Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Bibliographic Procedures
- A Separate Single-author Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides
- A Separate Single-author Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides
- B First and Personally Contributed Printings in Separate Books and Pamphlets not Principally by Wordsworth
- C First and Personally Contributed Printings in Journals and Other Intermittent Publications not Books
- Appendices
- I Lyrical Ballads, 1800
- II Poems by William Wordsworth, Vol. 3, 1820
- III The Number of Printings and Sets of Stereo Plates of the 1828 Galignani Edition of The Poetical Works
- IV The 1869 Printing of the Moxon Double-Column Edition of The Poems of William Wordsworth
- V Printings and Texts of Pastoral Poems, 1858
- VI Bindings of the Crowell Poetical Works (third edition, 1892–) and Arnold's Poems of Wordsworth (1892–)
- VII Editorially Composited Texts in Matthew Arnold's Poems of Wordsworth
- VIII Editorial Titles of Wordsworth's Poems
III - The Number of Printings and Sets of Stereo Plates of the 1828 Galignani Edition of The Poetical Works
from Appendices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2013
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Bibliographic Procedures
- A Separate Single-author Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides
- A Separate Single-author Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides
- B First and Personally Contributed Printings in Separate Books and Pamphlets not Principally by Wordsworth
- C First and Personally Contributed Printings in Journals and Other Intermittent Publications not Books
- Appendices
- I Lyrical Ballads, 1800
- II Poems by William Wordsworth, Vol. 3, 1820
- III The Number of Printings and Sets of Stereo Plates of the 1828 Galignani Edition of The Poetical Works
- IV The 1869 Printing of the Moxon Double-Column Edition of The Poems of William Wordsworth
- V Printings and Texts of Pastoral Poems, 1858
- VI Bindings of the Crowell Poetical Works (third edition, 1892–) and Arnold's Poems of Wordsworth (1892–)
- VII Editorially Composited Texts in Matthew Arnold's Poems of Wordsworth
- VIII Editorial Titles of Wordsworth's Poems
Summary
As noted A40, one, and a rare, example of a printing error in Galignani's edition of Wordsworth is that while the title word “INDIGNATION” on p. 152 is complete in the large paper copies seen, in both kinds of small paper copies seen the initial “I” is absent and its space blank. As the blank space can scarcely have been set there by the compositor, that letter must have been a piece of type lost after the printing of the large paper copies seen and before the printing of the small paper copies seen. In the large paper copies the two letters of page number “xi” are very slightly misaligned; and in one copy (only) seen of the standard small paper issue the “i” has been seen off line straight down (MLR) while the rule border just above and beside it is in perfect order as in all other copies – a near-impossibility had the lowering of the “i” been caused by damage to a stereo plate. So at least a portion of printing was from set type. Other evidence, however, might suggest use of stereotype at some point as well. On this subject final conclusions await amassment of evidence on a scale beyond the reach of the present study. This much may be said now:
Generations of stereo plates taken by the soon-to-be-common method of casting in impermanent matrices would be expected to show shrinkage on a scale of 1 mm per generation.
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- A Bibliography of William Wordsworth1787–1930, pp. 1176 - 1178Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013