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BIBLIOGRAPHY.
biografici delli Autore meno conosciuti da Sebastiano Ciampi.
3 vols., 8vo, pp. (6), v, 336 ; xii, 326 ; (6), 137.
Firlnzt: Alltgrini I Mazzoni. 1834-42.
A great work, happily conceived, well executed, and full of the most interesting
details. It is not a mere catalogue; extracts from the boob and accounts of the
authors are met in every page. See Petzholdt, p. 849.
[CLARKE (Adam).] A Bibliographical Dictionary; containing
a Chronological Account, Alphabetically Arranged, of the
most Curious, Scarce, Useful, and Important Books in all departments
of Literature ..• including ••. Harwood's View of the
Classics, ••• [and] An Essay on Bibliography. 6 vols., 12mo.
LifJlrpool. 1802-4.
"A creditable work for a first attempt. Contains a summary of the Life of each
Author, the Times when he lived, and his Workt."-LowNDu.
[CLARKE.] The Bibliographical Miscellany, or Supplement
to the Bibliographical Dictionary. 2 vols., 12mo. London. 1806.
Usually found with the preceding work.
CLARKE (E.) Letters concerning the Spanish Nation. By
Edward Clarke. 4to• 1763.
Contains Catalogues of Spanish Authors, and of the Greek and Hebrew Manu­
Icripts in the Escurial-Gregory Mayan on Hebrew and Arabic Learning in Spain,
and his account of the celebrated Complutensian Polyglott of Card. Ximenes; also,
a description of the Bull-feasts of 1760.
CLARKE (J.) Bibliotheca Legum, or Complete Catalogue of
the Common and Statute Law Books of the United Kingdom ••.
By John Clarke. 12mo. London. 1819.
[CLARKE (W.)] Repertorium Bibliographicum; or some Account
of the most celebrated British Libraries. Rl. 8vo.
London: William ClarNI. MDCCCXIX.
The late Mr. Beckford assisted in the compilation of this work, particularly in the
description of his own library at Fonthill. Fifty copies were printed on large paper,
in 2. vols., impl. 8vo, with portraits of. eminent book-collectors. Copies are sometimes
found with "A Dialogue in the Shades, Rare Doings at Roxburghe Hall, and
the Diary of Roger Payne, with plate of his monument." Of this plate twelve
copies were printed with a variation.
CLAVEL (Robert). The General Catalogue of Books, printed
in England since the Dreadful Fire of London, MDCLXVI. To
the end of Trinity Term, MDCLXXX. Together with the ... Author's
Names, •.. Playes acted at both Theatres, ..• With an
Account of ••. all the Books of Law, Navigation, Musick, &c.
Collected by R. Clavel. London. 1675-89.
Published in thirty-two or more numbers; the first in 1674. A fourth eclitioD
was published in 1696, folio. Se, Petzholdt, p. 343.