The bibliographer Henry B. Wheatley sets out the first principles of cataloguing for people in charge of ordinary libraries rather than great public ones. He reviews the battle of the rival codes, print against manuscript catalogues, how to treat a title-page, references and subject indexes, and arrangement, and ends with a set of rules for a small library.
A readable classic for librarians, book collectors and anyone who has tried to order their own shelves. Download the free EPUB.