This book reproduces each page of the printed catalogues of the Yale College Library issued in 1743, 1755, and 1791, accompanied by an index that identifies authors and titles and is keyed to these facsimile pages. The introduction tells the story of the early books of that library from long before there was a Yale College in which to place them. It examines the legend of the "Forty Folios" and describes the major early gifts from Jeremiah Dummer,...