A New Introduction to Bibliography

Ronald B. McKerrow's "An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students" has been the classic manual on bibliography, showing how the transmission of texts might be affected by the processes of printing, but he concentrated almost exclusively on "Elizabethan" printing - the period from 1560 to 1660. However, in recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the textual problems of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and, although McKerrow covered the peri... >Voir plus