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resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical_data [2012/11/09 14:58] – [Print Runs] baldwinresources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical_data [2012/11/09 15:03] – [Printers’ Devices] baldwin
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 ===== Researching 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 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 (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 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's [[full introduction]] and [[database]] of 15th century print runs of incunabula. +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 ===== ===== 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
    *  **English printers' devices up to 1640** from R.B. McKerrow, //Printers’ & Publishers’ Devices//     *  **English printers' devices up to 1640** from R.B. McKerrow, //Printers’ & Publishers’ Devices// 
 resources/links_to_other_resources/bibliographical_data.txt · Last modified: 2023/09/28 09:20 by lefferts

 

 

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