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Printing and misprinting : a companion to mistakes and in-house corrections in Renaissance Europe (1450-1650) /

The history of the book may be a technological triumph, spreading freedom and knowledge, but it also a story of errors and adjustments. When printing runs flawlessly, we see little of its process. But misprints and in-house corrections offer us the unique chance to witness aspects of the printing pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Della Rocca de Candal, Geri (Editor), Grafton, Anthony (Editor), Sachet, Paolo (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Inc., [2023]
Subjects:
Errata > History.
Errata > Histoire.
Errata
Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies.
Technology.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • titlepage
  • copyright
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1. From Copy to Cancels
  • PART I T YPE, PRO OFS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS
  • 2. Fallen Type: The Benefits of a Printer's Error
  • 3. Proof Sheets as Evidence of Early Pre-Publication Procedures
  • 4. Kludging Type: Some Workarounds in Early Print
  • 5. Misprinting Illustrated Books
  • PART II HUMANISM
  • 6. Printing and Politics in Italian Humanism: Manuscript and Stop-PressCorrections in Poliziano's Coniurationis commentarium
  • 7. Manus Manutii: A Preliminary Checklist of Typographical and Manuscript Interventions in Aldine Incunabula (1495-1500)
  • 8. Aldus as Proofreader: The Case of the Thesaurus Cornucopiae (1496)
  • 9. Managing Misprints: Jan Moretus I's Diverse Approaches to Correcting Errors
  • PART III RELIGION
  • 10. Misprinting the Word and the Image of God (Paris, 1498-1538)
  • 11. The Collective Editorial Strategy of the Unity of the Brethren
  • 12. Biblical Misprints: Error and Correction in an Early Yiddish Epic
  • 13. 'Before the Law': Jewish Correctors of Early Printed Books
  • 14. 'But to whose charge shall I lay it? Your Printer is all readie loaden': TheRhetoric of Printers' Errors in Early Modern Religious Disputes
  • PART IV SCIENCE
  • 15. Controlling Errors in the First Printed Book of Astronomical Tables:Regiomontanus's Ephemerides (Nuremberg, 1474)
  • 16. Misprinting Aristotle: The Birth and Life of a Frankenstein's Fish
  • 17. Conrad Gessner as Corrector: How to Deal with Errors in Images
  • PART V POETRY, MUSIC, AND THEATRE
  • 18. Fernando de Herrera Contra Errata: A Re-evaluation of his Edition of Garcilaso de la Vega
  • 19. Marketing a Misprint: Christopher Tye's The Actes of the Apostles and Early English Music Publishing
  • 20. Misprinting and Misreading in The Comedy of Errors.
  • 21. Making Sense of Error in Commercial Drama: The Case of Edward III
  • PART VI WIDESPREAD AND EPHEMERAL CIRCUL ATION
  • 22. Drawn Corrections and Pictorial Instability in Devotional Books fromthe Workshop of Gerard Leeu
  • 23. Learning from Mistakes: Paper and Printing Defects in Sixteenth-CenturyItalian Popular Books
  • 24. Printing under Pressure: Mistakes in the Earliest Newspapers
  • Appendix A: Glossary of Printing and Misprinting
  • Appendix B: Glossary Translation Tables
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Names.