TRÜBNER'S

· BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE

TO AMERICAN LITERATURE. •

A CLASSED LIST OF BOOKS

PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DURING
THE LAST FORTY YEARS.

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
ture should have been compiled by a foreigner; to
*ances in which it originated; to point out the objects
d to define the plan upon which it has been executed.
voted some years to the active duties of an Ameri-
it, I found myself, in 1854, in possession of a mass
ing to American Literary History, sufficient as I
warrant my throwing them into a definite form.
a novel one, and it proved eminently successful.
I continued my researches and extended my plan;
years' assiduous application, submit the result,
be welcomed as affording a tolerably full and im-
erican literary enterprise during the first half of
iry.

mpting an American Bibliographical Guide has
e one hand, to suggest the necessity of a more
kind by an American, surrounded as he neces-
e needful appliances; and, on the other, to supply
to Anglo-American literature, a branch which
ncreasing importance, begins to force itself more
ition.

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