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 under-
taken was a definition of the word Edition, and after careful considera-
tion 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
S or E implies that Stereotype or Electrotype plates were taken.
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 cn 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.