Research Guides
A New Introduction to Bibliography (Gaskell, 1972)
Textual Scholarship: An Introduction (Greetham, 1992)
Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research (Greetham, 1995)
Book-length bibliographies on individual authors often provide descriptive information about editions and printings of texts. To locate a bibliography, perform a keyword or subject search on your author and include the term “bibliography." Also, if you are interested in browsing the stacks or the reference collection for books on bibliography or other bibliographies, see the LC Classification for Z: http://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/classification/lcco/lcco_z.pdf