CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL LIBRARY

Catalogue of Pre-1801 Printed Books

By David Shaw and Sheila Hingley

Books Referred to in the Catalogue

Adams - H M Adams, Catalogue of the books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600 in Cambridge libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge: 1987.

Allison & Rogers - A F Allison and D M Rogers, A catalogue of Catholic books in English printed abroad or secretly in England, 1558-1640. Bognor Regis: 1956.

Almack - E Almack, A bibliography of The King’s Book or Eikon Basilike. London: 1896.

Barbier - A A Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes. 3rd edn. 4 vols. Hildesheim: 1963.

Baudrier - H L Baudrier, Bibliographie lyonnaise: recherches sur les imprimeurs, libraires, relieurs et fondeurs de lettre de Lyon au XVIe siècle. 13 vols. Lyon: 1964-65.

Benzing - J Benzing, Die Buchdrucker des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts im deutschen Sprachgebiet. 2 vols. Wiesbaden: 1982.

BM - British Museum, General catalogue of printed books to 1955. London: 1959-66.

BMC - Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum. Parts I-IX. London: 1908-62.

BN - Bibliothèque Nationale, Catalogue général des livres imprimés de la Bibliothéque Nationale: auteurs. 231 vols. Paris: 1897-1981.

BUCOP - British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals. A record of the periodicals of the world from the seventeenth century to the present day, in British libraries. London: 1955-58.

CBEL - The new Cambridge bibliography of English literature. Edited by G Watson. Cambridge: 1969-77.

D & M - T H Darlow and H F Moule. Historical catalogue of the printed editions of the Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society. 2 vols. London: 1901-3.

DMH - A S Herbert. Historical catalogue of printed editions of the English Bible 1525-1961. Revised edn. London and New York: 1968.

DNB - The Dictionary of National Biography. 22 vols. London: 1908-9.

Duff - E G Duff. A century of the English book trade, short notices of all printers, stationers, book-binders and others. London: 1948.

Enc. Brit. - The Encyclopaedia Britannica. 24 vols. [1964].

ESTC - The eighteenth century short title catalogue. The British Library collections. Ed by R C Alston and M J Crump. London: 1983 (microfiche). Later CD-ROM version.

Evans - C Evans. American bibliography. Chicago: 1903.

Foxon - D F Foxon. English verse 1701-1750: a catalogue of separately printed poems with notes on contemporary collected editions. 2 vols. Cambridge: 1975.

Goff - F R Goff. Incunabula in American libraries: a third census. Millwood (N.Y.): 1973.

Greg - W W Greg. A bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration. 4 vols. London: 1939-59.

GW/GKW - Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Bd I - Stuttgart: 1968 - [In progress.]

Goldsmith - V F Goldsmith. A short title catalogue of French books, 1601-1700 in the Library of the British Museum. Folkestone: 1969-73.

Hain - L Hain. Repertorium bibliographicum in quo libri omnes ab arte typographica inventa usque ad annum MD. typis expressi ordine alphabetico vel simpliciter enumerantur vel adcuratius recensentur. 2 vols. Stuttgart, Paris: 1826-38.

Halkett & Laing (H & L) - S Halkett and J Laing. Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature. Edinburgh, London: 1926 3rd rev. edn 1980 - [In progress.]

HC - W A Copinger. Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium bibliographicum. Part I. London: 1895.

Hogg - P C Hogg. The African slave trade and its suppression. London: 1973.

Imprimeurs parisiens - P Renouard. Imprimeurs & libraires parisiens du XVIe siècle. 5 vols. Paris: 1964-79. -

Knuttel - W P C Knuttel. Catalogus van de pamfletten-verzameling berustende in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek. 6 vols. s’Gravenhage: 1889-1910.

McKerrow - R B McKerrow. Dictionary of printers and booksellers... 1557-1640. London: 1910.

Madan - F F Madan. Oxford books, a bibliography of printed works relating to the University and City of Oxford or printed and published there. 3 vols. Oxford: 1895-1931.

Melzi - G Melzi. Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime di scrittori italiani. Cosenza: 1961.

Magne - E Magne. Scarron et son milieu. 7th edn. Paris: 1924.

Moeckli - P Chaix, A Dufour, G Moeckil. Les livres imprimées a Genève de 1550 à 1660. Nouv. edn. Geneva: 1966.

Moreau - B Moreau. Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle. 4 vols. Paris: 1972

Nelson & Seccombe - C Nelson and M Seccombe. British newspapers and periodicals, 1641-1700: a short-title catalogue. New York: 1987.

Norton - F J Norton. A descriptive catalogue of printing in Spain and Portugal 1501-1520. Cambridge: 1978.

NUC - National union catalogue: pre-1956 imprints. [London]: 1968-80.

Proctor - R Proctor. An index to early printed books in the British Museum from the invention of printing to the year MD. 2 vols. London: 1898.

Quérard - J M Quérard. La France littéraire. Paris: [1964].

Plomer - H R Plomer and others. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland 1557-1775. Reprinted in compact form in one volume. London: 1977.

Skelton - R A Skelton. County atlases of the British Isles, 1579-1850. London: 1970

STC - A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad 1475-1640. First compiled by A W Pollard and G W Redgrave. 2nd edn. Completed by K F Pantzer. 3 vols. London: 1976-91.

Steinschneider - M Steinschneider. Catalogus librorum Hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana. Berlin: 1852-60.

Thomason Tracts - Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661. 2 vols. London: 1908.

Wing - Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English books printed in other countries 1641-1700. Compiled by D Wing. 2nd edn. 3 vols. New York: 1972-88.

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