Main entry:
Gaskell, Philip.
Title & Author:
A new introduction to bibliography / by Philip Gaskell.
Publication:
Winchester, UK : St. Paul's Bibliographies ; New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Lyons & Burford, 1995.
Description:
438 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes:
"First published by Oxford University Press in 1972. Reprinted with corrections by Oak Knoll Press/St. Paul's Bibliographies in 1995"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-413) and index.
The nature and purpose of bibliography 1 -- The main periods of book production 2 -- Book Production: The Hand-Press Period 1500-1800 -- The Hand-printed Book 5 -- Printing Type 9 -- Manufacture 9 -- Type-sizes; and description 12 -- Type faces 16 -- Gothic type 17 -- Roman and italic type 20 -- Greek type 30 -- Founts, cases, and type-stock 33 -- Composition 40 -- Copy 40 -- Setting type 43 -- Page and galley 49 -- Signatures 51 -- Preliminaries, pagination, catchwords, etc. 52 -- Distribution 53 -- Output 54 -- Paper 57 -- Manufacture 57 -- Paper in English printing 60 -- Moulds and watermarks 60 -- Sorts of paper: quality, weight, and size 66 -- Tables of sizes 72 -- Description 76 -- Imposition 78 -- Formes 78 -- Format 80 -- Identification of format 84 -- Imposition in practice 108 -- Stripping, and skeletons 109 -- Proofs and correction 110 -- Standing type 116 -- Presswork 118 -- The wooden hand-press 118 -- Preparing the paper 124 -- Ink 125 -- Making ready 126 -- Pulling and beating 129 -- Printing the reiteration 131 -- Press figures 133 -- Cancels, etc. 134 -- Special paper 136 -- Two colours; and music 137 -- Output 139 -- The Warehouse 142 -- Paper stock 142 -- Drying the paper 143 -- Gathering the books 143 -- Binding 146 -- The binding trade 146 -- Binding technique 147 -- Trade binding styles 149 -- Decoration and Illustration 154 -- Printed pictures 154 -- Relief blocks 154 -- Intaglio plates 156 -- Patterns of Production 160 -- Variation of demand 160 -- Edition quantities 160 -- Productive capacity 163 -- Concurrent production 164 -- Standards 168 -- The English Book Trade to 1800 171 -- Europe and England 171 -- Printing personnel 171 -- Gild and chapel 174 -- Scale and finance; book prices 175 -- Publishing and bookselling 179 -- Authorship, copyright, and censorship 183 -- Book Production: The Machine-Press Period 1800-1950 -- Survival and Change 191 -- The early-nineteenth-century book house 191 -- Composition 191 -- Imposition 196 -- Iron hand-presses 198 -- Plates 201 -- Stereotype 201 -- Electrotype 206 -- Type 1800-1875 207 -- Manufacture and trade 207 -- Design 209 -- Paper in the Machine-press Period 214 -- Hand-made paper after 1800 214 -- Paper-making machinery 216 -- Machine-made papers 221 -- The nineteenth-century paper industry 228 -- Edition Binding 231 -- New procedures 232 -- Binding machinery 235 -- Publishers' cloth in Britain and America 238 -- Other styles of publishers' binding 247 -- The twentieth century 249 -- Printing Machines 251 -- Beginnings 251 -- Machines for book printing 253 -- Machine operation 258 -- Colour printing 261 -- Other printing machines 262 -- Processes of Reproduction 266 -- Engravings 266 -- Lithography 267 -- Photographic processes 269 -- Identification 272 -- Mechanical Composition, and Type 1875-1950 274 -- Cold-metal machines 274 -- Hot-metal machines 276 -- Type since 1875 283 -- Printing Practice in the Machine-press Period 289 -- Personnel 289 -- Production routines 292 -- The Book Trade in Britain and America since 1800 297 -- The structure of the trade 297 -- Forms in nineteenth-century publishing 300 -- Edition quantities and prices 304 -- Copyright, national and international 307 -- Bibliographical Applications 311 -- Identification 313 -- Edition, impression, issue, and state 313 -- Assessing the evidence 316 -- Facsimiles 320 -- Bibliographical Description 321 -- Purpose and scope 321 -- Transcription and reproduction 322 -- Formula 328 -- Technical notes 333 -- Other notes 335 -- Textual Bibliography 336 -- Textual criticism and bibliography 336 -- Copy-text 338 -- The transmission of the text 343 -- 1. Composition 343 -- 2. Proof-correction 351 -- 3. Later stages of production 354 -- The treatment of accidentals 358 -- A. A Note on Elizabethan Handwriting / R.B. McKerrow 361 -- B. Four Specimen Bibliographical Descriptions 368 -- C. The Transmission of the Text: Two Examples 381 -- 1. Compositor B and The merchant of Venice 381 -- 2. The textual history of David Copperfield 384 -- Reference Bibliography 392 -- I. General 392 -- II. Periodicals 393 -- III. Book Production: The Hand-press Period 393 -- 1. Hand-printing technology 393 -- b. Composition, imposition, correction 394 -- c. Presswork 395 -- d. Patterns of production 396 -- 2. Type 396 -- 3. Paper 397 -- 4. Binding 398 -- 5. Decoration and illustration 399 -- 6. The Book Trade to 1800 399 -- b. Personnel 400 -- c. Business organization 401 -- d. Publishing and bookselling 401 -- e. Authorship, copyright, and censorship 402 -- IV. Book Production: The Machine-press Period 402 -- 2. Survival and change 403 -- a. Hand composition 403 -- b. Iron hand-presses 403 -- 3. Plates 404 -- 4. Type 404 -- a. 1800-1875 404 -- b. Since 1875 405 -- 5. Paper 405 -- 6. Binding 406 -- 7. Printing machines 407 -- 8. Processes of reproduction 408 -- 9. Mechanical composition 408 -- 10. Printing-house organization 409 -- 11. The book trade in Britain and America since 1800 410 -- V. Bibliographical applications 411 -- 2. Identification and description 412 -- 3. Textual bibliography 413.
Library copy on BIB 175117: 2006 printing with imprint of Oak Knoll Press on the title page
ISBN:
1884718132 (USA)
9781884718137 (USA)
187304030X (UK)
9781873040300 (UK)
1584560363
9781584560364
Subject:
Printing History.
Bibliography, Critical.
Book industries and trade History.
Bibliography.
Book Industry history
Printing history
Imprimerie Histoire.
Bibliographie critique.
Livres Industrie Histoire.
Book industries and trade.
Printing.
Buch
Analytische bibliografie.
Boekenproductie.
Holdings:
Location: Library main 245486
Call No.: BIB 175117
Status: Available
Location: Library cataloguing office 130257
Call No.: Z116.A2.G27 (ID:97-B2095)
Status: Available
