DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1412136
title: Data And Code For Phd Thesis- Making An Impression: An Assessment Of The Role Of Print Surfaces Within The Technological, Commercial, Intellectual And Cultural Trajectory Of Book Illustration C.1780-C.1860.

description: <strong>Overview</strong>

These datasets support research found in the PhD Thesis entitled: Making an Impression: An Assessment of the Role of Print Surfaces Within the Technological, Commercial, Intellectual and Cultural Trajectory of Book Illustration c.1780-c.1860, submitted by William Finley. The data was provided by the British Library as part of a wider ambition to digitise millions of book illustrations (further details can be found here: https://github.com/BL-Labs/imagedirectory). The main dataset contains 6063 rows and 108,784 illustrations. All of the data is held in comma-separated values (csv) files. The collection has been subdivided in order to interrogate the dataset further. All of the datasets have been interrogated using Rscript (R 3.4.2 El Capitan Build), the codes of which have been included in the dataset repository. 

<strong>Guidance to Datasets</strong>

'Counts of Illustration by Size over Time'


	Title: Title of Book
	Author: Author of Book 
	Pub_Place: Location the book was published
	Book_Id: British Library image identifier 
	YEAR: Year the book was published
	Image_Count: Number of illustrations belonging to that book
	N: Number of illustrations according to the size of illustration
	IMAGE_TYPE: Size of Illustration 


'Density Graphs of the Position of Illustrations on the Page'


	X1: The X position in pixels of the top left of the image
	Y1: The Y position in pixels of the top left of the image
	X2: Width in pixels of the Image
	Y2: Height in pixels of the Image
	PERCENT_PAGE: Percentage of the page taken up by illustrations
	TYPE: Percentage Range of the Page taken up by illustrations 
	VOL: Volume


'Frequency of Illustrations Across First 100 Pages of the Book 1800-1850'


	Page: Page number 
	X1: The X position in pixels of the top left of the image
	Y1: The Y position in pixels of the top left of the image
	X2: Width in pixels of the image
	Y2: Height in pixels of the image
	PERCENTPAGE: Percentage of the page occupied by illustration
	SIZE: Size category each illustration belongs to


'Illustration Arrangement in Single Books and Editions'


	Book_ID: British Library image identifier
	Page_NO: Page Number Illustration is found on 
	X: The X position in pixels of the top left of the image
	Y: The Y position in pixels of the top left of the image 
	WIDTH: Width in pixels of the image
	HEIGHT: Height in pixels of the image
	IMAGE_SIZE: Percentage of the page occupied by illustration


'Relative Frequency of Printing Methods Over Time'


	Publisher: Publisher of the book
	Title: Title of the book
	first_author: Author
	pub_place: Location the book was published
	book_identifier: British Library image identifier
	Year: Year the book was published 
	COUNT_IMAGE: Number of illustrations found in a given book
	YEAR_BOOK_COUNT: Number of book published in a given year
	YEAR_IMAGE: Number of Illustrations found in books published in a given year
	AVERAGE_IMAGE: Average number of illustrations found in books published in a given year
	IMAGE_METHOD: Print method used to produce the illustration
	IMAGE_SIZE_COUNT: Number of illustrations printed in books in a given year according to its size
	IMAGE_SIZE: Categories of image sizes


<strong>Contact</strong>

Will Finley can be contacted via the following email. Information listed is accurate at the time of publication

Email: wafinley1@sheffield.ac.uk