Early English Printing and the Hands of Compositors

Author / Editor
Tokunaga, Satoko.

Title
Early English Printing and the Hands of Compositors

Published
International Journal of English Studies 5.2 (2005): 149-60.

Description
Explains the value of variant type faces in establishing the process and sequence of composition in Caxton's Westminster print house, focusing particularly on the two compositors of the first edition of CT and on evidence of their involvement in other early Caxton volumes. Computer-aided analysis enables specific surmises about the process of composition in Mel and ParsT.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.