Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by CHARLES B. NORTON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York, BAKER & GODWIN, Printers, including new editions and reprint literary activity, as well as of the tas munity. As a good Catalogue has Eye of the Library," so this Annuɛ the Eye of the Book Trade in the Un The titles are given under the with sufficient fullness to indicate memory and facilitate research, cross especially in popular fictitious works ral in their character, are known names of their authors. The prices are generally given f from these prices, for other styles o those who may have occasion to cons A brief Alphabetical Index of s it is hoped will be found useful in sh lished during the year in particula the general list of the publishers Catalogue, a special list of the pul Philadelphia, respectively, has been 4 PREFACE. The labor and research necessary to bring even so small a work as this through the press, can only be appreciated by those who are accustomed to bibliographical pursuits. Errors in a Catalogue of whatever kind, it is of course impossible to avoid. However imperfectly the task of compiling this Catalogue has been accomplished, it contains information that is generally needed, and which can not readily be found elsewhere. With these explanations and remarks, the work is respectfully submitted to the Trade and the Literary public. PROVIDENCE, February 1st, 1856. R. A. G. |