The culture of correction in Renaissance Europe /

Poor devils of letters, the correctors of Renaissance Europe (men and a few women) marked up copy, divided books into chapters and composed titles for them, and compiled tables of contents before texts went through the press, and read the proofs and corrected them at the other end of the process. Th...

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Main Author: Grafton, Anthony
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : British Library, 2011.
Series:Panizzi lectures ; 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Practice makes imperfect
  • The view from inside the shop
  • The view from the author's study
  • Conclusions.