Catalogue of Bengali Printed Books in the Library
u *r.4rArjFJr^ i Uh'.'i'',''' LIBRARY uNivdisnv ot ^ SAN DIEGO J CATALOGUE BENGALI PRINTED BOOKS LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. BY J. F. BLUMHARDT, FORMERLY OF THE BESG.U, CITIL SERVICE, TEACHER-CT BEXGALI IX THE UXITERSnT OF CAMBRIDGE ASD AT UXIVER-SITV COLLEGE, LOUDON. PRINTED BY OEDER OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEm. LONDON: SOLD BY LOXGMAXS & CO., 39, PATERJsOSTER ROTT; B. OTJARITCH, 15, PICCADILLY: A. ASHER & CO., 13, BEDFORD STREET, COVEXT GARDEJf, axd TRUBXER & CO., 57, LUDGATE HILL. 1886. STEPHEN AV6TIM AND SONS, PaiHTEBS, nEETFORD. The present Catalogue has been compiled by Mr. J. F. Blumhardt, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service, who has for several years been employed in cataloguing the works in the North Indian Vernaculars in the Museum Library. It is, perhaps, the first attempt that has been made to arrange Bengali writings under authors' names ; and the principles on which this has been done are fulh stated in the Preface. GEO. BULLEN, Keeper of the Department of Prdited Books. PEEFACE In submitting to the public the present Catalogue of Bengali books contained in the Library of the British Museum the compiler finds it necessary to explain the general principles of cataloguing adopted by him, and the special rules laid down for the treatment of Oriental names of authors and books. He has tried to observe throughout one consistent plan of transliteration, based on intelligible principles of etymology, yet rejecting alike the popular mode of writing names according to their modern pronunciation, and the pedantic system of referring everything back to its original Sanskrit form ; thereby making unnecessary deviations from proper Bengali idiom.
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