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| + | ===== Researching Print Runs ===== | ||
| + | Many historians seeking to measure the impact of the ‘printing revolution’ in fifteenthcentury | ||
| + | Europe have taken a quantitiative approach, multiplying the total of all editions | ||
| + | by the number of copies in a typical edition. However, whereas the Incunable Short Title | ||
| + | Catalog (ISTC) lists more than 28,000 fifteenth-century editions that are represented by | ||
| + | surviving specimens, the number of lost editions will always remain indeterminate.1 The | ||
| + | second factor in the equation – the typical or ‘average’ fifteenth-century print run – is just | ||
| + | as indeterminate as the first, if not more so. Inevitably, the ‘editions × copies’ formula | ||
| + | has produced estimates of fifteenth-century press production that range anywhere from | ||
| + | eight million to more than twenty million pieces of reading material.2 Such irreconcilable | ||
| + | results (in which the margin for error may be larger than the answer itself) only serve to | ||
| + | demonstrate that any effort to arrive at a meaningful quantification of fifteenth-century | ||
| + | press production will require a much more systematic analysis of the available data on | ||
| + | print runs. The present study, a census of print runs for fifteenth-century books, takes a | ||
| + | step in that direction by asking a much more basic question: what is the available data? | ||
| + | Download Eric White' | ||
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