YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 28, NOYAN TAPAN. The fourth volume of the "Armenian book in 1901-1920" literature covers the biography of 7600 Armenian books, including books written in Armenian, as well as foreign ones including Armenian extracts, published in different countries of the world. The launching of this book was held in the National Library of Armenia on November 27. This bibliographical collection of the Armenian book published in 1901-1920 sums up the pre-soviet stage of the history of the Armenian printing. This work is envisaged for specialists studying the history of the Armenian book, philologists, and historians. As Haykanush Ghazarian, the editor of the volume, mentioned, the primary goal of bibliography is to clear up the factual existence of the book, making use of other bibliographies and catalogues, to summerize and introduce the complete picture of the Armenian book published in a certain period, correct the misprintings founded in previous bibliographies and catalogues, to present the printing houses, which have published the books, and their location, record the state of their preservedness and their current location, and in case of literature in translation to mention the language, the author and translator of the origin. The fourth volume consists of four sections and five tables of contents. According to the editor of the volume, this very volume of the bibliography of the Armenian book was ready to be published as early as three years ago, however, it was published only this year due to state order. The preparation work of the volume laster over 7 years and it is a result of the hard work of a group of devoted bibliographs. In the words of Hranush Ghazarian, the specialists of the Bibliography section of the library are already working at the next volumes and hope that another volume of the work will be published by 2012: the 500th anniversary of the printing of the Armenian book. It should be mentioned that as early as in 1958 as a result of the work performed in the direction of gathering materials in the section of bibliography of the Armenian book, the previous three volumes, dedicated to the Armenian book published during the periods of 1512-1800, 1801-1850, 1851-1900 have been printed by now.

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