Rare Book School
Preliminary Reading List

Advanced Rare Book Cataloging

Deborah J. Leslie

Recommended Reading

Ascher, James P. "Progressing Toward Bibliography," in RBM 10:2 (2009), 95–110.

Bennett, Stuart. Trade Bookbinding in the British Isles 1660-1800 (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press/ London: British Library, 2004).

Gaskell, Philip. A New Introduction to Bibliography. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972, rev 1974, &c. 2009 reprint (Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies/ New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books).

Leslie, Deborah J. and Benjamin Griffin. "Transcription of Early Letter Forms in Rare Materials Cataloging," 2003. A discussion paper prepared for the DCRM Working Conference.

Tanselle, G. Thomas. “The Bibliographical Concepts of Issue and State,” in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 69:1 (1975), 17–66.

Tanselle, G. Thomas. "The Concept of Format," in Studies in Bibliography 53 (2000): p. 67–116.