Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Illustrations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I Out of Sorts
7. Chapter one. On the Continuity of Continuity: Print Culture Mythology and the Type of the Gutenberg Bible (B42) 17
8. Chapter two. Gottfried Zedler and the Twentieth- Century History of DK Type 32
9. Chapter three. The Voodoo Economics of Space: From Gothic to Roman 57
10. Chapter four. The Typographical Gothic: A Cautionary Note on the Title Page to Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry 72
11. Interlude: At the Typographical Altar: Interlude for Randall McLeod 93
12. PART II Images and Texts
13. Chapter five. Fists and Filiations in Early Chaucer Folios, 1532–1602 105
14. Chapter six. Editorial and Typographical Diplomacy in the Piers Plowman Archive 118
15. Chapter seven. The Representation of Representation: Versions of Linear Perspective 141
16. Chapter eight. Typographical Antiquity in Thomas Frognall Dibdin’s Typographical Antiquities 164
17. Conclusion Print Culture Redivivus 191
18. Notes 199
19. Principal works cited 229
20. Index 239
21. Acknowledgments 243