A Descriptive Checklist of Book Catalogues Separately Printed in.

Winans, Robert B. A Descriptive Checklist of Book Catalogues Separately Printed in America 1693-1800. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1981. xxxi, 207 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine, near fine. Internally clean. $15. * A specialized reference bibliography cataloging over nine hundred book catalogs individually published in early America. Winans utilizes extensive searches of colonial archives and institutional libraries to provide a chronological checklist of book trade catalogs, library inventories, and private auction lists printed between the late seventeenth century and the turn of the nineteenth century. Each entry features highly detailed bibliographical annotations detailing current copy locations, itemized counts, and the operational parameters of early American book distribution networks, making it a critical tool for mapping the dissemination of reading material in colonial and early national America.