Shot through copy
In book production, a shot- through copy denotes a book or a print in which a blank sheet was bound in after each printed sheet to allow handwritten additions or notes on the opposite page. This may have already been done by the publisher or the bookbinder may have arranged for it to be. An obvious form of use is for an author to enter improvements or additions for a planned new edition of his book in a pierced copy. In contrast to the insertion of loose sheets of paper, subsequent additions to the inserted copy are permanently secured by inserting blank sheets (for example when printing old legal texts or with stage manuscripts such as the director's book ).
Jean Paul reported a suitably equipped and used Bible copy of his father, a pastor : This was "in an empty folio sheets durchschoßne Quart Bible in every verse the Nachweisung to the book, in which he read something about him."
literature
- Arndt Brendecke : ' Gunshot copies'. Via an interface between handwriting and printing. In: Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens 59 (2005), pp. 91-105.
- Dag-Ernst Petersen : Pierced volumes. In: Lexicon of the entire book industry. 2nd, completely revised edition. Edited by Severin Corsten u. a. Vol. 2: Buck – Foster. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-7772-8911-6 , p. 398.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Pierced book. In: Helmut Hiller: Dictionary of the book. 4th, completely revised edition. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1980, p. 95.
- ^ Jean Paul: Self-life description . Conjectural biography. With an afterword by Ralph-Rainer Wuthenow . Reclam, Stuttgart 2013, p. 32.