Printing and Misprinting

Geri Della Rocca de Candal, D.Phil. (Oxon), was Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the ERC-funded 15cBOOKTRADE project (2014-19) based at Modern Languages and Lincoln College, Oxford. He currently works as a banking consultant. One time Hon. Treasurer of the Oxford Bibliographical Society (2016-19), he is currently President of the Society for the Preservation of Rare Books [SPRB] and Trustee of the Venice in Peril Fund. Anthony Grafton studied history, history of science, and classics at the University of Chicago and University College London, where he had the opportunity to work with Arnaldo Momigliano. Since 1975 he has taught history at Princeton University. Most of his work deals with the history of scholarship, the history of books, and the history of learned institutions. Paolo Sachet, PhD (2015), the Warburg Institute, is currently an Ambizione Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut d'histoire de la Réformation, Université de Genève. His main research interest is the impact of printed books on the intellectual history of early modern Europe, including the use of printing by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century governments, textual scholarship on classical and patristic literature, and the history and collecting of early Italian printed books. He has published extensively on these topics in peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes. He co-edited The Afterlife of Aldus (2018) and is the author of Publishing for the Popes (2020).

List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Foreword
by H. R. Woudhuysen
Introduction
Part I
From Copy to Cancels: Matthew Parker and The Quest for Error
1: Type, Proofs and Illustrations
2: Fallen Type: The Benefits of a Printer's Error
3: Proof Sheets as Evidence of Early Pre-Publication Procedures
4: Kludging Type: Some Workarounds in Early English Print
5: Misprinting Illustrated Books
Part II
Humanism
6: Printing and Politics in Italian Humanism: Manuscript and Stop-Press Corrections in Poliziano's Coniurationis commentarium
7: Manus Manutii: A Preliminary Checklist of Typographical and Manuscript Interventions in Aldine Incunabula (1495-1500)
8: Aldus as Proofreader: The Case of the Thesaurus Cornu Copiae (1496)
9: Managing Misprints: Jan Moretus I's Diverse Approaches to Correcting Errors
Part III
Religion
10: Misprinting the Word and the Image of God (Paris, 1498-1538)
11: The Collective Editorial Strategy of the Unity of the Brethren
12: Biblical Misprints: Error and Correction in an Early Yiddish Epic
13: 'Before the Law?: Jewish Correctors of Early Printed Books
14: 'But to whose charge shall I lay it? Your Printer is all readie loaden': The Rhetoric of Printers' Errors in Early Modern Religious Disputes
Part IV
Science
15: Controlling Errors in the First Printed Book of Astronomical Tables: Regiomontanus's Ephemerides (Nuremberg 1474)
16: Misprinting Aristotle: The Birth and Life of a Frankenstein's Fish
17: Conrad Gessner as Corrector: How to Deal with Errors in Images
Part V
Poetry, Music, and Theatre
18: Fernando de Herrera Contra Errata: A Re-Evaluation of his Edition of Garcilaso de la Vega
19: Marketing a Misprint: Christopher Tye's The Actes of the Apostles and Early English Music Publishing
20: Misprinting and Misreading in The Comedy of Errors
21: Making Sense of Error in Commercial Drama: The case of Edward III
Part VI
Widespread and Ephemeral Circulation
22: Drawn Corrections and Pictorial Instability in Devotional Books from the Workshop of Gerard Leeu (d. 1492)
23: Learning from Mistakes: Paper and Printing Defects in Sixteenth-Century Italian Popular Books
24: Printing under Pressure: Mistakes in the Earliest Newspapers
Glossary of Printing and Misprinting
Glossary Translation Tables
Table of Concordance