College and Research Libraries brarians who either teach the history of the book or who are called on to do occasional presentations to classes on book history, have here a useful collec- tion to consult. Graduate students should ยท find most of its articles sugges- tive of any number of topics and ap- proaches to help them sort out methods and design their research. More illustra- tions would have been welcome, and I . am sure that many will wonder as to the professional identities of the contribu- tors: they are nowhere identified. None- theless, like other volumes in this British Library series, the present one is well worth perusing by anyone interested in the history of the book.-Michael T. Ryan, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Antiquarian Books: A Companion for Booksellers, Librarians, and Collec- tors. Ed. Philippa Bernard with Leo Bernard and Angus O'Neill. Philadel- phia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Pr., 1994. 46lp. $79.95 (ISBN 0-8122-3268-2). There are a great many published aids for booksellers, book collectors, and li- brarians, guiding them through the maze of buying and selling books, de- scribing and preserving them, calling at- tention to their most arcane attributes, and otherwise providing aid and corn- fort to bibliographical tyros as well as to those more seasoned in the art of biblio- phily. Others are more specialized in subjects such as bibliography, the use of rare book catalogs, the practice and management of rare book and special collections in libraries, directories of booksellers, book collectors and librari- ans, and so forth, all claiming some ex- pertise in guiding the knowledgeable and the gullible alike. The latest contribution to this field is Antiquarian Books: A Companion for Book- sellers, Librarians, and Collectors. This vol- ume is organized alphabetically with comparatively short entries for most subjects, but with longer, more discur- sive contributions by a variety of experts for the more important topics, as se- lected by the editors. For example, there are contributions by Mirjarn Foot on fine Book Reviews 371 bookbinding, John Kerr on book auc- tions, Anthony Rota on bookselling in a changing world, and H. R. Woudhuysen on bibliography. The coverage is wide- ranging, but with special focus on en- tries broadly relating to bookbinding, bookplates, and collecting English books on any number of topics. Several articles are aimed specifically at assisting booksellers as business people, particularly those on cataloging (with a charming section on the "personal touch"), and booksellers as publishers. A piece on computers for booksellers is unhelpful to those hoping to automate their business, take advantage of electronic cataloging, or in any other way adapt to the rapidly changing world of electronic data man- agement and applications to the anti- quarian book trade. There is also very little on autographs and manuscripts, and the entries on the broader topics of techniques of book illustration, copy- right, and incunabula, provide ade- quate, if not authoritative, coverage that a reference guide of this nature might be expected to provide. The editorial policy concerning selec- tion of entries for repositories and individual collections of rare books (especially those in institutions) seems inconsistently applied. There is, for ex- ample, an entry for the Osborne Collec- tion of children's books at the Toronto Public Library, but not for the Opie Col- lection at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, or the Ball Collection at the Pierpont Morgan Library; there is an entry for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washing- ton, but not the Newberry Library in Chicago. The presence of bibliographies, or the lack of same, at the end of entries seems also curiously inconsistent. Read- ers of the volume will appreciate several useful appendixes, including one for Latin and other foreign place names, an explanation of the system of Roman nu- merals, a list of the earliest surviving imprints by place, and a selected list of booktrade directories. The proofreading is good, with a minimum number of the inevitable errors. With the exception of a creditable en- try for American first editions (especially 372 College & Research Libraries for literary subjects), the focus in this volume is for British booksellers and book collectors. American booksellers and book collectors, not to mention li- brarians, will find the extensive refer- ences to English books, institutions, and collections somewhat limiting. The vol- ume retains, however, a real utility in the convenient manner in which the entries July 1995 are arranged and cross-referenced. De- spite its limitations, this volume will be useful indeed for booksellers, particu- larly those just getting started and those with a particular interest in British rare books more generally. It will be of less utility for most librarians.-William L. Joyce, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. IN FORTHCOMING ISSUES OF COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES Faculty Publishing Productivity: An Institutional Analysis and Comparison with Library and Other Measures JohnM. Budd Use-Based Selection for Preservation Microfilming Paula De Stefano Faculty Status for Library Professionals-Its Effect on Job Turnover and Job Satisfaction among University Research Library Directors Michael Koenig, Ronald Morrison, and Linda Roberts The Vertical File: Retain or Discard? Evelyn Payson African-American Library Administrators in Public and Academic Libraries Patricia B. Ball Censorship and the American College Library Ronald N. Bukoff