Item #067940 A NEW INTRODUCTION TO BIBLIOGRAPHY. Philip Gaskell.

A NEW INTRODUCTION TO BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Pp. xxiv+438, frontispiece, numerous text figures, index; med. 8vo; Oak Knoll Press/St. Paul's Bibliographies, New Castle & Winchester, 2000. *Reprint, with corrections, of the 1972 Oxford University Press first edition. Effectively a sequel to An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students, by R. B. McKerrow. 'It follows McKerrow in aiming to elucidate the transmission of texts by explaining the processes of book production, but in addition it incorporates work done since McKerrow's day on the history of the printing technology of the hand-press period, and it attempts for the first time to give a general description of the printing practice of the machine-press period.'[Preface]. Item #067940

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