CARLYLE, Thomas, and Ralph Waldo EMERSON. Correspondence, 1834-72; [ed. by Charles Eliot Norton.] 2 v. ports. 1883
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo, and Thomas CARLYLE. Correspondence, 1834-72. 2 v. 1883
A reference is required under the editor's name, thus
NORTON, Charles E. (_Ed._) _See_ Carlyle, Thomas.
Most catalogues will have a goodly number of entries under Carlyle. To enlarge the reference sufficiently to describe the particular book involves a reference as long as an entry. In such case give the entry
NORTON, Charles E. (_Ed._) Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph W. Emerson. 2 v. 1883
NORTON, Chas. E. (_Ed._) Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson. 2 v. 1883
This is better than a reference, as it takes up no more room and saves the searcher the trouble of turning to another part of the catalogue. A book of this kind, obviously, has no subject-entry.
In the classified catalogue a dual book like this needs two entries--one in 816.3 (American Letters) for Emerson, and another in 826.8 (English Letters) for Carlyle, with the index entries
Carlyle, Thos. Correspondence with Emerson, 826.8 Emerson, R. W. Correspondence with Carlyle, 816.3
The book itself cannot go under both these numbers on the shelves; choice of one must be made, preferably the Carlyle number, though this does not affect the entries in the catalogue except so far as the necessary clue to the position of the book for finding is concerned.
A somewhat exceptional example of joint-authors, fortunately for the cataloguer, is that of a man and wife whose names appear on their books sometimes with the one leading, sometimes the other. This is to be found in the books by the mountaineers and explorers Mr. and Mrs. Workman, two of whose books may be taken to illustrate the matter, and catalogued as they would be under ordinary circumstances, viz.,
WORKMAN, William Hunter and Fanny Bullock. Through town and jungle: fourteen thousand miles awheel among the temples and people of the Indian Plain. 1904. pp. xxiv., 380, map, illus. WORKMAN, Fanny Bullock and William Hunter. In the ice world of Himálaya: among the peaks and passes of Ladakh, Nubra, Suru, and Baltistan. 1900. pp. xvi., 204, maps, illus.
Owing to the names being reversed, these entries would not come together in the catalogue, so the cataloguer is quite justified in stretching the meaning of the rules in order to avoid their separation. The name that appears first in the majority of the books by the two authors is adopted for the entry, which in this case is the lady. Accordingly the first book will be brought under the second form of the names, and other books they have written conjointly will be so entered, that all of them may come together. In order to prevent misunderstanding, and lest the second name be read as Hunter, the names can be shortened, as