I’m down the same rabbit hole albeit from the other end (looking at 128mo paperbacks…)! My thinking is that one needs to distinguish imposition from structure, which I find ‘format’ unhelpful conflates. I find Tanselle fairly persuasive on this stuff.
Super interesting either way!
Surely not earlier than 1820s, judging by the typeface?
Sensational!
What I love is that Pollard is so humour-deaf, he has marked these in proof and written 'notch, both'. Then, on a second pass, 'Deliberate?'
Very cool idea. And useful, too, I imagine. As for this copy, it's the best. Gems like this abound:
I've been look over Graham Pollard's interleaved proof copy: correcting all Carter's mistakes! Fun book.
Ah yes that slightly spoils the gag. They make up for it with the addition of 'misgrint' though!
How have I only just spotted this fabulous joke in Carter’s ABC?!
Did a fun activity last year where the students had to handle a book blindfolded, and work out as much as they could about it without seeing it. They were all surprised at just how much they could gauge by touch alone!
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The curse of the type facsimile strikes again! This is NOT a C17th century book. Anyone who knows anything about typefaces will tell you that’s a late C18th Caslon. I would wager this was printed c. 1820 not 1678.
A very silly but great book.
Where’s Hilary gone?!
Sensible people are just going to defer publication on everything until right before the cut-off date to buy flexibility.
At least buying one is hell too!
You’re on!
It’s like Twitter ten years ago!!
Oh—and the relevant notes in the Mack archive are in box 62.
Mack doesn’t know who she is, but her contact to Pope is William Cheselden and Martha Blount didn’t like her. She seems to have been completely infatuated with Pope and impossible to shake off.
Aha! Maynard Mack writes about this manuscript at length in his Pope biography: pp. 796-801. It’s been on my ‘find this’ list for ages.
I’m going to have nightmares about Eric.
But no books on his shelves!
YWES is usually pretty thorough!
Congratulations!!
All I ask for are signed holographs by major authors. Is that really too much?