The database presents the titles in Potter’s Bibliography in Part I and Part II, and a limited numer of titles in Part III. Each record consists of a basic bibliographic description on a single document page, including the name of the edition (where given) and the sequential number in Potter.
There are separate indexes on Translators, Artists, Editors, Contributors, Publishers, Art forms and Editions. Publishers of reprints, mentioned by Potter in the collations, are listed and indexed as well.
Authors of prefaces, forewords, epilogues, introductions et cetera are all treated as ‘Contributors’. Not included are authors of dedications, (laudatory) poems et cetera. Decorators, illuminators, illustrators are all listed under ‘Artists’.
The present database largely follows the layout structure of Potter’s Bibliography but deviates where it concerns, for instance, FitzGerald’s ‘first versions’, which have been listed in Chapter I as well as in Chapters VII and VIII. The present structure is represented by the following columns:
- All: all editions and translations
- 1859 – 1879: FitzGerald’s first, second, third and fourth/fifth versions
- English: versions other than FitzGerald
- Various: miscellaneous, various editions and translations and bilingual versions
- Selections: from various editions and translations
- Foreign & oriental: foreign languages and oriental versions