Out of sorts
Subtitle: on typography and print culture
By: Joseph A. Dane
Series: Material texts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780812242942
Subjects: Historiography; Incunabula; Bibliography; Early printed books; Type and type-founding; Methodology; Printing; Critical Bibliography; Transmission of texts; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On the continuity of continuity : print culture mythology and the type of the Gutenberg Bible (B42); title: Gottfried Zedler and the twentieth-century history of DK type; title: The voodoo economics of space : from Gothic to Roman; title: The typographical gothic : a cautionary note on the title page to Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry; title: Interlude : at the typographical altar : interlude for Randall McLeod; title: Fists and filiations in early Chaucer folios (1532-1602); title: Editorial and typographical diplomacy in the Piers Plowman Archive; title: The representation of representation : versions of linear perspective; title: Typographical antiquity in Thomas Frognall Dibdin's Typographical antiquities; title: Conclusion : print culture redivivus/note on a note by Walt Whitman.