SMC228H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Textual Scholarship, Vellum, Fredson Bowers
17 Oct 2016
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A written printed treatise, occupying several sheets of paper or some other substance fastened together so as to compose a material whole. A literary composition without regard to material form. People use the word(cid:863) (cid:271)ook(cid:863) to refer to a literary work more often than to a physical artefact. Books are works of art, artifacts, and utilitarian objects. (cid:862)the systematic description and history of books, their authorship, printing, publication, editions, etc(cid:863) (oxford english dictionary) Works: something represented and transmitted by a text or texts text: specific copies of a work. Issue: all copies of an impression that bear some distinctive feature (ex. A variant title page) marking them as distinct from other copies of the same impression . State: a part of a book exhibiting variation from the same part in other copies of the same impression . (cid:862)the social and cultural history of communication by print(cid:863) (darnton)
