num_pages: 696
description: Recorded between 1710 and 1777, the Bowyer ledgers offer a vast store of new information concerning authorship, book production, and distribution in eighteenth-century London. More than five-thousand works by one thousand authors were commissioned during that time. The ledgers record whathappened as the text moved through the printing-house, noting such particulars as paper, types, format, corrections, and number printed. This edition of the Bowyer ledgers presents the records themselves in photofacsimile on microfiche, accompanied by a volume of editorial apparatus, which includesan essay on the nature and function of the ledgers, and a chronological checklist of works printed by the Bowyers, an index of authors and titles, and a topical index of equipment, materials, and processes.
language: English
title: The Bowyer Ledgers: The Printing Accounts of William Bowyer Father and Son, Reproduced on Microfiche with a Checklist of Bowyer Printing 1699-1777, A Commentary, Indexes, and Appendixes
titlecomplete: The Bowyer Ledgers: The Printing Accounts of William Bowyer Father and Son, Reproduced on Microfiche with a Checklist of Bowyer Printing 1699-1777, A Commentary, Indexes, and Appendixes
publisher: Oxford University Press