Betsy Kruger, Head of Digital Content Creation at the UIUC library, wrote to say:
"Our Rare Book Room has recently expressed interest in our digitizing via OCA the library's very extensive collection of British 19th century "triple-decker" serialized novels. Might this end up being content the Monk Project might be interested in? If so, I can keep you updated on our progress."
I said yes, of course, and thank you, and asked for a list of the titles to be included. She wrote back to say:
"I'm attaching a preliminary listing; however, I suspect that our Voyager holdings may not always reflect correct volume holdings for multi-volume works. This list was produced by searching the relevant Dewey number for titles in the relevant time period that had more than one volume. It's definitely possible that there are many additional titles that weren't picked up by this report due to not all volumes being represented in Voyager holdings. We are comparing our holdings to the Sadleir bibliography, which Alvan Bregman says is the definitive listing. We have already identified some that are not in that bibliography; Alvan tells me that a scholar in this area recently told him that we may have the most extensive collection around, although that's not yet documented."
The spreadsheet she attached lists over 10,000 volumes (so perhaps 3,000 titles or so). That spreadsheet is attached to this page.
John
