Principles of Bibliographical Description
by: Fredson Bowers

Softcover. New Castle DE, Oak Knoll Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 505 pages. Reprint of the first edition published in 1949. With an Introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle. One of the indisputable classics of 20th-century scholarship, Bowers's work is one of the standard guides on the subject, providing a comprehensive manual for the description of printed books as physical objects. Although there has been much activity in descriptive bibliography since then, Principles still holds its place as the central book to which those engaged in bibliographical work continually return. Name on half-title page, otherwise clean.