A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies

A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies

In the following essay I use the term "bibliography of bibliographies" only for works of universal scope. Accordingly I discuss neither such national bibliographies as Giuseppe Ottino and Giuseppe Fumagalli's Bibliotheca bibliographica italiana (Rome, 1889) nor such special lists as Gabriel Peignot's Rpertoire des bibliographies spciales (Paris, 1808) and A List of Bibliographies of Special Subjects (Chicago, 1902) issued by the John Crerar Library. I exclude also lists of reference works. Other groups of books have demanded less arbitrary handling. In general, I have ruled out chapters on the bibliography of bibliographies in handbooks of library science. By the same token, I have included neither classified library catalogues, public or private, nor catalogues of private libraries owned by scholars or bibliographers in special fields. Finally I discuss only those subject indexes that were published before the bibliography of bibliographies was recognized as an independent scholarly undertaking, such as Conrad Gesner's Pandectae (1548) and Israel Spach's Nomenclator (1598). All later subject indexes in which the bibliography of bibliographies is subsidiary to other purposes, have been excluded. The bibliographies cited by short titles or the author's names are listed in full in the Bibliography. I have given locations for rare books only, and then only for the copies that I have used. I have not tried to identify the works cited in quotations illustrating bibliographical method or[viii] to correct errors in such quoted titles, except when the book is difficult to identify or when a correction is pertinent to the discussion of the writer's bibliographical technique. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 46414
Author: Taylor, Archer
Release Date: Jul 26, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English