New Introduction to Bibliography

Name: New Introduction to Bibliography
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ISBN: 9781884718137

ISBN-10: 1884718132

ISBN-13: 9781884718137

Edition: 2007

Authors: Philip Gaskell

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.826
Language: English

Philip Gaskell, Litt.D., who is a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, taught English Literature for many years at Cambridge University, and was also Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author of Morvern Transformed; A New Introduction to Bibliography; From Writer to Reader; Trinity College Library: The First 100 Years;and Standard Written English: A Guide.

Introduction	p. 1
The nature and purpose of bibliography	p. 1
The main periods of book production	p. 2
Book Production: The Hand-Press Period 1500-1800
The Hand-printed Book	p. 5
Printing Type	p. 9
Manufacture	p. 9
Type-sizes; and description	p. 12
Type faces	p. 16
Gothic type	p. 17
Roman and italic type	p. 20
Greek type	p. 30
Founts, cases, and type-stock	p. 33
Composition	p. 40
Copy	p. 40
Setting type	p. 43
Page and galley	p. 49
Signatures	p. 51
Preliminaries, pagination, catchwords, etc.	p. 52
Distribution	p. 53
Output	p. 54
Paper	p. 57
Manufacture	p. 57
Paper in English printing	p. 60
Moulds and watermarks	p. 60
Sorts of paper: quality, weight, and size	p. 66
Tables of sizes	p. 72
Description	p. 76
Imposition	p. 78
Formes	p. 78
Format	p. 80
Identification of format	p. 84
Imposition in practice	p. 108
Stripping, and skeletons	p. 109
Proofs and correction	p. 110
Standing type	p. 116
Presswork	p. 118
The wooden hand-press	p. 118
Preparing the paper	p. 124
Ink	p. 125
Making ready	p. 126
Pulling and beating	p. 129
Printing the reiteration	p. 131
Press figures	p. 133
Cancels, etc.	p. 134
Special paper	p. 136
Two colours; and music	p. 137
Output	p. 139
The Warehouse	p. 142
Paper stock	p. 142
Drying the paper	p. 143
Gathering the books	p. 143
Binding	p. 146
The binding trade	p. 146
Binding technique	p. 147
Trade binding styles	p. 149
Decoration and Illustration	p. 154
Printed pictures	p. 154
Relief blocks	p. 154
Intaglio plates	p. 156
Patterns of Production	p. 160
Variation of demand	p. 160
Edition quantities	p. 160
Productive capacity	p. 163
Concurrent production	p. 164
Standards	p. 168
The English Book Trade to 1800	p. 171
Europe and England	p. 171
Printing personnel	p. 171
Gild and chapel	p. 174
Scale and finance; book prices	p. 175
Publishing and bookselling	p. 179
Authorship, copyright, and censorship	p. 183
Book Production: The Machine-Press Period 1800-1950
Introduction	p. 189
Survival and Change	p. 191
The early-nineteenth-century book house	p. 191
Composition	p. 191
Imposition	p. 196
Iron hand-presses	p. 198
Plates	p. 201
Stereotype	p. 201
Electrotype	p. 206
Type 1800-1875	p. 207
Manufacture and trade	p. 207
Design	p. 209
Paper in the Machine-press Period	p. 214
Hand-made paper after 1800	p. 214
Paper-making machinery	p. 216
Machine-made papers	p. 221
The nineteenth-century paper industry	p. 228
Edition Binding	p. 231
Introduction	p. 231
New procedures	p. 232
Binding machinery	p. 235
Publishers' cloth in Britain and America	p. 238
Other styles of publishers' binding	p. 247
The twentieth century	p. 249
Printing Machines	p. 251
Beginnings	p. 251
Machines for book printing	p. 253
Machine operation	p. 258
Colour printing	p. 261
Other printing machines	p. 262
Processes of Reproduction	p. 266
Engravings	p. 266
Lithography	p. 267
Photographic processes	p. 269
Identification	p. 272
Mechanical Composition, and Type 1875-1950	p. 274
Cold-metal machines	p. 274
Hot-metal machines	p. 276
Type since 1875	p. 283
Printing Practice in the Machine-press Period	p. 289
Personnel	p. 289
Production routines	p. 292
The Book Trade in Britain and America since 1800	p. 297
The structure of the trade	p. 297
Forms in nineteenth-century publishing	p. 300
Edition quantities and prices	p. 304
Copyright, national and international	p. 307
Bibliographical Applications	p. 311
Identification	p. 313
Edition, impression, issue, and state	p. 313
Assessing the evidence	p. 316
Facsimiles	p. 320
Bibliographical Description	p. 321
Purpose and scope	p. 321
Transcription and reproduction	p. 322
Formula	p. 328
Technical notes	p. 333
Contents	p. 335
Other notes	p. 335
Textual Bibliography	p. 336
Textual criticism and bibliography	p. 336
Copy-text	p. 338
The transmission of the text	p. 343
Composition	p. 343
Proof-correction	p. 351
Later stages of production	p. 354
The treatment of accidentals	p. 358
Appendixes
A Note on Elizabethan Handwriting	p. 361
Four Specimen Bibliographical Descriptions	p. 368
The Transmission of the Text: Two Examples	p. 381
Compositor B and The merchant of Venice	p. 381
The textual history of David Copperfield	p. 384
Reference Bibliography	p. 392
General	p. 392
Periodicals	p. 393
Book Production: The Hand-press Period	p. 393
Hand-printing technology	p. 393
General	p. 393
Composition, imposition, correction	p. 394
Presswork	p. 395
Patterns of production	p. 396
Type	p. 396
Paper	p. 397
Binding	p. 398
Decoration and illustration	p. 399
The Book Trade to 1800	p. 399
General	p. 399
Personnel	p. 400
Business organization	p. 401
Publishing and bookselling	p. 401
Authorship, copyright, and censorship	p. 402
Book Production: The Machine-press Period	p. 402
General	p. 402
Survival and change	p. 403
Hand composition	p. 403
Iron hand-presses	p. 403
Plates	p. 404
Type	p. 404
1800-1875	p. 404
Since 1875	p. 405
Paper	p. 405
Binding	p. 406
Printing machines	p. 407
Processes of reproduction	p. 408
Mechanical composition	p. 408
Printing-house organization	p. 409
The book trade in Britain and America since 1800	p. 410
Bibliographical applications	p. 411
General	p. 411
Identification and description	p. 412
Textual bibliography	p. 413
Index	p. 414
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