibliotheks- und Buchwesens."Beihefte zum Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen," XXIX and subsequent issues (not continuously numbered). Bearbeitet von Albert Hortzschansky. Leipzig, 1905-1925.
There were no annual issues for 1913-1921. It was continued by theInternationale Bibliographie des Buch- und Bibliothekswesens(which see). For a collation see Besterman, I, cols. 325-326.
There were no annual issues for 1913-1921. It was continued by theInternationale Bibliographie des Buch- und Bibliothekswesens(which see). For a collation see Besterman, I, cols. 325-326.
Bohatta, Hanns, Walter Funke, and Franz Hodes.Internationale Bibliographie der Bibliographien.Frankfurt a.M., 1939-1950. Pp. 652.
Reviewed: Theodore Besterman,The Library, 4th Ser., XXII (1943), 49-52.
Reviewed: Theodore Besterman,The Library, 4th Ser., XXII (1943), 49-52.
Bolduanus, Paul.Bibliotheca philosophica.Jena, 1616. Pp. [xxiv], 647, [viii]. ICN; Library of Archer Taylor (enlargement of microfilm).
Collison, Robert L.Bibliographies Subject and National. A Guide to their contents, arrangement and use.London, 1951. Pp. xii, 172.
Courtney, W. P.A Register of National Bibliography, with a selection of the chief bibliographical books and articles printed in other countries.London, 1905-1912. Pp. viii, 314; [iv], 315-631; v, 340.
Delandine, Antoine François.Bibliothèque de Lyon. Catalogue des livres qu'elle renferme dans la classe des belles-lettres.I (Paris, 1816).
Contains (pp. 108-176) "Bibliographie spéciale et chronologique des principaux ouvrages sur l'origine et l'histoire de l'imprimerie, les bibliothèques, et les premiers essais de l'art typographique dans les diverses villes de l'Europe."Not seen; cited from Petzholdt, p. 444.
Contains (pp. 108-176) "Bibliographie spéciale et chronologique des principaux ouvrages sur l'origine et l'histoire de l'imprimerie, les bibliothèques, et les premiers essais de l'art typographique dans les diverses villes de l'Europe."
Not seen; cited from Petzholdt, p. 444.
Dudinck, Jodocus a.Bibliothecariographia. Enumeratio omnium autorum, operumque, quae sub titulo Bibliothecae, catalogi, indicis, nomenclatoris, athenarum etc. prodierunt.Cologne, 1643.
A bibliographical ghost.
A bibliographical ghost.
Durey de Noinville, J. B.Dissertation sur les bibliothèques.Paris, 1758. Pp. 156, [3]. ICN; MH; Library of Archer Taylor.
Ferguson, John.Some Aspects of Bibliography.Edinburgh, 1900. Pp. [8], 102, [2].
Gesner, Conrad.Pandectae sive partitionum universalium ... libri XXI.Zurich, 1548. Fols, [vi], 375. CU (photostat); DLC; ICN (lacking the section on law); MH (two copies); NN.
Godet, Marcel. SeeIndex bibliographicus.
Hoecker, Rudolf. SeeInternationale Bibliographie.
Hortzschansky, Adelbert. SeeBibliographie des Bibliotheks- und Buchwesens.
Index bibliographicus. Répertoire international des sources de bibliographie courante (périodiques et institutions).Ed. Marcel Godet. Geneva, 1925. Pp. xvi, 233. 2d ed. by Marcel Godet and Joris Vorstius. Berlin, 1931. Pp. xxiii, 420. 3d ed., with the subtitleDirectory of Current Periodical Abstracts and Bibliographies, by Theodore Besterman. 2 v.; Paris: Unesco, 1952. Pp. xi, 52; pp. xi, 72.
For collations of the first two editions see Besterman, I, col. 327.
For collations of the first two editions see Besterman, I, col. 327.
Internationale Bibliographie des Buch- und Bibliothekswesens mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Bibliographie.Bearbeitet von Rudolf Hoecker und Joris Vorstius. Neue Folge, I (1926)-XIII (1940).
For collation see Besterman, I, col. 326 (vols. I-X only).
For collation see Besterman, I, col. 326 (vols. I-X only).
Internationaler Jahresbericht der Bibliographie, I-XI. Ed. Joris Vorstius. Leipzig, 1930-1940.
For collation see Besterman, I, cols. 327-328 (vols. I-X only).
For collation see Besterman, I, cols. 327-328 (vols. I-X only).
