Low Countries, 95, 97–99
Lowell, James Russell, 227
lowercase, 147
Luther, Martin, 53–54, 62–67, 216, 246, 280
Lutherans, 98–99
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 128, 133
Magellan, Ferdinand, 85
Maltese Falcon, The (Hammett), 274
mapmaking (cartography), 81–107
Mercator Projection and, 101–6
Marino, James J., 115
Marlowe, Christopher, 129
Mars, map of, 105
Mary, Queen of Hungary, 95, 97–98
Maryland Gazette, 139
Mary Magdalene, 54
Massachusetts Assembly, 140, 142
mass production, 238–40
Master of Desire (book), 131
Mather, Cotton, 273
Matthew, Book of, 68
Maupassant, Guy de, 264
McCartney, Paul, 213
McDonald’s, 216
McGann, Jerome, 184
McKerrow, R.B., 110
McKerrow device #283, 124
Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Godwin), 203–10, 212
memorial reconstruction, 113
Mercator, Gerard, xv, 81–106
Flanders map (1540), 96–97
Gemma globe (1536), 91–93
Mercator Projection and, 101–6, 103
North Pole, Septentrionalium Terrarum Descriptio (1569), 81–84, 82
Palestine map (1537), 93–94
Ptolemy’s Geographia and, 86
world map (1538), 94, 97, 101–2
world map (1541), 97–98
world map (1569), 101–6
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare), 116
“bad” or Pavier Quarto, 122, 126
Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Shakespeare)
“bad” or Pavier Quarto, 109, 126
metal engravings, 92
metal type, 11–12, 149, 150, 156, 239. See also type casting; typefaces
Meuthen, Erich, 31
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare)
“bad” or Pavier Quarto, 122, 126
Mikrokosmographia (Crooke, 1615), 118–20
Miller, William, 171
Milles, Thomas, 118
Milton, John, xi, 76, 165, 216
Doves Press Paradise Lost (1902), 242, 250
Geneva Bible and, 76
Monachus, Franciscus, 99
Monotype, 238–39
Montagu, Elizabeth, 200
Montaigne, Michel de, 129
More, Thomas, 52, 65–69, 71–75, 78–79, 279–81, 284
Holbein portrait of, 279–80
Morley, Christopher, 279
Mormons, 59
Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer, 214
Morocco binding, 15
Morris, William, 240–41, 246–48
Morse, Samuel, 227
mortuaries 51–53
Moscow State University, 44
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (First Folio, 1622), 127–28, 130–31, 133–34
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare), 113
Murder (Johnson and Palmer), 259
Narrative of the Life of James Allen, 16
National Recovery Administration (NRA), 275
Nazi Germany, 44, 246, 277–78
Needham, Paul, 20, 26–27, 30
Netherlands, map of, 96
new bibliographers, 109
New-England Courant, The, 139–40, 142–43, 151
Newton, Isaac, 6, 86
New World, 224, 226
New York Courier, 223
New Yorker, 5
New-York Evening Post, 214
New-York Gazetteer, 161
New York Herald, 214
New York Morning Post, 223
New York Times, 266
Nicholson, Segar, 74
1984 (Orwell), 36
Ninety-Five Theses (Luther), 53–55, 56
nitric acid (aqua fortis), 163–65, 179
nonfiction, 273
Norfolk, Duke of, 70
Northwest and Northeast Passages, 84
Norway, 83
Notes from Underground (Dostoyevsky), xiv
nothing, 113
novels, 273
Obama, Barack, 236
Obedience of a Christian Man, The (Tyndale), 71
octavo format, 130
Old Curiosity Shop, The (Dickens), 222
Oliver Twist (Dickens, 1837), 221, 233
On Certain False Dates in Shakespearean Quartos (Greg), 122–23
“100 best novels” lists, 264
Original Stories from Real Life (Wollstonecraft?), 198
Orwell, George, 36
Ovid, 130
Oxford Synod of 1407–9, 59
Oxford University, 65
Paget, Sidney, 175
Palestine, Mercator map (1537), 93–94
