LEADER 04820nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910826697603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0869-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208696 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418374 035 $a(OCoLC)859162761 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748965 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001036483 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11593045 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036483 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11041907 035 $a(PQKB)10554865 035 $a(OCoLC)867739366 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27269 035 $a(DE-B1597)449751 035 $a(OCoLC)979881191 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208696 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442245 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748965 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682707 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442245 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418374 100 $a20130320d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlind impressions $emethods and mythologies in book history /$fJoseph A. Dane 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (228 p.) 225 0$aMaterial texts 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51425-9 311 0 $a0-8122-4549-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tPART I. What Is Print? --$tChapter 1. Paleography Versus Typography --$tChapter 2. "Ca. 1800": What's in a Date? --$tChapter 3. Bibliographers of the Mind --$tPART II. On the Making of Lists --$tChapter 4. Herman R. Mead's Incunabula in the Huntington Library and the Notion of "Typographical Value" --$tChapter 5. Catchtitles in English Books to 1550 --$tChapter 6. An Editorial Propaedeutic --$tPART III. Ironies of History and Representation: Theme and Variation --$tPlaying Bibliography --$tIII.1. Book History and Book Histories: On the Making of Lists --$tIII.2. Meditation on the Composing Stick --$tIII.3. The Red and the Black --$tIII.4. Fragments --$tIII.5. The Nature and Function of Scholarly Illustration in a Digital World --$tIII.6. Art of the Mind --$tNotes --$tPrincipal Sources --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $a"As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains. . . . Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for writing or thought but a historical object of study; our bibliographical field, our own concoction, becomes the true referent of the objects we define as its foundation."-From the Introduction What is a book in the study of print culture? For the scholar of material texts, it is not only a singular copy carrying the unique traces of printing and preservation efforts, or an edition, repeated and repeatable, or a vehicle for ideas to be abstracted from the physical copy. But when the bibliographer situates a book copy within the methods of book history, Joseph A. Dane contends, it is the known set of assumptions which govern the discipline that bibliographic arguments privilege, repeat, or challenge. "Book history," he writes, "is us. "In Blind Impressions, Dane reexamines the field of material book history by questioning its most basic assumptions and definitions. How is print defined? What are the limits of printing history? What constitutes evidence? His concluding section takes form as a series of short studies in theme and variation, considering such matters as two-color printing, the composing stick used by hand-press printers, the bibliographical status of book fragments, and the function of scholarly illustration in the Digital Age. Meticulously detailed, deeply learned, and often contrarian, Blind Impressions is a bracing critique of the way scholars define and solve problems. 410 0$aMaterial texts. 606 $aBibliography$xMethodology 606 $aBibliography$xMethodology$xHistory 606 $aPrinting$xHistory 606 $aPrinting$xHistoriography 606 $aType and type-founding$xHistory 606 $aType and type-founding$xHistoriography 615 0$aBibliography$xMethodology. 615 0$aBibliography$xMethodology$xHistory. 615 0$aPrinting$xHistory. 615 0$aPrinting$xHistoriography. 615 0$aType and type-founding$xHistory. 615 0$aType and type-founding$xHistoriography. 676 $a010/.44 700 $aDane$b Joseph A$0923102 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826697603321 996 $aBlind impressions$94074925 997 $aUNINA