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An index of the listings of prints and photographs in (a) the weekly issues of the journal, Bibliographe de la France, 1811-1880 (app. 110,000 listings), (b) its predecessor, Journal général de l'imprimerie, 1810-1811 (app. 200 listings) and (c) the manuscript registers of the legal deposit of prints between 1795-1811, when this procedure was administered by the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibliothèque nationale/impérale (app. 2000 listings)..

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This resource is a keyword index. Please note: the texts found here have been transcribed without editorial revision. Spellings reflect the customs of the period, and names contain the wide variety of spellings and forms which occurs when information is passed orally and by handwritten copy. To anticipate variations of spelling having many different causes, therefore, it is recommended that queries be devised with a minimal number of characters; alternative queries and use of the wild card character * and the boolean operator OR are also recommended. Research of the personal names of printmakers and their collaborators may require more than expected patience to identify homonymous variants and misspellings caused by handwriting – e.g. the name of the artist "Jazet" sometimes appears as "Jazel". Consequently, all forms and variants of these names have been made available for scrutiny in the listings noted below in the note on Similarity Searching. The accuracy of the transcription of texts may be verified by consulting images of the pages of the Bibliographie de la France which are available online in the project Gallica.

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Key Word:
 Searches are automatically truncated; use the operators AND, OR, NOT for multiple expressions; punctuation and diacritical accents are not signficant. Leading and trailing spaces are significant.
Distribution Information:

 This information is included in Key Word searching (above).

Similarity Search
(Names of Artists, Printers, Publishers, etc.):

Direct query of the names in the listings is also available in Key Word (above). A list of all of these names (over 27,000 lines) is also available, in alphabetic and frequency order.
Subjects (see list):
  
Year and Range of Years:
 e.g., 1820-1830
Numbering of Individual Records:
 Always use with Year (above).
Dates of Specific Issues (see list [over 3,700 lines] for specific dates):
 This is a key word index of the dates of listings; e.g., mars AND 1811.
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July 2008
Comments and inquiries are invited; please address them to the project director at gmckee@binghamton.edu.