General

RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee

• Directory of web resources for the rare materials cataloger

Amherst College research databases

• http://www.amherst.edu/library/resources/alpha_list

Library and union catalogs

• English Short-Title Catalogue
• Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK)
• Library of Congress online catalog
• Library of Congress Prints & Photographs
• Universal Short Title Catalogue (European printing through the 16c)

Sources for librarianship

• Etherington & Roberts. Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books : A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology.
• Rietz, Joan M. Online Dictionary for Library and Information science

Material description / provenance

• British armorial bindings, University of Toronto
• Can you help? Identifying provenance evidence (CERL)
• Frank Mowery's as-yet unpublished book: G:\Frank's Book. Note: Chapter 3 is particularly helpful in identifying binding leathers.
• Folger armorial bindings (Oldfield's list)

Bibliography of bibliographies for rare book cataloging

• Standard citation forms for published bibliographies and catalogs used in rare book cataloging /prepared by Peter M. VanWingen and Belinda D. Urquiza. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1996.
• 2nd ed. available online via HathiTrust.

Art reference

General

• Grove Art Online (via Oxford Art Online)

Biographical dictionaries of artists, printmakers, and print publishers

• see below

Catalogues raisonnés

• The Print Council Index to Oeuvre-Catalogues of Prints by European and American Artists
• Hollstein and New Hollstein (need to add bibliographic info)
• Illustrated Bartsch (not at Folger; need to add bibliographic info)

Provenance

• Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes

Biographical information

General

Biography resource center (Gale)

• https://www.amherst.edu/library/resources/alpha_list

Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, 2nd ed.

• CT143.M5 1880 Deck A Ref

Library of Congress Authority File

• http://authorities.loc.gov

Nouvelle biographie generale depuis les temps les plus reculees jusqu'a nos jours, 1854-66

• RR-Ref: CT143 .H5

Virtual International Authority File

• http://viaf.org/; source is found in field 001 and in a column on the results screen

Actors and other theater folk; promptbooks

Harvard Theatre Collection. Catalogue of dramatic portraits in the Theatre Collection of the Harvard College Library.

• charged to Cat. Office)

Highfill, Philip H. A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1660-1800

• RR Ref PN2597.H5 Copy 1; copy 2 on Deck B

Langhans, E.A. Eighteenth century British and Irish promptbooks, 1987

• PN2593 L2 copy 2, charged to Cataloging Dept

Oxford companion to the theatre

• PN2035 .H3 1983 RR

Shattuck, C.H. The Shakespeare promptbooks, 1965

Wearing, J.P. American and British theatrical biography, 1979

• charged to Cat. office)

Who's who in the theatre

• recent editions in RR
• 4th ed. (1922) in Art Dept. PN2012.W5

Who's who on the stage, 1908

• charged to Cat. Office

Artists, printmakers, print publishers

Bénézit, E. Dictionary of artists

• Deck A-Ref. N40 .B4713 2006

British Museum name authority file

• http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/advanced_search.aspx (pick "People" from the "Category" drop-down)

Union list of artists' name online (Getty)

• http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan/index.html

Booksellers, printers, book publishers

British Book Trade Index [via WWW]

• http://www.bbti.bham.ac.uk/

Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History

• http://bookhistory.blogspot.com/2005/12/index.html

Plomer, H.R. Dict. of the booksellers and printers, 1641-1667

• Via Google Books

Plomer, H. A dictionary of the booksellers and printers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1641-1775 (3 v.)

• Deck A-Cat Z151.D52-54

Scottish Book Trade Index

• http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/resources/sbti
• SBTI A-M Listing
• SBTI N-Z Listing

Musicians

Grove music online, via link to New Grove dictionary of music and musicians on Amherst databases; comprises the New Grove dictionary of music, New Grove dictionary of opera, and New Grove dictionary of jazz

• http://www.amherst.edu/library/research/databases/alphabetical.html

The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, 1980

• ML100.N4 R.R.

By nationality

American

American national biography (Online), c2000

• http://www.anb.org

Dictionary of American biography, 1928-1958

• RR-Ref: E176 .D56 R.R.

Who was who in America

• Deck A-Ref. E663 .W55

British

Alumni Cantabrigienses

• LF124 .A2 1900a Part 1 (to 1751) in Cataloging Office; Part 1 & 2 (1751-1900) in Reading Room.

Alumni Oxonienses, covering 1500-1714, 1968 Kraus reprint.

• LF524 .A22 1500- 1714a Copy2 Cat.Dept.

Betham, William. The baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such baronets of Scotland, as are of English families

• call number?

Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry, 1847

• Harvard copy digitized 2007: http://books.google.com/books?id=YdIKAAAAYAAJ

Burke's peerage and gentry

• http://www.burkes-peerage.net (There are also print versions of these in the Cataloging Office)

Cokayne, George E. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom

• call number?

Cokayne, George E. Complete baronetage, 1900-1909

• call number?

Oxford dictionary of national biography, 2004-

• http://www.oxforddnb.com/subscribed/

Victoria history of the counties of England

• in new Reading Room, DA670.1, arranged alphabetically by county

Who was who

• Deck A-Ref. DA28 .W65

French

Dictionnaire de biographie française, 1933-; up to v. 19 (La Valĺe) only.

• CT143.D5 RR-Ref
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German

 Allgemeine deutsche Biographie & Neue deutsche Biographie

• RR Desk: CD-Rom 42; index to the print ADB and NDB

Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, 1875-1912

• CT1053 .A5 Deck A Ref.

Neue deutsche Biographie, 1956-,

• CT1053 .N5 Deck A Ref.

Continental books

General European

• ISTC (Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue)
• USTC (Universal Short-Title Catalogue), 15th-16th century
• Karlsruhe Virtueller Katalog

Flanders

• Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen

France

• Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France

German-language area

• BSB (Die Bayerische StaatsBibliothek)
  Portal to VD16, VD17, other resources for early printed materials

Netherlands

• Short-Title Catalogue, Netherlands

Geographic Place Names

Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1963.

• Deck A MSS Ref.

USGS Geographic Names Information System

• http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/

Watts, Victor, ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, 2004.

• Deck A MSS Ref.

Add:

Henrey, Blanche

•     Z5352 .H3 Deck A Ref.