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The curious dual-language title and double copyright of this catalogue are indicative not only of the thorough collaboration of its British and German compilers, but also of the novel form of its publication. J. Keith Davies, Librarian of the Freud Museum, London, and Professor Gerhard Fichtner of Tübingen have worked for two decades to produce a comprehensive catalogue of Sigmund Freud's library, including: (a) the current holdings of the Freud Museums in London and Vienna; (b) the contents of the Freud Collection in the Health Sciences Library of Columbia University in New York City; (c) holdings in the Freud Archives at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC; and, finally, (d) items now in private hands that were known to have belonged to Freud's personal library. This catalogue is, however, more than just a comprehensive and accurate listing of the volumes as one finds in a bibliography. It also gives detailed information concerning signatures and bookplates, dedications, underlining and marginal notes, making this one of the most significant scholarly publications in Freud studies in recent years. No serious scholar of psychoanalysis can afford to be without it.
Anyone who has ventured into the congenial rooms above the Freud Museum at Maresfield Gardens to look at such volumes can attest that there are many stories to be told about these books: how they came to Freud, what he made of them, whither they went during the odyssey of his exile to England—not to mention the complex web of relationships inscribed in the effusive dedications. To look at the whole of it, there is a thick stew of intellectual history seething in the heap of materials that, it seems to us now, only a reckless genius like Freud could connect. There are volumes and memoirs by dutiful students; boring monographs on experimental neurosis