Excerpt from An Union List of Collections on European History in American Libraries: Compiled for the Committee on Bibliography of the American Historical AssociationBesides corrections, this edition contains eighteen additional titles of the more important sets overlooked in previous printings and nearly two thousand additions to the located copies. On the other hand, however, about a score of duplicate or faulty titles have been withdrawn.The thanks of the Committee and of all historical students are due to the libraries which have so cordially co-operated. The considerable amount of work implied on the part of each co-operating library naturally made some hesitate at first and until the meaning and usefulness to both libraries and historical students was fully explained and understood, but the universally cordial and even enthusiastic response, after the matter was understood, has been most gratifying.The check list was sent out last year (1911) and the results compiled and presented as a report at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association at Buffalo in December of that year. Some of the figures and inferences of this report will be found following this preface. The Check List, uncorrected as to bars, but with indication of location of copies added, as in the present edition, was issued in March as a proof edition.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.