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210 Part 9: Writings on Analytical Bibliography � Tanselle: Introduction to Scholarly Editing (2002)
G6. IMPOSITION AND FORMAT
R.B. McKerrow, "The Sizes of Books," in "Notes on Bibliographical Evidence for Literary Students and
Editors of English Works of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," Transactions of the
Bibliographical Society 12 (1911-13): 211-318 (see pp. 253-60). Revised as "The Formats of
Books," in An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students (1927), pp. 164-74. [See also,
for 12 o and 24 o , pp. 315-18 (1911-13) and pp. 325-28 (1927).]
R.W. Chapman, "Notes on Eighteenth-Century Book-Building," Library 4th ser. 4 (1923-24): 165-80.
R.W. Chapman, "Elementary Exercises in Bibliography," Library 4th ser. 9 (1928-29): 197-201.
["Imposition in Half-Sheets," pp. 197-98; "Erroneous Perfecting," pp. 198-99; "Simple Inference
from Watermarks," pp. 199-201.]
Allen T. Hazen, "Eighteenth-Century Quartos with Vertical Chain-Lines," Library 4th ser. 16 (1935-36):
337-42.
Luella F. Norwood, "Imposition of a Half-Sheet in Duodecimo," Library 5th ser. 1 (1946-47): 242-44.
William B. Todd, "Quadruple Imposition: An Account of Goldsmith's Traveller," Studies in Bibliography
7 (1955): 103-11.
Kenneth Povey, "On the Diagnosis of Half-Sheet Impositions," Library 5th ser. 11 (1956): 268-72.
G.T. Tanselle, "Press Figures and the Cut-Off in Duodecimo," Gutenberg Jahrbuch, 1966, pp. 242-46.
Philip Gaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography (1972), pp. 87-107.
B.J. McMullin, "Re-Imposition with Unchanged Signatures: The Oxford Bion and Moschus, 1748,"
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin 3 (1977-78): 115-17.
James F. Woodruff, "The Background and Significance of the Rambler's Format," Publishing History 4
(1978): 113-33.
Annemie Gilbert and Sylvia Ransom, "The Imposition of Eighteenmos in Sixes, with Special Reference
to Tranchefiles," Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin 4 (1979-80):
269-75.
Brian Hubber, "Eighteenmo in Nines: An Experimental Technique," Bibliographical Society of Australia
and New Zealand Bulletin 7 (1983): 183-86.
B.J. McMullin, "Press Figures and Format," Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand
Bulletin 7 (1983): 109-19.
B.J. McMullin, "Sheet Numbers, 'Constable's Miscellany' and Irma," Bibliographical Society of Australia
and New Zealand Bulletin 17 (1993): 33-43.
B.J. McMullin, "'La Collection des petits formats in-18, édition de Cazin': Some Preliminary
Observations," in The Culture of the Book: Essays from Two Hemispheres in Honour of Wallace
Kirsop, ed. David Garrioch, Harold Love, McMullin, Ian Morrison, and Meredith Sherlock (1999),
pp. 105-19.
Pamela E. Pryde, "Determining the Format of British Books of the Second-Half of the Eighteenth Century
Gathered in Sixes," Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin 23 (1999): 67-
77.
G.T. Tanselle, "The Concept of Format," Studies in Bibliography 53 (2000): 67-115.
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