Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature. Volume V: Additions to the printed books, periodicals and manuscripts to 1850

Athlone Press for the University of London Library, London, first edition, 1995. Cloth, gilt cover title, 4to,. x, [2], 101, [3] pp. The Goldsmiths' Library at the University of London contains the major collection of historical economic literature in the English-speaking world. It includes periodicals, pamphlets, manuscripts and autograph letters - as well as printed books - from the fifteenth century to the present day. The Catalogue, now in five volumes, constitutes an essential bibliographical tool and is the key reference for early economic literature. It includes all works of economic literature in the University Library, covering the period from 1470 to 1850. The entries in volumes I, II and V are arranged chronologically under the year of publication, and from 1601 onwards this year-by-year arrangement is supplemented by 14 subject divisions: general, agriculture, corn laws, population, trades and manufactures, commerce, colonies, finance, transport, social conditions, slavery politics, socialism, miscellaneous. This combined chronological and subject arrangement, together with the exhaustive index in Volume IV makes the Catalogue a primary reference source for historians and economists concerned with the economic history of Great Britain, Europe, North America and Britain's colonial empire. ...Volume V [the first supplement to the Catalogue since 1982], which has its own index and covers additions since the publication of Volume III, follows the University Library's collaboration with Harvard's Kress Library which produced an integrated microfilm of the catalogues of both collections, and the acquisitions made have been restricted essentially to unique new holdings for the Goldsmiths' Library. "The arrangement of the supplement follows that of the earlier volumes and takes up the chronological and numerical arrangements of volumes I-III. . Entries, however, are fuller than before. The index has title entries for all items and is complemented by an index of places of publication (other than London) and a provenance index reflecting greater interest in these matters than prevailed over twenty years ago. Fine in slightly used dustwrapper.