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Spring 2019 The iSchool - UMd LBSC611: History of the Book Stephen Greenberg e-mail: [email protected]

Course Outline and Supplemental Readings

Required Books:

nd Bamber Gascoigne, How to Identify Prints, 2 ​ edn. (New York: Thames & Hudson, ​ ​ ​ 2004). The first edition is also suitable.

nd Philip Gaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography. 2 ​ edn. (New Castle, DE: Oak ​ ​ ​ Knoll, 1995). In this case, the first (hardcover) edition is NOT suitable, for reasons that will be discussed in class.

Stan Knight, Historical Types: From Gutenberg to Ashendene (New Castle, DE: Oak ​ ​ Knoll, 2012). Spend more time with the illustrations than with the text.

S.H. Steinberg, Five Hundred Years of Printing. New Edition, revised by John ​ ​ Trevitt (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll, 1996).

Optional but very useful: & Nicolas Barker, ABC for Book Collectors. th th ​ ​ 9 ​ ed. (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016). The 8 ​ edition is available as a ​ ​ free PDF download from the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, and is good to keep around, but there are no required readings from it. Older editions are suitable as well.

All of the required books SHOULD be available through the University Bookstore as well as other (online) sources.

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Lecture Schedule:

1/28: Lecture 1: Introductions; The Book before Printing Optional Reading: Browse through Carter if available

2/4: Lecture 2: Incunabula Reading: Gaskell, 5-77; Knight, 7-34; Steinberg, 3-70

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th 2/11: Lecture 3: The 16 ​ Century ​ Reading: Gaskell, 78-153; Knight, 35-59; Steinberg, 74-135. This reading covers Lectures 3&4.

th 2/18: Lecture 4: The 17 ​ Century ​

th 2/25: Lecture 5: The 18 ​ Century ​ Reading: Gaskell, 160-188; Knight, 60-81.

3/4: Field Trip 1: Details TBA.

3/11: Lecture 6: Book Illustration before 1850 Reading: Gascoigne, sections 1-31; Gaskell, 154-160. Bring Gascoigne to class.

3/25: Lecture 7: The Mechanized Book and the Mass Book Trade Reading: Gaskell, 189-265, 274-310; Knight, 82-88; Steinberg, 137-174.

4/1: Lecture 8: Book Illustration after 1850 Reading: Gascoigne sections 32-46; Gaskell, 266-273. Bring Gascoigne to class.

4/8: Lecture 9: Photography and the Book No required reading

4/15: Lecture 10: Type Re-considered Bring Knight to Class

4/22: Lecture 11: The Fine Press Book & Book Collecting Reading: Knight, 89-93; Steinberg, 175-216

4/29: Field Trip 2: Details TBA.

5/6: Special Assignment: TBD

5/13: Lecture 12 – The Post-Modern Book

Assignments:

1. Students will watch the YouTube video at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv0qXpNy7ng

You will then be expected to write a brief (250-500 words) essay covering three questions:

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a. Have you ever had a "real book moment?" b. The lecture in the video was delivered in 2008. What would you say has changed since then? c. How do you choose format when YOU buy a book?

Bring your essay to class on 2/25, and be prepared to discuss it. This assignment will be worth 20% of the final grade.

2. Students will select two monographs or four articles (or some similar combination) from the supplemental reading list and write a 10-15 page paper exploring a particular topic in detail. Students may suggest or request additional readings. Topics must be approved by 3/11; the paper is due at the last class meeting. This assignment is worth 60% of the course grade.

3. All topic proposals and written assignments may be submitted electronically. I will acknowledge receipt of any electronic submission within 24 hours. If no acknowledgement is received, contact me ASAP. Deadline for electronic submission is 6pm (ie – when class is scheduled to begin, NOT end).

4. 20% of the course grade will be based on class participation, etc.

Attendance:

This is a concentrated semester, with a lot to cover in a limited number of LONG evenings, with the added fun of DC winter weather. Moreover, I expect all students to take an active part in classroom discussion, and your grade will reflect this. Therefore, it is important that students plan to attend ALL class sessions (bringing dinner, if necessary). University attendance standards will (of course!) be observed, but long skiing weekends at WhiteTail or quick cruises to the Bahamas are NOT to be considered excused absences.

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Supplemental Reading List:

As noted, students will select two monographs or four articles (or some similar combination) from this list and write a 10-15 page paper exploring a particular topic in detail. Students may suggest or request additional readings. This is a broad subject, and this assignment can be interpreted VERY broadly, but your sanity will be less threatened if you stay within the suggested categories. The list is somewhat weighted toward classics; your selection need not be. Please note that

4 these are suggestions only; as the pirates say, this is less of a code, and more of a guideline (aaargh!).

Again, topics must be approved by 3/11; the paper is due at the last class meeting. This assignment is worth 60% of the course grade.

