Printing and misprinting : a companion to mistakes and in-house corrections in Renaissance Europe (1450-1650) / edited by Geri Della Rocca de Candal, Anthony Grafton, and Paolo Sachet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Della Rocca de Candal, Geri, 1983- editor.

Grafton, Anthony, editor.

Sachet, Paolo, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Errata--History.

Errata.

Proofreading--Europe--History.

Proofreading.

Printing--Europe--History.

Printing.

Printing industry--Europe--History.

Printing industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (651 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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 process that would otherwise remain invisible.

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.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes glossaries in translation for 18 languages.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Della Rocca de Candal, Geri Printing and Misprinting

ISBN:

0-19-260808-8

0-19-189557-1

0-19-260809-6

OCLC:

1375295598