Blind Impressions: Methods and Mythologies in Book History

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments An earlier version of Chapter 4 appeared as “Herman R. Mead’s Incunabula at the Huntington Library and the Notion of ‘Typographical Value’.” I thank the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand for permission to reprint the revised version here. For photos and photo permissions, I thank the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections at Bowdoin College , the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Jerry Singerman and everyone else at the University of Pennsylvania Press have been consistently helpful and generally amusing; so too the anonymous reviewers who markedly improved their skills at writing readers’ reports after my many revisions. I thank also Dulcinea Circelli, Andrew Durkin, Sidney Evans, Mary Farley, Alexandra Gillespie, the Greens, Paulina Kewes, Amelia Kunhardt, Seth Lerer, Paul Needham, Michael Peterson and Michaeline Mulvey, Sandra Prior, Margaret Russett, Laura Scavuzzo Wheeler, Scott Staples, Irene Wang, and especially Linda Carpenter, my favorite professor. Finally, I will never accept the fact that she I call my darling Eloise is not here to see this book, nor those others, hers as well, in which she still lives. ...