Carter, John

QUERY 181. THOMAS J. WISE'S DESCRIPTIVE FORMULA.

Contained in The Book Collector, Volume 12, No. 2, Summer 1964. Pp. 137-280 (including advertisements), 10 plates ; demy 8vo; printed stiff pink paper wrappers, lightly creased, the backstrip a trifle faded; text block slightly buckled; The Book Collector, London, 1964. *On pages 214-5 in the Bibliographical Notes & Queries section, (Query 181), Carter asks several questions raised by Wilfred Partington's description of an 'informal committee' of contemporaries of Wise who met at the house of R. A. Potts in South Audley Street, London to plan how to 'arrive at a common system of recording bibliographical descriptions' [p. 215]. Item #160024

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