"Little jobs": Broadsides and the printing revolution

Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 315-341

  Stallybrass, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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1. "The American Bindings Collection of Michael Zinman", in The Library Company of Philadelphia: 1999 Annual Report (Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 2000), s9, where he writes: "Printers print sheets, but books are made by binders"
2. "A Note on Statistics" in his Bibliography and the Book Trade: Studies in the Print Culture of New England, ed. David D. Hall (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), s 163-70, where he notes the pitfalls of measuring printing by titles or number of pages.
3. The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, vol. 1 of A History of the Book in America, ed. Hugh Amory sand David D. Hall (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000) is the insistence of the editors and the contributors on the sheet as the basic unit in printing.
4. D. F. McKenzies work, particularly The Cambridge University Press, 1696-1712: A Bibliographical Study, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1966).
5. Albert Kapr, Johann Gutenberg: The Man and His Invention, trans. Douglas Martin (Aldershot, Hants.: Scolar Press, 1996), 189-90.
6. Keith Maslen, "Jobbing Printing and the Bibliographer: New Evidence from the Bowyer Ledgers", in his An Early London Printing House at Work: Studies in the Bowyer Ledgers (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1993), 141
7. John L. Flood", 'Volentes Sibi Comparare Infrascriptos Libros Impressos...': Printed Books as a Commercial Commodity in the Fifteenth-Century", sin Incunabula and Their Readers: Printing, Selling, and Using Books in the Fifteenth Century, ed. Kristian Jensen (London: British Library, 2003), 139-51.
8. Clive Griffin, The Crombergers of Seville: The History of a Printing and Merchant Dynasty (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), 52.
9. George D. Painter, William Caxton: A Biography (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1977), 83-4;
10. N. F. Blake, Caxton and His World (New York: London House and Maxwell, 1969), 79, 232-3. Lotte Hellinga has shown that Caxton printed the 1476 indulgence while he was already at work on his edition of The Canterbury Tales.
11. Hellinga, Caxton in Focus (London: British Library, 1982), 81.
12. Hellinga, Caxton in Focus
13. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 3, 1400-1557, ed. Hellinga and J. B. Trapp (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999), 84-5, 213-14, 270-1.
14. STC (see Chap. 1, n. 38), 14077c.26 to 14077c.84a.
15. STC 14077c.85 to 14077c.123.
16. Rudolf Hirsch, Printing, Selling and Reading 1450-1550 (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1967), 122.
17. Paul Needham, The Printer and the Pardoner: An Unrecorded Indulgence Printed by William Caxton for the Hospital of St. Mary Rounceval, Charing Cross (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1986), 30, 33.
18. Griffin, Crombergers of Seville, 51.
19. Watt, Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991), 141, 259.
20. Folke Dahl, A Bibliography of English Corantos and Periodical Newsbooks 1620-1642 (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1952), 22.
21. Falk Eisermann, "Der Ablass als Medienereignis: Kommunikationswandel durch Einblattdrucke im 15. Jahrhundert; Mit einer Auswahlbibliographie", in Tradition and Innovation in an Era of Change/Tradition und Innovation im Übergang zur Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Rudolf Suntrup and Jan R. Veenstra, vol. 1 of Medieval to Early Modern Culture/Kultureller Wandel vom Mittelalter zur Frühen Neuzeit (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2001), 99-128.
22. Andrew Pettegree, "Books, Pamphlets, and Polemics", in The Reformation World, ed. Pettegree (London: Routledge, 2000), 109-26, esp. 110-11.
23. Mark U. Edwards Jr., Printing Propaganda, and Martin Luther (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1994).
24. Eisenstein, PPAC, s178, 368, 375.
25. S. H. Steinberg, Five Hundred Years of Printing rev. ed. (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1961), 139. James Clark gives further evidence that "long before the printing press became a servant of religious radicals in the 1520s, it had already come to occupy an honoured position at the very heart of the clerical establishment"
26. Clark, "Print and Pre-Reformation Religion: The Benedictines and the Press, c. 1470-c. 1550", in The Uses of Script and Print, 1300-1700, ed. Julia Crick and Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004), 71-92, 90. Compare Clark's account with David d'Avrays unsubstantiated claim for the "mass" circulation of manuscripts before the advent of printing. Since he gives no fi gures, it is hard to know what he is arguing.
27. D Avray, "Printing, Mass Communication, and Religious Reformation: The Middle Ages and After", in Crick and Walsham, Uses of Script and Print, 50-70.
28. Tedeschi, "Publish and Perish: The Career of Lienhart Holle in Ulm", in Printing the Written Word: The Social History of Books, c. 1450-1520, ed. Sandra Hindman (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1991), 67.
29. Griffin, Crombergers of Seville, 9 n. 18.
30. (Gutenberg, 148, 212).
31. Eckehard Simon, The Türkenkalender (1454) Attributed to Gutenberg and the Strasbourg Lunation Tracts (Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1988).
32. Leon Voet, The Golden Compasses: A History and Evaluation of the Printing and Publishing Activities of the Off cina Plantiniana at Antwerp, 2 vols. (Amsterdam: Vangendt, 1972), 2:296-7.