Josephson, Aksel G. S. "Bibliographies of Bibliographies,"The Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of America, II (1910), 21-24, 53-56; III (1911), 23-24, 50-53; IV (1912), 23-27;Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, VII (1912-1913), 33-40, 115-124.
A revised, re-arranged, and enlarged edition of the following.
A revised, re-arranged, and enlarged edition of the following.
——.Bibliographies of Bibliographies, chronologically arranged with occasional notes and an index."Bibliographical Society of Chicago. Contributions to Bibliography," No. 1. Chicago, 1901. Pp. 45.
Krüsike, Johannes Christophorus.Vindemiarum litterarium specimen. I. quo de re libraria universe agitur. Accedit appendix de scriptis rei bibliothecariae adfectis. II. quo index scriptorum exhibetur, qui de libris, illorumque scriptione, commentati sunt.Hamburg, 1727-1731. Pp. 40; [6], 64.
Cited from Josephson, "Bibliographies,"The Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of America, II(1910), 23; Vilhelm Grundtvig,Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, XX (1903), 435. Although Josephson refers to a copy in the United States, I have been unable to find it. Petzholdt's comment (p. 443) shows that he misunderstands the nature of this book. It is necessarily a very slight work because it is a supplement to Johannes Andreas Schmid (Schmidt) and J. J. Mader,De bibliothecis atque virorum clarissimorum libelli et commentationes(Helmstadt, 1702-1705). For the contents of Schmid-Mader, which was the standard eighteenth-century treatise on library science, see Peignot,Répertoire, pp. 34-35. Petzholdt does not mention it.
Cited from Josephson, "Bibliographies,"The Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of America, II(1910), 23; Vilhelm Grundtvig,Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, XX (1903), 435. Although Josephson refers to a copy in the United States, I have been unable to find it. Petzholdt's comment (p. 443) shows that he misunderstands the nature of this book. It is necessarily a very slight work because it is a supplement to Johannes Andreas Schmid (Schmidt) and J. J. Mader,De bibliothecis atque virorum clarissimorum libelli et commentationes(Helmstadt, 1702-1705). For the contents of Schmid-Mader, which was the standard eighteenth-century treatise on library science, see Peignot,Répertoire, pp. 34-35. Petzholdt does not mention it.
Labbé, Philip.Bibliotheca bibliothecarum.Paris, 1664. Pp. [32], 394. CU; ICN. Rouen, 1672. Pp. [32], 398. ICN. Rouen, 1678. Pp. 32, 398, 27. MH; Library of Archer Taylor. Leipzig, 1682. Pp. [72], 671, 38. ICN; Library of Archer Taylor.
Josephson suggests ("Bibliographies," II, 21-22) probably correctly that the 1678 edition consists of the sheets of the 1672 edition with a new title page and John Selden's numismatic bibliography.
Josephson suggests ("Bibliographies," II, 21-22) probably correctly that the 1678 edition consists of the sheets of the 1672 edition with a new title page and John Selden's numismatic bibliography.
——.Novae bibliothecae specimen.Paris, 1653. CU (positive microfilm); ICN (positive microfilm); NN.
The tenth appendix (pp. 389-428) is entitled "Supplementorum Novae bibliothecae, sive speciminis antiquarum lectionum, coronis libraria. Hoc est, Bibliotheca bibliothecarum & Catalogus catalogorum, nomenclatorum, indicum, elenchorum &c. quibus scriptores in quavis arte ac professione praecipui & libri ferme omnes, partim editi, partim inediti, representantur."Josephson seems to have confused this book with Labbé,Nova bibliotheca MSS. librorum(Paris, 1657); see his "Bibliographies," II, 21.
The tenth appendix (pp. 389-428) is entitled "Supplementorum Novae bibliothecae, sive speciminis antiquarum lectionum, coronis libraria. Hoc est, Bibliotheca bibliothecarum & Catalogus catalogorum, nomenclatorum, indicum, elenchorum &c. quibus scriptores in quavis arte ac professione praecipui & libri ferme omnes, partim editi, partim inediti, representantur."
Josephson seems to have confused this book with Labbé,Nova bibliotheca MSS. librorum(Paris, 1657); see his "Bibliographies," II, 21.
——.Sexdecim librorum initia.Paris, 1662, 1664. CU, ICN. Microfilms of both editions in both libraries.
This work consists of the first eight pages of ten bibliographies on which Labbé was working and description of six more. The pagination is necessarily not continuous.
