Table Of ContentTable of Contents
Cover
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Overview
Getting Ready to Print
At the Press
Also at the Press
After Printing
The Economics of Printing
Part 2: Step‐by‐Step
Paper
Type
Format
Printing
Corrections and changes
Illustrations
Binding
Part 3: On the Page
Advertisements
Alphabet and Abbreviations
Blanks
Dates
Imprint Statements
Edition, Impression, Issue, State, Copy
Initial Letters
Marginal Notes
Music
Pagination and Foliation
Preliminary Leaves
Press Figures
Printer’s Devices
Printer’s Ornaments
Privileges, Approbations, and Imprimaturs
Signature marks
Title Pages
Volvelles and Movable Figures
Part 4: Looking at Books
Good Research Habits
Handling Books
Appearance
Contents
Page Features
Usage
Digitization
Part 5: The Afterlives of Books
Loss Rates
Catalog Records
Books in Hand
Books on screen
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Further Reading
General Bibliography
Printer’s Manuals
History of the Book
Book Trade
Manuscripts and Paleography
Handling Books
Catalogs of Early Hand‐press Books
Catalog and Imprint Resources
Paper
Type
Format
Printing
Corrections
Illustrations
Bindings
On the Page
Advertisements
Collation Formulas
Edition, Impression, Issue, State
Press Figures
Printer’s Devices
Printer’s Ornaments
Signature Marks
Title Pages
Volvelles
Afterlives
Digital Collections
Appendix 2: Glossary
Index
End User License Agreement
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Figure 1 The title page to a 1616 edition of Colloquia et
dictionariolum septem ...
Chapter 1
Figures 2–4 How a sheet of paper turns into eight pages.
Figure 5 A pair of type cases from Moxon’s 1683 Mechanick
Exercises: or, the ...
Figure 9 Side view of a printing press, labeled with key
parts; adapted from ...
Chapter 2
Figure 12 A piece of type for the ligature “ſi” labeled to show
its parts. L...
Figure 16 This diagram shows how the sheet would be
aligned as if you were f...
Figure 17 Folio imposition.
Figure 18 A folio gathered in sixes.
Figure 19 Quarto imposition.
Figure 20 A common octavo imposition.
Figure 21 A common duodecimo imposition.
Figure 22 A duodecimo set in 8 and 4.
Chapter 3
Figure 32 An account of the herb hepatica from A Boke of
the propreties of he...
Studying Early Printed Books
1450–1800
A Practical Guide
Sarah Werner
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