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following order :—Surname of author; Christian name or names of 
author (with his or her distinctive titles or degrees, where desirable) ; 
as much of the title as is necessary for identification (abbreviations, 
if any, being made after the usual rules) ; the title, series, volume and 
pages of the magazine or other periodical publication in which the 
work or article appeared (if not separately published) ; the number of 
the edition (if not the first); the number of pages (of both pre- 
liminary matter and body) ; the number of maps and plates ; the size 
and shape of the work (maps and prints being described in inches) ; 
the place or places of publication; the name or names of the pub- 
lishers, whenever desirable ; and, lastly, the date of publication ; 
(ce) No further information than the foregoing relating to any work cata- 
logued shall appear in the main entry in the catalogue, unless this 
information appears on the title-page of the book or pamphlet, in the 
title of the article, or on the front of the map or print catalogued, or 
unless it shall be in some way explanatory of, or supplementary to, 
the information rightly entered under (d) (as, for instance, the 
author’s name in the case of an anonymous or pseudonymous book), 
when it shall be entered between brackets [ ]; 
“(f) Any further information than the above about any work catalogued 
(for instance. as to its rarity or value; its special points of interest ; 
its typographical or other peculiarities ; its press-mark at the British 
Museum ; the occurrence of rare works in public or private libraries ; 
&c., &c.) shall be entered in and form part of a secondary paragraph, 
intended to be printed in smaller type); but no literary or other 
criticism upon the points and peculiarities of any work catalogued 
shall appear in this secondary paragraph, unless the same shall be of 
the briefest description. 
“(g) All who assist in the work of compilation shall (subject to the above 
general regulations) enter all details relating to works catalogued in 
accordance, as far as possible, with the rules for cataloguing books 
given in Mr. Henry B. Wheatley’s How to Catalogue a Library, 
2nd edition, London, 1889.” 
Best ForM FoR THE COMPLETED Work. 
Perhaps hereit would be well to indicate what would be the best 
form for such a work to take. 
I confess though I have hitherto been strongly in favour of such 
a work being divided into parts, as in Mr. Mayo’s Bibliotheca 
Dorsetiensis, 1 am more disposed now to favour one in which ad/ the 
items, 7.¢., authors, subjects, &c., should appear in dictionary form, 
under one alphabet, with plenty of cross-references, to all sources of 
information, in the case of periodicals, &. There should be special 
indexes of printers and publishers, 
