{"product_id":"blind-impressions-methods-and-mythologies-in-book-history-hardback-9780812245493","title":"Blind Impressions; Methods and Mythologies in Book History (Hardback) 9780812245493","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlind Impressions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMethods and Mythologies in Book History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoseph A. Dane (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812245493\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 October 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e228 pages, 9 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Dane not only enlivens his text with the refreshing polemical cast with which bibliographers from Housman to Greg and Tanselle have become deservedly well known, but also spices his discussion with arresting contemporary references. . . . The historical range, critical acuity and cumulative evidence from various sources, genres and media make the books a rich resource on any bibliographer's shelves.\" (\u003ci\u003eSHARP News\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains. . . . Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for writing or thought but a historical object of study; our bibliographical field, our own concoction, becomes the true referent of the objects we define as its foundation.\"-From the Introduction\u003cbr\u003e What is a book in the study of print culture? For the scholar of material texts, it is not only a singular copy carrying the unique traces of printing and preservation efforts, or an edition, repeated and repeatable, or a vehicle for ideas to be abstracted from the physical copy. But when the bibliographer situates a book copy within the methods of book history, Joseph A. Dane contends, it is the known set of assumptions which govern the discipline that bibliographic arguments privilege, repeat, or challenge. \"Book history,\" he writes, \"is us.\"\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eBlind Impressions\u003c\/i\u003e, Dane reexamines the field of material book history by questioning its most basic assumptions and definitions. How is print defined? What are the limits of printing history? What constitutes evidence? His concluding section takes form as a series of short studies in theme and variation, considering such matters as two-color printing, the composing stick used by hand-press printers, the bibliographical status of book fragments, and the function of scholarly illustration in the Digital Age. Meticulously detailed, deeply learned, and often contrarian, \u003ci\u003eBlind Impressions\u003c\/i\u003e is a bracing critique of the way scholars define and solve problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e PART I. WHAT IS PRINT?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Paleography Versus Typography\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. \"Ca. 1800\": What's in a Date?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Bibliographers of the Mind\u003cbr\u003e PART II. ON THE MAKING OF LISTS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Herman R. Mead's Incunabula in the Huntington Library and the Notion of \"Typographical Value\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Catchtitles in English Books to 1550\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. An Editorial Propaedeutic\u003cbr\u003e PART III. IRONIES OF HISTORY AND REPRESENTATION: THEME AND VARIATION\u003cbr\u003e Playing Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e III.1. Book History and Book Histories: On the Making of Lists\u003cbr\u003e III.2. Meditation on the Composing Stick\u003cbr\u003e III.3. The Red and the Black\u003cbr\u003e III.4. Fragments\u003cbr\u003e III.5. The Nature and Function of Scholarly Illustration in a Digital World\u003cbr\u003e III.6. Art of the Mind\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Principal Sources Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52734358159640,"sku":"9780812245493","price":47.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/blind-impressions-methods-and-mythologies-in-book-history-hardback-9780812245493","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}