CATALOGUING FOR BOOKSELLERS
By Laurence Worms

London : Rare Book Society, 2023. Fourth impression of the original 2015 publication : one of 250 copies. A guide to professional cataloguing, outlining various options in ways of handling the basic bibliographical information, collation, the dating of undated books, adding notes on content and provenance, describing pagination, binding, condition, etc. – with numerous (mainly British) examples drawn from both book trade and library practice. The author has been a London bookseller for fifty years and has taught annually at the London Rare Books School.

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Demy 8vo (22cm). [iv],60pp. Coloured illustrations. Original decorative stapled self-wrappers; very good.

£15

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