List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Foreword
by H. R. Woudhuysen
Introduction
Part I
From Copy to Cancels: Matthew Parker and The Quest for Error
1: Type, Proofs and Illustrations
2: Fallen Type: The Benefits of a Printer's Error
3: Proof Sheets as Evidence of Early Pre-Publication Procedures
4: Kludging Type: Some Workarounds in Early English Print
5: Misprinting Illustrated Books
Part II
Humanism
6: Printing and Politics in Italian Humanism: Manuscript and Stop-Press Corrections in Poliziano's Coniurationis commentarium
7: Manus Manutii: A Preliminary Checklist of Typographical and Manuscript Interventions in Aldine Incunabula (1495-1500)
8: Aldus as Proofreader: The Case of the Thesaurus Cornu Copiae (1496)
9: Managing Misprints: Jan Moretus I's Diverse Approaches to Correcting Errors
Part III
Religion
10: Misprinting the Word and the Image of God (Paris, 1498-1538)
11: The Collective Editorial Strategy of the Unity of the Brethren
12: Biblical Misprints: Error and Correction in an Early Yiddish Epic
13: 'Before the Law?: Jewish Correctors of Early Printed Books
14: 'But to whose charge shall I lay it? Your Printer is all readie loaden': The Rhetoric of Printers' Errors in Early Modern Religious Disputes
Part IV
Science
15: Controlling Errors in the First Printed Book of Astronomical Tables: Regiomontanus's Ephemerides (Nuremberg 1474)
16: Misprinting Aristotle: The Birth and Life of a Frankenstein's Fish
17: Conrad Gessner as Corrector: How to Deal with Errors in Images
Part V
Poetry, Music, and Theatre
18: Fernando de Herrera Contra Errata: A Re-Evaluation of his Edition of Garcilaso de la Vega
19: Marketing a Misprint: Christopher Tye's The Actes of the Apostles and Early English Music Publishing
20: Misprinting and Misreading in The Comedy of Errors
21: Making Sense of Error in Commercial Drama: The case of Edward III
Part VI
Widespread and Ephemeral Circulation
22: Drawn Corrections and Pictorial Instability in Devotional Books from the Workshop of Gerard Leeu (d. 1492)
23: Learning from Mistakes: Paper and Printing Defects in Sixteenth-Century Italian Popular Books
24: Printing under Pressure: Mistakes in the Earliest Newspapers
Glossary of Printing and Misprinting
Glossary Translation Tables
Table of Concordance

Printing and Misprinting

A Companion to Mistakes and In-House Corrections in Renaissance Europe (1450-1650)