Joseph A. Dane is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. His books include Out of Sorts: On Typography and Print Culture, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Introduction
PART I. WHAT IS PRINT?
Chapter 1. Paleography Versus Typography
Chapter 2. "Ca. 1800": What's in a Date?
Chapter 3. Bibliographers of the Mind
PART II. ON THE MAKING OF LISTS
Chapter 4. Herman R. Mead's Incunabula in the Huntington Library and the Notion of "Typographical Value"
Chapter 5. Catchtitles in English Books to 1550
Chapter 6. An Editorial Propaedeutic
PART III. IRONIES OF HISTORY AND REPRESENTATION: THEME AND VARIATION
Playing Bibliography
III.1. Book History and Book Histories: On the Making of Lists
III.2. Meditation on the Composing Stick
III.3. The Red and the Black
III.4. Fragments
III.5. The Nature and Function of Scholarly Illustration in a Digital World
III.6. Art of the Mind
Notes
Principal Sources Cited
Index
Acknowledgments