It would be impossible to propose any system of classification, which would command general approval, or upon which a commission of competent bibliographers would be unanimous in opinion.
Such is now the general opinion of competent bibliographers and literary men.
If more bibliographerscould write their reminiscences with the same spirit that he does, we should hear less of the dullness of bibliography.
Aldus, the son of Paulus, who is known amongbibliographers as "the younger," had not perhaps the same opportunities as were afforded to his predecessors.
The book bears no date, but bibliographers assign it that of 1525, the year of the regency.
We quote from an edition of the work not mentioned by the bibliographers (Brunet-Harrisse), printed at Rouen in 1602.
But other bibliographers recognize only four editions and arrange them differently.
It has been made a cause of complaint recently against bibliographers that they know more of the work done at any insignificant fifteenth century press than of the history of printing at any subsequent time.
The completion of the series will be a boon to bibliographers and scholars alike.
The few block-books known in the seventeenth century were regarded by bibliographers as prejudicial to the claims of contestants for the honor of the invention of typography.
If two pages were put in one mortise, one of these pages would often be out of square—an irregularity which has led some bibliographers to think that each page was separately printed from a separate form.
The greater part of the copies have been found in Germany, and it is the opinion of the most eminent bibliographers that the first edition of the book, and most of the editions, were printed in Germany.
The National Library at Paris has two very old xylographic blocks[130] of this book, which some bibliographers suppose were made about the middle of the fifteenth century.
There are prints known to collectors as the Crucifixion, the Last Judgment and the St. Jerome, which are regarded by many bibliographers as the work of unknown engravers at or about 1400.
The disagreements of bibliographers concerning this book have not been restricted to controversies about its date and printer.
There is a disagreement among bibliographers about the quantity of types ordinarily cast for a font by the early printers.
He wrote, not for printers, but for bibliographers who believed in the practicability of wood types, and he did not mistake his readers.
One edition of this work contains an imprint in sprawling and almost unreadable characters, which bibliographers interpret as the letters F.
But Dutch bibliographers claim that the earlier editions of the book were printed at least thirty-three, perhaps fifty, years before the arrival of German printers in the Netherlands.
The statement that a rude method of printing had been practised three centuries before its supposed invention, was received by the bibliographerswith incredulity.
This book, the Constitutions (or Body of Divinity) of Pope Clement V, with the Commentaries of Bishop John Andrew, has been much admired by bibliographers for its composition.
For their information concerning the Tractatus, the modernbibliographers evidently rely entirely on entries in the catalogues of the respective libraries.
Wüstenfeld and thebibliographers that followed him have evidently derived their information concerning these MSS.
He captivated Irving by his helpful nature, who says of him: “Rich was one of the most indefatigable, intelligent, and successful bibliographers in Europe.
His issues and reissues of them are somewhat complicated by supplements and combinations, but collectors and bibliographers place them on their shelves in the following order: 1.
Mr. Stevens was one of the most acute and learned bibliographers I have known.
The most expert French bibliographers who have distinguished themselves by compiling catalogues have been most severely criticised by writers who no doubt would have been victimized in their turn if they had undertaken similar work.
Illustrated with fine steel-plate portraits of eminent bibliographers and literary celebrities, numerous woodcuts and photo-lithographs, &c.
A most elaborate work, to which all bibliographers are indebted for a fund of interesting and important information.
The bibliographers are agreed that others than Le Clercq were engaged in the Établissement, and that the part concerning Frontenac was clearly not by Le Clercq.
Le Clercq refers in two places[684] to “an ample Relation given to the public” by the Recollects of Aquitaine for an account of their labors in Acadia; but the work is still unknown to bibliographers and students.
Footnote 66: Of course theBibliographers prey relentlessly on each other, and bibliographical notices of Bibliographies abound.
I am not aware that any of the English bibliographers have alluded to any special cause for this volume's extreme rarity.
In spite of this, modern bibliographers are of opinion that Caxton could not have played even a subordinate part in the printing of this book at Cologne.
Bernhard--who proved himself in the frequent discussions, and sometimes little controversies, which we had together, to be one of the very best bibliographers I had met upon the continent.
The magazine version, which was abridged by about a third, was believed by many bibliographersto be the only version--and as a novella it was too short for book publication.
Those bibliographers who knew of its existence assumed that both versions of Uller were the same.
But the bibliographers ascribe it to Luzac, who was a man of culture and ability.
The time and place of origin of the Speculum are unknown, and bibliographers are not agreed as to the order in which the several "editions" appeared.
But these theories, though not disproved, do not receive the support of bibliographersin general.
It has become the practice amongbibliographers to describe all references as cross-references.
There cannot be two opinions among experienced bibliographers of the absurdity of making a catalogue in such a piecemeal manner, and yet this is a plan of proceeding which the inexperienced in cataloguing are frequently found to recommend.
This trifling mistake is noticed here, as from similar oversights bibliographers have sometimes described books as having been twice or thrice printed, when, in fact, there had been only one edition.
A short biographic sketch of the Abbe Mercier St. Leger, one of the most eminent French Bibliographers of the last century, will be found in Dr.
From the similarity between Pfister's types and those with which a Bible without place or date is printed, several bibliographers have ascribed the latter work to his press.
This title, however, has given rise to an error which certain learned bibliographers have without the least examination adopted, and have afterwards given to the public considerably enlarged, at least, if not corrected.
Many books were formerly excessively rare, which, from peculiar circumstances, not necessary to be here detailed, but well known to bibliographers and collectors, have since become comparatively common.
By the bye, it is an error in bibliographers and editors to give only the titles of old books from the original title-pages, without adding the imprints of the publishers.
George Searle is the man proposed by the bibliographers (see Bohn's Lowndes, Art.
Although in such cases various extraneous circumstances have enabled bibliographers to “place” these books, the Mark of the printer has almost invariably been the chief aid in this direction.
Some bibliographers argue that the date refers to the introduction of printing in England, and quote the colophon of the first edition of the “Chess” book in support of this theory.
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