Joseph A. Dane is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. His books include Out of Sorts: On Typography and Print Culture, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains... Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for writing or thought but a historical object of study; our bibliographical field, our own concoction, becomes the true referent of the objects we define as its foundation."-From the Introduction

• IntroductionPART I. WHAT IS PRINT?Chapter 1. Paleography Versus TypographyChapter 2. "Ca. 1800": What's in a Date?Chapter 3. Bibliographers of the MindPART II. ON THE MAKING OF LISTSChapter 4. Herman R. Mead's Incunabula in the Huntington Library and the Notion of "Typographical Value"Chapter 5. Catchtitles in English Books to 1550Chapter 6. An Editorial PropaedeuticPART III. IRONIES OF HISTORY AND REPRESENTATION: THEME AND VARIATIONPlaying BibliographyIII.1. Book History and Book Histories: On the Making of ListsIII.2. Meditation on the Composing StickIII.3. The Red and the BlackIII.4. FragmentsIII.5. The Nature and Function of Scholarly Illustration in a Digital WorldIII.6. Art of the MindNotesPrincipal Sources CitedIndexAcknowledgments

Joseph A. Dane is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. His books include Out of Sorts: On Typography and Print Culture, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains... Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for writing or thought but a historical object of study; our bibliographical field, our own concoction, becomes the true referent of the objects we define as its foundation."-From the Introduction

• IntroductionPART I. WHAT IS PRINT?Chapter 1. Paleography Versus TypographyChapter 2. "Ca. 1800": What's in a Date?Chapter 3. Bibliographers of the MindPART II. ON THE MAKING OF LISTSChapter 4. Herman R. Mead's Incunabula in the Huntington Library and the Notion of "Typographical Value"Chapter 5. Catchtitles in English Books to 1550Chapter 6. An Editorial PropaedeuticPART III. IRONIES OF HISTORY AND REPRESENTATION: THEME AND VARIATIONPlaying BibliographyIII.1. Book History and Book Histories: On the Making of ListsIII.2. Meditation on the Composing StickIII.3. The Red and the BlackIII.4. FragmentsIII.5. The Nature and Function of Scholarly Illustration in a Digital WorldIII.6. Art of the MindNotesPrincipal Sources CitedIndexAcknowledgments

Joseph A. Dane is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. His books include Out of Sorts: On Typography and Print Culture, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains... Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for writing or thought but a historical object of study; our bibliographical field, our own concoction, becomes the true referent of the objects we define as its foundation."-From the Introduction

• IntroductionPART I. WHAT IS PRINT?Chapter 1. Paleography Versus TypographyChapter 2. "Ca. 1800": What's in a Date?Chapter 3. Bibliographers of the MindPART II. ON THE MAKING OF LISTSChapter 4. Herman R. Mead's Incunabula in the Huntington Library and the Notion of "Typographical Value"Chapter 5. Catchtitles in English Books to 1550Chapter 6. An Editorial PropaedeuticPART III. IRONIES OF HISTORY AND REPRESENTATION: THEME AND VARIATIONPlaying BibliographyIII.1. Book History and Book Histories: On the Making of ListsIII.2. Meditation on the Composing StickIII.3. The Red and the BlackIII.4. FragmentsIII.5. The Nature and Function of Scholarly Illustration in a Digital WorldIII.6. Art of the MindNotesPrincipal Sources CitedIndexAcknowledgments