This text records work on the history of the book in Britain and on the textual criticism and bibliography of British literature. It continues coverage inaugurated in six volumes already published in the series "Index to British Literary Bibliography (1969-)". Professor Howard-Hill's Index to British Literary Bibliography, and its publisher, the Oxford University Press, desreve the highest praise for what they have jointly achieved. This new and handsome volume in the series is especially to be welcomed because, for the first time, it takes the Index beyond 1969 and gives hope that, in the reasonably near future, the work, in all its different areas, might be taken up to the year 2000. There are few tasks more demanding in literary scholarship than the complication of a major bibliography in many volumes over two or three decades. Even more taxing is the chore of revising and up-dating which Howard-Hill has so conscientiously accomplished. It is earnestky hoped that he, and the OUP, who desrves great praise, will gather the resources psychological and financial to enable this great work to be taken up to the year 2000. We are already deeply in their debt.