English Cataloging Rules

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1902 Excerpt: ... RULES FOR THE COMPILATION OF THE CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUMi 1 Titles to be written on slips, uniform in size. The entries of works in the collection of George the Third presented by George the Fourth to the nation to be distinguished by a crown. 2 Titles to be arranged alphabetically, according to the English alphabet only (whatever be the order of the alphabet in which a foreign name might have to be entered in its original language) under the surname of the author, whenever it appears printed in the title, or in any other part of the book. If the name be supplied in manuscript, the work must nevertheless be considered anonymous or pseudonymous, as the case may be, and the manuscript addition deemed merely a suggestion to which the librarian will attach such importance as he may think proper, on his own responsibility, in supplying the author's name between brackets, as hereafter directed. In the alphabetical arrangement, initial prepositions, letters, or articles to be taken in connection with the rest of the name. 3 If more than one name occur in the title, by which it may appear that the work is the production of more than one person, the first to be taken as the leading name. 4 Sovereigns, or princes of sovereign houses, and saints, to be entered under their Christian or first name, in their English form. Acts of the pope, as head of the church, to be entered under Rome, Church of, ' with a subheading of the name of the pope. Acts by him as a temporal sovereign, to be entered under States of the Church, ' and the name of the pope as a subheading. Acts of bishops, who, as such, are sovereign princes, to be entered under the name of their respective bishoprics. 5 Works of Jewish rabbis before 1700, as well as works o...