Mil. PREFACE. 



uf the books, in so far as these are indicated by the title-pages, should be ascertainc-il 

 from the Catalogue itself. 



V. CROSS-REFERENCES. 



Under this head are embraced not only the references of all secondary entries to 

 those which are primary, but all references, of every description, from one part of the 

 Catalogue to another. It includes the reference from one author to another, from one 

 work to another, from a title, whether civil or ecclesiastical, to the family name, from 

 an author to his anonymous work, from a real name to an assumed one, from initials 

 to tlie full name, and occasionally from one form of a name to another. In every 

 library of any extent, these references must be numerous ; and, in catalogues generally, 

 they are indicated by the use of the word See, or V-lde. It has not been found possible 

 to dispense altogether with the use of this mode of reference. But to a very large extent, 

 and to the saving of space, without interfering witli the distinctness of the reference, 

 the method adopted in the Catalogues of the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, and of that 

 of Trinity College, Dublin, has been followed. Its main, its only feature, indeed, consists 

 in the use of small capitals in all cases where, otherwise, the word See or Vide would 

 have been employed The plan is extremely simple ; so much so, that it stands in need 

 of no illustration. It will be understood, then, that wherever, in any part of the Cata- 

 logue, a name (excepting, of course, the Christian name), or word is found printed with 

 small capitals, in another part of the Catalogue, under the name or word so printed, there 

 will be found an entry or a reference, more or less extended, which will distinctly show 

 the connection of the one entry or reference with the other. The only exception to this 

 ride is in those cases where small capitals have been used solely for the purpose of 

 breaking up, with the view of simplifying, very long entries. 



VI. THE USE OF THE ASTERISK. 



An asterisk prefixed to any title is intended to indicate that, while the place which 

 the title occupies under an author's name is the natural and appropriate one, the author 

 named is not the writer of the book so entered, but is only, somehow or other, connected 

 with it, generally either as its subject, or as the author of a work to which it is an 

 anonymous reply. A favourable illustration of its use will be found under the heading 

 " Daniel AYaterland." That author's work, entitled, " Scripture vindicated : in answer 

 to a book intituled, Christianity as old as the creation," gave rise to a controversy in 

 which Conyers Middleton, Zachary Pearce, and Philip Williams took part. Had their 

 works appeared with the authors' names, they would have been entered accordingly. 

 But they were published anonymously ; and their primary entry, with the asterisk, is 

 under " Waterland," and immediately after the entry of the controverted work. Their 

 connection with that author, and with the book in question, is thus indicated without 



