1. AT THE SOURCE OF THE EUROPEAN BOOK SCIENCE LITERATURE: THE TYPOLOGY OF BOOK HISTORY RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS OF THE 18TH CENTURY.
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ŻBIKOWSKA-MIGOŃ, ANNA
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HISTORY of the book , *SCIENTIFIC literature , *18TH century European literature , *BIBLIOGRAPHY , *HISTORICAL research , *EIGHTEENTH century - Abstract
Eighteenth-century European publications focused on book history followed the contemporaneous standards in science and scientific literature, but showed also certain characteristics arising from the state of bibliology itself. Bibliology at that time -- an in statu nascendi discipline-gained its scientific status through historical research. Fairly voluminous European literature on the history of book encompassed a broad spectrum of issues and facts, including the history of writing, manuscripts, printing, bookselling, and libraries. The typological approach to this legacy allows identifying its specific features, evolutionary tendencies, strengths and weaknesses of the early book historiography. In the presentation, various types of 18th-century publications are shown, distinguished by writing and editorial characteristics, form, content, objectives and targets. These include individual and multi-authored works; monographs and syntheses; original writings, compilations and adaptations; publications in different literary forms, such as letters and travelogues (e.g., library travels, Germ. Bibliotheks-reisen; teaching materials (academic textbooks, handbooks); promotional texts; reference works (encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, catalogues); and source collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010