Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN CHURCH HISTORY, 1820-1893. COMPILED BY SAMUEL MACAULEY JACKSON Honorary Doctor Of Laws (wash1ngton And Lee Un1vers1ty, Va., 1892), And Of D1v1n1ty (un1vers1ty Of The C1ty Of New York, 1893). PREFATORY NOTE. As this is the first attempt ever made to put together the titles of the books upon the general subject of religious history in the United States which have appeared in this country since 1820, it leaves much to be desired. The main sources are: the Roorbach and Kelly Catalogues of American books (BiilioIheca Americana, New York, 1820-61, 4 vols.; American Catalogue, 180171, 2 vols.), and their successor the American Catalogue, 1876 sqq., which is now the best trade catalogue published; the Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum; and the various bibliographies already given or to be printed in this series. It has been the labor of months to bring together the materials these sources furnished. The Roorbach and Kelly lists are notoriously defective and inaccurate. Hence any use of them must share these blemishes. Great care has been taken to secure accuracy by comparison of lists and special searches in biographical dictionaries, especially in Appleton's Cycloptedia 0f American Biography, edited by Gen. James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, which is remarkably full and on the whole satisfactory. The British Museum Catalogue is simply indispensable, and has supplied information when every other source failed. Comparison of the titles here given with those in Roorbach and Kelly will show how much correction has been made. This Bibliography does not pretend to be more than a compilation, but it aims at giving this information: short titles of all the books which properly fall within its scope; author's...
