  | Chap. | | Page | | I. | Introduction.
What is a Catalogue?—Vulgar Errors—A Good Cataloguer attempts to put himself in the Seeker's Place—Judicious Shortening of Titles—Difference between Cataloguing and Bibliography-making—A Universal Catalogue—Printing of the British Museum Catalogue—Different Classes of Catalogues—Classified and Alphabetical—Catalogue RaisonnÉ—Index Catalogues—Mr. Bradshaw's View—Need of Care—No Jumping to Conclusions—Different Styles of Catalogues—Purton Cooper's Sale Catalogues | 1 | | II. | Battle of the Rules.
British Museum Foremost in the Race—Printed Catalogues of the Museum— Panizzi's Fight—Evidence before the Royal Commission—Payne Collier's Defeat—The Museum Rules—Jewett's Rules—Cambridge University Library Rules—Library Association Rules adopted by Bodley's Librarian—Cutter's Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue—Triumph of the Museum | 25 | | III. | Print versus Manuscript.
Panizzi's Objection to Print—Parry in Favour of Print—The British Museum again Foremost in the Race, this time in Printing, thanks to Mr. Bond—Mr. Cutter on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Printing—How to keep a Printed Catalogue up to Date—Card Catalogues—Stereotyping—Henry Stevens's Photo-Bibliography—Co-operative Cataloguing | 49 | | IV. | How To Treat a Title-Page.
Author: Cutter's Definition of an Author—Compound Names—Prefixes—Imaginary Authors—The Name by which a Man is generally known to be preferred to that by which he is not known— Official Names—Names of Peers—Personal Names—Sovereigns, Saints, and Friars—Oriental Names—Contraction for Christian Names—Distinction between Christian and Surnames—Treatment of Changed Names—Married Authoresses—Greek and Roman Authors—Difficulties in deciding as to the Author of a Book—Corporate Authorship—Academical Dissertation. Headings other than Author Headings: Trials—Catalogues—Bible—Liturgies—Voyages—Anonymous and Pseudonymous Works—Evidence before the Commission of 1847-49—Arrangement under Initials, under Pseudonyms. The Title: Shortening of Titles—Indication of Editions—Addition to Title-Pages. Place of Publication: Date—Use of Chronograms—Greek Dates. Size-Notation: Difficulties— Attempted Solution of these Difficulties. Collation | 74 | | V. | References and Subject Index.
References and Cross-References—Press-Marks to References—Mode of Referencing— Subject Index advocated by Panizzi | 180 | | VI. | Arrangement.
Use of the English Alphabet—I and J—U and V—Order—Arrangement of Titles under an Author's Name—Transactions of Societies—Pamphlets not to be divided from Books—Journals and Magazines | 198 | | VII. | Something about MSS.
The British Museum Collections—Arrangement of an Ordinary Collection—The Museum Catalogues—Catalogues of Manuscripts more Readable than Catalogues of Printed Books | 228 | | VIII. | Rules for a Small Library.
Headings: Author (1-11)—Non-Author (12-19)—The Title (20, 21)—Place of Publication (22)—Date (23, 24)—Size-Notation (25)—Collation (26)—Abstract of Contents (27)—References (28-31)—Arrangement (32-45)—Manipulation (52) | 235 | | Appendix. List of Latin Names Of Places | 247 | | Index | 255 |
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