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To make adequate acknowledgment of all the assistance received in
the compilation and preparation of a bibliographical list such as this
is practically impossible. Copies of early Kentucky titles are recorded
herein from 84 libraries and 18 private collections. To the librarians
or owners of practically every one of these collections the compilers are
under gratefully acknowdedgedobligation for replies to queries and re-
quests fer bibliographical descriptions of titles.
Among those who contributed extensively to the present compilation
may be named: Mr. Willard O. Waters, of the Henry E. Huntington Library
at San Marino, California; Mr. V. Valta Parma, of the Library of Congress;
Miss Winifred Ver Nooy, of the University of Chicago Library; Miss Lavinia
Steele, former librarian, and Mr. Charles C. Hunt, of the Iowa Masonic
Library at Cedar Rapids; Mrs. Mary T. Moore, of the Western Kentucky State
Teachers College at Bowling Green; Mrs. Jouett Taylor Cannon, Secretary of
the Kentucky Historical Society at Frankfort; Mrs. Erma Guy Cromwell, State
Librarian and Archivist, Frankfort; Miss Edna J. Grauman, reference libra-
rian of the Louisville Public Library; Mr. Otto A. Rothert, secretary, and
Miss Ludie J. Kinkead, curator, of the Filson Club, Louisville; Mr. Thomas
A. Johnson, librarian of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louis-
ville; Mr. G. Glenn Clift and the late Miss Florence Dillard, of the Lex-
ington Public Library; Mrs. Charles F. Norton, librarian of Transylvania
College, Lexington; Miss Margaret I. King, librarian of the University of
Kentucky at Lexington; Mr. Eldon R. James, librarian, and Nr. Robert B.
Anderson, assistant librarian, of the Harvard University Law School; Mr.
Clarence S. Brigham, director, and Mr. R. W. G. Vail, librarian, of the
American Antiquarian Society at Worcester, Massachusetts; Mr. L. Nelson
Nichols, of the New York Public Library; Miss Eleanor S. Tilby, librarian