In “The Textual Criticism of Visual and Aural Works” (Studies in Bibliography, 57 (2005/2006): 1-37) G. Thomas Tanselle suggests, Textual criticism—the study of the relationships among variant texts of works—has primarily been associated, throughout its long history extending back to antiquity, with verbal works as transmitted on tangible objects such as parchment and paper. But [...]
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Electronic texts are normal, published texts are weird
Posted in Printing, Publishing, Technology, The Book on December 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Witnesses don’t always need protection
Posted in Evidence, Libraries, Printing on September 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is an image of a charming piece of bibliographical evidence, the witness. It is a tiny bit of paper that was accidentally folded in between pages rather than outwards. When the pages were trimmed to make a neat text-block, it missed the guillotine. Thus, it provides us with a witness of the original page [...]
The Dapper Debonair Miner, the First Colorado Illustration
Posted in Historical Events, Printing on September 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have been hunting the dapper debonair miner for awhile now. He lurks on my computer’s hard-drive in a form of black and white pixels, digitized from a photograph of an old paper, which was printed under challenging circumstances. Though I already knew his mug-shot, I wanted to find him. Today, I was lucky and [...]
Book Arts League Grand Opening
Posted in Current Events, Printing on September 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today was the grand opening of the Book Arts League’s printshop at the Ewing Farm in Lafayette. It is a short drive from where I live and a colleague and I decided that we had to see this historic opening. We were not disappointed, the League was demonstrating printing on one of their presses, box [...]
