Of works descriptive of the productions of particular presses, we can only notice Benoit:1M's Annales de l'lloprimerie des Able (3d ed. 1834); the Annales de l'Impri merle des Estiennes, by the same author. 8vo (Paris, 1837-38); and Bandini, Juntarune Typographiw Annales, 2 vols. Svo (Lucere, 1791). The student may also consult with rylvantage the Notice Is la Collection des Autenrs Latins, Francais, et Paliens Imprimis en petits Formals per les Elzeriers, at the end of the 5th volume of Brunet's Manuel.
The bibliographers who have confined themselves to books printed within a given per iod are chiefly Panzer, A nnales Typograph lei ab Artry Inrenter Origine ad Annum M.D. (con tinued, however, to 1536), 11 vols. 410 (Norimbergfe, 1793 to 1803); and Hain, Reper t•htm 13ib:iographieum, 4 vols. 8v), 1823-38. The death of the author before the com pletion of this work, was the cause of the comparative inaccuracy observable in the 3d and 4th volumes. The article " Virgil," for example, is omitted altogether.
Oue of the earliest attempts to reveal the authorship of anonymous works was the Theatrum Anonymorum et Pseudonymorum of Vincent Placeins, folio (Hamburg. 1708); to which 3Iylitts added a supplement in 1740. So far as France is concerned, these have both been superseded by the admirable and well.knownDictionnaire des Ourrages Anonymes et Pseudonywes of Barbier, 2d ed., 4 tom. 8vo (Paris, 1822-27). Italy, too, has the Dizionario di Opere Anonime e Pseudonime di Scrittori Italiani of Melzi, 3 vols. Svo (Milano, 1848-59). Mr. Ralph Thomas's (Olphar Hainst) Handbook of Fictitious Names (London, 1868, 8vo), a slight and tentative, though is the only work yet published on the anonymous and pseudonymous literature of Britain; but Mr. kett, formerly keeper of the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, has left extensive collec tions on this subject, which are being arranged and supplemented by the rev. John Laing. of the New College Library, Edinburgh. Recent additions to this branch of
are Weller's Maskirte Literate,. der eilteren and neueren Sprachen, Theil; Index Pseudonyirwrunt (1856). Theil; Die falschen und fingirten Druckorte (1858).
Bibliographies which describe treatises on special subjects are very numerous; we have only space to notice the following: Lipenius, Bddiotheca Remits Phcologica, 2 vols. folio (Franeofurti, 1685); Bibliotheea Philosophica, 1682; Bibliotheca Mediea, 1679; Biblio theca Juridica, 1672—a new edition of the last of these was published at Leipsie in 1757, and supplements have been successively added by Scott, Senkenberg. and Aladdin— Marvin s Legal Bibliography, Svo (Phila. 1847); Orme's Bibliotheca Bibliea, Svo (Edin. 1824); Furst's Bibliotheea Judaica, Svo (Leip. 1849-51); Vater, Litteratur der G ram matiken, Lexica and Wortersaminlungcn alter Sprachen der Erde, 2te Ausg. von B. Jedg, Svo (Berlin, 1847); Upcou's Bibliographical Account of the Principal Works relating to English Topography, 3 vols. Svo (Lond. 1818); Oettinger's Bibliographie Blographique Unirerselle, Svo (Bruxelles, 1854): The Literature of Political Economy, by J. It. 3I'Culloch. Svo (Land. 1845); Arithmetical Pooki from the Incentian of Printing to the Present Time, by Augustus de Morgan, 12mo (Lond. 1847); the Biographia Dramatica, by Baker, Reed, and Jones, 3 vols. 8vo (Lond. 1812); and the Bibliotheca A nglo-poctica, 8vo (Lond. 1815).
As examples of other works not included in the above classification, we have only space to mention Van Prtiet's Catalogue des Lines Lopritas cur Min, 9 viols. Svo (Paris, 1822-28); Peiguot's Dietlgnuaire des Lipres cotabanoW4 an 2 vols. Paris, 1806; and Martin's Bibliographical Catalogue of privately printed Books, 2d ed., 8vo (Lond. 1824.) Further information will be obtained from an excellent bibliography of bibliographies, Petzholdt's Eibliotheca Bibliographica (Leipzig, 1864, 8vo).