The best books
Subtitle: a reader's guide to the choice of the best available books (about 50,000) in every department of science, art and literature, with the dates of the first and last editions and the price, size, and publisher's name of each book. A contribution towards systematic bibliography
By: by William Swan Sonnenschein. With complete authors and subject indexes.
Publisher: S. Sonnenschein & co.
Published: 1896
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1009
Subjects: Best books.; Classification -- Books.
Notes: First edition, Sept. 1887; 2d ed. March, 1891; reissued June, 1891; March, 1894; Sept. 1896.
The first supplement, "A reader's guide to contemporary literature", bringing the work down to 1894, was published in 1895.  The two volumes, revised and brought down to date will be reissued in one volume in 1905.