Bibliography and Modern Book Production

Notes and Sources for Student Librarians, Printers, Booksellers, Stationers, Book-collectors

Percy Freer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

2024
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-909-4 (ISBN)

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Bibliography and Modern Book Production provides a fascinating journey through the history of librarianship and publishing. The book was a guide for library students in the 1950s on the essential literature of librarianship and serves as a valuable resource for scholars in book histories, publishing studies and information science.

Bibliography and Modern Book Production is a fascinating historic journey through the fields of print history, librarianship and publishing. It covers key developments from 1494 to 1949 in bibliography and book production from the history of scripts and paper manufacture to the origins of typefaces and printing. Although not a textbook, the book was a guide for library students in the 1950s on the essential literature of librarianship.

As the first librarian appointed to Wits University in 1929, Percy Freer's near encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject of bibliography enabled him to develop a key resource for relevant library examinations in South Africa and abroad. Due to its immense value as a historic record, and to acknowledge Freer's contributions as scholar, librarian and publisher, it is being reissued as part of the Wits University Press Re/Presents series to make it accessible to scholars in book histories, publishing studies and information science.

Percy Freer (Author) Percy Freer was a librarian and bibliographer appointed as the first librarian at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 1929. Veronica Klipp (Foreword by) Veronica Klipp is Publisher at Wits University Press and has worked in the South African publishing industry since 1992

Introduction by Veronica Klipp

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introductory Note

Addenda

PART 1. BIBLIOGRAPHY

I. The Bibliographers Define Bibliography

II. Literature of Bibliography and Modern Book Production

III. Bibliographies

IV. Compilation and Arrangement

V. Collation and Description of Books (Old and New) Their Structure and Parts

PART 2. MODERN BOOK PRODUCTION

VI. Historical Introduction

VII. Paper

VIII. Printing

IX. Illustration

X. Facsimiles and Near-Print

XI. Bookbinding

XII. Practical Authorship

XIII. Modern Fine Printing

Appendix: Examination Questions

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.08.2024
Vorwort	Veronica Klipp
Verlagsort	Johannesburg
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
ISBN-10	1-77614-909-2 / 1776149092
ISBN-13	978-1-77614-909-4 / 9781776149094
Zustand	Neuware