Principles of bibliographical description / Fredson Bowers ; introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle.

Winchester, U.K. : St. Paul's Bibliographies ; New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 1994.

xxv, 505 pages ; 23 cm.

Previously published: Winchester, U.K. : St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1986.

Descriptive bibliography -- Hand-printed books: edition, issue, and state; ideal copy -- Bibliographical description of sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth century books: a preview -- Transcription: title-page, colophon and explicit, head-title, running-titles -- Format and collational formula -- Interlude: reference notation -- Statement of signing; pagination and foliation; plates and insets; list of contents; catchwords; typography; notes and annotations -- Notes on eighteenth-century books -- Incunabula -- Considerations of nineteenth and twentieth century bibliography -- Publication, edition, impression, issue, and state -- Nineteenth and twentieth century books: description.

Includes bibliographical references and index.