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The English short-title catalogue : past, present, future / edited by Henry L. Snyder and Michael S. Smith
Bib ID 950835
Format BookBook
Online Versions
Description New York : AMS Press, c2003 
xvi, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 0404635423 (alk. paper) 
Series

AMS studies in the eighteenth century ; no. 42

Full contents
  • Machine derived contents note: Preface
  • Introduction
  • I. THE ESTC: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
  • A Brief History of the English Short-Title
  • Catalogue in North America
  • G. Thomas Tanselle
  • The Future of the ESTC: A Vision
  • Henry L. Snyder
  • Affordability Lost: Paying for Higher Education,
 
Notes

"Papers delivered at a conference at the New York Public Library on January 21, 1998, together with some personal histories of the ESTC in North America and reports of the canvass of the Public Record Office."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects ESTC (Project) - Congresses.  |  ESTC/NA (Project) - Congresses.  |  English short-title catalogue - Congresses  |  English imprints - Databases - Congresses.  |  Early printed books - English-speaking countries - Bibliography - Databases - Congresses.  |  English-speaking countries - Imprints - Databases - Congresses.
Other authors/contributors Snyder, Henry Leonard, 1929-  |  Smith, Michael S
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