Principles of bibliographical description.

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Main Author: Bowers, Fredson.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Univ. Press, 1949.
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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; paginiation 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.