How to Form a Library Part 10

Mayor. Third edition, with Supplementary List. London, 1885.

_Ma.n.u.scripts._--Guide to the Historian, the Biographer, the Antiquary, the man of literary curiosity, and the collector of autographs, towards the verification of Ma.n.u.scripts, by reference to engraved facsimiles of handwriting. [By Dawson Turner.] Yarmouth, 1848. Roy. 8vo. A most valuable alphabetical Index of the names of celebrated men, with references to the books where specimens of their writing can be found.

_Mathematics._--Dictionnaire des Mathematiques appliques....

Par H. Sonnet. Paris, 1867. Roy. 8vo.

_Mechanics._--Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary.... By Edward H. Knight. London and New York, 1874-77. 3 vols.

royal 8vo.

---- Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining and Engineering. Edited by Charles Tomlinson. London, 1866. 3 vols. roy. 8vo.

_Medical._--The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. Edited by Robert B. Todd, M.D., F.R.S. London, 1835-59. 5 vols, in 6, royal 8vo.

---- A Dictionary of Practical Medicine.... By James Copland. London, 1858. 3 vols. 8vo.

---- An Expository Lexicon of the terms, ancient and modern, in Medical and General Science; including a complete Medico-Legal Vocabulary.... By R.G. Mayne, M.D. London, 1860. 8vo.

---- Cooper's Dictionary of Practical Surgery and Encyclopaedia of Surgical Science. New edition brought down to the present time by Samuel A. Lane. London, 1872. 2 vols, royal 8vo.

---- Medical Lexicon: a Dictionary of Medical Science ...

by Robley Dunglison, M.D., LL.D. A new edition enlarged and thoroughly revised by Richard J. Dunglison, M.D.

Philadelphia, 1874. Roy. 8vo.

_Monograms._--Dictionnaire des Monogrammes, marques figurees, lettres initiales, noms abreges, etc., avec lesquels les Peintres, Dessinateurs, Graveurs et Sculpteurs ont designe leurs noms. Par Francois Brulliot. Nouvelle edition. Munich, 1832-34. 3 parts. Imp. 8vo.

_Music._--General History of the Science and Practice of Music. By Sir John Hawkins. London, 1776. 5 vols. 4to.

---- History of Music from the earliest ages to the present period. By Charles Burney. London, 1776-89. 4 vols. 4to.

---- Biographie Universelle des Musiciens et Bibliographie generale de la musique. Par F.J. Fetis. Deuxieme edition.

Paris, 1860-65. 8 vols. roy. 8vo.

---- Supplement et Complement, publies sous la direction de M. Arthur Pougin. Paris, 1878-80. 2 vols. roy. 8vo.

---- Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Edited by [Sir] G.

Grove. London, 1878. 8vo. In progress.

_Mythology._--Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, edited by Dr. W. Smith. 1845-48. 3 vols. 8vo.

_Natural History._--Dictionary of Natural History Terms, with their derivations, including the various orders, genera, and species. By David H. McNicoll, M.D. London, 1863. Sm. 8vo.

_Natural History._--See _Botany_, _Zoology_.

_Painters._--A General Dictionary of Painters.... By Matthew Pilkington, A.M. A new edition, corrected and revised by R.

A. Davenport. London, 1852. 8vo.

---- A Catalague Raisonne of the Works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, ... to which is added a Brief Notice of the Scholars and Imitators of the Great Masters of the above schools. By John Smith. London, 1829-42. 9 parts. Roy. 8vo.

---- The Picture Collector's Manual, adapted to the Professional Man and the Amateur; being a Dictionary of Painters ... together with an alphabetical arrangement of the Scholars, Imitators, and Copyists of the various masters, and a Cla.s.sification of Subjects. By James R.

Hobbes. London, 1849. 2 vols. 8vo.

_Peerage._--Courthope's "Historical Peerage," founded on Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas's "Synopsis of the Peerage," is an indispensable work, but it only refers to English t.i.tles.

Mr. Solly's "Index of Hereditary t.i.tles of Honour" contains the Peerage and Baronetage of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

---- The Official Baronage of England, 1066 to 1885, by James E. Doyle (vols. 1-3. 4to.), has just appeared.

_Peerage._--Of the current peerages, Burke's, Dod's, Debrett's, and Foster's, all have their points of merit.

_Periodicals._--Catalogue of Scientific Serials of all countries, including the Transactions of Learned Societies in the Natural, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, 1633-1876. By Samuel H. Scudder. Library of Harvard University, 1879. 8vo.--In this valuable list of periodicals, which is arranged geographically according to countries with an alphabet under each country, transactions and journals are joined together in the same arrangement. At the end there are an Index of Towns, an Index of t.i.tles, and an Index of Minor Subjects.

---- An Index to Periodical Literature. By Wm. Fred. Poole.

New York. Roy. 8vo. 1st ed. 1843; 2nd ed. 1848; 3rd ed.

1882.

---- Catalogue of Scientific Papers (1800-1863). Compiled and published by the Royal Society of London. London, 1867-72. 6 vols. 4to. (1864-73.) Vol. 7, 1877; Vol. 8, 1879.--Vol. 1, A-Clu; Vol. 2, Coa-Gra; Vol. 3, Gre-Lez; Vol.

4, Lhe-Poz; Vol. 5, Pra-Tiz; Vol. 6, Tka-Zyl; Vol. 7, A-Hyr; Vol. 8, I-Zwi.

---- The celebrated Dr. Thomas Young published in the second volume of his _Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts_ (1807) a most valuable Catalogue of books and papers relating to the subject of his Lectures, which is cla.s.sified minutely, and occupies 514 quarto pages in double columns. In Kelland's new edition (1845) the references are abridged and inserted after the several lectures to which they refer.

_Philology._--Max Muller's "Lectures on the Science of Language"; Marsh's "Lectures" and "Origin and History of the English Language"; Abp. Trench's "English. Past and Present"; "Select Glossary."

_Physics._--Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy. By A.

P. Deschanel. 8vo.

---- Elementary Treatise on Physics. By A. Ganot, edited by E. Atkinson. Sm. 8vo.

_Plate._--Old English Plate, ecclesiastical, decorative, and domestic, its makers and marks. By Wilfred Joseph Cripps, M.A., F.S.A. Second edition. London, 1881. 8vo.

_Plays._--See _Drama_.

_Pottery._--Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain of the Renaissance and Modern periods, with historical notices of each Manufactory.... By William Chaffers. Fourth edition.

London, 1874. Roy. 8vo.

_Prices._--History of Prices from 1793 to 1856. By Thomas Tooke and William Newmarch. London, 1838-57. 6 vols. 8vo.

_Prints._--An Introduction to the Study and Collection of Ancient Prints. By William Hughes Wills.h.i.+re, M.D. Edin.

Second edition, revised and enlarged. London, 1877. 2 vols.

8vo.

---- The Print Collector, an Introduction to the Knowledge necessary for forming a Collection of Ancient Prints. By J.

Maberly, ... Edited with Notes, an Account of Contemporary Etching and Etchers, and a Bibliography of Engraving. By Robert Hoe, jun. New York, 1880. Sq. 8vo.

---- Etching and Etchers. By P.G. Hamerton. New edition.

London, 1876. 8vo.

_Printing._--Typographia or the Printers' Instructor: including an Account of the Origin of Printing.... By J.

Johnson, Printer. London, 1824. 2 vols. 8vo.