A New Introduction to Bibliography
A New Introduction to Bibliography

Author: Philip Gaskell

Publisher: Winchester, UK : St. Paul's Bibliographies ; New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9781584560364

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"First published in 1972 by Oxford University Press. Reprinted with corrections by Oak Knoll Press/St. Paul's Bibliographies in 1995. Reprinted in 2000, 2002, 2006 & 2007"--T.p. verso.

Principles of Bibliographical Description
Principles of Bibliographical Description

Author: Fredson Bowers

Publisher:

Published: 1994-06-30

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9781873040027

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This comprehensive manual remains the central book in bibliographical work, and an essential tool for researchers and students in all fields.

Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts
Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts

Author: D. F. McKenzie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-09-16

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780521644952

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In Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, D. F. McKenzie shows how the material form of texts crucially determines their meanings. He unifies the principal interests of both critical theory and textual scholarship to demonstrate that, as all works of lasting value are reproduced, re-edited and re-read, they take on different forms and meanings. By witnessing the new needs of their new readers these new forms constitute vital evidence for any history of reading. McKenzie shows this is true of all forms of recorded information, including sound, graphics, films, representations of landscape and the new electronic media. The bibliographical skills first developed for manuscripts and books can, he shows, be applied to a wide range of cultural documents. This book, which incorporates McKenzie's classic work on orality and literacy in early New Zealand, offers a unifying concept of texts that seeks to acknowledge their variety and the complexity of their relationships.

An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies
An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies

Author: Craig S. Abbott

Publisher: Modern Language Association

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1603292357

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To a reader of Joyce's Ulysses, it makes a difference whether one of Stephen Dedalus's first thoughts is "No mother" (as in the printed version) or "No, mother!" (as in the manuscript). The scholarship surrounding such textual differences--and why this discipline should concern readers and literary scholars alike--is the focus of William Proctor Williams and Craig S. Abbott's acclaimed handbook. This updated, fourth edition outlines the study of texts' composition, revision, physical embodiments, process of transmission, and manner of reception; describes how new technologies such as digital imaging and electronic tagging have changed the way we produce, read, preserve, and research texts; discusses why these matters are central to a historical understanding of literature; and shows how the insights, methods, and products of bibliographical and textual studies can be applied to other branches of scholarship.

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"--

On Compiling an Annotated Bibliography
On Compiling an Annotated Bibliography

Author: James L. Harner

Publisher: Modern Language Association

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1603292470

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James Harner's popular pamphlet, first published in 1985, has been revised and updated in the light of advances in computer technology and the availability of humanities databases. Harner offers useful information on planning research, organizing an annotated bibliography, compiling entries, using a computer to prepare the manuscript, and editing. While the booklet focuses on the preparation of a comprehensive bibliography on a single literary author, the procedures and techniques are easily adapted to selective or subject bibliographies and to other periods and disciplines.