Research Catalog

Title

A new introduction to bibliography / by Philip Gaskell.

Author

Gaskell, Philip.

Publication

Winchester, UK : St. Paul's Bibliographies ; New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Lyons & Burford, 1995.

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Details

Description

438 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Geschichte 1500-1950
• Bibliography
• Printing > History
• Book industries and trade > History
• Bibliography, Critical
• Book Industry > history
• Printing > history

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Note

• "First published by Oxford University Press in 1972; reprinted with corrections, 1974"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [392]-413) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 1884718132 (USA)
• 187304030X (UK)
• 9781884718137
• 9781873040300
• 9781584560364

LCCN

^^^95023532^

OCLC

• 32821740
• SCSB-10772298

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library