Main entry:

Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906.

Title & Author:

Essays in librarianship and bibliography.

Publication:

New York, B. Franklin [1970]

Description:

xiv, 343 pages 19 cm.

Series:

Burt Franklin bibliography & reference series, 355

Notes:
Reprint of the 1899 ed.
Address to the Library Association -- Public libraries and their catalogues -- The printing of the British Museum Catalogue -- The past, present, and future of the British Museum Catalogue -- The British Museum Catalogue as the basis of a Universal Catalogue -- Introduction of European printing into the East -- Paraguayan and Argentine bibliography -- The early Italian book trade -- Some book-hunters of the seventeenth century -- Librarianship in the seventeenth century -- The manufacture of fine paper in England in the eighteenth century -- On some colophons of the early printers -- On the system of classifying books on the shelves followed at the British Museum -- Subject-indexes to transactions of learned societies -- Photography in public libraries -- The telegraph in the library -- On the protection of libraries from fire -- The sliding-press at the British Museum -- On the provision of additional space in libraries -- Preface to Blades' Enemies of books -- Sir Anthony Panizzi
(Cont.) The late John Winter Jones -- The late Henry Stevens -- The late Edward A. Bond.

Subject:

British Museum.
Library science.
Bibliography Methodology.
Library Science
Bibliothéconomie.
Bibliographie Méthodologie.
library science.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 80692
Call No.: 0005444; ID:86-B15405
Status: Available