
Printing and Misprinting
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- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- by H. R. Woudhuysen
- Introduction
- Part I
- From Copy to Cancels: Matthew Parker and The Quest for Error
- 1: Type, Proofs 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 English Print
- 5: Misprinting Illustrated Books
- Part II
- Humanism
- 6: Printing and Politics in Italian Humanism: Manuscript and Stop-Press Corrections 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 Cornu Copiae (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': The Rhetoric 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 Circulation
- 22: Drawn Corrections and Pictorial Instability in Devotional Books from the Workshop of Gerard Leeu (d. 1492)
- 23: Learning from Mistakes: Paper and Printing Defects in Sixteenth-Century Italian Popular Books
- 24: Printing under Pressure: Mistakes in the Earliest Newspapers
- Glossary of Printing and Misprinting
- Glossary Translation Tables
- Table of Concordance
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