| Description |
xvii, 356 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Libraries, museums, and reading (1991) -- Bibliographers and the library (1977) -- The history of books as a field of study (1981) -- Reproductions and scholarship (1989) -- The latest forms of book-burning (1993) -- The future of primary records (1996) -- A description of descriptive bibliography (1992) -- The recording of American books and the British bibliographical tradition (1985) -- Enumerative bibliography and the physical book (1993) -- Textual criticism and deconstruction (1990) -- Editing without a copy-text (1994) -- Critical editions, hypertexts, and genetic criticism (1995) -- Books, canons, and the nature of dispute (1992) -- Analytical bibliography and printing history (1981) -- Printing history and other history (1995) -- Appendix: Statement on the role of books and manuscripts in the electronic age, delivered at the fiftieth-anniversary symposium of the Houghton Library, 11 September 1992 ; "Statement on the significance of primary records," adopted by the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association of America, 19 May 1995. |
| Subject(s) |
Bibliography, Critical.
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