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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip Gaskell |
| ISBN: | 9781873040300 187304030X 9781584560364 1584560363 9781884718137 1884718132 |
| OCLC Number: | 828529728 |
| Notes: | "First published in 1972 by Oxford University Press. Reprinted with corrections by Oak Knoll Press/St. Paul's Bibliographies in 1995. Reprinted in 2000, 2002, 2006 & 2007"--Title page verso. |
| Description: | 438 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | The nature and purpose of bibliography -- The main periods of book production -- Book Production: The Hand-Press Period 1500-1800 -- The Hand-printed Book -- Printing Type -- Manufacture -- Type-sizes; and description -- Type faces -- Gothic type -- Roman and italic type -- Greek type -- Founts, cases, and type-stock -- Composition -- Copy -- Setting type -- Page and galley -- Signatures -- Preliminaries, pagination, catchwords, etc. -- Distribution -- Output -- Paper -- Manufacture -- Paper in English printing -- Moulds and watermarks -- Sorts of paper: quality, weight, and size -- Tables of sizes -- Description -- Imposition -- Formes -- Format -- Identification of format -- Imposition in practice -- Stripping, and skeletons -- Proofs and correction -- Standing type -- Presswork -- The wooden hand-press -- Preparing the paper -- Ink -- Making ready -- Pulling and beating -- Printing the reiteration -- Press figures -- Cancels, etc. -- Special paper -- Two colours; and music -- Output -- The Warehouse -- Paper stock -- Drying the paper -- Gathering the books -- Binding -- The binding trade -- Binding technique -- Trade binding styles -- Decoration and Illustration -- Printed pictures -- Relief blocks -- Intaglio plates -- Patterns of Production -- Variation of demand -- Edition quantities -- Productive capacity -- Concurrent production -- Standards -- The English Book Trade to 1800 -- Europe and England -- Printing personnel -- Gild and chapel -- Scale and finance; book prices -- Publishing and bookselling -- Authorship, copyright, and censorship -- Book Production: The Machine-Press Period 1800-1950 -- Survival and Change -- The early-nineteenth-century book house -- Composition -- Imposition -- Iron hand-presses -- Plates -- Stereotype -- Electrotype -- Type 1800-1875 -- Manufacture and trade -- Design -- Paper in the Machine-press Period -- Hand-made paper after 1800 -- Paper-making machinery -- Machine-made papers -- The nineteenth-century paper industry -- Edition Binding -- New procedures -- Binding machinery -- Publishers' cloth in Britain and America -- Other styles of publishers' binding -- The twentieth century -- Printing Machines -- Beginnings -- Machines for book printing -- Machine operation -- Colour printing -- Other printing machines -- Processes of Reproduction -- Engravings -- Lithography -- Photographic processes -- Identification -- Mechanical Composition, and Type 1875-1950 -- Cold-metal machines -- Hot-metal machines -- Type since 1875 -- Printing Practice in the Machine-press Period -- Personnel -- Production routines -- The Book Trade in Britain and America since 1800 -- The structure of the trade -- Forms in nineteenth-century publishing -- Edition quantities and prices -- Copyright, national and international -- Bibliographical Applications -- Identification -- Edition, impression, issue, and state -- Assessing the evidence -- Facsimiles -- Bibliographical Description -- Purpose and scope -- Transcription and reproduction -- Formula -- Technical notes -- Other notes -- Textual Bibliography -- Textual criticism and bibliography -- Copy-text -- The transmission of the text -- 1. Composition -- 2. Proof-correction -- 3. Later stages of production -- The treatment of accidentals -- A. A Note on Elizabethan Handwriting / R.B. McKerrow -- B. Four Specimen Bibliographical Descriptions -- C. The Transmission of the Text: Two Examples -- 1. Compositor B and The merchant of Venice -- 2. The textual history of David Copperfield -- Reference Bibliography -- I. General -- II. Periodicals -- III. Book Production: The Hand-press Period -- 1. Hand-printing technology -- a. General -- b. Composition, imposition, correction -- c. Presswork -- d. Patterns of production -- 2. Type -- 3. Paper -- 4. Binding -- 5. Decoration and illustration -- 6. The Book Trade to 1800 -- a. General -- b. Personnel -- c. Business organization -- d. Publishing and bookselling -- e. Authorship, copyright, and censorship -- IV. Book Production: The Machine-press Period -- 1. General -- 2. Survival and change -- a. Hand composition -- b. Iron hand-presses -- 3. Plates -- 4. Type -- a. 1800-1875 -- b. Since 1875 -- 5. Paper -- 6. Binding -- 7. Printing machines -- 8. Processes of reproduction -- 9. Mechanical composition -- 10. Printing-house organization -- 11. The book trade in Britain and America since 1800 -- V. Bibliographical applications -- 1. General -- 2. Identification and description -- 3. Textual bibliography. |
| Responsibility: | by Philip Gaskell. |
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