Hand-Press Printing: The "Scene of the Crime" of Book Making and the Bibliographer's "Perp"

        The print cycle.  At the beginning of class, we will review Williams and Abbott on the purposes and kinds of bibliography, and the special skills and methods of analytical bibliography.  This is one of those "dry" reading assignments, but it is a very important one.  We will also review what you know about the whole hand-press printing process by looking at the "Death comes to the print shop" link, above.  For help with typographic analysis, see these web pages describing vocabulary for describing type fonts and pieces of metal type A Quick Guide to Arcane "Desbib" Vocabulary and Format Detection Descriptive Bibliography Methods and Terms (the more compete, step-by-step guide to "desbib")