Palmer, Gretta, 259
Palmer, Samuel, 145–48
Pamela (Richardson), 200
Panic of 1837, 225, 227
paper
age of, 10
book coverings, 14
colonial America and, 149–50, 152, 155–56, 158, 160–61
Fourdrinier machine, 238–39
inks and, 11
parchment vs., 35
rag vs. wood pulp, 6–10
smell of, 9
paperbacks, 264
paper books
digital books vs., 35–37
manuscripts vs., 35–36
parchment texts vs., 35
papyrus, 37
Paradise Lost (Milton), 216
Doves Press (1902), 242, 250
parchment, 35, 245
Parker, Robert, xi
Pars, Henry, 178
Passionate Pilgrim, The (attributed to Shakespeare), 114, 117, 120
Patchwork Girl (Jackson), 187
Patten, Robert L., 216
Paul, Charles Kegan, 211
Pavier, Thomas, 120–26, 128–29, 132
Pavier or “bad” Quartos (Shakespeare, 1619), 120–26, 128–29, 132
Payne and Foss, 108
Peasants’ Revolt (1381), 60, 66
Pennsylvania Assembly, 141, 153
Pennsylvania Gazette, 152–56, 160
Pericles, (Shakespeare)
“bad” or Pavier Quarto, 123, 126, 129
periodis, pepiodis vs., 18–19
Perronet, Antoine, 100
petroleum-based inks, 12
Phelps, William Lyon, 264
Philadelphia Spirit of the Times, 229
Phillipps, Sir Thomas, 43
Phillips, Henry, 76–78
photoengravers, 240
photopolymer plates, 19
Pickwick Papers, The (Dickens, 1836–37), 221
Pilgrims, 76
Pizan, Christine de, 199
Plato, 130, 199
Pliny the Edler, 130, 247
Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The, 17
Pollard, A.W., 124, 242
Polygrahia (Trithemius), 48–49
Poor Richard’s Almanack (Franklin), 156
Pope, Alexander, 110–12, 199
Pope v. Currll, 196
pornography, 118–19
Portugal, 81, 95
postal distribution, 152, 154, 156
Potter, Beatrix, xi
Practice of Prelates, The (Tyndale), 72
Presbyterians, 69
pressed type, 18
Prestor John, 105–6
Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 5, 201
Prince, Edward, 248–49, 256
Principia Mathematica (Newton), 6
printers’ personal stamps, 123–25
printing networks, 159–60
printing press
Gutenberg as inventor of, 23–50
Franklin and, 137, 148–49
Koenig rotary press, 238–39, 258
Reformation and, 53–80
single-pull, 28, 30
Trithemius’s crusade vs., 21–22, 32–37, 49
two-pull wooden screw, 28
Private Press Movement, 237–47, 251–53, 257–58
propaganda, 269, 277
Protestants, 280
provenance, 42
Psalter (Fust and Schöffer, 1457), 29
Ptolemy, Claudius, 86–89, 93, 99, 102
public relations, 264, 269–74
Quakers, 59, 141, 150
quarto format, 108, 128, 130
Quevedo, Francisco de, 194
racism, 168–69
Radcliffe, Ann, 200
Radway, Janice, 265
rag paper, 6–10
Raven, James, 156
Read, Deborah, 137
Recipe for Temptation, A, 131
Reformation, 53–80, 280
relief etching, 163–66, 181–82, 192
Renaissance, 85–87, 246
Responsio ad Lutherum (More, 1523), 67
Revisionists, 109
Richard II (Shakespeare), 116
Richardson, Samuel, 200
Ricketts, Charles, 253–54
Rittenhouse family, 155
Rivington, James, 161
Roberts, J., 122–23
Robespierre, Maximilien, 208
Robinson, Henry, 177–78, 193–94
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 200
Roman fonts, 247
Romantic Age, 201, 216
Rome, ancient, 86, 89
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 109, 114
Rooney, M.W., 109
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 201–3
Royale Humane Society, 197
Royal Gazette, 161
royal patents, 125
Royal Society , 179
Rubeus, Jacobus, 247–48
Russia, xiv, 81
map of, 103, 104
Ryland, William Wynne, 178–79
Sammelband, 14
Santayana, George, 281
Scherman, Harry, 266, 277
Schmidle, Nicholas, 5
Schöffer, Peter, 24, 29–30, 39, 45
Schubert, Johann David, 172–73
