In 1911, in support of Paul Otlet’s plan for a universal bibliography, Boleslas Iwinski, a Polish-born economist and labor organizer, estimated the total number of book titles that had been printed since Gutenberg’s day. His totals have been largely forgotten (except by a few scholars like W. Boyd Rayward), but his goals and methods have been accepted and modified over the past century, and are still provocative.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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1559-0682
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text
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en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/49317
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2013.0044
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