This work consists of the first eight pages of ten bibliographies on which Labbé was working and description of six more. The pagination is necessarily not continuous.
Literarisches Beiblatt zur Zeitschrift(later:zum Jahrbuch)des Deutschen Vereins für Buchwesen und Schrifttum, I-XIII. Leipzig, 1924-1936.
For a collation see Besterman, I, cols. 326-327.
For a collation see Besterman, I, cols. 326-327.
Malclès, L.-N.Les Sources du travail bibliographique.I:Bibliographies générales.Geneva, 1950. Pp. xvi, 364. II:Bibliographies spécialisées (sciences humaines). Geneva, 1952. Pp. 954.
Reviewed: Joris Vorstius,Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, LXV (1951), 460-463 (volume I).
Reviewed: Joris Vorstius,Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, LXV (1951), 460-463 (volume I).
Moëtte, Charles.Bibliotheca alphabetica.A lost manuscript.
Namur, [Jean] Pie.Bibliographie paléographico-diplomatico-bibliographique générale ou Répertoire systématique indiquant 1otous les ouvrages relatifs à la paléographie; à la diplomatique; à l'histoire de l'imprimerie et de la libraire; à la bibliographie; aux biobibliographies et à l'histoire des bibliothèques; 2ola notice des recueils périodiques, littéraires et critiques de différents pays.Liége, 1838. Pp. xxvii, 226, [2]; vi, 306.
Die neu-eröffnete Bibliothec, worinnen der studirenden Jugend und deren curieusen Liebhabern guter Unterricht von Bibliothequen, nebenst bequemer Anleitung dieselben anzulegen, wohl zu unterhalten, und nützlich zu gebrauchen, an die Hand gegeben wird. Welchen angefügt die vornehmsten Bibliothequen in Europa und was Reisende vornehmlich bey deren Besichtigung zu beobachten haben.Hamburg, 1702. DLC; ICN. Hamburg, 1704. Library of Archer Taylor. Hamburg, 1711. CU. The Harvard copy is Theil 2 ofDer geöffnete Ritterplatz(Hamburg, 1705-1706). The pagination of all copies is the same: pp. [x], 298.
Peignot, Gabriel.Répertoire bibliographique universel, contenant la notice raisonnée des bibliographies spéciales publiées jusqu'à ce jour, et d'un grand nombre d'autres ouvrages de bibliographie, relatifs à l'histoire littéraire, et à toutes les parties de la bibliologie.Paris, 1812. Pp. xx, 514.
Petzholdt, Julius.Bibliotheca bibliographica. Kritisches Verzeichnis der das Gesammtgebeit der Bibliographie betreffenden Litteratur des In- und Auslandes in systematischer Ordnung.Leipzig, 1866. Pp. xii, 939.
Psaume, Etienne.Dictionnaire bibliographique, ou Nouveau manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres.2 v. Paris, 1824.
See "Appendice de l'Essai sur la bibliographie," I, 216-264.
See "Appendice de l'Essai sur la bibliographie," I, 216-264.
Sabin, Joseph.A Bibliography of Bibliographies, or a handy book about books which relate to books. Being an alphabetical catalogue of the most important works descriptive of the literature of Great Britain and America, and more than a few relative to France and Germany.New York, 1877. Pp. cl, i.e. 150.
This was published as a supplement to theAmerican Bibliopolist, VII (1875)-IX (1877).
This was published as a supplement to theAmerican Bibliopolist, VII (1875)-IX (1877).
San José, Michael de (Michael a S. Joseph).Bibliographia critica.Madrid, 1740-1742. 3 v. DLC; ICN; Library of Archer Taylor.
See the articles beginning with the wordbibliotheca, I, 472-533.
See the articles beginning with the wordbibliotheca, I, 472-533.
Spach, Israel.Nomenclator philosophorum et philologicorum. Hoc est: succincta recensio eorum, quo philosophiam omnesque eius partes quovis tempore idiomateve usque ad annum 1597 descripserunt, illustrarunt, & exornarunt, methodo artificiosa secundum locos communes ipsius philosophiae.Strassburg, 1598. ICN (microfilm); Library of Archer Taylor (enlargement of microfilm).
Spizelius, Theophilus (Gottlieb Spitzel).Sacra bibliothecarum illustrium arcana retecta, sive MSS. theologicorum, in praecipuis Europae bibliothecis extantium designatio; cum preliminari dissertatione, specimine novae bibliothecae universalis, et coronide philologica.Augsburg, 1668. Pp. [200], 384. CU; ICN; MH; Library of Archer Taylor.
