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Paperback The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind: Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe Book

ISBN: 0745656021

ISBN13: 9780745656021

The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind: Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe

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In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author's or translator's manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof reader who corrected them. The author's hand cannot...

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