Dear Gary, The price of printed books during the ancien régime depended basically on the amount of paper used. (See Voet, The Plantin Press etc.) Yours Goran Goran Proot Universiteit Antwerpen Bibliotheek Stadscampus Leeszaal Preciosa, lokaal A104 (enkel op afspraak) Prinsstraat 13 B-2000 Antwerpen Telefoon: 03-220.48.15 E-mail: goran.proot@ua.ac.be WWW: http://www.stcv.be -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Rare book and manuscripts namens Gary Phillips Verzonden: do 13-3-2008 9:19 Aan: EXLIBRIS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Onderwerp: Re: [EXLIBRIS-L] Printed in the millions? They do exist. The first US/UK paperback print run of the movie tie in of the Da Vinci Code was 7 million (source Bertelsmann web site) The first hardback print run of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was 12 million; that for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was 10.8 million (source USA Today) Guinness Book of World Records has an annual print run in the millions e.g 2.7 million for the 2000 edition (source BBC) What about Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (Little Red Book)? What 18th century book was printed by the dozens? The cost was in type setting not paper or storage of unbound sheets. Gary -----Original Message----- From: White, Eric [mailto:EXLIBRIS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU] On Behalf Of White, Eric Sent: 12 March 2008 04:28 To: EXLIBRIS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: RE: [EXLIBRIS-L] Printed in the millions? US Income Tax Instruction booklet? The Starr Report? 9/11 Report? none? EW -----Original Message----- From: Rare book and manuscripts on behalf of Ellen Middlebrook Herron Sent: Tue 3/11/2008 10:56 PM To: EXLIBRIS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXLIBRIS-L] Printed in the millions? perhaps the bible - or maybe the latest john grisham book... certainly never any publication i've been involved in! > "Most recently, these rare books and thousands like them were being stored > in > the library stacks alongside modern volumes that are printed by the > millions > instead of by the dozens." > > What books are printed in the millions? > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Everett Wilkie" <ewilkie@IX.NETCOM.COM> > To: <EXLIBRIS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU> > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:41 PM > Subject: [EXLIBRIS-L] Description of new PA state library rare book wing > > >> This appeared in the Post Gazette. One interesting aspect of the new >> library is that they seemed to have banned traditional writing >> instruments >> entirely from the reading room. --ECW >> >> http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08069/863695-85.stm# >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> State library's new wing slows aging of old documents >> Sunday, March 09, 2008 >> By Tracie Mauriello, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau >> >> Brady C. Bower for the Post-Gazette >> >> HARRISBURG -- Paper booties, cotton smocks and blue latex gloves are de >> rigeur in the austere and darkened corridors, where hidden cameras, >> key-card >> readers and fingerprint scanners track every movement. >> >> A filtration system removes harmful gases from the air. Sensors detect >> chemical changes as subtle as new colognes worn by the small cadre of >> personnel authorized to enter the innermost sanctum. >> >> This isn't a scene from "The Matrix." There are no secrets being guarded >> here, rather documents that the curators want you to see. >> >> This is the new $7.2 million Rare Collections wing of the Pennsylvania >> State >> Library. >> >> After two years of design and two years of construction, the wing now is >> being filled with 12,000 of the state's oldest and most valuable >> holdings, >> including Ben Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanacs" and a well-worn copy >> of >> the Magna Carta that the founding fathers referred to during the >> Continental >> Congress as they drafted the U.S. Constitution. >> >> In six months, the wing will be ready for scholars and researchers who >> come >> from all corners of the state and, recently, as far as Japan to view the >> state's collection of historical documents. >> >> The documents will be available to the public, too. >> >> "Our purpose is to make documents available to serious researchers and >> students, but we had a limited capacity to make them available to the >> public. Now, because we can protect them, we can make them known," said >> Caryn Carr, director of the Pennsylvania State Library. "Now we can make >> them available to greater numbers." >> >> There is a 1739 ceremonial Bible that the Pennsylvania General Assembly >> used >> in its earliest days. There is a 1795 map of Harrisburg hand-drawn on >> animal >> skin. There a copy of the 1752 newspaper in which Benjamin Franklin >> first >> described his kite-and-key experiment that resulted in the discovery of >> electricity. >> >> The collection also includes agricultural pamphlets, musical scores, >> ornithology books and religious texts, including the German Saur Bible, >> the >> first non-English-language Bible printed in the colonies. >> >> For the oldest volumes, the relocation to the collections wing will be >> their >> 12th move since in 1777. >> >> Thought to be a target of British soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 425 >> volumes were taken at night from Philadelphia to a hay barn in Easton >> for >> safekeeping, said Mary Clare Zales, the state Department of Education's >> deputy director for libraries. All but two of those volumes survived >> war, >> fire, flood and neglect, she said. >> >> Most recently, these rare books and thousands like them were being >> stored >> in >> the library stacks alongside modern volumes that are printed by the >> millions >> instead of by the dozens. Centuries-old documents were stored on metal >> shelves in a room with peeling paint, dusty curtains and florescent >> lights >> known to cause paper to disintegrate. >> >> "They are in a much better environment now, much better," Ms. Carr said. >> >> Thousands of books, pamphlets, maps and newspapers have been moved to >> the >> new environmentally controlled area already, and library employees are >> transporting the rest one bookcart at a time from the library stacks to >> the >> renovated 18,000-square-foot wing that used to house card catalogs, >> meeting >> rooms and administrative offices. >> >> The area includes an elegant reading room with Venetian plaster walls, >> stained-glass depictions of Franklin and granite floors and tabletops >> that >> reflect and amplify light, which is kept at low levels to better >> preserve >> documents. The room is framed on three sides by Pennsylvania black >> cherry >> wood, which came from trees hand picked by project architect Cornelius >> Rosnov, of the state Department of General Services. The fourth side >> comprises plaster tryptychs depicting figures from Greek mythology. >> >> No pens or pencils are allowed here, lest graphite dust and stray ink >> mar >> its treasures. Instead, patrons can use laptop computers to take notes. >> The >> reading room is the only elaborately decorated part of the wing. It was >> designed with people in mind, while the rest of the vault is aimed not >> at >> creature comforts, but at book preservation. Translation: It is dim and >> cool. >> >> Out of that darkness will come new light shed on the state's past as the >> library provides greater access to the treasures of William Penn's time. >> >> "This is really going to help us elevate the discourse about that time >> period," Ms. Zales said. >> >> The high-tech environment is the only one of its kind in Pennsylvania, >> and >> already is becoming a model for other states. It was designed by a team >> of >> architects, engineers, chemists, physicists, historians, librarians and >> paper-preservation specialists. >> >> "We are showing that we can produce an appropriate environment to >> preserve >> books despite the climate inside," Mr. Rusnov said. "It is a model >> project >> that other libraries could learn from." >> >> Paper and other artifacts cannot be stopped from deteriorating, but Mr. >> Rusnov believes he has created the perfect environment to slow the >> process. >> >> "These things are going to continue to deteriorate naturally. They are >> going >> to rot," he said. "We can't stop the process, but we can extend the life >> of >> these materials until technology catches up and can extend it again." >> >
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