A New Introduction to Bibliography – Philip Gaskell Dagaanbieding

For more than forty years Ronald B. McKerrow’s An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students has been the classic manual on bibliography. McKerrow showed how the transmission of texts might be affected by the processes of printing, but he concentrated almost exclusively on ‘Elizabethan’ printing – 1560-1660.
In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the textual problems of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Philip Gaskell incorporates work done since the 1920s on the history of the prin…