33. Clair, Christopher Plantin (London: Plantin Paperbacks, 1987), 64, 74-5, 83-4.
34. Voet, Golden Compasses, 2:297.
35. Barnard, introduction to The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 4, 1557-1695, ed. Barnard and D. F. McKenzie (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002), 9.
36. Clair, Plantin, 74-5.
37. Barnard and McKenzie, Cambridge History of the Book, 4:8-9.
38. Blayney, "The Prevalence of Shared Printing in the Early Seventeenth Century", Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 67(1973):437-42
39. The Texts of "King Lear" and Their Origins, vol. 1, Nicholas Okes and the First Quarto (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1982), 49-50.
40. C. William Miller, Benjamin Franklins Philadelphia Printing (Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society, 1974), no. 266, 130-1.
41. James N. Green, "Benjamin Franklin as Publisher and Bookseller", in Reappraising Benjamin Franklin, ed. J. A. Leo Lemay (Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1993), 98-114
42. "The Middle Colonies 1720-1790: English Books and printing in the Age of Franklin", in Amory and Hall, Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, 248-98.
43. Miller, Franklins Philadelphia Printing, no. 1, 1-2.
44. Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklins Autobiography: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism, ed. J. A. Leo Lemay and P. M. Zall (New York: Norton, 1986), 49.
45. Charlton Hinman, The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), 1:16-24;
46. D. F. McKenzie, "Printers of the Mind: Some Notes on Bibliographical Theories and Printing-House Practices", in Making Meaning: "Printers of the Mind" and Other Essays, ed. Peter D. McDonald and Michael F Suarez (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2002), 25-6.
47. Percy Simpson, Proof-Reading in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries (London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1935), 46-7.
48. STC 14077c. 2,.39,.40,.55,.76,.101A,.101B,.122.
49. Hinman, Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio, 1:16-24;
50. Peter W M. Blayney, The First Folio of Shakespeare (Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1991), 5-8;
51. Andrew Murphy, Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003), 46-8.
52. Kastan, Shakespeare and the Book (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001), 141 n. 13.
53. Maslen, "Jobbing Printing", 141.
54. William A. Jackson, introduction to Records of the Stationers' Company, 1602-1640 (London: Bibliographical Society, 1957), xvi-xxii;
55. W W Greg, A Companion to Arber (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), 59-66, 75, 164-75.
56. Wallace Notestein, Frances Helen Relf, and Hartley Simpson, eds., Commons Debates 1621, 7 vols. (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1935), 6:535.
57. Joseph Loewensteins impressive analysis in The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright (Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2002).
58. Commons Debates 1621, 6:537-8.
59. Jackson, introduction to Records of the Stationers' Company, xxi, xxi n. 4.
60. STC 16768.4 to 16787.14. It should be noted that a disproportionate number were either printed in 1621 or have been preserved from that year.
61. Edwin Eliott Willoughby, A Printer of Shakespeare: The Books and Times of William Jaggard (London: P. Allan and Co., 1934), 66.
62. Martin, Print, Power, and People in Seventeenth-Century France, trans. David Gerard (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1993), 161-75, esp. 165.
63. Henricus dei gracia (London: William Faques, 1504), STC 7760.4.
64. Pamela Neville-Sington, "Press, Politics, and Religion", in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 3, 1400-1557, 580 and fig. 28.1.
65. Maslen, "Jobbing Printing", 144
66. William Savages 1841 Dictionary of the Art of Printing.
67. Kastan, Shakespeare and the Book, 59-60.
68. Clair, A History of Printing in Britain (London: Cassell, 1965), 136.
69. STC 16728. 3.
70. Blayney in Texts of "King Lear", 1:37-8.
71. Raymond, Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003), 161-5.
72. McKenzie, "The London Book Trade in 1644", in McDonald and Suarez, Making Meaning, 130.
73. Maslen, "Jobbing Printing", 50, 147.
74. Jackson, ed., Records of the Stationers' Company, 109.
75. Voet, Golden Compasses, 2:302 and 302n.
76. Maslen, "Jobbing Printing", 139-52.
77. Maurice Rickards, The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator, and Historian (New York: Routledge, 2000).
78. McKenzie, "The Economies of Print, 1550-1750: Scales of Production and Conditions of Constraint", in Producione e Commercio della Carta e del Libro sec. XIII-XVIII (Prato: Le Monnier, 1992), 404.
79. Maslen, "Jobbing Printing", 141.
80. Miller, Franklins Philadelphia Printing, nos. 842, 866, 835, 847, 848, 849, 843.
81. Lawrence C. Wroth, The Colonial Printer (New York: Grolier Club, 1931), 218-22.
82. Miller, Franklins Philadelphia Printing, nos. 836-840, 843, 847-50.
83. McKitterick, Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698, vol. 1 of McKitterick, A History of Cambridge University Press, 3 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992-2004), 203.
84. Green, "Benjamin Franklin as Publisher and Bookseller", 99.
85. Miller, Franklins Philadelphia Printing, no. 810, 430-1.
86. Amory, "Note on Statistics", 168.
87. Elizabeth Eisenstein, "Reply"
88. AHR Forum, "How Revolutionary Was the Print Revolution?" American Historical Review 107. 1(2002):126.