Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 1st April 1889, Edition 1 of 1, Page 381

. 1 .. * •' ¦ ¦' '¦'¦ ¦ ¦ .- ¦„•¦ ¦ :. . . ¦ ¦ " " ¦ " '¦ ' - " ¦ ' '¦ V ¦ ' . ¦¦ .:. :-.. . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . \ * Now ready , 1888 issue . , royal . Svo . 5 s ; ! , En glish > . • Catalogue - „ , ¦ ¦¦ " ¦ , . ] ^ - _ B _ l » ^ ¦ . II I I . II - ¦ » - ¦ —* i ^^ « ' - ' ^^™^^ ^—~~~ . - ' ' - , \ ' . V- : ^ The English Catalogue ior 1888 , i . e . which records the En than glish its p predecessor rinted books . " *' . This 1888 mean , is s larger that ther y thirteen e have pages been six or seven hundred more titles to not <& in the general alphabet , and as a * consequence , the index of subjects is increased volume formation bso much contains b th y ^ an more a , the corresponding in useful effect Engl , ish to nearly the Catalogue number reader ten per for the of cent entries 1887 student , more ; . ( and The the in is - , libr y arian The bookseller , aixd the bookseller whether . " new " or , " second-hand , / 5 is enabled instantly to , learn the price of a book he has to deal with , alid finds the volumes of series which have been published during the past year gathered together under the name- of the seriesT which -mustoften enable him to answer a question . This enumeration ^ of books under series is , so far as it goes , a third entry of titles . The public index arrangement tions narned in is the a alphabet second , which under app authors lies to 9 names all the . or By b means ookseller of is this assisted index to the particulars student , reade about r , books librarian of which the author ' s name may not be recollected at the por moment tion of . the The catalogue arrangement has the under advantage subjects of showing of the index what books on any particular line of thought or controversy have been produced during the year , what countries described , what languages illustrated , and so forth . In the latter - department it ia interesting to note that attention to the study of living languages now far outweighs that which is given to the de ^ d . The literature of the year , resolved into classes , is political & s tio omewhat c nal 486 , , 779 & c as ; ., 135 j follows uvenile ; 231 ar : t — , , s 4 theology erial & 70 ; , 253 volumes fiction , ; 912 travel , pu 327 1 , blications , & 814 c medicine , ; - --Ja 7 ; w ; , educa 1 tory & 72 c ; - , 1 ^ 9 , ; belles ; poe -lettres try , , 389 ; miscellaneous , , 627 ; . These figures , , include new editions . It should be added that prominent American books of 1 tion the year s , and are receive included the same in the kind alp of habe attention t of English in the publica index . - London : SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , SEARLE & RIVINdTON , Limitbp , St . Duns tan ' e Houso ^ Fetter Lan e , Fleet Street , E . C .

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