Title & Author:

The Book encompassed : studies in twentieth-century bibliography / edited by Peter Davison.

Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Description:

xvi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Bibliographical Society, 1942-1992 / Julian Roberts -- Issues in bibliographical studies since 1942 / G. Thomas Tanselle -- Medieval manuscript studies / Christopher De Hamel -- English literary manuscripts of the twentieth century / Jenny Stratford -- The analysis of handwriting : an introductory survey / Tom Davis -- The study of paper as evidence, artefact, and commodity / John Bidwell -- Typographic studies / Nicolas Barker -- The future of bookbinding research / Mirjam M. Foot -- Incunabula, 1942-1992 : from type to text / Lotte Hellinga -- Stationers' Company bibliography, 1892-1992 / Robin Myers -- Enumerative and descriptive bibliography / T.H. Howard-Hill -- Describing maps / Sarah Tyacke -- Developments in the study of book illustration / Gwyn Walters -- Bibliographical developments in the history of science / Magda Whitrow -- Book catalogues : their varieties and uses / David McKitterick -- The British provincial book trade / Peter Isaac, Michael Perkin -- Scottish bibliography for the period ending 1801 / Brian Hillyard.
From autograph to automation : Welsh bibliography / Eiluned Rees -- The silken purse : bibliography in Ireland / Charles Benson, Mary Pollard -- La bibliologie in France / David Shaw -- Bibliography and oriental literature / B.C. Bloomfield -- Tradition and innovation : bibliography in Australia and New Zealand / Wallace Kirsop -- Developments in editing biblical texts / Sebastian P. Brock -- Notes on theory and practice in editing texts / Fredson Bowers -- Analytical and textual bibliography in Germany and Italy / John L. Flood, Conor Fahy -- Bibliographical studies in Japan / Akihiro Yamada -- Bibliography in the computer age / Robin Alston -- History of the book / D.F. McKenzie -- Meditations by the Captain of the Iceberg / Terry Belanger.

Summary:

The techniques and approaches fostered in the first half of this century by what was called the 'New Bibliography' have spread throughout the world, developing and expanding in association with bodies such as the Bibliographical Society. The essays specially commissioned for this book take 'New Bibliography' into the twenty-first century. They survey bibliographic and textual studies in some thirty fields, and include discussions of major issues and developments. Areas covered include manuscript studies and the analysis of handwriting; the physical characteristics of the book - its paper, type, and binding; enumerative and descriptive bibliography: incunabula, cartography, book illustration, book catalogues, and the Stationers' Company; bibliographical developments in the history of science, and in many countries - France, Germany, Italy, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the British provincial book trade, Japan and the Orient, Australia and New Zealand; developments in the theory and practice of editing texts (including biblical texts); the history of the book; and the implications of the computer for bibliography. An important feature of these essays is that each makes proposals for future research, ensuring the vitality of bibliography in the next half-century. Appearing at the time of the Bibliographical Society's centenary, the collection provides a landmark, taking stock of developments in what has become a vast and vital area of study, and mapping out its future parameters.

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Publisher description
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ISBN:

052141878X (hard)
9780521418782 (hard)
052147878X

Subject:

Bibel Ester
Bibliography History 20th century.
Bibliography Methodology.
Bibliography Great Britain History 20th century.
Bibliography Great Britain Methodology.
Historiography.
Bibliography Methodology History 20th century.
Book industries and trade Historiography.
Manuscripts Historiography.
Books Historiography.
Book Industry history
Books history
Bibliography as Topic methods
Bibliographie Méthodologie Histoire 20e siècle.
Livres Industrie Historiographie.
Édition Histoire 20e siècle.
Manuscrits Historiographie.
Livres Historiographie.
Bibliographie Histoire 20e siècle.
Bibliographie Méthodologie.
Bibliographie Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Bibliographie Grande-Bretagne Méthodologie.
Historiographie.
historiography.
Bibliography
Bibliografie
Aufsatzsammlung
Buch
Boeken.
Handschriften.
Bibliographical Society.
Bibliography Methodology 20th century.
Editing History 20th century.
Édition 20e siècle.
Bibliologie.
Bibliographie Méthodologie 20e siècle.
Industrie du livre Historiographie.
Codicologie.
Great Britain
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History

Added entries:

Davison, Peter, 1926-2022.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 17641
Call No.: ID PLS; ID:93-B1076
Status: Available