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On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Proot Goran <goran.proot@ua.ac.be> wrote:
> 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
>
> GoranH
> ====================
Has anyone tried to correlate the production capacity of the paper makers
to the potential print runs ?
Presumably the business of paper making took off after Gutenberg
as did the capacity of Intel et al. after the original PCs became common.
Remembering a novel by Cynthia Harnett "The Load of Unicorn"
based on the premise that the "scriveners" tried to prevent
Caxton from getting paper to print on ...
Just curious ...
June Samaras
KALAMOS BOOKS
(For Books about Greece)
2020 Old Station Rd
Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
Tel : 905-542-1877
E-mail : kalamosbooks@gmail.com
www.kalamosbooks.com