Photo-bibliography; or, A word on printed card catalogues of old rare beautiful and costly books and how to make them on a cooperative system & two words on the establishment of a central bibliographical bureau or clearing-house for librarians. By Henry Stevens of Vermont.

Main entry:

Stevens, Henry, Jr., 1819-1886.

Title & Author:

Publication:

London, H. Stevens; New York, Scribner, Welford & Armstrong, 1878.

Description:

49 pages facsimiles (6 folded) 13 cm

Notes:
"The substance of this essay was first privately set in type in 1868; then enlarged and rewritten as a preface to my Bibliotheca geographica, November 1872. It was again revised, modified and read at the Conference of Librarians in October, 1877; and now in April, 1878, it is compressed into this booklet."--Page 8.
Letterpress printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press.

Subject:

Card catalogs.
Catalogues sur fiches.
card catalogs.

Added entries:

Whittingham, Charles, 1795-1876, printer.
Chiswick Press, printer.
Scribner, Welford & Armstrong, publisher.
Printed card catalogues.

Word on printed card catalogues of old rare beautiful and costly books and how to make them on a cooperative system

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 135099
Call No.: POY9136; ID:86-B8486
Status: Available

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