Selected Bibliography of the Hungarian Press History 1705–1944, volume 2. K-M

 “To become familiar with the history of press published in Hungarian or in other languages in Hungary we certainly need a bibliographic collection with focus on the documentation of press history” explains Éva Lakatos, the editor of this work to be finally extended to five volumes. What makes it gap-filling and essential is that the previous Selected Bibliography of the Literature of Hungarian Press History (1705-1946), edited by Farkas József and published by the Hungarian Journalists’ Association in 1972 is rather a ’by-product’ of a literature bibliography project of the Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and only contains press-related items that connect also to literature.

The author set new and broader plans when assumed the task of summarizing forty years’ work of collection and shaping it into a press history database. After the publication of the first volume in 2010, the second one follows almost immediately.