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Table of contents
CONTENTS
List of illustrations ix
Introduction by David McKitterick xi
Preface xxxiii
A short list of books of especial utility to students xxxvii
PART I
1. Introductory: 'Bibliographical' evidence. The
plan of this book 1
2. The making of a Printed Book. Composition, Im-
position, Printing, &c 6
3. The Printed Book and its parts. Some bibliographical
terms explained 25
4. More about imposition. Imposing for folio, oc-
tavo, &c. Necessity of a whole gathering being in
type at once. Notes on folding, checking correctness
of imposition, and on determining whether pages
belong to the same forme 29
5. The early Printing-Press 38
6. Changes in the technique of printing. Primitive form
of chase. Irregular line-endings. Printing by one
page at a time. Non-use of long galleys. Half-sheet
imposition. A note on modern impositions. Stereo-
typing and Electrotyping 53
7. Some subsidiary matters. Signatures, their history
and peculiarities. Press-numbers. Catchwords.
Foliation and Pagination. The Register. The
Title-page. The Colophon 73
8. A Note on Paper 97
9. The Decoration of Books 109
10. The forms in which books have been issued to the
public 121
11. A Miscellany. On division of work between different
printers or compositors. The size of editions of early
books. Book prices. The Stationers' Register, Term
Catalogues, &c., and dates of publication. A note on
Censorship and Copyright 128
PART II
1. Some points of bibliographical technique. The de-
scription of a book. References to passages in early
books 145
2. The formats of books. Folio, Quarto, &c 164
3. On the meaning of 'edition' 'impression' and
'issue' and on determining whether two books are
of the same edition or not 175
4. On bibliographical evidence as to the order of editions 184
5. On dating undated editions and on false dates 200
6. On variations in different copies of the same edition 204
7. On books set in duplicate 214
8. On author's copy, proofs, and proof-corrections 217
9. On cancels, and on additions to sheets already printed 222
10. On Fakes and Facsimiles 231
PART III
1. The extent to which the compositor attempted to
follow his copy. The question of setting from dic-
tation 239
2. Errors of the compositor due to misreading the MS.,
Foul case &c. Errors due to faulty correction.
Errors in Imposition, Perfecting, and Folding 252
APPENDIX
1. A note on Printing, its origin and spread. Some famous
presses and publishing houses 264
Printing-types. General sketch of their early de-
velopment. The types in England. The sizes of
type-bodies. The em 288
3. Notes on certain characters as used in English print-
ing: f and s; i, j, u, v, w; ligatures; punctuation
marks and other signs 309
4. Abbreviations and contractions in early printed books 319
5. On folding in 12mo and 24mo 325
6. On printing in two or more colours 329
7. A short list of some difficult Latin place-names 337
8. A note on Elizabethan Handwriting 341
Index 351
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