Content notes – Examples of Pre-AACR2 format

Do not routinely upgrade such notes.

Used .— in between titles

If titles were written by different authors, author was given before or after title.  If after, had a comma and “by” or similar word; if before, author’s name had a period separating it from title.

(work is Essays about men, women, and books, .b10641130)

505:0 : Dean Swift.–Lord Bolingbroke.–Sterne.–Dr. Johnson.–Richard Cumberland. –Alexander Knox and Thomas De Quincey. –Hannag More.–Marie Bashkirtseff.–Sir John Vanbrugh.–John Gay.–Roger North’s autobiography.–Books old and new.–Book-binding.–Poets laureate.–Parliamentary candidates.

(work is Essays and studies, .b13516115)

505:0 Design and motive in the Finn episode, by A. G. Brodeur.–The lunatic lover, by J. S. P. Tatlock.–The beast theme in Shakespeare’s Timon, by Willard Farnham.–Dryden and the battle of the books, by Guy Montgomery.–Swift

and marriage, by George Hand.

505:0: Jones, B. Poems and prose.–Smith, R. Short stories.–Adams, J. Novels.

rev.5/2017-SMD

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