By G. Thomas Tanselle
Learning published books as actual gadgets can demonstrate not just how books have been produced, but additionally how their layout and format good points emerged and got here to show meanings. This concise and obtainable creation to analytical bibliography in its ancient context explains in transparent, non-specialist language how to define and examine clues a few book's manufacture and the way to ascertain the importance of a book's layout. Written by way of some of the most eminent bibliographical and textual students operating at the present time, the publication is either a realistic advisor to bibliographical examine and a heritage of bibliography as a constructing box of analysis. For all who use books, this can be a terrific place to begin for studying the right way to learn the item in addition to the phrases.
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Extra resources for Bibliographical Analysis: A Historical Introduction
18 There is still another kind of information that the study of recognizable types can reveal: the number of t ype-case units (that is, the number of sets of “upper” and “lower” cases) from which types were drawn for setting a particular book. Recurring clusters of identifiable types can distinguish sections of text set from different type-case units. Whether or not a given compositor was regularly assigned to a particular set of type-cases (as sometimes happened), at least one can say that evidence of more than one set of type-cases opens the way for considering the possibility of concurrent setting by two or more compositors.
20 Foundations (p. 255), in bibliography – the “new phase of its career” (p. 250) – as arising from a growing understanding of the significance of physical evidence in the study of the transmission of texts – a discovery that gave the field a “guiding principle” (p. 25 He again contrasted the recording of data with the probing for “significance and relation”; in moving from one to the other the field “ceases to be descriptive and static” and “becomes dynamic and historical” (p. 248). Whether it is also a science is a question he turned to advantage, refusing to let it become a mere matter of definition.
Bowers was of course aware that he was not describing a new kind of logic but rather was showing how bibliographical evidence could be handled in a way that conformed to traditional concepts of logical argument. What more people needed instruction in was how to recognize physical evidence that had potential significance for revealing the manufacturing process. But Bowers’s subject – as he acknowledged in his foreword – was “method alone”; his purpose was not to offer a systematic explanation of the techniques (or “tools,” as he called them) of bibliographical analysis .
Bibliographical Analysis: A Historical Introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle