After noting the arrival of 'masses of bookbinding equipment' in her diary on 9 October 1917, Virginia Woolf also records that she and Leonard had begun their 'second undertaking', 'Prelude' by ...Katherine Mansfield: 'We took a proof of the first page of K. M.'s story, The Prelude. It looks very nice, set solid in the new type'. In his study of the Hogarth Press, J. H. Willis states, 'The Woolfs were frequently in error over the title, using the definite article as in Wordsworth's poem'. This misunderstanding results in the one glaring typo in the publication. John Middleton Murry breaks the news gently to Mansfield in March 1918:
They have done 44 pages of 'Prelude' and I must say they have done it very well indeed. There's no comparison between this piece of printing and their last. And when it's finished - which they say will take a good time yet - I am sure you'll be pleased. They have used a Caslon fount with the result that there's nothing shoddy or amateurish about it. One mistake (a stupid one) has been made. Instead of calling it 'Prelude' simply on the half title and on the top of the first dozen pages, they have put 'The Prelude'. Unfortunately it can't be altered, now. But they must put a note at the end to set it right.
The section on the Chosön period (pp. 82-182) demonstrates how both Korean elites (yangban) and the disenfranchised (ch'onmin) placed lots of faith in mantic practices, from Yi Sönggye's (1335-1408) ...founding of the dynasty through all of the important historical and court dramas and peasant rebellions spanning the Chosön period. Earlier manuscripts called Chonggamnok were in circulation, perhaps since the time of the rebellion of Chöng Yörip (1546-1598) that occurred in the troubled reign of King Sönjo (r. 1567-1608), which saw the erosion of the prestige of the royal Yi family due to corruption and the devastating Imjin War with Japan (Hideyoshi invasions, 1592-1598). Richard D. McBride II Brigham Young University Richard McBride II (richard_mcbride@byu.edu) is an associate professor in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University, United States.
The aim of this work is to evaluate the potentiality of a multi-technique nondestructive approach for characterizing the state of conservation of precious bookbindings. In particular, the bookbinding ...of an ancient book dating back nineteenth century was inspected by infrared thermography, near-infrared reflectography and transmittography, digital speckle photography, holographic interferometry, and proton magnetic resonance relaxometry. Data were processed by different and innovative methodologies, among which, a calibration procedure of the camera for correlation analyses based on specklegrams. The results were compared, showing a promising synergy for the diagnostic purposes, on the basis of the relationship between structure, properties, and uses of the analyzed materials.
The volume contains a reassessment of the economic and social impact of the printing revolution on the development of early modern European society, using 15th-century printed books, which still ...survive today in their thousands, as historical sources. Papers on production, trade, the cost of books in comparison with the cost of living, literacy, the transmission of texts in print, and the use and circulation of books and illustration are the result of several years of international, collaborative, and multidisciplinary research coordinated by the 15cBOOKTRADE project funded by an ERC Consolidator grant (2014-2019) and supported by the Consortium of European Research Libraries.
