Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. PART I. What Is Print?
5. Chapter 1. Paleography Versus Typography 11
6. Chapter 2. “Ca. 1800”: What’s in a Date? 37
7. Chapter 3. Bibliographers of the Mind 58
8. PART II. On the Making of Lists
9. Chapter 4. Herman R. Mead’s Incunabula in the Huntington Library and the Notion of “Typographical Value” 75
10. Chapter 5. Catchtitles in English Books to 1550 92
11. Chapter 6. An Editorial Propaedeutic 106
12. PART III. Ironies of History and Representation: Theme and Variation
13. Playing Bibliography 127
14. III.1. Book History and Book Histories: On the Making of Lists 130
15. III.2. Meditation on the Composing Stick 139
16. III.3. The Red and the Black 149
17. III.4. Fragments 156
18. III.5. The Nature and Function of Scholarly Illustration in a Digital World 165
19. III.6. Art of the Mind 174
20. Notes 183
21. Principal Sources 209
22. Index 215
23. Acknowledgments 219