19-year-old Leah’s dictionary of printing history:Īccidentals: In textual criticism, such formal features of a text as capitalization, spelling, word division, punctuation, and italicization, as opposed to wording. It’s a darn good book, too, and should be on every beginner and seasoned bibliographer’s bookshelf. Abbott’s An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies (fourth edition). Second note: Some of these definitions are lifted entirely, or heavily, from William Proctor Williams and Craig S. Regardless, I hope you find some this glossary at least somewhat useful, even if just as a starting point. Because of this, some of these definitions are not nearly as comprehensive as I would like them to be (e.g. Note: Very few edits have been made here, my friends. For that reason, I’m copying and pasting my homemade dictionary here, so others can learn the words that I have come to love so much.
I take a lot of them for granted, but most of them were completely foreign to me when I first learned them. Looking through the glossary, I realized that I continue to use a lot of these terms in my current work.
You know, that course that got me interested in book history. One of the documents I stumbled across was a glossary of printing history terms that I had made as a study aid for my SMC228 Bibliography & Print Culture course at the University of Toronto. My desktop folders are filled with old coursework that I’d forgotten about, as well as old photos of me with some very questionable hairstyles. This week, I’ve been clearing out some of my laptop’s old files.
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