List of reference sources of use in cataloging

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This article lists resources catalogers will find useful for reference while adding items to the Folger catalog.

General reference

RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee


Library and union catalogs


Sources for librarianship


Material description / provenance

Art reference

General


Biographical dictionaries of artists, printmakers, and print publishers

  • Artists, printmakers, print publishers


Catalogues raisonnés


Provenance

Biographical information

General


Actors and other theater folk; promptbooks

  • Harvard Theatre Collection. Catalogue of dramatic portraits in the Theatre Collection of the Harvard College Library.

charged to Cat. Office)

  • Highfill, Philip H. A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1660-1800
    • RR Ref PN2597.H5 Copy 1; copy 2 on Deck B
  • Langhans, E.A. Eighteenth century British and Irish promptbooks, 1987
    • PN2593 L2 copy 2, charged to Cataloging Dept
  • Oxford companion to the theatre
    • PN2035 .H3 1983 RR
  • Shattuck, C.H. The Shakespeare promptbooks, 1965
  • Wearing, J.P. American and British theatrical biography, 1979, charged to Cat. office
  • Who's who in the theatre
    • recent editions in RR
    • 4th ed. (1922) in Art Dept. PN2012.W5
  • Who's who on the stage, 1908, charged to Cat. Office

Artists, printmakers, print publishers


Booksellers, printers, book publishers


Musicians

  • Grove music online
    • via link to New Grove dictionary of music and musicians on Amherst databases; comprises the New Grove dictionary of music, New Grove dictionary of opera, and New Grove dictionary of jazz
  • The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, 1980
    • ML100.N4 R.R.


Nationalities

American


British

  • Alumni Cantabrigienses
    • LF124 .A2 1900a Part 1 (to 1751) in Cataloging Office; Part 1 & 2 (1751-1900) in Reading Room.
  • Alumni Oxonienses, covering 1500-1714, 1968 Kraus reprint.
    • LF524 .A22 1500- 1714a Copy2 Cat.Dept.
  • Betham, William. The baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such baronets of Scotland, as are of English families
    • CS424 .B56 Cage, v.1-5
  • Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry, 1847
  • Burke's peerage and gentry

(There are also print versions of these in the Cataloging Office)

  • Cokayne, George E. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom
    • CS421 .C71 R.R
  • Cokayne, George E. Complete baronetage, 1900-1909
    • CS424 .C6
  • Oxford dictionary of national biography, 2004-
  • Victoria history of the counties of England
    • in New Reading Room, DA670.1, arranged alphabetically by county
  • Who was who
    • Deck A-Ref. DA28 .W65


French

  • Dictionnaire de biographie française, 1933-; up to v. 19 (La Valĺe) only.
    • CT143.D5 RR-Ref


German

  • Allgemeine deutsche Biographie & Neue deutsche Biographie
    • RR Desk: CD-Rom 42; index to the print ADB and NDB
  • Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, 1875-1912
    • CT1053 .A5 Deck A Ref.
  • Neue deutsche Biographie, 1956-,
    • CT1053 .N5 Deck A Ref.


Broadsides

  • Catalogue of English broadsides, 1505-1897
    • Z2027.B8 L6
    • Cite as: Crawford, J.L.L. Engl. broadsides


Continental books

General European


Flanders


France


German-language area


Netherlands


Geographic Place Names


Herbals

  • British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800
    • Z5352 .H3 Deck A Ref.
    • Cite as: Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit.


Legal documents

  • Tudor and Stuart proclamations, 1485-1714
    • DA310 .C725 copy 2 Cat. Dept.
    • Cite as: Crawford, J.L.L. Royal proclamations, 1485-1714

Maps

Verse

  • Bibliography of English poetical miscellanies, 1521-1750
    • Z2014.P7 C3 Copy 1 Cat. Dept.
    • Cite as: Case, A.E. Poetical miscellanies
  • Catalogue of a collection of English ballads of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries
    • Z2014.B2 L7
    • Cite as: Crawford, J.L.L. Engl. ballads
  • English verse, 1701-1750
    • Z2014.P7 F6 copy 2 Cat. Dept.
    • Cite as: Foxon