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--- resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical_data [2012/11/09 14:57] – baldwin
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-===== Print Runs =====
+===== Researching Print Runs =====
-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
 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
+Catalogue (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
+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
 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
+eight million to more than twenty million pieces of reading material. 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
+print runs.
-step in that direction by asking a much more basic question: what is the available data?
-Download Eric White's [[full introduction]] and [[database]] of 15th century print runs of incunabula.
+Eric White has conducted a study; a census of print runs for fifteenth-century books, which takes a step in that direction by asking a much more basic question: what is the available data?
+Download Eric White's {{:resources:links_to_other_resources:printruns_intro.pdf|full introduction}} and {{:resources:links_to_other_resources:15cprintruns.pdf|database}} of 15th century print runs of incunabula.
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 ===== 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
    *  **English printers' devices up to 1640** from R.B. McKerrow, //Printers’ & Publishers’ Devices//

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