The Annual Catalogue
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Scholars studying eighteenth-century British publishing and book history
- Professionals in textual bibliography and the arrangement of antiquarian books
- Researchers in literature and history interested in early English bibliographical compilation
- Graduate students who need original lists of eighteenth-century publications for comparison
Not a good fit for
- General readers seeking continuous reading experience and plot interest
- Beginners unfamiliar with early English bibliographical conventions
- Practical readers expecting a modern edited and annotated reference work
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- First browse the arrangement and classification, then search with specific questions.
- Compare with contemporary bibliographies or works on publishing history to verify entry information.
- Record doubtful entries and cross-check against other library catalogues.
- Excerpt entries by research topic; there is no need to read the whole text.
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Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
John Worrall (Worrall, John, -1771) was an eighteenth-century London map engraver and publisher who ran a business in maps and prints. His birth year and early life are not clearly recorded, and available public information is limited; all that is known for certain is that he died in 1771. One work by him is held in the collection, The Annual Catalogue. Judging from the surviving information, this is a catalogue-type publication consistent with his role as a publisher, and it may have been used to compile and promote annual publications or his stock of maps and prints. Worrall's work belongs to the commercial context of map printing and print circulation in Britain, and the combined trade of engraving and publishing was common in London at the time. Because sources are scarce, the scale of his business, his collaborators, and the circulation of his works remain difficult to establish, but The Annual Catalogue offers a glimpse of his publishing activity.
