Minerva library, Leadenhall street, London
Subtitle: history, voyages, travels, poetry, novels ... new publications will be constantly added
Published: 1798
Place of publication: London] : [William Lane, Minerva Press
Language: eng
Subjects: Catalogs; Subscription libraries; Early works to 1800; Minerva Library
Other titles: Lane's general and encreasing circulating library; Lane's general and increasing circulating library, Minerva, Leadenhall-Street, London; Minerva general and increasing circulating library, Leadenhall-Street, London; Lane's circulating library
Notes: In 7 parts; continuous register and pagination.

Apparently a reissue, with engraved illustrated title page & frontispiece by John Scott after H.J. Richter, of an earlier catalogue and its six supplements. Part 1, printed on paper watermarked 1794, appears to be a reprint of a 1790 catalogue; the latest periodical issue in part 2 is dated 1796, in part 3, 1797, in part 4, 1798, in part 5, 1799, in part 6, 1800, and in part 7, Jan. 1802. Advertsisements at the end of parts 1 and 3 announce the publication of parts 2 & 4 "in a few days." It is likely that parts 1-4 were probably first published together in 1798. Consult D. Blakely, The Minerva press (1939), page 124.

Engraved title page and frontispiece signed: Richter delt.; J. Scott sculpt.

Signatures: pi1 B-N⁸ O⁴ P² Q-T⁸ U⁴ chi1 X-2C⁴ 2D⁴(-2D4) 2F-2I⁴ 2K² 2L-2O⁴ 2P⁴(-2P4) 2Q-2U⁴ 2X².

Rules of subscription on pages [vii]-viii at beginning.

Harvard College Library bookplate: This volume has been placed in the Harvard College Library in memory of Edgar Huidekoper Wells ...

Harvard College Library bookplate: Bought from the bequest of Frank Brewer Bemis of Boston.

Harvard College Library bookplate: From the fund given in honor of Chester Noyes Greenhough, Dean of Harvard College 1921-1927.

Some entries marked with pencil; rear endpaper with penciled list of entries and titles.

Bound in Stormont marbled paper over boards; gilt tooled orange morocco spine label: Minerva Library catalogue, 1758-1802; in CMI.