Out of Sorts: On Typography and Print Culture

Contents

c o n t e n t s • List of Abbreviations ix List of Illustrations xi Introduction 1 PA R T I . O U T O F S O R T S Chapter One. On the Continuity of Continuity: Print Culture Mythology and the Type of the Gutenberg Bible (B42) 17 Chapter Two. Gottfried Zedler and the Twentieth-Century History of DK Type 32 Chapter Three. The Voodoo Economics of Space: From Gothic to Roman 57 Chapter Four. The Typographical Gothic: A Cautionary Note on the Title Page to Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry 72 i n t e r l u d e At the Typographical Altar: Interlude for Randall McLeod 93 viii contents PA R T I I . I M A G E S A N D T E X T S Chapter Five. Fists and Filiations in Early Chaucer Folios (1532–1602) 105 Chapter Six. Editorial and Typographical Diplomacy in the Piers Plowman Archive 118 Chapter Seven. The Representation of Representation: Versions of Linear Perspective 141 Chapter Eight. Typographical Antiquity in Thomas Frognall Dibdin’s Typographical Antiquities 164 Conclusion: Print Culture Redivivus/Note on a Note by Walt Whitman 191 Notes 199 Principal Works Cited 229 Index 239 Acknowledgments 243 ...