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Main Author: Bowers, Fredson
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Winchester, U.K. : New Castle, Del. : St. Paul's Bibliographies ; Oak Knoll Press, 2005.
Series:St. Paul's bibliographies ; 15.
Subjects:
Bibliography, Critical.
Bibliography, Descriptive.
Bibliographic control
Table of Contents:
  • Descriptive bibliography
  • Hand-printed books : edition, issue, and state; ideal copy
  • Bibliographical description of sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth century books : a preview
  • Transcription : title-page, colophon and explicit, head-title, running-titles
  • Format and collational formula
  • Interlude : reference notation
  • Statement of signing; pagination and foliation; plates and insets; list of contents; catchwords; typography; notes and annotations
  • Notes on eighteenth-century books
  • Incunabula
  • Considerations of nineteenth and twentieth century bibliography
  • Publication, edition, impression, issue, and state
  • Nineteenth and twentieth century books : description.