Descriptive Bibliography and General Works:

Fredson C. Bowers, Principles of Bibliographical Description (1949). ​ ​

Robert Darnton, The Case for Books (2009) ​ ​

Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin, The Coming of the Book (1984). ​ ​

Stephen Ferguson, “​History of the Book: Field Notes of a Curator.” ​Rare Books and ​ ​ Manuscript Librarianship 14:1 (1999), 33-48. ​

W.W. Greg, “​What is Bibliography?” ​Transactions of the 12 ​ ​ ​ (1911-13), 39-53. Any selection of articles or books by Greg is also suitable.

Lynette Hunter, “​Adaption and/or Revision in Early Quartos of Romeo and Juliet.” ​ ​ Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 101:1 (2007), 5-54. ​

Norma Levarie, The Art & History of Books (1995). ​ ​

Falconer Madan, “​On Method in Bibliography.” ​Transactions of the Bibliographical ​ ​ Society 1 (1892-93), 91-102. ​

Robert McKerrow, An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students (1927). ​ ​

David Alan Richards, “​Kipling and the Bibliographers.” ​Papers of the Bibliographical ​ ​ of America 102:2 (2008), 221-234. ​

Laura Stalker and Jackie M. Dooley, “​Descriptive Cataloging and Rare Books.”​ Rare ​ ​ ​ Books and Manuscripts Librarianship 7.1 (1992), 7-23. ​

G. Thomas Tanselle, Selected Studies in Bibliography (1979) or any selection of ​ ​ articles by GTT. He is the most respected and prolific bibliographical theorist of our era, and has written on every subject in this list.

David VanderMeulen, Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and ​ Alexander Pope (1988). ​

Incunabula and Earlier:

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Helen Barolini, Aldus and his Dream Book (1992). ​ ​

T.H. Barrett, The Woman Who Discovered Printing (2008) ​ ​

th Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in 17 ​ Century ​ ​ England. (1998) ​

Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (1983) ​ ​ AND Elizabeth Eisenstein, Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in ​ the West (2011) ​

Lotte Hellinga, Caxton in Focus (1982) ​ ​

Sandra Hindman (ed.), Printing the Written Word: The Social History of Books, c. ​ 1450-1520 (1991). ​

Janet Ing, Johann Gutenberg and his Bible (1988). ​ ​

Paul Needham, “​Counting Incunables: The IISTC CD-ROM.” Huntington​ Library ​ ​ Quarterly 61 (1999-2000), 456-529. ​

Allan Stevenson, The Problem of the Missale Speciale (1967). ​ ​

Roger Stoddard, Marks in Books (1985). ​ ​ AND William Sherman, Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (2008) ​ ​

Philip Teigen, “​Concurrent Printing of the Gutenberg Bible and the Proton ​ Milliprobe Analysis of its Ink,” Papers​ of the Bibliographical Society of America ​ 87 (1993): 437-51. If this topic intrigues, Teigen’​s footnotes will supply whatever ​ other readings are needed.

Adrian Wilson, The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle (1976). ​ ​

Hand Press Printing:

Cyprian Blagden, The Stationers’ ​Company: A History (1960). ​ ​ ​

Peter W.M. Blayney, The Bookshops in Paul’​s Cross Churchyard (1990). ​ ​ ​

Paul Collins, The Book of William: How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the ​ World (2009) ​

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Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre (1984) or The Literary Underground of ​ the Old Regime (2005). ​

Charlton Hinman, The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of ​ Shakespeare, 2 vols. (1963). This counts as two books, but you must take a good ​ look at the Norton facsimile of the First Folio to make sense of what Hinman was up to.

Valerie Hotchkiss & Fred C. Robinson, English in Print: From Caxton to Shakespeare ​ to Milton (2008). ​

Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (1998). ​ ​

Erick Kelemen, “​More Evidence for the Date of A Testimonie of Antiquitie.” th​ ​ The Library, 7 ​ Series, 7:4 (2006), 361-376. ​ ​

Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing (1683-4, rep. ​ ​ 1978)

Michael Pollak, “​The Performance of the Wooden Printing Press.” ​Library ​ ​ Quarterly 42 (1972), 218-264. ​

Richard-Gabriel Rummonds, Printing on the Iron Handpress (1997) ​ ​

Maria Wakely, “​Printing and Double-Dealing in Jacobean England.”​ The Library, 7th ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Series, 8:2 (2007), 119-153.

