CONVENTIONSANDNOTES
All dates are given in the New Style. Book titles are printed thus:
The
Letters of Mounsieur de Balzac.
The dates given are, unless otherwise
indicated, those of the copies in the Plume Library. Where no place of
printing is stated (of books published before 1900), it is to be taken to have
been London. For books published after 1900 the publisher is given instead
of the place of printing. All references, end-notes and bibliography have,
for conciseness, been amalgamated and are indicated in the text within
square brackets. Entries [1] to [10] form a list of the principal sources;
entries [11] to [39] are principally notes to substantiate statements in the
text; and [40] to [58] illustrate a particular theme in the Library’s stock.
Within these main entries there are often subsections, again for the purpose
of avoiding repetition of main entries, and as a result the reader should note
that the references do not run consecutively in the text itself.