RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee
Amherst College research databases
Library and union catalogs
Sources for librarianship
Material description / provenance
Bibliography of bibliographies for rare book cataloging
General
Biographical dictionaries of artists, printmakers, and print publishers
Catalogues raisonnés
Provenance
Biography resource center (Gale)
Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, 2nd ed.
Library of Congress Authority File
Nouvelle biographie generale depuis les temps les plus reculees jusqu'a nos jours, 1854-66
Virtual International Authority File
Harvard Theatre Collection. Catalogue of dramatic portraits in the Theatre Collection of the Harvard College Library.
Highfill, Philip H. A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1660-1800
Langhans, E.A. Eighteenth century British and Irish promptbooks, 1987
Oxford companion to the theatre
Shattuck, C.H. The Shakespeare promptbooks, 1965
Wearing, J.P. American and British theatrical biography, 1979
Who's who in the theatre
Who's who on the stage, 1908
Bénézit, E. Dictionary of artists
British Museum name authority file
Union list of artists' name online (Getty)
British Book Trade Index [via WWW]
Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History
Plomer, H.R. Dict. of the booksellers and printers, 1641-1667
Plomer, H. A dictionary of the booksellers and printers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1641-1775 (3 v.)
Scottish Book Trade Index
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
The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, 1980
American national biography (Online), c2000
Dictionary of American biography, 1928-1958
Who was who in America
Alumni Cantabrigienses
Alumni Oxonienses, covering 1500-1714, 1968 Kraus reprint.
Betham, William. The baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such baronets of Scotland, as are of English families
Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry, 1847
Burke's peerage and gentry
Cokayne, George E. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom
Cokayne, George E. Complete baronetage, 1900-1909
Oxford dictionary of national biography, 2004-
Victoria history of the counties of England
Who was who
Dictionnaire de biographie française, 1933-; up to v. 19 (La Valĺe) only.
Allgemeine deutsche Biographie & Neue deutsche Biographie
Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, 1875-1912
Neue deutsche Biographie, 1956-,
Gazetteer of the British Isles, 1963.
USGS Geographic Names Information System
Watts, Victor, ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, 2004.
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