Dr Sian Witherden is a rare books and manuscripts specialist who has worked in both special collections libraries and the antiquarian book trade. She has collected some resources for further reading to wrap up her series How to collate an early printed book. Online Resources Cambridge Digital Library - especially the collection of paper stocks …
4. Next Steps with Collation
Dr Sian Witherden is a rare books and manuscripts specialist who has worked in both special collections libraries and the antiquarian book trade. This final post in a series on collation explains how to handle more complex examples, and highlights some useful resources. Going further In part 3, we covered how to collate the Bodleian’s …
3. Collating in Practice
Dr Sian Witherden is a rare books and manuscripts specialist who has worked in both special collections libraries and the antiquarian book trade. This post — the third in a four-part series on collation — offers a ‘guided tour’ of the Bodleian’s second edition of Earl River’s ‘Cordyal’ (1494). Moving forward In part 2, we …
2. Identifying format
Dr Sian Witherden is a rare books and manuscripts specialist who has worked in both special collections libraries and the antiquarian book trade. This post explaining paper formats is the second in a four-part series on collation. Setting the context In part 1, we explored what collation is and introduced our main case study for …
1. Introducing Collation
Dr Sian Witherden is a rare books and manuscripts specialist who has worked in both special collections libraries and the antiquarian book trade. This post is the first in a series on how to collate early printed books. What is collation? If you are starting to learn about early printed books, you may well have …
Teaching the Codex 