The Bowyer Ledgers: The Printing Accounts of William Bowyer Father and Son, Reproduced on Microfiche with a Checklist of Bowyer Printing 1

By William Bowyer

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914930133
• ISBN13: 9780914930136
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 696 Pages
• Weight: 625.00 lbs.