Trübner's Bibliographical guide to American literature : a classed list of books published in the United States of America during the last forty years : with bibliographical introduction, notes, and alphabetical index / compiled and edited by Nicolas Trübner.
- Trübner, Nicholas, 1817-1884.
- Date:
- 1859
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Trübner's Bibliographical guide to American literature : a classed list of books published in the United States of America during the last forty years : with bibliographical introduction, notes, and alphabetical index / compiled and edited by Nicolas Trübner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ings of members of those religious bodies, whose labours have touched upon matters in any way appertaining to North or South America and the West Indies; and therefore may not be passed over in silence in a work devoted to Bibliography in connection with American Literature. BOOKS FEINTED IN AMERICA. The literary history of the United States of America has yet to be written, and the materials for the purpose are scattered, and far from complete. Yet there are many valuable aids to be found, such as Periodical Publications de- voted to the subject, and Catalogues and Handbooks compiled for the use of booksellers and their customers. Though not printed in America, it has been thought as well to add one or two works of this latter class, printed in London, which confine themselves exclusively to American literature. Besides these we must not omit to notice works devoted to special branches of literature, pub- lished in the United States, which are not less important than manuals of more general pretensions. I. PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS. ]. The North American Review.—Prom its commencement in 1815, it contains under the head of “Intelligence” much valuable bibliographical information, and from 1819 to 1844?, it added quarterly lists of new publications. In 1844 these lists were discontinued, but those which exist, though often nothing but mere announcements, are indispensable from the dearth of other sources of information. 2. Prospectus of an American Book-circular, by K. v. Behr, 1828. The editor was a German, and a bookseller in New York. Beyond the prospectus nothing is known of the Circular. 3. The Literary Intelligence prepared for the New York Review by Mr. G. P. Putnam, of the firm of Messrs. Wiley and Putnam, the well-known booksellers. It commences on the 8th of April, 1838, and occupies pp. 511— 524 of the number, and was continued till the New York Review was dropped in 1842. 4. Wiley and Putnam’s Literary News Letters, and Monthly Register of New Books, Foreign and American, published on the first of every month. Compiled for the purposes of their trade, as extensive importers and exporters, for which it was quite sufficient, without pretending to greater bibliographical accuracy than the occasion required. 5. The Home Book Circular was issued by Messrs. Appleton and Co., and since June, 1843, continued under the title of— 6. Appleton’s Literary Bulletin.—It is compiled for the purposes of their extensive trade, and similar to Messrs. Wiley and Putnam’s News Letters. 7. The United States Literary Advertiser and Publishers’ Circular, a Monthly Register of Literature, by T. and H. Langley, each part contain- ing 8 to 16 pp., 4to, 1841. This valuable publication is now of great rarity. Dr. Ludewig could not obtain the sight of more than 11 numbers, and he thus enumerates the plan](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24877724_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
