I’m a newbie with an academic interest in early 17th century typesetting practices, particularly how certain typesetting errors could occur and how they would be detected/corrected. I would be grateful for some input on books to consult or Internet sources.
Not sure about sources, but some errors I have heard of are letters upside down, like the ’e’, and space characters that rode too high on the stick, and resulted in a black box printing instead of a space. (And of course the wrong letter chosen from the case.)
Others here probably know more.
Hello Connie, you can read something about the figure of the prototypographer at www.bibliopolis.nl.
James Mosley’s
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