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resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical_data [2012/11/09 14:57] – baldwin | resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical_data [2012/11/09 15:03] – [Printers’ Devices] baldwin | ||
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- | ===== Print Runs ===== | + | ===== Researching |
- | Many historians seeking to measure the impact of the ‘printing revolution’ in fifteenthcentury | + | Many historians seeking to measure the impact of the ‘printing revolution’ in fifteenth century |
Europe have taken a quantitiative approach, multiplying the total of all editions | 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 | by the number of copies in a typical edition. However, whereas the Incunable Short Title | ||
- | Catalog | + | Catalogue |
- | surviving specimens, the number of lost editions will always remain indeterminate.1 The | + | surviving specimens, the number of lost editions will always remain indeterminate. The |
second factor in the equation – the typical or ‘average’ fifteenth-century print run – is just | 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 | as indeterminate as the first, if not more so. Inevitably, the ‘editions × copies’ formula | ||
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step in that direction by asking a much more basic question: what is the available data? | step in that direction by asking a much more basic question: what is the available data? | ||
- | Download Eric White' | + | Download Eric White' |
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===== Printers’ Devices ===== | ===== Printers’ Devices ===== | ||
- | CERL programme of digitisation of published repertories of printers’ devices | ||
CERL has undertaken a programme of digitisation of repertories of printers’ and publishers’ devices, to create links to the individual images from the appropriate entries in the ‘‘Imprint Names’’ section of the CERL Thesaurus. To date the CERL Thesaurus contains links to | CERL has undertaken a programme of digitisation of repertories of printers’ and publishers’ devices, to create links to the individual images from the appropriate entries in the ‘‘Imprint Names’’ section of the CERL Thesaurus. To date the CERL Thesaurus contains links to | ||
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