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Author Bowman, J. H

Title A Critical Edition of the Private Diaries of Robert Proctor : the Life of a Librarian at the British Museum
Published Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (415 pages)
Contents A CRITICAL EDITION OF THE PRIVATE DIARIES OF ROBERT PROCTOR: The Life of a Librarian at the British Museum; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Note on the Text; The Commentary; Abbreviations Used in the Commentary; Volume 1: 1 January 1899-3, March 1900; Volume 2: 4 March 1900 -- 16, July 1901; Fig. 1: Oxshott in 1896; Fig. 2: The first page of the diary; Fig. 3: Diary for 4 -- 7 Dec. 1900, showing change of handwriting; Fig. 4: Alfred W. Pollard; Fig. 5: Francis Jenkinson; Fig. 6: Emery Walker; Fig. 7: The RG Monogram
Fig. 8: Front page of the Decree, showing Otter DeviceVolume 4: 29 August 1902 -- 28, August 1903; ISTC Index to Incunabula; General Index
Summary Robert Proctor will always be remembered among bibliographers for two things: for his rearrangeĈ ment of the incunabula in the British Museum in what has become known as?Proctor order?, based on the way in which printing spread in its early days; and for the mystery which continues to surround his death. Born in 1868, he was appointed to the British Museum in 1891, and in 1898 he published his Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. In 1899 he started to keep a private diary, and this lasted until his death in 1903. One of the volumes is missing, but the remaining three are edi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Proctor, Robert, 1868-1903 -- Diaries
SUBJECT Proctor, Robert, 1868-1903 fast
Subject British Museum -- Officials and employees -- Diaries
SUBJECT British Museum fast
Subject Bibliographers -- England -- Diaries
Librarians -- England -- Diaries
Incunabula -- Bibliography -- Methodology
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
REFERENCE -- Bibliographies & Indexes.
Bibliographers
Employees
Incunabula -- Bibliography -- Methodology
Librarians
England
Genre/Form Diaries
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773429949
0773429948