Category: Research Methods/Statistics/Information Sys

On the Construction of Catalogues of Libraries and Their Publication by Means of Separate, Stereotyped Titles With Rules and Examples

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4. Part 4

The titles, after having been set up in type, and corrected with the utmost care, are, before stereotyping, to be sent to the library to which they belong, to be revised, by a c...

5. Part 5

When nothing is said, in the title, respecting this point, if the work be divided into several portions, but the same paging continue, or, when the pages are not numbered, if th...

6. Part 6

This last is one of the cases which might lead us to doubt the propriety of the rule. This author is universally known as _Chesterfield_, not as _Stanhope_. But there are other...

2. Part 2

As a remedy for this evil, it is proposed to ~stereotype the titles separately~, and to preserve the plates or blocks, in alphabetical order of the titles, so as to be able read...

3. Part 3

"On this, as on other points, we may observe that two descriptions of persons consult a catalogue--those who know _precisely_ what book they are in search of, and those who do n...

1. Part 1

Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including inconsistencies in spelling (for example "Aroüet" / "Arouët"). Some obvious spelling and p...

8. Part 8

The lives of the Scotish poets, with preliminary dissertations on the literary history of Scotland, and the early Scotish drama. By ~David Irvine~, L.L.D. [~Irving~.] V. 1, 2. [...

7. Part 7

Acc't _for_ account. Anag. _for_ anagram. App. _for_ appendix. App'd _for_ appended. B. _for_ Band and Bände. Biogr. _for_ biography or biographical. Cols. _for_ columns. Cont'd...

9. Part 9

The philosophy of history, or a philosophical and historical dissertation, on the origin, manners, customs, and religion of the different nations, and people, of antiquity; with...