Author : William Bowyer
Release : 1991
Genre : Design
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Bowyer Ledgers by : William Bowyer

Download or read book The Bowyer Ledgers written by William Bowyer. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recorded between 1710 and 1777, the Bowyer ledgers offer a vast store of new information concerning authorship, book production, and distribution in eighteenth-century London. More than five-thousand works by one thousand authors were commissioned during that time. The ledgers record what happened as the text moved through the printing-house, noting such particulars as paper, types, format, corrections, and number printed. This edition of the Bowyer ledgers presents the records themselves in photofacsimile on microfiche, accompanied by a volume of editorial apparatus, which includes an essay on the nature and function of the ledgers, and a chronological checklist of works printed by the Bowyers, an index of authors and titles, and a topical index of equipment, materials, and processes.