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Österreichische Retrospektive Bibliographie. München: Saur, 2000. (Reihe 2. Österreichische Zeitungen 1492-1945) Von Helmut W. Lang und Ladislaus Lang unter Mitarbeit von Wilma Buchinger Saur, Munchen 2003 Bd.2-5. Bibliographie der osterreichischen Zeitungen 1621-1945 Séries 2 - Osterreichische Zeitungen 1492-1945 Bibliographie der osterreichischen Zeitungen 1621-1945 (Volume 2) ISBN: 3-598-23384-1 Price: 198 euro
Bibliographie der osterreichischen Zeitungen 1621-1945 (Volume 3) ISBN: 3-598-23385-X Price: 198 euro
Bibliographie der osterreichischen Zeitungen 1621-1945 (Volume 4) ISBN: 3-598-23396-5 Price: 198 euro
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Keywords Austria, Newspapers, Bibliography
Review DOI 10.1108/00242530510583101
The introduction to volume two of this series repeats the assurance made in volume one, published in 2001, that Austria is one of the few European countries which still does not have a retrospective bibliography. An attempt to rectify this lack was made a century and a half ago by the Viennese scholar, Franz Gràffer, but nothing came of it, partly because no publisher would take the financial risk involved - a situation which rings very familiarly in my ear, after an enormous bibliographical handbook on which I had been working for around seven years had been rejected by three print publishers as being commercially unviable; however, I was luckier than Gräffer, as it was snapped up very quickly thereafter and made available online by a leading German library. For some years now the Austrian National Library has set itself the task of putting flesh on the bones of Gräffer's vision by producing a database of relevant imprints, whose geographical limits have been reduced to the present-day boundaries of Austria. In ten years the bibliographical details of around 30,000 imprints have been recorded, drawn from the holdings of that library itself, the catalogues of other institutions and secondary bibliographies. Again the introduction to the first of these four volumes repeats for our benefit the assertion made by Dr Helmut...