Schweizer, Florian, 216
Scientific Revolution, 5
Scott, Sir Walter, 216, 224
seditious libel, 141
Selling Mrs. Consumer (Frederick), 261
Seneca, 85
Septentrionalium Terrarum Descriptio (1569), 82, 84
Seven Years War, 171
Shakers, 59
Shakespeare, William, xv, 107–34, 165, 216
autographs attributed to, 115
“bad” or Pavier Quartos (1619), 107–9, 117, 120–26, 128–29, 132, 134, 282
Doves Press edition, 253
epitaph of, 132–33
First Folio (1622), 111, 126–34
Fourth Folio, 111
Geneva Bible and, 76
Pope edition, 110–12
Thobald edition, 111–12
Tyndale and, 75–76
Shakespeare Restored (Thobald, 1726), 111–12
Shea, William, 4
sheepskin binding, 149–50
Shelley, Mary, 203–4
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 203
Sherman, Roger, 227
Sidereus Nuncius (Galileo)
De Caro forgery, 1–20, 282
signatures, 123
Silas, Uncle, xii-xiv, xiii
Simon and Schuster, 267
Simpsons, The (TV show), 30
Sir John Oldcastle (apocryphal Shakespeare play), 122, 126, 129
Slater, Michael, 230–31
slavery, 230–31
Smirnoff, Yakov, xiv
Smith, Charlotte, 200
Society of Antiquaries, 179
Songs of Experience (Blake), 182
Songs of Innocence and Experience (Blake, 1795), 189
Songs of Innocence (Blake, 1789), 166–69, 170, 181
title page, 166–68, 167
sorts, 147–48, 239
Sotheby’s, 157, 247
South America, map of, 103
Soviet Union, xiv, 44
Spain, 81, 95–97
Spiekermann, Erik, 236, 246
Sponheim Abbey, 33–34, 38, 47
Spotswood, Colonel, 154
Stallybrass, Peter, 151, 159
Stamp Act (1765), 160–61
Stanley, J.T., 171, 174, 175
Stationers’ Company, 118, 125–26
Stationers’ Register, 125–26
Statute of Anne (1710), 217
Steganographia (Trithemius), 47–49
Steinbeck, John, 278
Stine, R.L., 9
“stitched as issued,” 150
St. Jacob’s in Würzburg Abbey, 38, 49
St. Martin of Sponheim monastery, 33, 38
St. Mary’s Church, London, 51
Stoddard, Paul, 271
Stoddard, Roger, 115
Story of the Glittering Plain, The (Morris), 240
St. Paul’s Cathedral, 58, 117–18
Strand, The, 175
Striphas, Ted, 260–61
Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway), 276
Sunday, Billy, 263
Sweynheim and Pannartz
Geographia (1469), 87
Swift, Jonathan, 218
Tale of Peter Rabbit, The (Potter), xi
Tale of Two Cities, A (Dickens), 233
Tales of the Jazz Age (Fitzgerald), 263
Tallow Ball (Maupassant), 264
Talmud, 15
tannic acid, 11
Tanselle, G. Thomas, 192
taxation, xvi, 161–62
Ten Commandments, xii, 56–57
Tender Is the Night (Fitzgerald), 273
textura, 245–46
Thackeray, William M., 218
Thatch, Edward, 218
Theobald, Lewis, 111
This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald), 276
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (Wollstonecraft), 198
Tidcombe, Marianne, 255
Tiffin, Percy, 248–49
Times of London, 239
Titan, map of, 105
tobacco advertising, xvi-xvii, 269–70
Todd, Janet, 196–97
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), 200
Tom Jones (Fielding), 200
Transylvanus, Maximilianus, 92–93
triangulation, 97
Trithemius, Elizabeth, 25
Trithemius, Johannes, xv, 21–22, 24–26, 32–39, 46–49, 281
Tunstall, Cuthbert, Bishop of London, 52, 58–59, 62
Twain, Mark, xii-xiv, 27, 227
Twelfth Night, The (Shakespeare), 113, 128
Twilight (Meyer), 37
“Tyger, The” (Blake), 188–89, 189
Tyndale, William, xv, 56–80, 282
Geneva Bible and, 76
King James Bible and, 79
New Testament translations, 62–64, 75–76
portrait of, 65
Pentateuch, 64
typecasting, 239
type designers, 254
typefaces, 236–39, 245–46
Arial, 236
Baskerville, 237
typefaces (cont.)
