A New Introduction to Bibliography: The Classic Manual of Bibliography - Softcover

Gaskell, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 187304030X ISBN 13: 9781873040300

Publisher: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1995

Synopsis

For more than forty years Ronald B. McKerrow's An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students has been the classic manual on bibliography. McKerrow showed how the transmission of texts might be affected by the processes of printing, but he concentrated almost exclusively on 'Elizabethan' printing - 1560-1660.
In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the textual problems of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Philip Gaskell incorporates work done since the 1920s on the history of the printing technology of the hand-press period, and he breaks new ground by providing a general description of the printing practices of the machine-press period. Little has been previously published about the techniques and routines of 19th- and 20th-century book production, making this book essential to students of literature, scholars, printing historians, librarians, and booklovers.

About this title

About the Author

Philip Gaskell is a former Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Edition details

• Publisher: St Paul's Bibliographies
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 187304030X
• ISBN 13: 9781873040300
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 438