HARPEL (O. H.) Harpel's Typograph, or Book of Specimens. Containing Useful Information, Suggestions, and a Collection of Examples of Letterpress Job Printing, arranged for the assistance of Master Printers, Amateurs, Apprentices, and others, by Oscar H. Harpel, Typographic Designer and Printer. 8vo, pp. 252. _Cincinnati: Author._ 1870.
HARRIS (W.) A Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Including a Complete List of all the Greek Writers, by ... Dr. Charles Burney, methodically arranged with Alphabetical Index of Authors, by William Harris, Keeper of the Library. The Second Edition.... Rl. 8vo. _London._ 1821.
"A most valuable and judiciously compiled Catalogue."--DIBDIN. "This Library contains the best and most useful edition of every Greek and Roman classic author, with the best translations in English and in some other modern languages."--HORNE. First published in 1809.
[HARRISSE (Henry).] Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima A Description of Works relating to America published between the Years 1492 and 1551 Imp. 8vo, pp. (8), liv, 519. _New-York Geo. P. Philes_, MDCCCLXVI
Four hundred copies printed in imperial 8vo, one hundred and nine in 4to, ten of which are on Holland paper. It was undertaken at the suggestion of Mr. S. L. M. Barlow, of New York, and contains the titles of over three hundred books. As a specimen of American typography, it has probably never been surpassed. In regard to its merits it has received at the hands of some members of the Geographical Society of Paris very high praise, of which an English version (in part) will be found in Stevens' _Bibliotheca Historica_, followed by some rather severe criticism on the work by Mr. Stevens, who, writing in the third person, quotes largely from an article in the _Athenæum_ of the 6th of October, 1866, of which Mr. Stevens is the author. The writer of this notice does not presume to enter into a controversy with, or a criticism upon, the works of either of these bibliographers, but he cannot help regretting that a work so elaborate, learned, and useful to the American bibliographer, as this _Bibliotheca Americana_ is, should have been the vehicle of any exhibition of personal pique. We have been assured on very good authority that the blunder of "Ander Schiffahrt's" was really due to the proof-reader, and that the Index, in which Schiffahrt (Ander) is made to appear once more in _propria persona_, was not the work of Mr. Harrisse at all. Let it suffice for us to remark that for the student of the earliest of books relating to America, this book is indispensably necessary. We may add that Mr. Harrisse has, in some instances, quoted works from White Kennett's _Bibliothecæ Americanæ Primordia_, and made the remark that he has found nothing in the works so quoted relating to America. This has arisen from the fact that he has misapprehended the nature of that work, which purposely introduces many books which had no relation to America. The following is a continuation: