Delivery (accounting)

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Deliveries of the 24-volume Kronprinzenwerk with an interim cover from 1893, the serial number in the title top left, text overflow at the top of the book, the signature for the bookbinding at the bottom of the text area

In the book industry, delivery means part of a book that is gradually appearing in print. Another name is “ booklet ”, an older “fascicle”. After the last part of a volume has been received , the parts of a delivery work are combined to form a book in a bookbindery , together with the supplied title material and a book cover originating from the issuing publisher or chosen by the customer himself .

Purpose and execution

The purpose of deliveries is the publication of already existing parts of the work, e.g. for reference works or extensive editions, if the complete volumes are published in longer periods of time. The goals of delivery plants are therefore topicality for the customer and planning security for the distribution of a publisher. A buyer often had to sign a subscription-based purchase agreement. It was customary to fix the number of deliveries, their frequency of publication and the end date. Today, individual purchases of deliveries are also possible and total purchases are discounted. Individual deliveries can also be reviewed in specialist journals.

Editorial aspects

The scope of deliveries is often specified in a number of printed sheets . A sheet usually has a length of 16 pages due to the printing technology. Deliveries of four or eight sheets, i.e. 64 or 128 pages, are common. The sheets can be loose or already stapled. A title page can contain information about the delivery and can be removed when binding. This is taken into account in the pagination . For the orientation of the bookbindery, deliveries bear the consecutive signature in smaller letters at the foot of the text area on the first page . A text overflow from the previous to the next delivery is typical. If individual deliveries do not appear consecutively, but with jumping numbers depending on completion, careful planning of the pages is required.

Title page of Delivery 4 to Volume 4 of the revision of Grimm's German Dictionary , 2010

Delivery plants (selection)

Completed

  • Operationes de Psalmos by Martin Luther , 1519–1521, is considered to be the first delivery work in printing history . Luther gave the sheets to the printer in layers as soon as they were written down.
  • The Pencil of Nature by William Henry Fox Talbot , the first book to be illustrated with photos, was published in six deliveries from 1844 to 1846. The calotypes supplied had to be glued in by hand.
  • The first delivery of the Middle High German Concise Dictionary by Matthias Lexer took place as early as 1869, while the bibliographic publication period of the three-volume work is considered to be 1872 to 1878.
  • The 24 volumes of the encyclopedia The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Pictures , known as the “Kronprinzenwerk”, appeared in Vienna between 1886 and 1902 in 398 deliveries.
  • Of the 16 deliveries for Volume XII / 1 of the German Dictionary by the Brothers Grimm , the first appeared in 1886, the last in 1956.

Not completed

  • The first delivery of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae , the representation of the Latin vocabulary, took place in 1900. After around 170 deliveries in 120 years, more than two thirds of the total volume is considered processed.
  • The Early New High German Dictionary , first delivery 1986, appears with deliveries of 256 pages.
  • The volumes of the Polish Biographical Dictionary , which appear every two years anyway, are also published in four volumes per volume.
  • The Basel Homer Commentary , published since 2000, offers two fascicles for each song in the Iliad , one for text and translation and one for commentary. Fascicle 1 of volume 1 (first song) has a length of 39 pages, Fascicle 2 one of 213 pages. Some fascicles appear in editions that are not text-identical.

Dating problems

Delivery works can falsify the course of knowledge if only the year of publication of the volume is specified instead of the year of delivery, as is customary in bibliographical practice. As early as 1877, the editors of the German dictionary expanded the family of European salmon words to include Old English leax . In 1882, five years later, the philologist Friedrich Kluge added Scottish lax to the word family in a delivery of his Etymological Dictionary of the German Language . According to the usual citation, the entry in Grimm's dictionary would not be classified until two years after Kluge's, because the Grimm volume was only available in full in 1885, while Kluge's dictionary had already appeared in full in 1883.

Terms, foreign language designations

The delivery in commercial terms, the handover of goods by the seller to the buyer, also applies to the "deliveries" of the accounting. The term booklet, which is also used, is used outside the book industry primarily for unprinted sheets with a hard cover. Unlike newspapers and magazines , delivery works are not periodicals because they form a self-contained whole, completed with the last delivery. A delivery can be a loose-leaf publication ; A loose-leaf collection , on the other hand, consists of a large number of individual, interchangeable sheets, usually in files, and is up-to-date with new deliveries that have to be incorporated without having to reprint and bind the entire work.

The Latin technical name is fasciculum ("small bundle"), abbreviated fasc. who have favourited French fascicle , English fascicle, or book installment .

reception

As part of Documenta11 in Kassel in 2002 , the artist Ecke Bonk showed the components of Grimm's dictionary in an installation: the 380 deliveries of the first edition, from which 17 full and 32 partial volumes were created, and the 47 deliveries of the revision that were published by 2002.

Web links

Commons : Book installment  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dictionary of contemporary German , sv delivery , online , accessed on July 9, 2020
  2. ↑ University Library Oldenburg: Glossary , online , accessed on July 9, 2020
  3. ^ Karl Klaus Walther (ed.): Lexicon of book art and bibliophilia . KG Saur Verlag Munich (licensed by Nikol), Hamburg 2006, p. 266
  4. ↑ about Albert Gombert, German Dictionary, seventh volume first delivery, in: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur , Volume 26 (1882), pp. 171–180, online , accessed on July 8, 2020
  5. ↑ Joachim Elias Zender: Lexicon book, print, paper . Haupt Verlag, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 2008, p. 161.
  6. ↑ Joachim Elias Zender: Lexicon book, print, paper . Haupt Verlag, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 2008, p. 51.
  7. ↑ Karl-August Meis Singer: The Catholic Luther, Munich 1952, p 70, snippet , accessed on July 27, 2020
  8. ↑ Andrea Frindt, Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800-1950 , Volume 3, p. 1996, sv Weigand, Karl, online , accessed on July 8, 2020
  9. ^ Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: German Dictionary, List of Sources , Volume 33, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1971, p. 1074 f.
  10. ↑ Bavarian Academy of Sciences: Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Fascicle Index , History , accessed on July 25, 2020
  11. ↑ Polski Slownik Biograficzny: Zeszyty , online , accessed on July 9, 2020
  12. ^ University of Basel: Basler Homerkommentar, list of publications , accessed on July 25, 2020
  13. ^ Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: German Dictionary, List of Sources , Volume 33, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1971, p. 1074
  14. ^ Adolph Russell: Gesammt-Verlag catalog of the German book trade, a picture of German intellectual work and culture. Volume 9, Strasbourg 1881/82, p. 1218
  15. ^ Rudolf Callmann: The unfair competition, 1929, p. 239, snippet
  16. ^ University of Trier: Documenta11. Presentation of the digital ¹DWB in an installation by Ecke Bonk, online , accessed on July 8, 2020