Abstract
M.A. (Information Science)
Since the earliest civilizations books have found their way into libraries, thus
the printing and publishing industries in the era after Gutenberg invented
printing with moveable type, are of cardinal importance to library science.
Within the field of library science the systematic bibliographic description of
the products of the printing and publishing industries features strongly. Books
and other publications are a basic necessity in any civilized community. It
therefore stands to reason that after the constitutional establishment of the
Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) a printing and publishing industry would
develop and thrive.
A complete survey of the printing and publishing industry in the Transvaal has
not yet been published. This study endeavours to fill this gap by bringing
together information on all types of publications printed in Dutch, Afrikaans,
English and other languages in the Transvaal during the period 1857-1902. This
is done in the form of a bibliography and a description of the printing and
publishing industry in the ZAR.
A literature study was done using bibliographies and catalogues in the
Brenthurst Library, Johannesburg Public Library and the Rand Afrikaans
University Library. It was established from the literature what was printed and
published from 1857-1902 in the Transvaal. A bibliography of these items was
compiled and information on the printers and publishers was collected. This was
supplemented by information gleaned from books, periodical articles, newspapers,
theses and dissertations...