Bibliography and Modern Book Production is a fascinating historic journey through the fields of print history, librarianship and publishing. It covers key developments from 1494 to 1949 in bibliography and book production from the history of scripts and paper manufacture to the origins of typefaces and printing. Although not a textbook, the book was a guide for library students in the 1950s on the essential literature of librarianship.
As the first librarian appointed to Wits University in 1929, Percy Freer’s near encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject of bibliography enabled him to develop a key resource for relevant library examinations in South Africa and abroad. Due to its immense value as a historic record, and to acknowledge Freer’s contributions as scholar, librarian and publisher, it is being reissued as part of the Wits University Press Re/Presents series to make it accessible to scholars in book histories, publishing studies and information science.
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Covering key developments in bibliography and publishing, from the history of writing and paper manufacture to the origins of typefaces and printing up to the 1940s.
Introduction by Veronica Klipp
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introductory Note
Addenda
PART
1. BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. The Bibliographers Define Bibliography
II. Literature of Bibliography and Modern Book Production
III. Bibliographies
IV. Compilation and Arrangement
V. Collation and Description of Books (Old and New) Their Structure and
Parts
PART
2. MODERN BOOK PRODUCTION
VI. Historical Introduction
VII. Paper
VIII. Printing
IX. Illustration
X. Facsimiles and Near-Print
XI. Bookbinding
XII. Practical Authorship
XIII. Modern Fine Printing
Appendix: Examination Questions
Index
Percy Freer (Author) Percy Freer was a librarian and bibliographer appointed as the first librarian at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 1929.
Veronica Klipp (Foreword by) Veronica Klipp is Publisher at Wits University Press and has worked in the South African publishing industry since 1992
