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: CHAPTER III. THE PRINCIPAL ENTRY.?THE AUTHOR ENTRY, I. 13.?Whatever difference of opinion may exist upon various points that arise in cataloguing books all authorities are agreed that the principal or main entry giving the most particulars concerning a book should be that under its author's name. This, then, is the first entry to be made, and the cataloguer having selected the book to be dealt with ignores any title upon the binding and, passing by the preliminary, or half title, turns to the title page proper, that containing the most information and with the imprint (place of publication, publisher, and date) at foot, and copies from it the following particulars, adding those not given upon the title-page by an examination of the book, and in this order, viz.? 1. The author's surname. 2. The author's Christian name (or prenom). 3. Titles of the author (when required for distinctive or distinguishing purposes). 4. The title of the book. 5. The editor's name (if not the author or compiler) or the translator's name (if to be given). 6. The edition. 7. The name of series (if any), or, if part of a book, the name of the book it is contained in. 8. The collation (if to be given), or 9. The number of volumes, when more than one. 10. The size (if to be given). n. The place of publication. 12. The place of printing or name of printer (when the book is typographically interesting only). 13. The date of publication. 14. The shelf, press, or other location or finding mark. 15. Descriptive or explanatory note (when thought desirable). 16. Contents (if set out). The order is that most usually adopted, but Nos. 8 to 13 may be varied at pleasure, if such variation is made at the commencement of the work and adhered to...
