bibliography and modern book production: notes and sources for student librarians, printers, booksellers, stationers, book-collectors

Bibliography and Modern Book Production is a fascinating historic journey through the fields of print history, librarianship and publishing. It covers key developments from 1494 to 1949 in bibliography and book production from the history of scripts and paper manufacture to the origins of typefaces and printing. Although not a textbook, the book was a guide for library students in the 1950s on the essential literature of librarianship.

As the first librarian appointed to Wits University in 1929, Percy Freer’s near encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject of bibliography enabled him to develop a key resource for relevant library examinations in South Africa and abroad. Due to its immense value as a historic record, and to acknowledge Freer’s contributions as scholar, librarian and publisher, it is being reissued as part of the Wits University Press Re/Presents series to make it accessible to scholars in book histories, publishing studies and information science.

Percy Freer (Author)
Percy Freer was a librarian and bibliographer appointed as the first librarian at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 1929.

Veronica Klipp (Foreword by)
Veronica Klipp is Publisher at Wits University Press and has worked in the South African publishing industry since 1992