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--- resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical_data [2012/11/09 15:03] – [Printers’ Devices] baldwin
+++ resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical_data [2012/11/09 15:06] – [Researching Print Runs] baldwin
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 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?
+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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