Book Illustration and Photography:

Richard Benson, The Printed Picture (2008). ​ ​

John Buchanan-Brown, Early Victorian Illustrated Books (2005) ​ ​

Linda Hults, The Print in the Western World: An Introductory History (1996) ​ ​

William M. Ivins, Jr. How Prints Look (rev. ed. 1987) ​ ​

Beaumont Newhall, The History of Photography (many, many editions) ​ ​

Gregory R. Suriano, The British Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators (2003) ​ ​

Nigel Tattersfield, John Bewick: Engraver on Wood 1760-1795 (2001) ​ ​

Diane Waggoner, ed., The Pre-Raphaelite Lens (2010) ​ ​

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Carol Wax, The Mezzotint: History and Technique (1990) ​ ​

Binding:

Gabriel Austin, The Library of Jean Grolier (1971) ​ ​

Douglas Ball, Victorian Publishers’ Bookbindings​ (1985). ​ ​ ​

Stuart Bennett, Trade Bookbindings in the British Isles (2004). ​ ​

Mirjam M. Foot (ed.) Eloquent Witnesses: Bookbindings and Their History (2004), ​ ​ or Bookbinders at Work (2005) Any work by Foot on any bookbinding subject is ​ ​ worth reading as well, and she has written a great deal.

Jonathan Hill, “​From Provisional to Permanent: Books in Boards, 1790-1840.” ​The th ​ ​ Library 6 ​ series 21 (1999), 247-273. ​ ​

Hellmut Lehman-Haupt (ed.), Bookbinding in America: Three Essays (1967). ​ ​

Howard Nixon, Five Centuries of English Bookbinding (1978). ​ ​

David Pearson, English Bookbinding Styles, 1450-1800 (2004). ​ ​

Barbara Shailor, The Medieval Book (1988). ​ ​

Type and Paper:

Harry Carter, A View of Early Typography (1969) ​ ​

Frederic W. Goudy, Goudy’​s Type Designs (1978) ​ ​ ​

Dard Hunter, Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft (1947, ​ ​ rep. 1978)

Mark Kurlansky, Paper: Paging through History (2016) ​ ​

Martin Lowry, Nicholas Jenson and the Rise of Venetian Publishing in Renaissance ​ Europe (1991) ​

Stanley Morison, On Type Designs Past and Present (1926, rep. 1962) or any ​ ​ selection of books or articles by Morison.

Paul Needham, “​The Paper Supply of the Gutenberg Bible.” ​Papers of the ​ ​ Bibliographical Society of America 79 (1985), 303-374. ​

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M. B. Parkes, Pause and Effect: Punctuation in the West (1992) ​ ​

Ari Rafaeli, Book Typography (2005) ​ ​

Richard Southall, Printer’​s Type in the Twentieth Century (2005) ​ ​ ​

rd Erik Spiekermann, Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works. 3 ​ edn. ​ ​ ​ (2014)

Allen Stevenson, “​Watermarks are Twins.” ​Studies in Bibliography 4 (1951-52), ​ ​ ​ 57-91.

James Sutton and Alan Bartram, An Atlas of Typeforms, (1968, rep. 1988) ​ ​

Walter Tracy, Letters of Credit: A View of Type Design (1986) ​ ​

Daniel Berkeley Updike, Printing Types: Their History, Form, and Use (rep. 2001). ​ ​ Most recent edition of a classic.

Mechanization/Modernization:

Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age ​ (1994)

Jeff Gomez, Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age (2008) ​ ​

Basil C. Kahan, Ottmar Mergenthaler, The Man And His Machine (2000). ​ ​

Hellmut Lehman-Haupt, The Book in America (1939) ​ ​

Beth Luey, Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of ​ Knowledge (2010) ​

nd David Pearson, Books as History. 2 ed.​ (2011). ​ ​ ​

Anthony Rota, Apart from the Text (1998). ​ ​

Michael Twyman, “​Lithographic Stone and the Printing Trade in the Nineteenth ​ Century.” ​Journal of the Printing Historical Society 8 (1972), 1-31. ​ ​

Fine Press and Book Collecting:

Richard Altick, The Scholar Adventurers (1950) ​ ​

Nicholas Basbanes, A Gentle Madness (1995), or any of Basbanes’s later books ​ ​

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John Dieter Brinks, ed. The Book as a Work of Art (2005) ​ ​

John Carter and Graham Pollard, An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth ​ Century Pamphlets (1934). ​ AND John Collins, The Two Forgers (1992). ​ ​

Roderick Cave and Sarah Manson, A History of the Golden Cockerel Press ​ 1920-1960 (2003). ​

Owen Gingerich, The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus ​ Copernicus (2004). Skim the astrophysics, concentrate on the bibliography. ​

Victor E. Neuberg (ed.) Thomas Frognall Dibdin: Selections (1978) or any edition of ​ ​ Dibdin’​s Bibliomania you can find. ​ ​ ​

Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, Books Have Their Fates (2001) or any ​ ​ other Rostenberg/Stern collaboration.

Marianne Tidcombe, The Doves Press (2003) ​ ​

Susan O. Thompson, American Book Design and William Morris (1977) ​ ​

Allison Wiggins, “​What Did Renaissance Readers Write in their Printed Copies of ​ th Chaucer?” ​The Library, 7 ​ Series 9:1 (2008) 3-36. ​ ​ ​

Looking for a challenge?

Michael Suarez and H.R. Woodhuysen, The Oxford Companion to the Book, 2 vols. ​ ​ (2010).