A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts
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2010
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-2412-6 (ISBN)
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-2412-6 (ISBN)
A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides a concise introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscripts and printed texts.
A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides an introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscripts and printed texts
Winner, Honourable Mention for Literature, Language and Linguistics, American Publishers Prose Awards, 2010
Based almost exclusively on new primary research
Explains the complex process of viewing documents as artefacts, showing readers how to describe documents properly and how to read their physical properties
Demonstrates how to use the information gleaned as a tool for studying the transmission of literary documents
Makes clear why such matters are important and the purposes to which such information is put
Features illustrations that are carefully chosen for their unfamiliarity in order to keep the discussion fresh
A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides an introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscripts and printed texts
Winner, Honourable Mention for Literature, Language and Linguistics, American Publishers Prose Awards, 2010
Based almost exclusively on new primary research
Explains the complex process of viewing documents as artefacts, showing readers how to describe documents properly and how to read their physical properties
Demonstrates how to use the information gleaned as a tool for studying the transmission of literary documents
Makes clear why such matters are important and the purposes to which such information is put
Features illustrations that are carefully chosen for their unfamiliarity in order to keep the discussion fresh
Mark Bland is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at De Montfort University, UK. He has published extensively on early printed books and manuscripts, paper, censorship, stemmatics, and editorial practice, as well as on Ben Jonson and his contemporaries. He is the editor of the forthcoming Oxford edition of The Poems of Ben Jonson.
Illustrative Materials viii
Acknowledgments ix
1 A Guide for the Perplexed 1
2 Paper and Related Materials 22
3 The Structure of Documents 49
4 Producing Texts 83
5 Analysis and Evidence 122
6 Making Variants 149
7 Setting Conditions 183
8 Last Words 211
Selected Further Reading 219
Index 230
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.1.2010 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Hoboken |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 239 mm |
| Gewicht | 553 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4051-2412-1 / 1405124121 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4051-2412-6 / 9781405124126 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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