What is the date of Pine's famous engraved book of Horace (I'm doing
this from memory and I don't seem to have anything here at home to tell
me - so may be wrong) -- an 18thC London imprint?? AM Hind's History of
Engraving or later works must go into this odd way of producing a book.
MAMcC
Bettina Wagner wrote:
>
> Perhaps it is worth looking at the literature concerning 15th-century (European) blockbooks, which served a similar function of publishing-on-demand, as the woodcuts could be stored for considerably longer time than standing type. This is one reason why the dating of such books has to be done for each individual copy, using evidence like watermarks, rather than for the "edition". The fluctuation between the concept of edition and (variant) copy is also demonstrated by the numerous stages into which the "editions" are subdivided.
> I would be very interested in references to further literature on this subject.
>
> Dr. Bettina Wagner
> Abteilung für Handschriften und Seltene Drucke
> Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
> Ludwigstr. 16
> D-80539 Muenchen
> Germany
> email: bettina.wagner@bsb.badw-muenchen.de
> Tel. +89 / 28638-2762 (nachmittags) bzw. -2262 (vormittags)
> Fax. +89 / 28638-2266
> postbox: D-80328 Muenchen
--
Marcus A. McCorison
mamcc@worldnet.att.net