Spitzel's comments (pp. 344-355) on Labbé'sBibliotheca bibliothecarumwere reprinted in J. A. Schmidt and J. J. Mader,De bibliothecis nova accessio collectioni Maderianae(Helmstadt, 1703), pp. 181-183. The reprint does not include Spitzel's additions to Labbé.
Spitzel's comments (pp. 344-355) on Labbé'sBibliotheca bibliothecarumwere reprinted in J. A. Schmidt and J. J. Mader,De bibliothecis nova accessio collectioni Maderianae(Helmstadt, 1703), pp. 181-183. The reprint does not include Spitzel's additions to Labbé.
Stein, Henri.Manuel de bibliographie générale(Bibliotheca bibliographica nova). Manuels de bibliographie historique, 2. Paris, 1897. Pp. xx, 805.
For reviews see H. C. Bolton and Charles Martel,Publisher's Weekly, LV (1899), 386-389; F. J. Teggert,Library Journal, XXIV (1899), 73-75; Charles Martel,Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, 1899, pp. 521-525.
For reviews see H. C. Bolton and Charles Martel,Publisher's Weekly, LV (1899), 386-389; F. J. Teggert,Library Journal, XXIV (1899), 73-75; Charles Martel,Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, 1899, pp. 521-525.
Sweertius, Franciscus (Francis Sweerts).Athenae Belgicae.Antwerp, 1628. Pp. 16, 727. DLC.
See "Syllabus eorum qui bibliothecas, elogia, effigies vitasq. virorum litteraria illustrium scripserunt et evulgarunt," pp. 56-58.
See "Syllabus eorum qui bibliothecas, elogia, effigies vitasq. virorum litteraria illustrium scripserunt et evulgarunt," pp. 56-58.
Teissier, Antoine.Catalogi auctorum qui librorum catalogos, indices, bibliothecas, virorum litteratorum elogia, vitas aut orationes funebres, scriptis consignarunt auctuarium ... sive ejusdem Catalogi pars altera.Geneva, 1705. Pp. [6], 368. ICN; MH; Library of Archer Taylor. Cited as Teissier,Auctuarium.
——.Catalogus auctorum qui librorum catalogos, indices, bibliothecas, virorum litteratorum elogia, vitas, aut orationes funebres, scriptis consignarunt.Geneva, 1686. Pp. [6], 559, 27, 3. ICN; MH; Library of Archer Taylor. Cited as Teissier,Catalogus.
Totok, Wilhelm and Rolf Weitzel.Handbuch der bibliographischen Nachschlagewerke.Frankfurt a.M., 1954. Pp. xxii, 258.
Unger, Johannes Godofredus.De libris bibliothecarum nomine notatis, ubi centum et triginta libri antiqui pariter atque et novi secundum seriem facultatum ac disciplinarum, intermixtis ultro citroque virorum judiciis, exhibentur, atque ad illustrandum historiam litterariam operose collecti recensentur disserit....Leipzig, [1734]. Pp. 24. CU (microfilm); ICN (enlargement).
Vallée, Léon.Bibliographie des bibliographies.Première partie.Catalogue des bibliographies générales et particulières, par ordre alphabétique d'auteurs....Séconde partie.Répertoire des mêmes bibliographies par ordre alphabétique des matières.Paris, 1883. Pp. vi, [2], 773, [1].
——. ——.Supplément.Paris, 1887. Pp. [2], 354.
For reviews see Phil. Min.,Le Livre, IV (1883), 400-402, VIII (1887), 525-526; C. A. C[utter],Library Journal, VIII (1883), 104-105, XII (1887), 305; Henri Stein,Bulletin critique, V (1883), 265-269, IX (1888), 89-95;The Nation, XXXVI (June 21, 1883), 535-536;Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, I (1884), 35-36.
For reviews see Phil. Min.,Le Livre, IV (1883), 400-402, VIII (1887), 525-526; C. A. C[utter],Library Journal, VIII (1883), 104-105, XII (1887), 305; Henri Stein,Bulletin critique, V (1883), 265-269, IX (1888), 89-95;The Nation, XXXVI (June 21, 1883), 535-536;Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, I (1884), 35-36.
Vorstius, Joris. SeeIndex bibliographicus;Internationale Bibliographie des Buch- und Bibliothekswesens;Internationaler Jahresbericht der Bibliographie.