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''endpapers'', of a different color or texture, at the front and back of book, added by binder | *''endpapers'', of a different color or texture, at the front and back of book, added by binder | ||
then strips of paper waste to secure spine | *then strips of paper waste to secure spine | ||
then boards, stiff upper and lower covers made of wood (in early days) or | *then boards, stiff upper and lower covers made of wood (in early days) or pasteboard, then millboard, covered with leather or rough paper | ||
decorated with heated brass tools, using gold leaf (''gilt'') or plain (''blind'') | *decorated with heated brass tools, using gold leaf (''gilt'') or plain (''blind'') | ||
=== Printing Type === | === Printing Type === | ||
Revision as of 19:59, 4 June 2010
Book Production: The Hand-press Period 1500-1800
The Hand-printed Book
printing process:
- compositor: type --> composing stick (several lines) --> galley (whole page); tie with string, move to the next
- imposition: arrange many pages of type for one sheet --> fix in a pair of iron frames (chases), one for each side --> locked together, two chases of type create a forme
- trial prints (proofs) made from formes; compared with copy; errors marked by corrector (possibly author), marked proofs used by compositor to correct type
- formes placed on printing press: wooden frame; screw, worked by hand, to force the platen down onto the type; movable carriage for type and paper to run under platen; worked by two pressman --> one fits paper on frame, folds it down onto the type, and runs the carriage under the platen; the other inks the type; printed one side, then another
- arranged piles of printed sheets along a bench, picking them up one by one to collate the sheets
- collated sheets sent to binder, who folded each sheet and sewed them together into volumes
foliation: numbering leaves pagination: numbering pages
direction line: first word of the next page at the bottom of the page
head: top of book tail: bottom of book
gathering: one or more pair of leaves (conjugate paires) joined at the back, made from one folded sheet, or fraction of a sheet, or several folded sheets tucked inside one another (quired)
- identified by a signature, a letter or letters of the alphabet placed in the direction line of the first recto, often repeated on subsequent rectos, indicating order of the gatherings
- main signature series begins with the text; title page, dedication, etc., often not included because they would have been printed last -- reprints may begin signatures at the beginning
imprint: identifying printer on the title page colophon: identifying printer at the back of the book
paper:
- handmade, rough-surfaced
- of-white
- shows pattern of broad-spaced lines (chain lines) crossed by close together lines (wire lines)
- smooth edges cut by binder or rough, uncut, or unopened
binding:
- endpapers, of a different color or texture, at the front and back of book, added by binder
- then strips of paper waste to secure spine
- then boards, stiff upper and lower covers made of wood (in early days) or pasteboard, then millboard, covered with leather or rough paper
- decorated with heated brass tools, using gold leaf (gilt) or plain (blind)