Section 05
The Register
What was set, printed and posted. Three entries on the evidence: what was written down at the time, and what can be read off a sheet that says nothing.
Plate 01. What was set, on what press, in what run, and where it went.
Entries in The Register
Numbered as filed-
01
Keeping the record
What was set, on what press, in what run, and where it went. The register as the surviving evidence.
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02
Dating an undated sheet
Type wear, paper stock and the masthead cut. How a loose sheet is placed.
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03
What survives
Ephemeral by design, kept by accident. Which copies still exist and why.