Notes: | Subtitle varies: 1. sér., Bibliographie générale des Pays-Bas, par le bibliothécaire en chef et les conservateurs de la bibliothèque de l'Université de Gand. Designed to include all books printed in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries and the principal ones since, books published abroad by Belgian or Dutch authors, those about the Netherlands or printed by printers from the Netherlands. Printed on one side of leaf only. Each series is arranged alphabetically by author, giving full descriptions of his works usually with a biography and list of works about the author. The works of the following occupy one or more vols.: D. v. Coornhert (1st ser., v. 6), J. Lipsius (1st ser., v. 15-18), F. Coster (2d ser., v. 3-4), D. Erasmus (2d ser., v. 6-14). A chronological list of the "Concours imprimés" of the Chambers of rhetoric is contained in 1st ser., v. 4, and brief accounts of the Chambers of rhetoric and dramatic societies in the Netherlands to the end of the 18th cent. are included in 2d ser., v. 2. Historical, biographical and bibliographical information about 16th century protestant martyrs of the Netherlands is given in 1st ser., v. 19. "Marques typographiques des imprimeurs et libraires qui ont exercé dans les Pays-Bas, et ... des imprimeurs et libraires belges établis à l'étranger": 2d ser., v. 18-19. Addenda, errata, and index found in Bibliotheca belgica, published 1964-70. Issued in parts: 1. sér., livr. 1-104, 1880-91; 2. sér., livr. 105-200, 1891-1924; 3. sér., livr. 201- .
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