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McKenzie, D. F. "Printers of the Mind: Some Notes on Bibliographical Theories and Printing-House Practices." ''Making Meaning: "Printer's of the Mind and Other Essays.'' Ed. Peter D. McDonald and Michael F. Suarez, S.J. Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. | McKenzie, D. F. "Printers of the Mind: Some Notes on Bibliographical Theories and Printing-House Practices." ''Making Meaning: "Printer's of the Mind and Other Essays.'' Ed. Peter D. McDonald and Michael F. Suarez, S.J. Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. | ||
shouldn't impose our post-industrial assumptions about "careers" and "labor" standards | |||
for example, ''performance contracts'': meant journeyman could not be counted on as regular labor (perhaps a reason printers were taking on more apprentices), and workman wouldn't work harder than they were contracted to do (22-3); this "normality of non-uniformity" has uncomfortable consequences for bibliographic methodology (23) | |||
we generally assume at least one compositor and one press-crew worked fairly consistently on any printed book; however, numbers show that the Cambridge and Bowyer presses followed the principle of '''concurrent production'''; | |||
*individually, books took longer to print | |||
*smaller earlier presses seemed to use concurrent printing as much as larger 18c houses | |||
Revision as of 00:12, 19 June 2010
McKenzie, D. F. "Printers of the Mind: Some Notes on Bibliographical Theories and Printing-House Practices." Making Meaning: "Printer's of the Mind and Other Essays. Ed. Peter D. McDonald and Michael F. Suarez, S.J. Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.
shouldn't impose our post-industrial assumptions about "careers" and "labor" standards
for example, performance contracts: meant journeyman could not be counted on as regular labor (perhaps a reason printers were taking on more apprentices), and workman wouldn't work harder than they were contracted to do (22-3); this "normality of non-uniformity" has uncomfortable consequences for bibliographic methodology (23)
we generally assume at least one compositor and one press-crew worked fairly consistently on any printed book; however, numbers show that the Cambridge and Bowyer presses followed the principle of concurrent production;
- individually, books took longer to print
- smaller earlier presses seemed to use concurrent printing as much as larger 18c houses