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.

"Dane not only enlivens his text with the refreshing polemical cast with which bibliographers from Housman to Greg and Tanselle have become deservedly well known, but also spices his discussion with arresting contemporary references. . . . The historical range, critical acuity and cumulative evidence from various sources, genres and media make the books a rich resource on any bibliographer's shelves." (SHARP News)

• 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.

"Dane not only enlivens his text with the refreshing polemical cast with which bibliographers from Housman to Greg and Tanselle have become deservedly well known, but also spices his discussion with arresting contemporary references. . . . The historical range, critical acuity and cumulative evidence from various sources, genres and media make the books a rich resource on any bibliographer's shelves." (SHARP News)

• 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.

"Dane not only enlivens his text with the refreshing polemical cast with which bibliographers from Housman to Greg and Tanselle have become deservedly well known, but also spices his discussion with arresting contemporary references. . . . The historical range, critical acuity and cumulative evidence from various sources, genres and media make the books a rich resource on any bibliographer's shelves." (SHARP News)

• 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