Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae, in locos communes distributus cum indice auctorum
A printed catalogue of the Harleian Library, compiled by Samuel Johnson, William Oldys and Michael Maittaire for the bookseller Thomas Osborne and issued in London in 1743 for buyers at the sale of Edward Harley's collection. The pages carry no pictorial matter: what survives visually is letterpress bibliography, with columns of entry numbers, long em-rules standing in for repeated titles, ranks of four-digit dates and lines of "Idem", usable as period typographic texture, ruled list structures and numeral specimens on toned laid paper.
