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OverviewAfter Gutenberg’s Bible had appeared in print in 1455, other early printers found different ways to solve problems set by the new technique. Survival of printer’s copy or proofs permits rare views of compositors and printers manipulating a text before it emerged in its new form. Versions were corrected to be fit for purpose, and might be adapted for a much enlarged readership, especially if the language was vernacular. The printing press itself required careful measuring and fitting of texts. In twelve case-studies Lotte Hellinga explores what is revealed in printer’s copy and proofs used in diverse printing houses, covering the period from 1459 to the 1490s, and ranging from Rome and Venice to Mainz and Westminster. See also the companion volume by the same author, Incunabula in Transit (Brill, 2017). Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lotte HellingaPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 38 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.900kg ISBN: 9789004277168ISBN 10: 9004277161 Pages: 452 Publication Date: 20 August 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 1 Press and Text in the First Decades of Printing 2 The Text in the Printing House: Printer’s Copy 3 List of Printer’s Copy Used in the Fifteenth Century 4 Proofreading and Printing in Mainz in 1459 5 Augustinus, De civitate Dei, Printed at Subiaco in 1467 6 Poggio’s Facetiae in Print 7 Poggio Bracciolini’s Historia fiorentina in Manuscript and Print 8 The First Book Printed in Oxford 9 Two Editors, Three Printers: M.T. Cicero, Orationes Printed in Venice, 1471–1480 10 From Poggio to Caxton: Early Translations of Some of Poggio’s Latin Facetiae 11 The Travels of Marco Polo and Gheraert Leeu 12 The History of Jason: From Manuscripts for the Burgundian Court to Printed Books for Readers in the Towns of Holland 13 Nicholas Love’s Mirror in Print 14 Wynkyn de Worde and The book of St Albans 15 William Caxton and the Malory Manuscript Subject Index: Text in Printing Houses Index of Manuscripts Index of Books Printed before 1501 Alphabetical IndexReviewsAnyone studying the least detail of books printed or written in the second half of the fifteenth century, their texts, layout, decoration, rubrication, format, substrates, inks for writing or printing, pigments, secondary features, from cadels to apparently casual or incidental marks, now has a handbook packed with information on all these topics, to be read, marked, learned and inwardly digested, before attempting analysis or explanation of any of them. Nicolas Barker, in: The Book Collector (Winter 2015), pp. 511-518. the fifteen essays in this volume together constitute a coherent statement of our most advanced knowledge in the field of incunabula studies ... Hellinga's view is Europe-wide and touches on cases in Italy, Germany, the Low Countries and England, and occasionally also in France and even Poland ... the volume may be consulted as though it was a reference work on the technique of incunabula printing. Koen Goudriaan, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In: Quaerendo, Vol. 45, Nos. 3-4 (2015), pp. 332-336. Lotte Hellinga's collection of studies Texts in Transit ... offers a picture that is often rather more complicated than was imagined even when she began her systematic study of fifteenth-century printing. David McKitterick, Trinity College, Cambridge. In: Times Literary Supplement, 1 May 2015, p. 29. Author InformationLotte Hellinga, Litt. D. (1974) University of Amsterdam, was Curator (later Deputy Keeper) at the British Library, 1976-1995. Recent publications include The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. III (co-editor and author, 1999), the catalogue of English incunabula in the BL (‘BMC xi’, 2007) and William Caxton and early printing in England (2010). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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