| Auflage, Ausgabe | Aufl., Ausg. |
| Band | Bd. |
| Bohn’s scientific library | B. S. L. |
| calf | cf. |
| cloth | cl. |
| copyright e. g., 1882 [c. ’80]. | c. |
| edited, -ion, -or | ed. |
| fac-similes | fac-sim. |
| folios | f. |
| group of portraits | gr. of por. |
| Harper’s family library | H. F. L. |
| illustrated, -ions | il. |
| leaves | l. |
| morocco | mor. |
| mutilated | mut. |
| no date of pub. | n. d. |
| no place of pub. | n. p. |
| no title-page | n. t. p. |
| page, pages | p. |
| pamphlet, pamphlets | pam. |
| paper | pap. |
| photographs | phot. |
| portrait of group | por. of gr. |
| portrait, portraits | por. |
| Roxburgh | rxb. |
| sheep | sh. |
| square | sq. |
| tables | tab. |
| title-page | t.-p. |
| title-page mutilated, wanting | t. p. m., t. p. w. |
| unbound | unbd. |
| unpaged | unp. |
| vellum | vel. |
| volume, volumes | v. (in the imprint), Vol. (in the title). [72] |
| with (before words) | w. |
| wanting (after words) | w. |
In notes the abbreviations in all these lists may be used.
[72] I. e., Vol. 1 but 2 v.