ALLEN (W.) The American Biographical Dictionary: containing an Account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the most Eminent Persons, deceased in North America, from its First Settlement. By William Allen. Third Edition. 8vo, pp. ix, 905. _Boston: J. P. Jewitt._ 1857.
"Truly the _American Bibliographical Dictionary_. Notices of 6,775 American names."--_Guild's Librarian's Manual._ It is difficult to believe that Mr. Guild really knew what he was writing about when he penned this note. The work is _not_ bibliographical in a proper sense, and in the matter of biography it is confined mainly to New England clergymen. It might be omitted from this list without loss.
Allgemeine Bibliographie; monatliches Verzeichniss der deutschen und ausländischen Literatur; von P. Trömel. Jahrgang 2-5, 7; 1857-60, 62. 5 vols., 8vo. _Leipzig: Brockhaus._ 1857-62.
ALLIBONE (S. A.) A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. With Forty Indexes of Subjects. 3 vols., impl. 8vo. _Philadelphia._ 1859-71.
"These three large volumes contain upwards of 43,000 names, 3,300 pages of 6,600 columns, in great part consisting of authors both American and English now living."--POWER. Rather clumsily expressed; do the columns or pages consist of authors?
The American Bibliopolist. _See_ Sabin & Sons.
The American Catalogue of Books; or English Guide to American Literature. Giving the full Title of Original Works published in the United States since 1800 to 1855: with especial reference to works of interest to Great Britain. With the prices, &c. 8vo. _London: S. Low._ 1856.
American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette. Vol. I. September, 1855. 7 vols., 4to. _New York._ 1855-61.
Continued as the _American Literary Gazette_.
AMES (Joseph) _and_ HERBERT (W.) Typographical Antiquities, containing Memoirs of our Ancient Printers and a Register of the Books Printed by them, from 1471 to 1600. Enlarged by William Herbert. 3 vols., rl. 4to. Portrait and Plates. _London._ 1785-90.
Besides bringing down the history to the year 1600, much later than Dr. Dibdin's edition, it does also contain an account of all the English books printed abroad, and of those printed in Scotland and Ireland, which the following edition does not. Also on large paper.