Brook, 253
cancelleresca or italic, 92
Comic Sans, 236
Courier New, 236
Doves, xvi, 236–37, 245–57, 283
Franklin Gothic, 236
Golden, 236–37, 247–48
Gothic, 245–46
Helvetica, 236
impact of printing on appearance of, 248
Jenson’s Roman, 247
Monotype and, 239
Roman, 246–47
Rubeus’s, 247–48
Vale, 253
type foundry, first American, 149
typesetting mistakes, 116
typography, 258
Ulysses (Joyce), 182, 265
U.S. Census Bureau, 272
U.S. Congress, 234
U.S. Department of
Commerce, 272
Universal Instructor in All Arts and Sciences: and Pennsylvania Gazette, 151–52
University of Leuven, 88–89, 91–92
Uppercase, term created, 147
Urine, as ink additive, 12
Utopia (More), 65–66
vagina, 113, 118–19
Vale Press, 253
Vatican, 67, 281
Vedishchev, Colonel, 44
vellum, 14–16, 42
Venice, 81, 95
Venus, map of, 105
Vesalius, Andreas, 88
Vespucci, Amerigo, 85, 89
Vindication of Johann Gutenberg, The (Köhler), 24
Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A (Wollstonecraft), 196–97, 202–3, 205, 207, 210–11
Virgil, 130
Voltaire, 202
Waldvogel, Procopius, 23
Walker, Emery, 237, 240–42, 244–45, 248–53, 255–56
Wallace, William, 165
Washington, George, 161
watercolors
Blake and, 180, 190
Galileo and, 12–13
weeklies, 225–26
Wharton, Edith, 276
Whitman, Walt, 273
Whitton, Charlotte, 212
Wiegand, Karl von, 277
Wikipedia, 282
Wilding, Nick, 19–20
Wilks, James, 42–43
Williams, Raymond, 283
Wollstonecraft, Mary, xv-xvi, 196–212, 282–83
Wollstonecraft, Ned, 197
Woman Killed (Heywood), 126
women. See also feminism
as authors, 200–201, 205–12, 283
education and, 202–3
rights of, 203, 210, 283
sexuality and, 205, 207–10
smoking and, 269–70
woodcuts, 91–92, 164–65
wooden covers, 14
wood pulp paper, 7–9
Woodward, Helen, 263
wool fibers, 7
Wordsworth, William, 218
world map
(1538), 94, 97, 101–2
(1541), 97–98
(1569), 101–6
World War I, 254, 262
World War II, 275
wormholing, 8
wormlines, 179
Worms, Diet of, 63–64
Wright, Edward, 105
Wycliffe, John, 52, 59–61
Yahoo Answers, 105
Yorkshire Tragedy, A (apocryphal Shakespeare play), 122, 126, 129
Young Men of Boston, 222
Zell, Ulrich, 39, 40
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