Volume 1

How to catalogue a library / by Henry B. Wheatley.

  • Henry B. Wheatley
Date:
1889
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to catalogue a library / by Henry B. Wheatley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The oddities of catalogue-making would form a prolific subject, and we cannot enter into it at the end of this chapter ; but space may be found for two odd catalogues which owe their origin to the Secretary of the old Record Com- mission. The sale catalogue of portions of Mr. Charles Purton Cooper’s library! is a literary curiosity. It contains two hundred and fourteen pages, but only one hundred and eighteen of these are devoted to the catalogue of books for sale, and the re- maining pages are filled with appendixes which contain many amusing notes. The first appendix consists of a ‘‘ Catalogue: of Books mostly in English, Scottish, Index is Abdy, and the reference “ xxix, 215. i.;” xxix. applies to the class, which is Geography ; the title is to be found in section v., America ; so that actually seventy pages of the catalogue have to be glanced through before the work of Abdy can be found. 1“ Bibliotheca Coopertana. Catalogue of Por- tions of the Extensive and Valuable Library of Charies Purton, Cooper,’ Esq., .Q.C.'.. .... (These portions will, by Mr. Cooper’s direction, be sold by auction by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby and John Wilkinson ... on Monday, April 19th [1852], and seven following days.”
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