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Here follows an index of the listings of prints and photographs in the following historical sources: (a) the weekly issues of the journal, Bibliographie de la France, 1811-1880 (app. 110,000 listings), (b) its predecessor, Journal général de l'imprimerie, 1810-1811 (app. 200 listings), (c) the manuscript registers of the legal deposit of prints between 1795-1811 (app. 2000 listings), and (d) the registers of prints and photographs which were refused authorization for publication, according to surviving records at the Archives nationales de France (app. 780 listings, added in 2010).

Indexing is by keyword. Because the listings have been copied without editorial revision, spellings are in the usage of the period, and proper names contain the wide variety of spellings and forms which occurs when information is passed orally and by handwritten copy. To anticipate variations having many different causes, therefore, it is recommended that queries be devised with a minimal number of characters; alternative queries, use of the wild card character * and the boolean operator OR are also recommended. The research of personal names of printmakers, photographers 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" and sometimes as "Chazet." For assistance, all variants of the names of printmakers, photographers and their collaborators are displayed for examination in the note on Similarity Searching (below). The accuracy of the transcription of listings from the Bibliographie de la France is good, including even printers' errors, and may be verified from the pages themselves available online in the project Gallica.

Comments and suggestions are always invited.

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To select specific collections for searching:
Bibliographie de la France & Journal général de l'imprimerie (1810-1880)
Works refused authorization for publication (registers at Archives nationales de France)
Registers of legal deposit, 1795-1811, at the Cabinet des Estampes of the BnF
 
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); n.b., availability of this information is very incomplete.

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
ImofFr Record Number:
 
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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