Author: Philip Gaskell

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

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9781873040300

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.