MS. catalogue, and no further printing was done till 1880.[1] Such was the zeal of Panizzi that overflow-meetings of "transcribers" were often held in his own drawing-room.
The Catalogue of Printed Books contains separate entries of every book, pamphlet, magazine, newspaper, and broadside or single-sheet, in the library, with the following exceptions:—
(1) Newspapers published in Great Britain and Ireland. These are accessible by the aid of manuscript catalogues.
(2) British Parliamentary Papers, accessible by the aid of the indices issued with them; also, many British municipal publications.
(3) Certain Foreign and Colonial State publications (including all those of a statistical nature), of which manuscript catalogues have been compiled.
(4) A certain quantity of German university theses and school dissertations.
(5) A certain portion of the vast collection of French Revolution tracts. These are now in course of being catalogued.
(6) A very small number of large collections, e.g. one of Mazarinades, and one of pamphlets published in Mexico; another of the addresses issued during the election that followed the introduction of the Home Rule Bill by Mr. Gladstone; which would have cost, to catalogue in detail, sums out of all proportion to their value, and so appear in the catalogue under a simple heading.
The selection of the proper headings in an author-catalogue, especially in the case of a large
- ↑ See infra, p. 139.
