Bibliography and Book Production.

Astbury, R.

Published by Pergamon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1967, 1967

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Cloth, 8vo, 20 cm, xiv, 260 pp, 28 ills. From the preface: "The object of this book is to provide not a comprehensive account of publishing and bookselling practice nor to describe all the main bibliographies, but to serve as an introduction to current problems and trends in bibliographical organization and the book trade, with an outline of the main methods of book production, and to act as a guide to the main types of bibliographies and their uses. It is also an attempt to point the interrelationships between various aspects of publishing, bookselling, printing, and bibliography." Contents include: Preface; 1 The Structure of the Publishing Trade; 2. Copyright and Censorship; 3. The Authors; 4. Contemporary Book Production; 5. Contemporary Book Production.; 6. The Well-produced Book; 7. The Well-produced Book.; 8. Microforms and Photocopies; 9. The Information Explosion; 10. Universal Bibliographies; 11. National Bibliographies; 12. Special Bibliographies I; 13. Special Bibliographies. II; 14. Special Bibliographies. Ill; 15. Guides to Serials; 16. The Literature Search and the Arrangement of Bibliographies; Index. Bookplate of Roy A. Gillespie on front pastedown endpaper, an ex-library copy with a large library blindstamp on the rear board, tape marks on the endpapers and the rear board, accession marks and stamps on the prelims and stamps on occasional other pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bibliography and Book Production.
• Publisher: Pergamon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1967
• Publication Date: 1967
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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