American Book Catalogues, 1801‐1875

Bibliographies of printed (book) catalogues are rare and are to be welcomed, especially when published as inexpensively as the item under review. Listed are 3,355 separately printed catalogues including supplements covering the period 1801‐1875. The scope of the work is all institutional libraries, including law libraries, state agencies, legislative bodies, railroad libraries and libraries for linguistic minorities as well as the more conventional public, academic and religious.

Having been engaged for ten years on a similar project on a much more modest geographical scale which is unlikely to see the light of day this side of retirement, I find it...