College and Research Libraries doubtedly Part IV, which deals with indi- vidual Argentine literary figures. With the exception of the authors mentioned in the preface, all rna jor figures as well as many "minor" authors are included. Under the name of each author are listed all relevant works about the author and his works. From the librarian's viewpoint, an outstand- ing aspect of this part of the book is the references whose bibliographical accurate- ness and briefness add a quality of excel- lence to the entries.-Antonio Rodriquez- Buckingham, Harvard University. The History of Book Illustration: The n- luminated Manuscript and the Printed Book. David Bland. 2d rev. ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of Califor- nia Press, 1969. 459p. $25.00. The first edition of this book, published in 1958, reviewed the history of book illus- tration, by all techniques, from ancient Egypt until the 1950s. The second edition is largely a reprint of the first, although four new color plates have been added, the total amount of numbered illustrations in- creased from 395 to 412, the text updated and corrected in details, and some addi- tions made to include more about Eastern Europe and the Orient. Throughout most of the book, the text and illustrations in the text have been reproduced without change by photolithographic offset. The original half-tone blocks seem to have been used to reproduce the original black and white plates by letterpress. In reprinting the original color plates, the printer of the second revised edition appar- ently did not have the use of the progres- sive proofs used to control color in the first edition. In every case, the color tones are slightly different, with red and yellow gen- erally more predominant in the first edition plates, black in the second. Both editions, however, are well printed in good register. Which of the reproductions is more faithful to any given original could be judged only by comparison with the original. The black and white illustrations in the text appear brighter in the second edition, largely be- cause the paper is whiter. How much this difference in paper tone can be attributed to a change in printing fashions and how much to pape! deterioration is hard to judge. Recent Publications I 65 The major changes in text occur in the last thirty pages of the new edition, but some revisions occur throughout. In chap- ter 7, "The Nineteenth Century," revisions include the addition of a color plate for Henry Noel Humphreys and added exam- ples of English, American, German, and Russian illustrations, all inserted so as to disturb as little as possible the original printing formes. Some errors in dating were corrected, but the revision was not always completed. On page 254 the date for an edition of William Somerville's H obbinol is corrected in the text but left uncorrected in the legend of the illustration appearing on the same page. In other places, the insertion of new text fails to adapt to the old. On page 428 of the new edition, a subheading used on page 424 of the first edition, "Poland and Rus- sia," is changed to "Poland and The Bal- kans" to allow for two paragraphs on the Balkans and a sepamte subheading for Rus- sia alone. The text under the new heading, however, continues undisturbed: "Both these countries excel in two types of illus- tration." Which both? In common with most historians of book illustration, Bland inadequately cites the printed books that contain his examples. One could give many instances, but "Vega: Flos Sanctorum, c. 1521" (Fig. 162), with- out any further elaboration of the author's name in text or index will send the search- er on a merry chase. The first edition was a unique contribu- tion to the history of book illustration. The second edition, though not greatly nor al- ways carefully revised, is an improvement on the first.-Howard W. Winger, Univer- sity of Chicago. National Index of American Imprints Through 1800: The Short-Title Evans. Clifford K. Shipton and James E. Moon- ey. 2v. Barre, Mass.: American Anti- quarian Society and Barre Publishers, 1969. 102,8p. $45.00. The subtitle of this publication is both overly modest and misleading. To see it only in relation to Evans greatly underesti- mates its contribution to research, valuable though it is when used with that "most im- portant general list of early American pub- lications." This beautifully bound, moder- 66 I College & R.esearch Libraries • January 1972 ately priced (about .8 mill per entry) book in two handy volumes, the format of which is a delight to the experienced librarian and the scholar-connoisseur of books, does much more. It not only adds to the 39,162 titles in Evans the 10,035 that have since been located; it incorporates "the tens of thou- sands of bibliographical corrections of the Evans entries turned up by the staff of the [American Antiquarian] Society in the course of fifty years of work." Even more important, it greatly assists the researcher in locating and examining the full text of every book, pamphlet, and broadside listed here as available in the United States or foreign countries. The work of the Society in making this possible has stretched over a century and a half. The work of its li- brruy staff has covered fifty years. A col- laboration of almost twenty years with Al- bert Bani and the Readex Microprint Cor- poration has produced the microprint edi- tion of the texts, now in the collections of almost two hundred institutions (and prob- ably more) in the United States and abroad. Here indeed is God's plenty for the scholar working in early American materi- als. For work on such materials Constance Evans in her 8th edition labeled the four- teen-volume Evans "indispensable in the large reference or special library." The Short-Title Evans, along with the Readex Microprint Corporation edition of Early American Imprints, would seem to open doors to an even wider range of library pa- trons than Winchell had in mind. One of the serious Haws in undergraduate instruc- tion is the overreliance of students at ev- ery level on secondruy source material. Through the Short- Title Evans and the Readex edition, students could have easy access to original rna terial on topics rele- vant to a number of undergraduate courses. For example, even a cursory examination of the entries f~r Noah Webster, Jr., sends the student to information in Evans' 1790 volume on the teaching of the language arts in the United States prior to 1800 or on the state laws of Connecticut which forbade for a time free trade in spelling books across state lines. From here he can easily go to the original texts in Readex Microprint. Just how easily? Consider this example. The library of the four-year college in which the reviewer teaches has both the fourteen- volume Evans and the Short-Title Evans under review. Within a radius of forty miles are four university collections which hold the microprint texts. One is a mile away, accessible by free transportation on the Consortium mini-bus. True, the Short-Title Evans is, as its ve1y capable and scholarly editors point out, "a tool for making defini- tive bibliographies," and a valuable one. It is, however, much more. The realization of that "more" sets one dreaming of what microforms-an exciting topic even now-can mean in the future; of the wealth of materials, otherwise un- available, that the scholar-professor, the graduate student, the undergraduate can also have access to through microfilm, microfiche, microcard, and microprint, and through the ever smaller, ever less expen- sive readers that are being produced and the reader-p1}.nters that t~e advertisements assure us are on the way. The appearance of the Short-Title Evans, then, is a significant event in reference pub- lication history. In an eminently successful manner it fulfills the purpose of the Ameri- can Antiquarian Society "to preserve, de- scribe, and publish the materials of Ameri- can history." Moreover in this adroit union of old material with the most recent of techniques, the Society's members, staff, di- rectors, and editors prove that they are an- tiquarian in their interests but, in the very best sense of the word, modern in their per- formance.-Sr. Hilda Bonham, I.H.M., Marygrove College. A Guide to the Manuscripts in the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library: Accessions through the Year 1965. John Beverley Riggs. Greenville, Del.: Eleuth- erian Mills Historical Library, 1970. 1205p. $15.00. Here is a remarkable testament to the power of one family-Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours and his descendants- the main source and continuing financial bulwark (via the Longwood Foundation) of the manuscript library of 2,500,000 items described in this exhaustive Guide. A most unusual collecting instinct by many of the family has preserved records spanning their history as far back as the fifteenth century. The bulk of the manu-