A History of Bibliographies of BibliographiesTaylor, Archer
History
A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies
Taylor, Archer
Bibliography of bibliographies -- History
[183] The biographies of Enselin and Engelmann in the _Allgemeine
deutsche Biographie_ are quite inadequate, and Wilhelm Müldener
is not included in it. See several references to the Enslin and
Engelmann firms in the _Katalog der Bibliothek des Börsenvereins der
deutschen Buchhändler_ (2 v.; Leipzig, 1885-1902), I, 221, II, 880.
[184] The United States Government might also be mentioned as a major
supporter of bibliography.
[185] He is referring to lists of books printed on vellum or colored
paper.
[186] He cites no example of such a bibliography.
[187] He is referring to lists of miniature books.
[188] He probably means bibliographies of religious orders but some
of the examples could be put in other classes.
[189] Examples are bibliographies of editions of the Bible, the
_Imitatio Christi_, Ariosto's _Orlando Furioso_, and Tasso's
_Gerusaleme liberata_.
[190] He includes dictionaries of pseudonyma.
[191] He includes bibliographies of obscene books here, but might
perhaps have set up a separate class for them.
[192] This book by Ralph Thomas does not appear in the article
"Pseudonyms."
[193] This does not appear in the list of bibliographical journals at
the end of the article.
[194] I mention here Winslow L. Webber (b. 1898), _Books about Books_
(Boston, 1937), primarily because of its title. This annotated list
of books and articles useful to collectors of incunabula, English and
American first editions and rarities, and Americana does not intend
to be a general bibliography of bibliographies. Webber's comments
are occasionally instructive or entertaining, but his references are
distressingly careless. "Pretsholdt's" (p. 19) for "Petzholdt's"
speaks for itself. The chapter "Magazine References" (pp. 136-162),
which contains a survey of articles published in British and American
journals between 1900 and 1937, is perhaps the most useful part of
the book.
[195] "Bibliographie der Bibliographien--eine internationelle
Angelegenheit," _Archiv für Bibliographie, Buch- und Bibliothekswesen_,
I (1926), 188-200.
[196] _Nordisk tidskrift för bok- und bibliotheksväsen_, XXVII
(1940), 61.
[197] _Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen_, XX (1903), 405-444.
[198] See R. C. Christie's important remarks in "Biographical
Dictionaries" in his _Selected Essays and Papers_ (London, 1902), pp.
1-57.
[199] _Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och biblioteksväsen_, XXVII (1940),
65.
[200] See Joannes Rhodius's list of pseudonyms (col. 130). For the
identification of this see Taylor and Mosher, p. 262.
[201] The example readiest to hand is a dissertation by Hugo Paas
cited in Taylor and Mosher, p. 84, n. 14. This contains a good
bibliography of German studies in the law of pseudonyms.
[202] The quoted passages will be found in the Preface to the Second
Edition (I, p. [vii]) and the Introduction (I, p. xxiii).
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