Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A List of Books Printed in Scotland Before 1700, Including Those Printed Furth of the Realm for Scottish Booksellers: With Brief Notes on the Printers and Stationers
At the meeting of the Society held 12 November 1896, it was resolved that a Bibliographical Catalogue and Hand-list of books printed in Scotland before 1700 should be undertaken, and the work was commenced in the following January.
The scheme adopted provides for the compilation of the Bibliographical Catalogue being carried on concurrently with the preparation of the Hand-list. Each title is entered on a slip 8} x 7 inches in size, ruled as shewn in the specimen collations on p. Xiv. The upper line gives the particulars necessary for the Hand-list; the collation, full title, and other descriptive details are written in the centre Space and the bottom line states on the right the source from which the information has been obtained, and on the left the location of copies. Any note of a book can thus be entered and filed in its proper place, leaving fuller details to be added as opportunity offers and a reference to the slips will at any time shew what information the Society possesses as to a particular book, and the source from which it has been derived.
The work thus commenced proceeded with more or less interruption until about 3500 titles had been accumulated, when it was felt necessary that a pre liminary issue of the Hand-list Should be printed, in order to facilitate further progress and co-operation by shewing what titles are still unrecorded or defective.
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