edition of the
_Encyclopaedia Britannica_ will be found valuable for this purpose, but
those who wish for fuller information must refer to Dr. Julius Petzholdt's
elaborate _Bibliotheca Bibliographica_ (Leipzig, 1866), or to the
_Bibliographie des Bibliographies_ of M. Leon Vallee (Paris, 1885). The
late Mr. Cornelius Walford contributed a paper "On Special Collections of
Books" to the Transactions of the Conference of Librarians, 1877 (pp.
45-49), in which he specially referred to the subject of Insurance.

In the present chapter I propose to refer to some of the most useful
bibliographies, but to save space the full titles will not be given, and
this is the less necessary as they can mostly be found in the above books
or in that useful little volume we owe to the authorities of the British
Museum--"Hand-list of Bibliographies, Classified Catalogues, and Indexes
placed in the Reading-room," 1881.

_Agriculture._--Weston's Tracts on Practical Agriculture and
Gardening (1773), contains a Chronological Catalogue of
English Authors, and Donaldson's Agricultural Biography
(1854) brings the subject down to a later date. Victor
Donatien de Musset-Pathay published a _Bibliographie
Agronomique_ in 1810, and Loudon's _Encyclopaedia of
Agriculture_ contains the Literature and Bibliography of
Agriculture, British, French, German, and American.

_Ana._--In Peignot's _Repertoire de Bibliographies
Speciales_ (1810) will be found at pp. 211-268, a list of
books of Ana, and Gabriel Antoine Joseph Hecart published at
Valenciennes, 1821, under the name of J.G. Phitakaer, a
bibliography entitled "Anagrapheana." Namur's _Bibliographie
des Ouvrages publies sous le nom d'Ana_ was published at
Bruxelles in 1839. The late Sir William Stirling Maxwell
made a collection of books of Ana, a privately printed
catalogue of which he issued in 1860.

_Angling._--Sir Henry Ellis printed privately in 1811 a
small octavo pamphlet of 21 pages which he entitled "A
Catalogue of Books on Angling, with some brief notices of
several of their authors," which was an extract from the
_British Bibliographer_. In 1836, Pickering printed a
_Bibliotheca Piscatoria_, which was formed upon Sir Henry
Ellis's corrected copy of the above Catalogue. Mr. J.
Russell Smith published in 1856 "A Bibliographical Catalogue
of English writers on An