The best books : a reader's guide to the choice of the best available books (about 50,000) in every department of science, art and literature, with the dates of the first and last editions, and the price, size and publisher's name of each book : a contribution towards systematic bibliography / by William Swan Sonnenschein.
- Sonnenschein William Swan, 1855-1931.
- Date:
- 1891
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![LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. Dates in the last column of the page are the dates of publication. In cases where more than one edition has appeared, the date of the first edition is put in square brackets, that following being the date of the last edition. All dates omit the two figures representing the nineteenth centuiy, but previous centuries are given in full. Publishers' Names in round brackets after a non-English Town-name are the names of the London agents for the book in question. Authors' Titles in square brackets before their initials imply that such titles were acquired after they had written the book named ; e.g., Hampden, [Bp.] R. D. Scholastic Philosophy. * before a book implies that it is considered to be of excep- tional importance or value, at least for the section in which it occurs with an asterisk. Abp. . . . Archbishop. Ace, or acc. . account. [Agnos.] . . [Agnostic]. [Am.] . . . [American] or occasionally [now resident in America]. [Am. Bapt.] . . [American Baptist]. Anec. Oxon. . Anecdota Oxoniensia. [Ang.] . . . [Anglican]. Ang.-Sax.,^'r A.-S. Anglo-Saxon. Archd. . . . Archdeacon. [Austral.] . . [Australian]. [B.-C] . . [Broad-Church]. B. & F. Phil. Lib. British and Foreign Philosophical Library. [Bapt.]. . . [Baptist]. Bp. . . . Bishop. [C.-E.] . . [Church of England]. [C.-L]. . . [Church of Ireland]. [C.-S.]. . . [Church of Scotland]. Camb. Press . Cambridge University Press. Clar. Press . . Clarendon Press (Oxford). [Cong.] . . [Congregationalist]. Ct. . . . Count. [cd.] . . . [editor]. i.lzS'' . . . elzevirSvo. etc. after an author's name indicates that he has co-authors in the bk. named. [Ev.-Un.] . , [Evangelical Union], a group of ab. lOO churches in Scotl., wh. maintain the universality of Christ's atonement: founded by Dr. Jas. Morison in 1841. [F.-Ch.] . . [Free Church] of Scotland. [Fch. Sw. Prot.] . [French Swiss Protestant], gl 8° . . . globe 8vo, a size of bk. introduced by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Gold. Treas. . Golden Treasury Series. Gu. . . . Guillaume. Guill. . . . Guillielmus. [II.-C] . . [Iligh-Church]. •»* Other abbreviations adopted in the book will, it is thought, be readily intelligible, Pop. m prep, in prog. [Indep.] [Ir.] . . [Irv.] . . [Leyd. sch.]. Litter. (o^Litt. [Meth.] [Miss.] . n.d. [O.-C] o.p. Or. Ser. Pre. . Pee., or Prce, [Presb.] Prf. . {,pb. [R.-C.] [Rat.] . [Ref. C. [Ref. D.-C] [S.-J.] . Ser. [Shak.] [Sw.-Prot.] tr. [tr.] . [Unit.']. [Univ.] Univ. . ut inf., or ut infra ui sup., or lit supra [w. ] . [Wesl.] -F.] in preparation. in progress, or course of issue. A date preceding this is the date of pubn. of the 1st part or vol. of the bk. or series. [Independent]. [Irish]. [Irvingite]. [Leyden school] of Theology. Litteratures Populaires. [Methodist]. [Missionary]. no date; i.e., pub. without a date on the title-page : the date in brackets after n.d. (where given) is that of actual issue. [Old-Catholic]. out of print. Oriental Series. Principal. Prince. [Presbyterian]. Professor. [published at ]. [Roman-Catholic]. [Rationalist]. [Reformed Church of France]. [Reformed Dutch Church]. [Society of Jesus]. Series. [Shaker]. [Swiss Protestant], translated by. [translation]. Unitarian. [Universalist]. Universal or University. as beloiu. as above, [loorth ]. [Wesleyan].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21693985_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
