THE present volume contains a Catalogue of all the Books published by Macmillan and Co. from 1843 to 1889 inclusive. The system adopted has been to give the publications of each year in alphabetical order; no title appears more than once, as subsequent editions and reprints. are noted under the original entry. The titles and collations have been taken from copies of the first edition of every book except in a few instances, in which the deviation from this rule has always been noted. A complete Index will be found at the end of the volume.

One of the first things to be settled when this Catalogue was undertaken was a definition of the word Edition, and after careful consideration the Publishers decided to describe as an Edition an impression from type set up afresh either with or without alteration and read for press by a proof-reader. An impression from standing type or from Stereotype or Electrotype plates is described as a Reprint. The letter Sor E implies that Stereotype or Electrotype plates were taken. M means that paper moulds were made from which, if required, Stereotype plates could afterwards be cast.

It need hardly be said that the number of Editions or Reprints of any given book is no accurate guide as to its sale. An Edition may consist of 250 or of 100,000 copies.

The first book bearing the name of Macmillan on its title-page is Craig's Philosophy of Training, published in 1843 by D. and A. Macmillan, 57 Aldersgate Street. In the summer of the same year, with the assistance of Archdeacon Hare,1 Daniel Macmillan purchased Newby's business at 17 Trinity Street, Cambridge, intending to carry it on in conjunction with his younger brother Alexander, who was to remain in London. Before the end of the year, however, the Aldersgate Street shop was given up and both brothers settled in Cambridge, where, in 1845, they bought the business of Mr. Stevenson at 1 Trinity

1 See Memoir of Daniel Macmillan by Thomas Hughes, 1882.

Street. In order to provide the capital necessary for this purchase a partner was taken in, and the firm became Macmillan, Barclay, and Macmillan until the retirement of Mr. Barclay in 1850, when it adopted the name of Macmillan and Co., which it has retained ever since.

In 1858-the year after Daniel Macmillan's death--a branch house was opened at 23 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, and in 1863 the headquarters of the firm were once more removed to London (16) Bedford Street, Covent Garden), the retail bookselling business remaining at Cambridge as an independent establishment, where it is still carried on under the name of Macmillan and Bowes. A further move was made in 1872 to the present offices (29 and 30 Bedford Street), and it may be noted that the three buildings in which the business has been carried on since 1858 are within forty yards of each other.

In 1863 Mr. Alexander Macmillan was appointed Publisher to the University of Oxford, a post which he held until October 1880, when the delegates of the University Press abandoned the system of employing a private publisher and took the management of their numerous publications into their own hands. When this change was made the University of Oxford expressed its appreciation of Mr. Macmillan's services by conferring on him the degree of Master of Arts honoris causâ.

In the year 1869 Macmillan and Co. opened a branch house in New York under the management of Mr. George E. Brett, who conducted it until his death in 1890, when the firm of Macmillan and Co. of New York was constituted on an independent basis, consisting of the members of the London firm with Mr. George Platt Brett as resident American partner. Macmillan and Co. of New York, besides representing the English firm of Macmillan and Co., are the authorised American agents for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and importers of the publications of many English and Scotch houses.

The present members of the firm are: ALEXANDER MACMILLAN, GEORGE LILLIE CRAIK (admitted in 1865), FREDERICK MACMILLAN (1874), GEORGE AUGUSTIN MACMILLAN (1879), and MAURICE MACMILLAN (1883).

In conclusion the Publishers wish to express their obligations to their valued assistant Mr. JAMES FOSTER, who has undertaken the arduous labour of compiling the following Catalogue.

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LONDON, May 1891.