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E. W. Padwick
Eric William Padwick (23 January 1923 – 29 March 2010) was a professional bibliography, bibliographer who compiled the definitive bibliography of cricket literature. He was also Deputy Librarian of the Guildhall Library. The Cricket Society commissioned him to compile a comprehensive bibliography of cricket literature under the title ''A Bibliography of Cricket''. The first edition, published in 1977 by the Library Association (UK), Library Association had 8294 entries. It covered the period until 1973. A revised edition, published in 1984, extended the number of entries to over 10,000. A second volume, published in 1991 as ''Padwick's Bibliography of Cricket, Volume 2'', was compiled by Stephen Eley and Peter Griffiths and covered works published between 1980 and 1990 (). In 2008 Stephen W. Gibbs published in a limited edition ''Post Padwick: The Gibbs Extension of Padwick's Bibliography, 1990-2006'', with 7049 entries. Of the first edition, John Arlott wrote in his review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibliography
Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography'' as a word having two senses: one, a list of books for further study or of works consulted by an author (or enumerative bibliography); the other one, applicable for collectors, is "the study of books as physical objects" and "the systematic description of books as objects" (or descriptive bibliography). Etymology The word was used by Greek writers in the first three centuries CE to mean the copying of books by hand. In the 12th century, the word started being used for "the intellectual activity of composing books." The 17th century then saw the emergence of the modern meaning, that of description of books. Currently, the field of bibliography has expanded to include studies that consider the book as a material object. Bibliography, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
