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Order Nr. 44060 PRINTED CATALOGUES OF THE HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY, 1723-1790. William H. Bond,...
(Harvard).

PRINTED CATALOGUES OF THE HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY, 1723-1790.

Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1996. thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xlii), 710 pages. First edition. Printed Catalogues is an important record of 17th- and 18th-century books in the first printed university and public catalogue of the Harvard College Library. By 1764, the Library was considered the most substantial library in British North America at the time. For scholars of book history, American history and education, Printed Catalogues provides insight into the books of the..... READ MORE

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                       CONTENTS

Introduction by W. H. Bond and Hugh Amory

   1. History                                      XI

   2. The Catalogues                             XXII

   3. Printing and Publishing                     XXV

Appendix I: Printing Bills                    XXXVIII

Appendix II: Translations of the Prefaces        XXXX

The 1723 Catalogue                                  3

The 1773 Catalogue                                131

The 1790 Catalogue                                161

Apparatus                                         529

Index and Concordance by W. H. Bond               541