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FROM FLOCK BEDS TO PROFESSIONALISM: A HISTORY OF INDEX-MAKERS
Bell, Hazel K.
With a Preface by David Crystal
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First edition. "Indexing is an anonymous profession. An index may be praised or blamed, but rarely is the indexer named, lauded or shamed," laments Professor David Crystal in his preface to From Flock Beds to Professionalism. This book, however, initiates a change. Hazel Bell presents here brief biographies of 65 individual practitioners, the makers of indexes, from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, considering their working methods, techniques, training, remuneration, their lives and their personalities. Crystal observes, "Although it is the history of indexing which governs the structure of the book, it is the personalities of the indexers themselves which shine through it ... I was unprepared for the range, diversity and sheer brilliance of the personalities lying behind the names." After the biographical section on the "Lone Workers," Bell outlines in "Banding Together" the history of groups and societies of indexers world-wide up to 1995, the year she sees as entailing the end of print-only indexing. The book includes photographs of indexers and of their tokens of recognition. Hazel Bell has been a freelance indexer since 1964, having compiled to date more than 700 indexes to books and journals, and won the Wheatley Medal for an outstanding index in both 2005 and 2006. She has been a member of the Society of Indexers for 44 years, serving on its Council as editor of its journal, The Indexer, for 18 of them. In 1997, she was presented by the Society with the Carey Award for services to indexing. She has written many articles for The Indexer and other learned journals. Bell is the author of Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction (British Library/University of Toronto Press, 2001) and Indexing Biographies and Other Stories of Human Lives (Society of Indexers, 3rd edition 2004). Co-published with HKB Press.
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PENELOPE'S ENGLISH EXPERIENCES With PENELOPE'S EXPERIENCE...
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Three volumes. First volume: 11th edition, 1901 (3rd edition illustrated by Brock). Second volume: 10th reprint of 2nd edition. 1908 (2nd edition and all reprints illustrated by Brock). Third volume: 8th edition, 1902 (1st illustrated by Brock). Novels based on extracts from the commonplace book of Penelope Hamilton of travels through the British Isles. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. First volume, England; second volume, Scotland; third volume, Ireland. Black and white illustrations throughout. Ink inscription on front endpaper of first volume. Horizontal wrinkling to rear board, and along spine, of second volume. Back hinge of second volume loose. Front endpaper torn on second volume. Light foxing on endpapers of second volume. A beautifully preserved set of these prime examples of early publisher's binding.
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