Eighteenth-Century British Books
( BRITISH MUSEUM ) AVERLEY et al, G.
A Subject Catalogue extracted from the British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books.
Published: Dawson [Folkestone, 1979]
Stock code: 3560
Price: £145.00
4 vols., folio; cloth, gilt backs, a fine copy.
Project for Historical Biobibliography (PHIBB), University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Vol. I: Generalities, Philosophy, Religion; Vol. II: Social Sciences, Pure Sciences, Technology, The Arts; Vol. III: Language, Literature; Vol. IV: Geography & History. The first work of a series intended to provide increasingly complete listings of eighteenth-century printed materials. Details for each entry include the life dates of the author, date and number of editions, place of publication, number of volumes, format and bibliographical notes. The entries include all books printed in English and published in Britain or America, or published in those counties in any language, or translated from or into English. The total number of entries exceeds 200,000.