Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography by Richard Garnett

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Author Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906
LoC No. 02002043
Title Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography
Note Occasional addresses and papers, for the most part previously published in various reviews, 1877-1898.
Contents Address to the Library association [1898] -- Public libraries and their catalogues -- The printing of the British museum Catalogue -- The past, present, and future of the British museum Catalogue -- The British museum Catalogue as the basis of a universal catalogue -- Introduction of European printing into the East -- Paraguayan and Argentine bibliography -- The early Italian book trade -- Some book-hunters of the seventeenth century -- Librarianship in the seventeenth century -- The manufacture of fine paper in England in the eighteenth century -- On some colophons of the early printers -- On the system of classifying books on the shelves followed at the British museum -- Subject-indexes to transactions of learned societies -- Photography in public libraries -- The telegraph in the library -- On the protection of libraries from fire -- The sliding-press at the British museum -- On the provision of additional space in libraries -- Preface to Blades "Enemies of books" -- Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B. -- The late John Winter Jones, V.P.S.A. -- The late Henry Stevens, F.S.A. -- The late Sir Edward A. Bond, K.C.B. -- Index.
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Language English
LoC Class Z: Bibliography, Library science
Subject Library science
Subject British Museum
Subject Bibliography -- Methodology
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