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"Joseph A. Dane's What Is a Book? is an introduction to the study of books produced during the period of the hand press, dating from around 1450 through 1800. Using his own bibliographic interests as a guide, Dane selects illustrative examples primarily from fifteenth-century books, books of particular interest to students of English literature, and books central to the development of Anglo-American bibliography. Part I of What Is a Book? covers the basic procedures of printing and the parts of the physical book--size, paper, type, illustration; Part II treats the history of book-copies--from cataloging conventions and provenance to electronic media and their implications for the study of books. Dane begins with the central distinction between a "book-copy"--the particular, individual, physical book--and a "book"--the abstract category that organizes these copies into editions, whereby each copy is interchangeable with any other. Among other issues, Dane addresses such basic questions as: How do students, bibliographers, and collectors discuss these things? And when is it legitimate to generalize on the basis of particular examples? Dane considers each issue in terms of a practical example or question a reader might confront: How do you identify books on the basis of typography? What is the status of paper evidence? How are the various elements on the page defined? What are the implications of the images available in an online database? And, significantly, how does a scholar's personal experience with books challenge or conform to the standard language of book history and bibliography? Dane's accessible and lively tour of the field is a useful guide for all students of book history, from the beginner to the specialist. "Written with wit and acuity, Joseph A. Dane's What Is a Book? extends his project of teaching aspects of book history to the specialist and nonspecialist reader alike. Both will be stimulated and provoked by what Dane writes, and will also enjoy his arguments and admire the breadth and depth of his knowledge." --Henry Woudhuysen, University College London"--

Book history --- Literature --- anno 1500-1799 --- Bibliography --- Incunabula --- Early printed books --- English literature --- Books --- Printing --- Bibliographie --- Incunables --- Livres anciens --- Littérature anglaise --- Livres --- Imprimerie --- Methodology. --- History --- History. --- Méthodologie --- Methodologie --- Histoire --- Bibliography, Critical. --- Editions. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Reference --- General. --- Bibliography, critical. --- Language arts & disciplines --- Littérature anglaise --- Méthodologie --- Méthodologie. --- Histoire.

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82.083 --- 01 <035> --- Bibliography, Critical --- Analytical bibliography --- Critical bibliography --- Bibliography --- Books --- Criticism, Textual --- 82.083 Teksteditie. Editiewetenschap --- Teksteditie. Editiewetenschap --- 01 <035> Bibliografie als vak; methodologie. Bibliografische diensten--Grote handboeken. Compendia --- Bibliografie als vak; methodologie. Bibliografische diensten--Grote handboeken. Compendia --- Methodology --- History --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Bibliography, Critical.

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Book history --- Literature --- Connaissance [Sociologie de la ] --- Kennis [Sociologie van de ] --- Knowledge [Sociology of ] --- Sociologie van de kennis --- Sociology of knowledge --- 01 --- Bibliografie als vak; methodologie. Bibliografische diensten --- 01 Bibliografie als vak; methodologie. Bibliografische diensten --- book history --- analytical bibliography --- Bibliography [Critical ] --- Social aspects --- Transmission of texts --- Criticism [Textual ] --- Communication

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In Printing the Middle Ages Siân Echard looks to the postmedieval, postmanuscript lives of medieval texts, seeking to understand the lasting impact on both the popular and the scholarly imaginations of the physical objects that transmitted the Middle Ages to the English-speaking world. Beneath and behind the foundational works of recovery that established the canon of medieval literature, she argues, was a vast terrain of books, scholarly or popular, grubby or beautiful, widely disseminated or privately printed. By turning to these, we are able to chart the differing reception histories of the literary texts of the British Middle Ages. For Echard, any reading of a medieval text, whether past or present, amateur or academic, floats on the surface of a complex sea of expectations and desires made up of the books that mediate those readings. Each chapter of Printing the Middle Ages focuses on a central textual object and tells its story in order to reveal the history of its reception and transmission. Moving from the first age of print into the early twenty-first century, Echard examines the special fonts created in the Elizabethan period to reproduce Old English, the hand-drawn facsimiles of the nineteenth century, and today's experiments with the digital reproduction of medieval objects; she explores the illustrations in eighteenth-century versions of Guy of Warwick and Bevis of Hampton; she discusses nineteenth-century children's versions of the Canterbury Tales and the aristocratic transmission history of John Gower's Confessio Amantis; and she touches on fine press printings of Dante, Froissart, and Langland.

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