Essays in Bibliographical History

Essays in Bibliographical History

Author: George Thomas Tanselle

Publisher: Bibliographical Society of University of Virginia

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 560

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The state of bibliography today (1979) -- Physical bibliography in the twentieth century (1979) -- The evolving role of bibliography (1984) -- Issues in bibliographical studies since 1942 (1992) -- Years on : bibliography then and now (2003) -- Thoughts on the centenary of The Bibliographical Society of America (2004) -- The historiography of American literary publishing (1965) -- The Bibliographical Society's News sheet, 1894-1920 (1967) -- The descriptive bibliography of American authors (1968) -- Copyright records and the bibliographer (1969) -- The periodical literature of English and American bibliography (1968) -- Indianapolis in the world of books (1973) -- Bibliography and science (1974) -- The descriptive bibliography of eighteenth-century books (1975) -- The centennial meeting and convocation of the Grolier Club (1984) -- Exhibitions at the Grolier Club (1984) -- The varieties of scholarly editing (1985) -- The fiftieth anniversary of The Bibliographical Society of the University Of Virginia (1997) -- A history of Studies in bibliography : the first fifty years (1997) -- A brief history of the English short-title catalogue in North America (1998) -- Some thoughts on catalogues (2008) -- The textual criticism of visual and aural works (2008) -- Bibliographical history as a field of study (1988).


Making the Archives Talk

Making the Archives Talk

Author: James L. W. West

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0271050675

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"A collection of essays by editor, biographer, bibliographer, and book historian James L. W. West III, covering editorial theory, archival use, textual emendation, and scholarly annotation. Discusses the treatment of both public documents (novels, stories, nonfiction) and private texts (letters, diaries, journals, working papers)"--Provided by publisher.


Essays in the History of Ideas

Essays in the History of Ideas

Author: Arthur O. Lovejoy

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2019-12-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1421432382

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Originally published in 1948. In the first essay of this collection, Lovejoy reflects on the nature, methods, and difficulties of the historiography of ideas. He maps out recurring phenomena in the history of ideas, which the essays illustrate. One phenomenon is the presence and influence of the same presuppositions or other operative "ideas" in very diverse provinces of thought and in different periods. Another is the role of semantic transitions and confusions, of shifts and of ambiguities in the meanings of terms, in the history of thought and taste. A third phenomenon is the internal tensions or waverings in the mind of almost every individual writer—sometimes discernible even in a single writing or on a single page—arising from conflicting ideas or incongruous propensities of feeling or taste to which the writer is susceptible. These essays do not contribute to metaphysical and epistemological questions; they are primarily historical.


India and the Indianness of Christianity

India and the Indianness of Christianity

Author: Robert Eric Frykenberg

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0802863922

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Honoring historian Robert Eric Frykenberg--arguably the historian most responsible for promoting studies of intercultural and interreligious interactions in the South Asian context--the essays in this collection avoid the pitfall of Eurocentric, top-down historiographies and instead adopt and adapt Frykenberg's own Eurocentric, bottom-up approach, this accentuating indigenous agency in the emergence of Christianity an as Indian religion. The book features first-time case studies on Christianity in a variety of unusual Indian settings, including tribal societies, and offers original contributions to an understanding of how Indian Christianity was perceived in the post-Independence period by India's governing elite. Several essayists draw heavily on rare archival documentation in the United Kingdom, Germany, and India. The wealth of material and the perspectives gathered here constitute a remarkable volume--a credit to the historian who inspired it--from back cover.


Descriptive Bibliography

Descriptive Bibliography

Author: George Thomas Tanselle

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781883631192

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"This book offers a comprehensive guide to descriptive bibliography--the activity of describing books as physical objects. The function of descriptive bibliography is to provide detailed historical accounts of the varied material forms in which texts have been transmitted and to show the relationships among those examples that claim to carry texts of the same work. The first part of this book contains five essays on general topics: an introduction to the field and its history; its relation to library cataloguing; the concept of ideal copy; the meanings of edition, impression, issue, and state; and tolerances in reporting details. The second part covers more specific subjects: transcription and collation; format; paper; typography and layout; typesetting and presswork; non-letterpress material; publishers' bindings, endpapers, and jackets; and overall arrangement. At the end is an appendix containing a sample description with detailed commentary, followed by a record of the literature of descriptive bibliography"--


Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography

Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography

Author: Richard Garnett

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-10-29

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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Richard Garnett's 'Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography' offers a comprehensive exploration of the world of libraries and bibliographic studies. Written with a keen attention to detail and a scholarly approach, this book delves into the history and importance of librarianship, discussing key concepts and practices in the field. Garnett's literary style is both informative and engaging, making this book a valuable resource for those interested in the study of libraries and bibliography. Drawing on a wealth of knowledge and experience, Garnett provides readers with insights into the evolution of libraries and the role of bibliographic studies in shaping our understanding of information organization. This book is a must-read for students, scholars, and professionals in the field of library science and bibliography, offering a unique perspective on the significance of these disciplines in today's digital age.


The Edited Collection

The Edited Collection

Author: Peter Webster

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-06-04

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1108757219

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Edited collections are widely supposed to contain lesser work than scholarly journals; to be incoherent as volumes, no more than the sum of their parts; and to be less visible to potential readers once published. It is also often taken as axiomatic that those who make decisions in relation to hiring, promotion, tenure, and funding do so agree. To publish in or edit an essay collection is thought to risk being penalised for the format before even a word is read. After examining the origins of this critique, this Element explores the modern history of the edited collection and the particular roles it has played. It examines each component part of the critique, showing that they are either largely unfounded or susceptible of solution. It proposes the edited collection as a model of one possible idea of scholarly community: collaboration, trust, and mutual obligation in pursuit of a wider good.


An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography

An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography

Author: Thomas W. Field

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-04

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780428343866

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Excerpt from An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography: Being a Catalogue of Books, Relating to the History, Antiquities, Languages, Customs, Religion, Wars, Literature, and Origin of the American Indians, in the Library of Thomas W. Field Books in which any distinct portion, chapter, or appendix claimed by its heading, or table of contents to be devoted to that subject. Works containing engravings, illustrative of the manners and peculiarities of the aborigines, when derived from actual observation. All treatises, or essays, upon their origin, or the pre-columbian discovery of America, as affecting the source of its population. Those works of fiction or poetry founded on Indian life, to which were appended historical notes, incidents of personal experience, or traditions and legends, of the Indians. All works containing grammatical analyses, or vocabularies of their language, as well as translations, into or from them, would of course form a part of the collection. In a limited number of cases, marked with a star books not actually in the author's collection have been admitted to the cata logue. This exceptional adoption has been made to complete the bibliographical history of those series of works of which the library contained only a portion, and thus afford the collector a full view of such treatises as complete any section of the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.