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'''descriptive or analytical bibliography''': describing printed variations of a text | '''descriptive or analytical bibliography''': describing printed variations of a text | ||
(some "bibliographical catalogues" exist between these two forms) | |||
:"The concern of the descriptive bibliographer ... is to examine every available copy of an edition of a book in order to describe in bibliographical terms the characteristics of an ideal copy of this edition, to distinguish between issues and variants of the edition, to explain and describe the printing and textual history of the edition, and finally to arrange it in a correct and logical relationship to other editions." (6) | :"The concern of the descriptive bibliographer ... is to examine every available copy of an edition of a book in order to describe in bibliographical terms the characteristics of an ideal copy of this edition, to distinguish between issues and variants of the edition, to explain and describe the printing and textual history of the edition, and finally to arrange it in a correct and logical relationship to other editions." (6) | ||
: See [http://www.bibsocamer.org/bibdef.htm|Terry Belanger, "Descriptive Bibliiography."] | |||
bibliographies may help librarians and collectors identify the books in their possession, "but from the bibliographer's point of view this possibility should be only a by-product of his work. The facts, the distinguishing 'points' are the necessary main concern of the collector or librarian. these are of crucial importance in bibliography, too, but '''only as the penultimate step to textual and literary criticism.'''" (8) | |||
== Format and Collational Formula == | == Format and Collational Formula == | ||
Revision as of 20:45, 30 May 2010
Bowers, Fredson. Principles of Bibliographical Description. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1949.
Descriptive Bibliography
catalogue or handlist: compilation of titles on a given subject
descriptive or analytical bibliography: describing printed variations of a text
(some "bibliographical catalogues" exist between these two forms)
- "The concern of the descriptive bibliographer ... is to examine every available copy of an edition of a book in order to describe in bibliographical terms the characteristics of an ideal copy of this edition, to distinguish between issues and variants of the edition, to explain and describe the printing and textual history of the edition, and finally to arrange it in a correct and logical relationship to other editions." (6)
bibliographies may help librarians and collectors identify the books in their possession, "but from the bibliographer's point of view this possibility should be only a by-product of his work. The facts, the distinguishing 'points' are the necessary main concern of the collector or librarian. these are of crucial importance in bibliography, too, but only as the penultimate step to textual and literary criticism." (8)