[O'BRIEN] HALIBURTON 47 



XOTES ON THE BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



An examination of the various sources from wliich the present 

 bibliography is compiled, revealed very numerous discrepancies in dates, 

 paging, etc., while many so called lists of works were so obviously 

 incorrect that the task of compilation seemed, at first, to be hopeless. 

 Some editions mentioned by bibliographers cannot be verified, and are 

 disclaimed by the alleged publishers, or their successors, with whom 

 communication has been had whenever such firm is in existence. Many 

 editions have been found which are unknown to the successors of the 

 firms that published them. In other cases the information given !by 

 some publishers has been found, by subsequent verification, to be in- 

 correct. These are a few of the diificulties that have been met with. 



The author desires to acknowledge the assistance he has derived 

 from a valuable little volume published for private circulation by the 

 Plaliburton Club, Windsor, Xova Scotia, entitled " Haliburton, A 

 Centenary Chaplet." In it will be found, " A Sketch of the Life and 

 Times of Judge Haliburton," by K. G. Haliburton; "Haliburton: 

 The Man and the Writer," by F. Blake Crofton ; " Haliburton as a 

 Humorist and Descriptive Writer," by H. P. Scott; and a bibliography, 

 by John Parker Anderson of the British Museum. The bibliography 

 is the most full and complete which has appeared up to the present time, 

 although many editions have escaped the notice of the bibliographer. 

 It is, however, quite possible that one or more editions may yet be found 

 which are not included even in the list now given. In every possible 

 case editions have been verified, and lull particulars given. In other 

 cases, when any particulars are omitted it denotes that it has not been 

 possible to verify that edition, but that nevertheless the source of in- 

 formation is deemed sufficient to warrant its insertion in the list. As 

 an example of this, publishers, by their records, can very often vouch for 

 the date of issue of a work, but have no record of the paging other than 

 approximate, and have no note of illustrations. 



In the present bibliography, when a book is not over eight inches 

 in height it is described as '^'ISnio," following the classification of the 

 American Library Association. In cases where it has been impossible 

 to verify the exact size of editions, they are described as "8vo" or "12mo" 

 according to the size of other editions by the same publisher. 



The works have already been given in chronological order; they are 

 now given in alphabetical order for convenience of reference. Xotes, 

 where considered useful or important, follow the list of editions of each 

 work. 



