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Bibliography and Modern Book Production Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2025
“It should be a point of honour not to inflict upon printer and publisher the burden of irritating afterthoughts and infirm vacillations.”
Author and Printer Publishing and Bookselling
- Copyright Book-Collecting”…Let us emphasize again the simple fact that if you wish your work to be printed properly you should make your copy read just as it is to be printed… proofs are not submitted to an author in order that he may rewrite his work in proof.”
AUTHOR AND PRINTER.
The student should have realized by now that most books consist of: I - Text, and II - Illustrations, and that the Text is often divided into (a) Preliminaries (‘Prelims’, or Front matter); (b) Main Text, or Body; and (c) End matter. The detailed enumeration appeared in Chapter V. Simon [173] is a safe guide on such matters as format, type, and design. (See Chapters VII–IX and XI for Paper, Printing, Illustration, and Binding).
In the preparation of manuscript (MS.) or typescript (TS.) for publication there are three main stages: From the author's MS. to the typist's finger tips; From the TS. to the printer, including his proofs; The final production, including Distribution: Publishing, Bookselling, and Copyright.
Although the student may have decided to use 3” x 5” cards for his bibliographic entries, he will wisely use divisions of post 4to sheets (10” x 8”) for his notes. An experienced writer would probably scribble straight on to half-sheets (5” x 8”) but the student should begin on slips (2½” x 8”). Both sizes can later be arranged, re-arranged, and be easily rewritten, before their final pasting down for the typist.
“Is it unreasonable”, asks Sir Stanley Unwin ”…to suggest that they [typists] should have a ‘Rule of the House’ as a book printer does, and thus preserve some measure of uniformity in such matters as the spelling of proper names and the use of capital letters; that they should know that single underlining indicates italics, double underlining ‘small caps’, and treble underlining ‘large capitals’; that they should single space and indent quoted matter…?”
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