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A Guide to the Use of the Beading Boom. 



General Works. 



Geowoll (A.) Three Centuries of English Book Trade BibUo- 

 graphy. Dibdin Club, New York. No. 1, 1903. 



See also an article by E. Arber on Contemporary Lists 

 of Books printed in England. Bibliographica. Vol. III. 

 pp. 173-191. 



Watt (E.) Bibliotheca Britannica ; or a General Index to British 

 and foreign Literature. 2 vol. 1824. 



A general list, chiefly of English books, from the introduc- 

 tion of printing in England to about 1820. Vol. I. contains 

 books under their authors' names. Vol. II., books under the 

 subjects to which they relate, with references to the authors' 

 names given in Vol. I. 



Lowndes (W. T.) The Bibliographer's Manual of English Litera- 

 ture. 6 vol. 1869. 



Chiefly rare and valuable books. 



Allibone (S. a.) Dictionary of English Literature. England 

 and the United States. 5 vol. 1859-91. 



Stephen (Sir Xi.) and Lee (Sir S.) Dictionary of National 

 Biography. 63 vol. and Index. 1885-1900. 



■ Supplements, 1901, etc. 



Contains lists of the works of each British author and 

 bibliographical information on the sources of each biography. 



Cambridge Histoey of English Literature. 1907, etc. 



Contains Bibliographies of different periods of British 

 Literature at the end of each volume. 



Various Periods. 



Ames (J.) Typographical Antiquities. An historical account of 

 printing in England. Augmented by W. Herbert. 3 vol. 

 1785-1790. 



The most complete edition. 



• Another edition. Enlarged by T. F. Dibdin. Vol. 1-4. 



1810-1819. 



Planned on a much larger scale, but left incomplete. 



Blades (W.) Life and Typography of WilHam Caxton. 2 vol. 

 1861-63. 



Biography and Typography of Wilham Caxton. 1882. 



Duff (E. Gordon) A Century of the EngHsh Book Trade. 1457- 

 1557. Bibliographical Society, 1905. 



McKeerow (E. B.) a Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in 

 England, Scotland and Ireland, and of foreign printers of 

 EngHsh Books, 1557-1640. BibHographical Society, 1910. 



