1. Bibliographical abbreviations
Altick |
R. D. Altick, The English Common Reader (1957; 2e, 1998) |
BC |
Book Collector |
BH |
Book History |
Bischoff |
B. Bischoff, Latin Palaeography, tr. D. Ó Cróinín and D. Ganz (1990) |
BJRL |
Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester |
BLJ |
British Library Journal (see also eBLJ) |
BLR |
Bodleian Library Record |
BMC |
Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Museum (11 vols, 1908–2007; vols 1–9 repr. 1963) |
BSANZ |
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand |
CHB |
The Cambridge History of the Bible (3 vols, 1963–70): 1: From the Beginnings to Jerome, ed. P. R. Ackroyd and C. F. Evans; 2: The West, from the Fathers to the Reformation, ed. G. W. H. Lampe; 3: The West, from the Reformation to the Present Day, ed. S. L. Greenslade |
CHBB |
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 3: 1400–1557 (1999), ed. L. Hellinga and J. Trapp; 4: 1557–1695 (2002), ed. J. Barnard et al.; 5: 1695–1830 (2009), ed. M. F. Suarez, S.J., and M. Turner; 6: 1830–1914, ed. D. McKitterick (2009) |
CHLBI |
The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, ed. P. Hoare (3 vols, 2006) |
DEL |
P. Fouché et al., eds., Dictionnaire encyclopédique du livre (4 vols, 2002–11) |
DLB |
Dictionary of Literary Biography |
Gaskell, NI |
P. Gaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography (1972, repr. 1974) |
GJ |
Gutenberg-Jahrbuch |
GW |
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (1925–) |
HBA |
A History of the Book in America, 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, ed. H. Amory and D. D. Hall (2000); 2: An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, ed. R. A. Gross and M. Kelley (2010); 3: The Industrial Book, 1840–1880, ed. S. E. Casper et al. (2007); 4: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880–1940, ed. C. F. Kaestle and J. A. Radway (2009); 5: The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America, ed. D. Nord et al. (2009) |
HBC |
History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l’imprimé au Canada, ed. P. L. Fleming and Y. Lamonde (3 vols, 2004–7) |
HDHB |
Handbuch deutscher historischer Buchbestände in Europa (4 vols, 1999–2000) |
HLB |
Harvard Library Bulletin |
ISTC |
Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue |
LaB |
La Bibliofilía |
LGB |
Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens, ed. S. Corsten et al., 2e (1985–) |
McKerrow, |
R. B. McKerrow, An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students (1927) |
Middleton |
B. Middleton, A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique, 4e (1996) |
OBS |
Oxford Bibliographical Society |
ODNB |
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
PAAS |
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society |
PH |
Publishing History |
Reynolds and Wilson |
L. D. Reynolds N. G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars, 3e (1991) |
Rose |
J. Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (1991) |
SB |
Studies in Bibliography |
SQ |
Shakespeare Quarterly |
TQ |
The Quarterly (Journal of the British Association of Paper Historians) |
2. Other abbreviations
AD |
anno Domini |
BC |
before Christ |
BCE |
before the Common Era |
BL |
British Library |
BnF |
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris |
Bodleian |
Bodleian Library, Oxford |
c. |
circa; cent(s) |
CE |
Common Era |
cm |
centimetre(s) |
d. |
died |
d. |
penny, pence |
Dr |
Doctor |
e |
edition (e.g. 2e, ‘second edition’) |
ed. |
editor(s) |
edn |
edition |
et al. |
et alii (and others) |
f. |
and following |
ff. |
and following (plural) |
fig. |
figure |
fl. |
floruit |
fo. |
folio |
fos. |
folios |
Fr. |
French |
Gk |
Greek |
in. |
inch(es) |
km |
kilometre(s) |
Lat. |
Latin |
LC |
Library of Congress |
lit. |
literally |
m |
metre(s) |
mm |
millimetre(s) |
MS(S) |
manuscript(s) |
no. |
number |
NS |
new series |
r |
recto |
r. |
reigned, ruled |
repr. |
reprint(ed) |
rev. |
revised (by); reviewed by |
Revd |
Reverend |
s. |
shilling(s) |
sig. |
signature |
St |
Saint |
tr. |
translated by, translation, translator |
v |
verso |
vol. |
volume |
vols |