THE REFERENCE CATALOGUE OF CURRENT LITERATURE (LONDON)

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INDEX OF CONTRIBUTORS & ADVERTISERS

1874 ADVERTISEMENT

A LONG Preface to a big book would be inexcusable, but as this volume is not unlikely to be the first of a long series, some introduction is necessary, and the best introduction will be the relation of its history.

In the early part of the present year I received from Mr. Frederick Leypoldt, of New York, a copy of his recently published "Uniform Trade List Annual," a handsome volume of above sixteen hundred pages, containing the catalogues of numerous American publishers, printed specially for the purpose of being inserted in the work. A somewhat similar volume had been previously published by Mr. Howard Challen, of Philadelphia, but that gentleman, like many other original thinkers, does not appear to have been so successful as Mr. Leypoldt, who took up and improved upon the work of his predecessor.

The "Uniform Trade List" was, to me, a work of great interest I had long been a collector of catalogues, both American and English, but somehow it had been my general experience that just at the moment I had occasion to refer to a particular catalogue, that catalogue was not to be found. And this is the general experience of collectors, whether booksellers or bookbuyers. Here, then, in a convenient form, was a catalogue which, as far as the United States were concerned, saved me all further trouble. Herein was collected the lists of the Appletons, the Harpers, the Lippincotts, the Osgoods, and other well known houses, with the catalogues of publishers whose names had scarcely been heard in this country, and whose publications were entirely unknown. The unobtrusive simplicity of the plan was no inconsiderable merit; the book required no pushing; it told its own tale, and its usefulness was apparent to all.

It occurred to me that a similar work would be equally useful in this country, and this opinion was shared by most of the leading publishers, who expressed their willingness to aid in its production, and promised to prepare catalogues for the purpose. As is not unusual where the co-operation of many persons is required, some are found less diligent than others, and it happened that by the time when all should have completed their quota more than half had failed. This was hardly fair to those publishers who had punctually fulfilled their engagements, although in justice to some of the defaulters, it must be said that the delay rested rather with the printers than the publishers. Patience, united with a little gentle pressure, eventually succeeded, and all the catalogues were at last collected; but between the receipt of the latest and the earliest there was an interval of nearly two months.

Originally the intention was to prefix a few pages indicating the general contents of the volume, and in whose lists books of a particular character were to be found. This would have been a comparatively easy task, and I was pledged to nothing more. On reflection, however, it was clear that a volume of three thousand pages, containing the full titles of perhaps fifty thousand books, required something better than a mere table of contents, and that without a general index it would be deprived of half its value as a Reference Catalogue of Current Literature. I therefore determined to furnish such an Index as should include all the chief books, and all the collections; in some instances under the names of Authors, but generally under the Subjects. This portion of the work has greatly exceeded the contemplated limits, and contains the short titles of no fewer than 14,000 books. Yet, although apparently so copious, regret will be felt that it is not more perfect Even as it is, its preparation and printing has delayed the issue of the volume a month or six weeks -- a delay which, now that the cause has been explained, will, it is hoped, be considered a valid excuse.

J[oseph] W[hitaker]
London, 16th June, 1874.

