Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART II. CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY CHAPTER III BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AlDS ,§21. Special Aids No systematic bibliography concerning the whole field of American history has as yet been completed, though several works cover portions of the field in detail; and there are numerous special bibliographies of persons, periods, or special subjects. A list of bibliographies and check lists of American history is P. L. Ford, Check List of Bibliographies . . . of American Books and Subjects, Brooklyn, 1889; and the Annual Literary Index and Annual Library Index (1892-) list current bibliographies on general and specific topics (sec § 24 below, under Poole). The most significant bibliographies on a considerable scale are as follows: Joseph Sabin, Dictionary of Books relating to America (see § 24). This is intended to include the title of every book published in America or about America; but it contains only titles up to the dates of the several volumes (1868-1892), and it does not refer to periodicals. It now (1911) reaches the name of Henry H. Smith; publication has been suspended and the work is out of print. A set, including all numbers so far published, would probably cost five hundred dollars. Charles Evans, American Bibliography (§24) has only reached 1785 and will not extend beyond 1820. Bradford and Hcnkcl, Bibliographer's Manual (§ 24) is confined to state and local history- F. Leypoldt, American Catalogue and its continuations (§ 24) contain the titles of all books in print in America in 1876, and since issued. Marion E. Potter, United Slates Catalog (§ 24) serves the same purpose for book in print in 1002 or since issued. Justin Winsor, Narrative and Critical History (§ 29) is a work of vast learning, and includes admirable bibliographies of all subjects tre...