B1BLIOGRAPIY  .-The first

attempt at a bibliography of editions of Dante was made in Pasquali's edition of his collected works (Venice, 1739) ; but the first really adequate work on the subject is that of the viscount Colomb de Batines (1846-1848) . A supplement by Dr Guido Biagi appeared in 1888 . Julius Petzholdt had already covered some of the same ground in Bibliographia Dantea, extending from 1865 to 1880 . The period from 1891 to 1900 has been dealt with by SS . Passerini and Mazzi in Un Decennio di bibliografca Dantesca (1905) . The catalogues of the two libraries already named, and that of Harvard University, are worth consulting . For the MSS . Dr E . Moore's Textual Criticism (1889) is the most complete guide . (A . J .