Bibliography of the Eskimo Language (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Pilling, James Constantine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1334402760 ISBN 13: 9781334402760

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from Bibliography of the Eskimo Language

The only texts of the Eskimo of the middle stretch of country are those of the Hudson Bay people by the Rev. E. J. Peck.

For a succinct statement of the order and date of publication the reader is referred to the chronologic index at the end of the bibliography.

The best collection of Eskimo texts I have met with is that of Major Powell, of Washington; the second, perhaps, that in the library of the British Museum. The best collection of Arctic literature is that in the British Museum; the second, that in the Library of Congress.

N o detailed statement of the plan pursued in recording this matter is thought to be necessary, as but few departures from the ordinary rules -of library cataloguing have been made. The dictionary plan has been followed to its extreme limit as the best adapted to the purpose in view. All works are entered under their author when known - translators being considered as authors - and under first word of title, not an article or a preposition, when the name of the author is not known. A cross-reference is given from the first words of every Eskimo title when such title is entered under an author's name, whether or not the work is anonymous. All titular matter, including cross-references, is in a larger, all index and explanatory matter in a smaller, type.

During the progress of type setting a number of titles have come to hand in time for insertion in their proper places, but, in some cases, too late to permit the preper entry to be made in the subject or dialect indexes; and the translation of the Eskimo titles, which was done after the matter was in galley proof, has shown that a few items have been wrongly entered in the subject indexes. I think these unavoidable minor errors and omissions should not be held to weigh against the manifest advantages of a single alphabetic arrangement.

The prices quoted are from such sources as were at command, and are arranged chronologically.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1334402760
• ISBN 13: 9781334402760
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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