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resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical_data [2012/11/09 15:00] – [Researching Print Runs] baldwin | resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical_data [2014/04/28 13:38] – [Printers’ Devices] lefferts | ||
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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 | ||
has produced estimates of fifteenth-century press production that range anywhere from | 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 | 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 | 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 | press production will require a much more systematic analysis of the available data on | ||
- | print runs. The present | + | print runs. |
- | step in that direction by asking a much more basic question: what is the available data? | + | |
+ | Eric White has conducted a study; a census of print runs for fifteenth-century books, | ||
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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- | * [[http://eclipsi.bib.ub.es/imp/|Marques d’impressor at the Universitat de Barcelona - Fons de Reserva]] (Catalan version) | + | * [[http://www.bib.ub.edu/fileadmin/impressors/ |
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* Ronald B. McKerrow. [[http:// | * Ronald B. McKerrow. [[http:// |
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