Records of a Bibliographer : Selected Papers of William Alexander Jackson. Edited with an Introduction and Bibliography by William H. Bond
by Jackson, W.A. ; Bond, W.H
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1967. Cloth, gilt cover-title, small folio, 29 cm,. xiv, 236 pp, ills, facs. Contents : Introduction (containing a biographical memoir of William Jackson); Bibliography; 1. The Education of a Bibliographer; 2. Thomas Frognall Dibdin; 3. A Description from the Unpublished Chapin Catalogue; 4. A Dibdinian Tour; 5. Counterfeit Printing in Jacobean Times; 6. The Funeral Procession of Queen Elizabeth; 7. Variant Entry Fees of the Stationers' Company; 8. Edward Gwynn; 9. The Lamport Hall-Britwell Court Books; 10. Humphrey Dyson' Library, or, Some Observations on the Survival of Books; 11. Tune et Nunc: or the Pepys and Taylor Collections of Early English Books on Navigation; 12. The 'Lincolne Nosegay' Books; 13. Lucius Wilmerding, 1880-1949; 14 The Hofer Collection; 15. Selections from Houghton Library Reports; 16. The Revised S.T.C.: A Progress Report; 17. Bibliography & Literary Studies; 18. The Importance of Rare Books and Manuscripts in a University Library. Fine in somewhat sunned else Very Good price-clipped dustwrapper .
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- Title
- Records of a Bibliographer : Selected Papers of William Alexander Jackson. Edited with an Introduction and Bibliography by William H. Bond
- Author
- Jackson, W.A. ; Bond, W.H
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, gilt cover-title, small folio, 29 cm,
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in somewhat sunned else Very Good price-clipped dustwrapper
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1967
- Date Published
- 1967
- Pages
- xiv, 236 pp, ills, facs
- Keywords
- Jackson, William A. Bond, William H. bibliography Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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