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Principles of bibliographical description

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection E125

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Type of record: Book

Title: Principles of bibliographical description

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection E125

Creator(s): Bowers, Fredson

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: St. Paul's Bibliographies; Oak Knoll Press

Publication city: Winchester, U.K. : New Castle, DE

Date(s): 1994

Language: English

Size and medium: xxv, 505 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731532

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019935096805181

Description

Previously published: Winchester, U.K. : St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1986.


Includes bibliographical references and index.


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.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection E125: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: BB/17.

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