The disadvantage of this style is the over-emphasis of authors' names at the cost of subject-headings, which are somewhat obscured instead of being made prominent. The general appearance is not good, the page having a "spotty" look.
The next example is much the same in character as the first, except that it is set in modern-faced type, the shelf numbers are given in heavy type, and the gauge is different. On the whole it presents a pleasing appearance, though the punctuation is unusual:--
=Glaciers.= Green (W. S.) Among the Selkirk glaciers. 1890. _ill. maps._ =C 2376= Helmholtz (H.) Ice and glaciers: _in his_ Popular lectures, v. 1. 1884. =E 4726= Molloy (G.) The glaciers of the Alps: _in his_ Gleanings in science. 1888. =E 4926= Rendu ( ) Theory of the glaciers of Savoy. 1874. _map._ =E 4623= _in_ Tyndall (J.) The forms of water. 1885. _ill._ =E 4179= Gladiators; by G. J. W. Melville. v. d. =F 6041,= =F 6042= GLADSTONE (J. H.) The life of Faraday: in Science lectures, Manchester, v. 2. 1885. =E 3841= GLADSTONE (WILLIAM E.) Gleanings of past years. 1879-97. 8v. 12º =H 8114-21= =1.= The Throne and the Prince Consort; The Cabinet and constitution. =2.= Personal and literary. =3.= Historical and speculative. =4.= Foreign. =5-6.= Ecclesiastical =7.= Miscellaneous. =8.= Theological and Ecclesiastical. Homer. 1878. 12º =G 7233=
"Old-style" in type does not mean old-fashioned, but the more artistic and readable type modelled on the lettering of the early printers, principally those of the Italian presses, and is that most preferred at present. If anything, modern-faced type is the older fashioned. Fantastic or decorated types, even for initial capitals at the commencement of a division of the catalogue, are better avoided. The following is an example somewhat after the style of the second given above, but applied to a classified catalogue:--
=944 French History.= =Coignet= (Clarisse) Francis I. [of France] and his times. [Translated] from the French by Fanny Twemlow. Lond. 1888. 8vo. pp. iv. 371. =944.028 C 1=
=Beauchamp= (Comte de) Louis XIII. d'après sa correspondance avec le Cardinal de Richelieu. Paris, 1902. fol. pp. [iv]. 460. _Ports., map and illus._ =F 944.032 B 1=