Potknięcia impresorów i wypowiedzi w sprawie omyłek druku w książce drugiej połowy XVIII wieku. Rekonesans

• Authors: Mazurkowa Bożena

Title variants

EN

MISTAKES OF PRINTERS AND THE STATEMENTS RELATING TO BOOK PRINTING ERRORS IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. A RECONNAISSANCE

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The source of discussion in the article are lists of errors, included in publications from the second half of the eighteenth century, detailing mistakes identified in print and the corrections, and addressed to the future readers of these statements, written by printers, publishers, and authors. These two interconnected elements are characterised in the article as contributing to the front matter and end matter of literary and scholarly works, as well as to the structure of a book, and as an important symptom of entering works into circulation. After a discussion of the formal traits of the errata in books of the bygone era, the types and frequency of printing mistakes collected in the errata are explored, in conjunction with an attempt at determining the likely consequences of those errors, which were not included, on the reading of the texts. In the next part of the article, the focus is on the statements made to the readers in relation to the printing errors. The article also explores the source material as one of the elements of publishing practice, changing with time and subject to modernisation, which should also be acknowledged in contemporary editions of historical works.

Keywords

PL

errata; książka drukowana; wiek XVIII; rama wydawnicza; wiersze„do czytelnika”

EN

erratum; printed book; eighteenth century; front matter and end matter; poems ‘to the reader’

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski / Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Napis. Pismo poświęcone literaturze okolicznościowej i użytkowej
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 26: ERRARE HUMANUM EST. BŁĘDY W BADANIACH HUMANISTYCZNYCH, ICH RODZAJE I KONSEKWENCJE
• Pages: 127-148

Contributors

author

Mazurkowa Bożena

• Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach