A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time [20]

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^:rPibliotfieca

Americana

V^

DICTIONARY OF

Poofesf relating to America, from

discovery to the present time.

its

Begun by Joseph

Sabin,

And Continued by Wilberforce Eames FOR the

Bibliographical Society of America.

Volume XX. Simms (W. G.) to Smith

"A as

no

painfull

man

work

it is I'll

thinketh so no

(Seba).

more than difficult, wherein what toyle hath been taken, believeth,but he hath made the triall." j4nt. a fVoad, Preface to the History of Oxford.

assure you, and

man

j5eto=|3orfe:

476

FIFTH AVENUE. 1892-1928.

Printing House of

William Edwin Rudge

New

York City

TO CLARENCE

S.

BRIGHAM, LIBRARIAN OF

THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, WHO HAS COOPERATED SO GENEROUSLY IN THE

PREPARATION OF THE LATER PARTS OF THIS VOLUME, BOTH BY SHARING THE

RESULTS OF HIS OWN RESEARCH, AND BY OPENING TO THE EDITOR THE RESOURCES OF THE LIBRARY

STATEMENT HALF

a century and more ago England and with a long

a

New York

bookseller, born of praiseworthy service in his adopted country to his credit, had a dream. Out of this dream appeared in January, 1867, the first part of "A Dictionary in

of Books relating to America, from

By Joseph

its

life

discovery to the present time.

Sabin."

The "Notice" prefixed to volume I, dated September i, 1868, how he intended to print a preface to the whole work with the last volume, and how with the first volume he would do no more told

than reproduce the Prospectus issued December

5, 1866. This Prospectus told of his fifteen years of research, of the four years spent

foundation work for the

in preliminary

on

first

volume, and then went

to say that

"Had

the magnitude and extreme difficulty of the undertaking

been presented to

my mind

should never have attempted I

in full proportions at the outset, I it;

and, indeed,

I

have more than once almost determined upon

but a deep sense of

its

may remark, its

that

abandonment;

importance, however imperfectly

it

may

be executed, and a strong partiality for bibliographical pursuits,

have stimulated

On

me

to continue

my

labor."

the 5th of June, 1881, Joseph Sabin died in Brooklyn, and

soon after his death a young Brooklyn bookseller, aged twenty-six, continue the work carried on for the past fifteen years by

off'ered to

Sabin. The debt American scholarship owes Wilberforce Eames and Joseph Sabin is not lightly reckoned or paid. For the next decade Wilberforce Eames carried on this voluntary task, with never a cent of financial reward as payment, seeing parts

83/4 of volume

press from 1884,

XIV through

when

the

first

115/116 of volume

appeared, until 1892.

XX off the

By

that time

come on him. He had been made LiLenox Library, and paid the penalty of all who try to

increasing responsibilities had brarian of the

add research to administrative duties. Help came from the Carnegie Institution of Washington with a grant (no. 343) of ;^3,6oo for "completion" of the work, with the understanding that two years would suffice. Leonhard Felix Fuld

began on June 15, 1906, and later was succeeded by Frederick C. Bursh, the principal part of their task being the whipping into shape for the printer the copy slips already on hand. With the end of the grant

came an end

to the

work, and the Dictionary

fell

to sleep

once

more. In an effort to revive the dormant enterprise the American Li-

work once more on the Dictionary. It organized on April 16, 1924, composed as follows: R. R. Bowker, Worthington C. Ford, Andrew Keogh, brary Association appointed a committee to try to begin

Azariah

S.

Root,

J. I.

Wyer,

Jr.,

Hugo

Victor

Paltsits, Secretary,

E. H. Anderson, Chairman.

The response to the queries the libraries of the country

Dictionary.

On

sent by this committee indicated that would support an effort to continue the

Dec. 27, 1924, the Carnegie Corporation granted

the Bibliographical Society of America ^7,500 as a revolving fund for publications,

and the American Library Association on Decem-

ber 3 1 , 1 924, discharged its committee, with the understanding that the work would be undertaken by the Bibliographical Society. The

on Jan. 17, 1925, appointed

latter

as a

committee

for this

work,

Andrew Keogh, Miss Isadore G. Mudge, Victor Hugo Paltsits, James I. Wyer, Jr., H. M. Lydenberg, Chairman. Part 117 issued under these new auspices appeared on the 8th of August, 1927, and parts 118, 119 and now 120 have followed as circumstances permitted. With part 120 is finished volume XX, and in

explanation of the thirty-six years that separate the

parts of

who have

All

Fames

May

XX this

volume

it

first

and

last

statement seems not unfitting.

had anything to do with the work rejoice that Dr.

has been granted health and strength to continue his editing.

be his good fate to supply for the

last

volume the Preface

Joseph Sabin had in mind in 1868. It is hard to conceive how the renewal of publication could have been carried so

far

without the continued interest, encouragement,

Bowker; and to him Miss Flizabeth G. Greene, who has helped with the work from the revival, must be given the thanks of all. When it became evident that the funds in hand would not permit the work to be finished with the speed the committee hoped might attend it, support came from the following friends who promised money for three years in an effort to finish the editing and publishsupport, help and advice of Richard Rogers

and

to

ing within that time:

The

Pierpont

Morgan

Director, Miss Belle da Costa Greene;

Mr.

Library, through J.

its

Percy Sabin, Dr.

W.

Rosenbach, Mr. Lathrop C. Harper, Mr. Carl PforzI. N. Phelps Stokes, Mr. William L. Clements, Mr. Herschel V. Jones, Mr. William G. Mather. Particular mention should be made of the sympathetic and appreciative help and encouragement given by Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach,

A.

S.

heimer, Mr.

who

has encouraged

help

when

all

when

the skies seemed dark and has tendered

other resources threatened to

of three years have not been attained

work

or interest on the part of Dr.

it

fail.

is

Eames

If the aim and goal

not because of lack of or Miss Greene.

H. M. 9 August 1928

Lydenberg

A

Dictionary of Books RELATING TO AMERICA.

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222, supra.

Lyrical and other Poems.

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1850.

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