LIST OF 1874 CONTRIBUTORS AND ADVERTISERS

Allen, William H., & Co., 13 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall
Allman, T. J., 463 Oxford Street
Asher & Co., 13 Bedford Street, Covent Garden
Bagster, Samuel, & Sons, 15 Paternoster Row
Barthes & Lowell, 14 Great Marlborough Street, (adv)
Beavis, Alfred, 16 Paternoster Row, (adv)
Bell, George, & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden
Bell -- Educational Literature
Bell -- Bohn's Libraries
Bemrose & Sons, 10 Paternoster Buildings
Bentley, Richard, & Son, New Burlington Street
Betts, John, 115 Strand, (adv)
Black, Adam & Charles, North Bridge, Edinburgh
Blackie & Sons, 6 Paternoster Buildings, and Glasgow
Blackwood, James, & Co., 8 Lovell's Court, Paternoster Row
Blackwood, William, & Sons, Edinburgh and London
Book Society, 28 Paternoster Row, (adv)
Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 8 Bouverie Street
Burns, James, 15 Southampton Row, (adv)
Burns & Oates, 17 Portman Street, and 63, Paternoster Row, (adv)
Bumpus, Edward, 5 Holborn Bars, (adv)
Bush, Robert John, 32 Charing Cross, (adv)
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge -- Specimens of Bibles and Prayer Books
Cameron, John, 175 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, (adv)
Cameron & Ferguson, Glasgow and London
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, London, Paris, and New York
Cassell -- List of Illustrated Works
Chambers, W. & R., London and Edinburgh
Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly
Chatto & Windus, 74 Piccadilly
Churchill, J. & A., New Burlington Street
Clarendon Press, Oxford
Clark, T. & T., 38 George Street, Edinburgh
Cocks, Robert, & Co., New Burlington Street, (adv)
Collins, William, Sons, & Co., London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh
Cornish Brothers, New Street, Birmingham, (adv)
Cornish, James, & Sons, London, Liverpool, and Dublin
Cornwall's, Dr., Educational Works, (adv)
Cramer, J. B., & Co., 201 Regent Street, (adv)
Dean & Son, St. Dunstan's Buildings, 160 Fleet Street, (adv)
De la Rue, Thomas, & Co., 109 Bunhill Row, (adv)
Dickinson & Higham, Farringdon Street
Dulau & Co., 37 Soho Square, (adv)
Edmonston & Douglas, 88 Princes Street, Edinburgh
Fellowes, Thomas, 3 London House Yard, (adv)
Fortey, William S., Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, (adv)
Frowd & Co., 53 Paternoster Row, (adv)
Gall & Inglis, 30 Paternoster Row, and Edinburgh
Gardner, William Wells, 2 Paternoster Buildings, (adv)
Goodall & Son, Camden Works, Camden Town, (adv)
Griffin, J., & Co., 15 Cockspur St. and The Hard, Portsmouth, (adv)
Groombridge & Sons, 5 Paternoster Row
Hachette & Co., 18 King William Street, Strand, and Paris
Haddon, John, & Co., 3 Bouverie Street
Hagger, James, 67 Paternoster Row
Hall, J., & Sons, Cambridge
Hardwicke, Robert, 192 Piccadilly
Harrison & Sons, 59 Pall Mall and 1 St. James's Street
Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly
Heywood, Abel, & Son, 56 Oldham Street, Manchester
Heywood, John, 141 Deansgate, Manchester
Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row
Houlston & Sons, 7 Paternoster Square
Hurst & Blackett, 13 Great Marlborough Street
Isbister, William, & Co., 56 Ludgate Hill
Jarrold & Sons, 3 Paternoster Buildings
Johnston, William & A. Keith, Edinburgh and London
Kellaway & Co., 10 Warwick Lane
Kempster, John, & Co., 9 St. Bride's Avenue, Fleet Street, (adv)
Kent, William, & Co., 23 Paternoster Row, (adv)
Kerby & Endean, 190 Oxford Street, (adv)
King, Henry S., & Co., 65 Cornhill and 12 Paternoster Row
Knight & Co., 90, Fleet Street, (adv)
Laurie, Thomas, Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
Layton, Charles & Edwin, 150 Fleet Street
Letts, Sons, & Co., 8 Royal Exchange
Lockwood & Co., 7 Stationers' Hall Court
