Hand-list of bibliographies, classified catalogues, and indexes placed in the reading room of the British museum for reference.

  • British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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[1881]
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    sake of systematic arrangement and as a convenience to the readers. The present list is chiefly confined to Bibliographies, but it may perhaps be as well to point out that much useful bibliographical assistance may be obtained from the extensive collection of biographies and literary histories in the Beading Boom. How numerous these are will be seen by referring to the Index of Subjects in the published “ List of the Books of Beference ” drawn up for the use of readers by Mr. Bye.* In arranging the bibliographies in their cases, the subjects have as far as possible been made to correspond in position witli those in the Library of Beference: thus the theological bibliographies will be found opposite to Theology, and the historical opposite to History. For press-mark the extra cases are distinguished by the letters BB.—an abbreviation of the word bibliographies— in combination with the distinctive letters of the tables against which they are placed: thus the press-mark BB. A, shows that the work to which it refers will be found in the bibliographical case standing at the end of the A table. G. W. Porter. * A List of the Books of Beference in the Reading Room of the British Museum. [Compiled by W. B. Rye.] Second edition, revised. Printed by order of the Trustees. London, 1871. 8vo.