TRÜBNER'S · BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN LITERATURE. • A CLASSED LIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DURING WITH Bibliographical Introduction, Notes, and Alphabetical Index. COMPILED AND EDITED BY NICOLAS TRÜBNER. LONDON: TRÜBNER AND CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW. PREFACE. r of the origin and progress of a book is said to be ; to its author than to the general reader. However hold good in most cases, mine would seem to be an call upon me to explain why so large a volume upon mpting an American Bibliographical Guide has il hands that such a work is a desideratum; at can be more alive to the disadvantages under labour in attempting it than I have been. I t us hope that the very deficiencies of my work petent American bibliographer into the field, round may find both time and inclination to upply my deficiencies. bibliography is, as just stated, a desideratum, daily increasing requirements of the age, for, k, is to the literary student what the lightr, without which he would be constantly in and shipwreck, of disappointment and waste fruitlessly perhaps over ground previousl |