Main entry:

Bowers, Fredson, author.

Title & Author:

Principles of bibliographical description / Fredson Bowers.

Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1949.
©1949

Description:

xvii, 505 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
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; paginiation 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 booksn : description.

Subject:

Bibliography Methodology.
Cataloging.
Bibliography as Topic methods.
Bibliographie Méthodologie.
Catalogage.
cataloging.
descriptive cataloging.
06.71 author and title cataloguing.
Title description.

Form/genre:

Textbooks (form)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 64717
Call No.: Z1001.B78 (PO11754)
Status: Available