Lockwood -- List of Weale's Rudimentary Series
Lockwood -- List of Educational Works
Lockwood -- List of Popular Works
Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 39 Paternoster Row
Mack, William, 38 Park Street, Bristol
MacGlashan & Gill, 50 Upper Sackville Street, Dublin
Macintosh, William, 24 Paternoster Row, (adv)
Macmillan & Co., 29 Bedford Street, Strand
MacLeod's Approved Arithmetical Works, (adv)
MacPhun, W. R., & Son, Glasgow and London
Mark, John S., & Sons, 194 Buchanan Street, Glasgow
Marlborough, E., & Co., Ave Maria Lane and 14 Warwick lane
Masters, Joseph, & Co., 78 New Bond Street
Milner & Co., Paternoster Row and Halifax
Morgan & Scott, 12 Paternoster Buildings
Mozley, John & Charles, 6 Paternoster Row
Mullan, William, Belfast, (adv)
Murry, Thomas, 32 Bouverie Street
Murray, John, Albemarle Street
Nelson, Thomas, & Sons, London, Edinburgh and New York
Nicholson, W., & Sons, Wakefield
Nimmo, William P., 14 King William Street and Edinburgh
Nisbet, James, & Co., 21 Berners Street
Nutt, David, 270, Strand
Nutt -- List of Teubner's Greek and Latin Classics
Oxford Clarendon Press
Parker, James, & Co., Oxford and 377 Strand
Partridge & Co., 9 Paternoster Row
Philip, George, & Son, 32 Fleet Street and Liverpool
Pickering, Basil Montague, 196 Piccadilly
Platnauer, J., Aldine Chambers, 23 Paternoster Row, (adv)
Ramage, John, & Co., 8 Warwick Lane, (adv)
Reeve, Lovell, & Co., 5 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden
Reeves & Turner, 196 Strand, (adv)
Religious Tract Society, 56 Paternoster Row
Rivers, George, Aldine Chambers, 13 Paternoster Row
Rivingtons, London, Oxford, and Cambridge
Routledge, George, & Sons, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Sangster, James, & Co., 31 Paternoster Row
Shaw, John F., & Sons, 48 Paternoster Row
Smith, C., & Son, 63 Charing Cross
Smith, J. Russell, 36 Soho Square
Smith, Elder, & Co., 15 Waterloo Place
Snow, John, & Co., 2 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row
Society for Prom. Christian Knowledge, 77 Great Queen Street
Sotheran, Henry, & Co., Strand, Piccadilly, and Little Tower Street
Spon, E. & F. N., 48 Charing Cross and Broome St., New York
Stanford, Edward, 6 Charing Cross
Stevens & Haynes, Bell Yard, Temple Bar
Stevenson, Henry, & Co., 65 Paternoster Row, (adv)
Stevenson, Thomas G., Antiquarian Bookseller, Edinburgh, (adv)
Stewart, Charles J., 11 King William Street, Strand, (adv)
Stock, Elliot, 62 Paternoster Row, (adv)
Strahan, Alexander, 12 Paternoster Row
Sunday School Union, 56 Old Bailey
Suttaby, Robert & Arthur, 2 Amen Comer, Paternoster Row, (adv)
Tegg, William, Pancras Lane, Cheapside, (adv)
Tinsley Brothers, 18 Catherine Street, Strand
Tinsley, Samuel, 10 Southampton Street, Strand, (adv)
Trubner & Co., 57 Ludgate Hill
Tubbs & Brook, 11 Market Street, Manchester
Van Voorst, John, 1 Paternoster Row, (adv)
Virtue, Spalding, & Daldy, 26 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row
Walker, William, & Sons, Otley, Yorkshire
Ward, Marcus, & Co., 67 Chandos Street, Strand, and Belfast
Ward, Lock, & Tyler, Warwick House, Paternoster Row
Ward -- List of Moxon, Son, & Co.'s Publications
Warne, Frederick, & Co., Bedford Street, Strand
Washbourne, R., 18 Paternoster Row
Waterlow & Sons, 65 London Wall, (adv)
Wesleyan Conference Office, 2 Castle Street, City Road
Wheldon, John, 4 Paternoster Row, (adv)
Whitaker, Joseph, 12 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, (adv)
Whittaker & Co., Ave Maria Lane
Williams & Son, Eton, (adv)
Williams & Norgate, 14 Henrietta Street and Edinburgh
Willoughby, Richard, 29 Paternoster Row, (adv)
Wilson, Effingham, 11 Royal Exchange
Yapp and Hawkins, 70 Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square .

Last revised: 28 February 2021