The British National Bibliography Annual Volume 1954 [antikvár]

PREFACE The objects of the British National Bibliography are to list every new work published in Great Britain, to describe each work in detail and to give the subject matter of each work as precisely as possible. The work is carried out at the British Museum, where copies of all new books must be deposited by law. It is done by a team of fully qualified bibliographers with the resources of the British Museum at its disposal and every endeavour is made to ensure the acciuracy of the information given. A few classes of publications are intentionally excluded, they are: (a) Cheap novelettes ib) Periodicals (except that the first issue of a new periodical and the first issue of a periodical under a new title are included) (c) Musical scores id) Maps ie) The less significant Government publications. Hints for tracing information This bibliography is in two sections: in the first, or Subject Section, the entries are arranged according to a system of subject classification; in the second the entries are arranged alphabetically. The fullest information about a book is given in the Subject Section including the fullest form of an author's name, the full title, the number of pages, the kind of illustrations, the size and the series as well as the edition, publisher, price and date of publication. A shorter entry is given in the Alphabetical Section under the name of the author, including a short title, edition, publisher and price as well as the name of the editor or translator, if there is one. Aathor When the author of a book is known look under his name in the Alphabetical Section. The information given here will be adequate for most purposes. If, on the other hand, the fullest information about a book is required. turn to the entry in the Subject Section. This is easüy found from the reference number at the end of the author entry. This reference number has two parts. The first is the part to be noted and is read as a decimal number. Thus, for example, the number 621 will be found after the number 598.2942 and before the number 621.384. A very short acquaintance will make the order of the reference numbers simple to follow. A few signs are also used whose order will become familiar. They are the colon (:), a stroke (/) and square brackets ([1]). Thus 621 :620 will be found immediately after 621 and before 621.0; 613/614 will be found before 613 ; and 621.[1] will be found after 621.0 and before 621.1. The second part of the reference number—the number in round brackets beginning (B54- )—is the book's serial number. Serial numbers identify every British publication recorded in the British National Bibliography. In the case of compilations of works by several authors, the entry in the Alphabetical Section may be found under the editor or compiler. Sometimes entries are made under the names of countries and cities which are considered to be the authors of their official publications. Transactions, reports and journals of societies are entered imder the name of the society, and anonymous works, periodicals and some year books imder the first word of the title which is not an article. Title, Series, Editors and Translators ??.Entries are made in the Alphabetical Section imder me titles of all works unless the subject of the work is clear,frdin the titie, so that if you do not know the authci of a work it can be found by looking up its title or its subject in the Alphabetical Section. If you do not know the author or the titie or the subject, it may still be possible to trace the work if the name of its editor or translator or series is known. Subject One of the most important aspects of this bibliography is its exhaustive index to the subject matter of books. The Subject Section itself displays the works on a subject in such a way that the whole field of literature on a subject can be easily perused. The Alphabetical Section lists all the subjects found in the Subject