Paleography versus typography -- "Ca. 1800": what's in a date? -- Bibliographers of the mind -- Herman R. Mead's Incunabula in the Huntington Library and the notion of "Typographical Value" -- Catchtitles in English books to 1550 -- An editorial propaedeutic -- Book history and book histories: on making of lists -- Meditation on the composing stick -- The red and the black -- Fragments -- The nature and function of scholarly illustration in a digital world -- Art of the mind
Summary
Joseph A. Dane examines 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?
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-214) and index
