Editing against the background of history. (Ann Blair’s Too Much to Know... and Anthony Grafton’s The Culture of Correction...)
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Edytorstwo z historią w tle. (O książkach Ann Blair „Too Much to Know..” i Anthony’ego Graftona „The Culture of Correction...”)
Editing against the background of history. (Ann Blair’s Too Much to Know... and Anthony Grafton’s The Culture of Correction...)

Author(s): Magdalena Komorowska
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: printing of the 15th-17th centuries; scholarly editing; encyclopaedias; history of intellectual culture

Summary/Abstract: The first review deals with Ann Blair’s very interesting book on managing scholarly information up to the early modern era. A concise summary of Blair’s most important ideas is accompanied by a brief commentary underscoring the book’s merits and shortly referring to some of its more debatable details. The second review contains a brief summary of Anthony Grafton’s fascinating new book covering the work of book correctors and editors in the first two and a half centuries of print. The work done by one of the best scholars in the field of intellectual history is based mainly on case studies and leads to a conclusion that five hundred years ago publishing posed almost exactly the same problems as it does today.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 273–277
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Polish