Printing and Misprinting
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The history of the book may be a technological triumph, spreading freedom and knowledge, but it also a story of errors and adjustments. When printing runs flawlessly, we see little of its process. But misprints and in-house corrections offer us the unique chance to witness aspects of the printing process that would otherwise remain invisible.

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The history of the book may be a technological triumph, spreading freedom and knowledge, but it also a story of errors and adjustments. When printing runs flawlessly, we see little of its process. But misprints and in-house corrections offer us the unique chance to witness aspects of the printing process that would otherwise remain invisible.
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Geri Della Rocca de Candal, D.Phil. (Oxon), was Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the ERC-funded 15cBOOKTRADE project (2014-19) based at Modern Languages and Lincoln College, Oxford. He currently works as a banking consultant. One time Hon. Treasurer of the Oxford Bibliographical Society (2016-19), he is currently President of the Society for the Preservation of Rare Books [SPRB] and Trustee of the Venice in Peril Fund. Anthony Grafton studied history, history of science, and classics at the University of Chicago and University College London, where he had the opportunity to work with Arnaldo Momigliano. Since 1975 he has taught history at Princeton University. Most of his work deals with the history of scholarship, the history of books, and the history of learned institutions. Paolo Sachet, PhD (2015), the Warburg Institute, is currently an Ambizione Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut d'histoire de la Réformation, Université de Genève. His main research interest is the impact of printed books on the intellectual history of early modern Europe, including the use of printing by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century governments, textual scholarship on classical and patristic literature, and the history and collecting of early Italian printed books. He has published extensively on these topics in peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes. He co-edited The Afterlife of Aldus (2018) and is the author of Publishing for the Popes (2020).