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INTRODUCTORY NOTE

This Bulletin contains the titles of books in the Virginia State Library, which relate to Virginia and Virginians, the titles of those books written by Virginians and of those printed in Virginia. As it is the intention to increase the Virginia collection as rapidly as the income of the library will permit and to print the additional titles at opportune times, this Bulletin has been entitled Part 1 of A Bibliography of Virginia. It will be observed that only titles of volumes now (October 1, 1915) in the library are included, and that the titles of official editions of laws, journals of legislative bodies, court reports, annual reports of administrative officers, and other official documents, of which the library has a notable collection, do not appear. It is hoped that the titles of published official documents may be printed sometime in 1916 as Part 2 of A Bibliography of Virginia.

An examination of this Bulletin will disclose the absence of some well known books, and long gaps in the sets of reports, proceedings and bulletins of some State associations and institutions. There appear in the present list about 7,000 titles, including some titles of articles in periodicals. A rough estimate of titles still lacking (not including public documents) and selected along the same line as those in the present publication, is 10,000 to 15,000. This will not seem to be an extravagant estimate when it is remembered that Alexandria, Fredericksburg, Winchester, New Market, Harrisonburg, Staunton, Charlottesville, Lynchburg, Petersburg, Norfolk, Williamsburg and Richmond have all been printing centers for more than a century, and some of them publishing centers of no small importance.

The present publication is the result of a plan determined upon eight years ago. The first step toward its accomplishment was the gradual segregation of the Virginia material, which until 1907 had been widely scattered on the shelves. This could be done thoroughly only as the process of general classification and cataloging proceeded. The greater part of the library has now been reclassified and cataloged, and as a result, the Virginia collection now contains everything in the library relating to the State, with some few necessary exceptions. In addition to segregating the Virginia books, notes of Virginia items as they appeared in sale and library catalogs and elsewhere were preserved. All the principal bibliographical works which relate to Virginia and those monographs which contain bibliographical notes of Virginia interest, have been consulted. In the appendix is a list of the bliographies, which have been freely drawn upon, and for the use of which dce acknowledgment is hereby made. Of the printed bibliographies, that compiled by W. C. Torrence, entitled A trial bibliography of Colonial Virginia, and published by the Virginia State Library, has been of special service. Mention should also be made of the helpfulness of Carol M. Newman's dissertation entitled Virginia literature. For the past ten years this Library has had an order filed with the Library of Congress for a copy of

every printed catalog card, the title of which related to Virginia. In this period there have been received 1,792 titles. Of this number 596 titles have been used in this publication, the State Library lacking the books corresponding to the remaining titles. Other printed titles from the Library of Congress have been used, but these are due wholly to my selection, as a result of a card by card examination of every one of the 167,000 cards now in our public catalog. For the use of the Library of Congress titles, we hereby acknowledge our indebtedness. It is scarcely necessary, however, to warn any one interested in State bibliography not to depend too closely upon a selection of titles made by some one else chiefly upon the basis of the titles and apparent principal subject matter, and not upon a careful examination of books themselves. To mention only one instance, Bozman's History of Maryland would be passed over at once for Virginia bibliographical purposes, yet an examination of the book, and practical use of it in a library, disclose the fact that it contains a most useful discussion of the Indians of Virginia.

With a few exceptions, the titles of Virginia maps, of Virginia newspapers, of official publications of the Confederate States government, and of articles in the Southern historical society papers, do not appear in this Bulletin. Separate bulletins have been published for each group of these titles. Nor will the titles of Virginia books in the Virginia Law Library be found here. At some future time in a later Bulletin it may be possible to include these titles. For this Bulletin it has been deemed advisable to adhere strictly to books at this time in the Virginia State Library.

In the preparation of a work involving so much labor, I have to acknowledge with gratitude the willing assistance of the following Library employees: Mrs. K. P. Minor, Miss Ethel Nolin, Miss Elizabeth Carrington, Miss Irene Harris, Miss Elise Clark, Miss Virginia Jones, Miss Louise Barber, Mr. W. L. Hall, and Mr. F. H. Moore. For useful suggestions, I am indebted to Mr. Morgan P. Robinson, of the Library Staff, and to Mr. David I. Bushnell of the U. S. Bureau of Ethnology.

EARL G. SWEM.

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An alphabetical arrangement by authors of the titles of books in the Virginia State Library which relate to Virginia and Virginians, the titles of books written by Virginians, and of those printed in Virginia.

BY EARL G. SWEM

Abbott, Allen O. Prison life in the South: at Richmond, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh, Goldsborough, and Andersonville, during the years 1864 and 1865. By A. O. Abbott. .

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.. George Washington; or, Life in America one hundred years ago. By John S. C. Abbott. New York, Dodd & Mead [c1875] C1 W318 A6.

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4. [9]-360 p. front., plates. 181⁄2 cm.

Abingdon, Va., state summer school. Announcements of the Abingdon state summer school, Martha Mashington college, Abingdon, Va. June 23rd to July 20th, 1915. [Bristol, Tenn., King ptg. co.]

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Abingdon male academy, Abingdon, Va. Catalog.
Library has 1876, 1897, 1899, 1900, 1902.

General prospectus. No date.

Abingdon presbytery. Minutes.

Library has 74th, 1903; 75th, 1904; 78th, 1905; 79th, 1906.

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Abraham Lincoln's record on the slavery question. His doctrines condemned by Henry Clay. The mass of Lincoln's supporters hostile to the constitution. Lincoln's course in Congress on the Mexican war. The Homestead bill,-"Land for the landless," Lincoln, Douglas, and Hamlin. Baltimore, Printed by Murphy & co. [1860] JK310 v. 10. 7

16 p. 23 cm.

Appendix: The Federal union

Extract from a speech of Stephen

A. Douglas at Petersburg, Va., August 31, 1860.

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