Principles of bibliographical description / Fredson Bowers.

Main entry:

Bowers, Fredson.

Title & Author:

Principles of bibliographical description / Fredson Bowers.

Publication:

Winchester [England] : St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1986.

Description:

xvii, 505 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm

Series:

St. Paul's bibliographies ; 15

Notes:
Originally published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1949.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The requirements of bibilography -- 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; pagination and foliation; plates and insets; list of contents; catchwords; typography; notes and annotations -- Notes on eighteenth century books -- Incunabula -- The nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Considerations of nineteenth and twentieth century bibliography -- Publication, edition, impression, issue, and state -- Nineteenth and twentieth century books: description.

ISBN:

0906795370 (pbk.)
9780906795378 (pbk.)

Subject:

Descriptive cataloging.
Bibliography Methodology.
Description bibliographique.
Bibliographie Méthodologie.
descriptive cataloging.
Titelbeschrijving.
Documents Descriptive cataloguing

Added entries:

St. Paul's bibliographies ; 15.

Holdings:

Location: Library cataloguing office 10953
Call No.: ID CAT; ID:87-B2788
Status: Available

Location: Library cataloguing office 10954
Call No.: ID CAT; ID:87-B2788
Status: Available

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