{"id":3100,"date":"2012-02-23T16:17:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T21:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/collation.folger.edu\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2015-12-10T18:18:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T23:18:41","slug":"learning-from-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahwerner.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/learning-from-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"learning from mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite categories of early modern books are those that show errors, small mistakes made in the process of printing them.<\/p>\n

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a leaf that was folded when it was printed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I don’t love them because I like to laugh at them. I love finding them because they remind me that books are made by people and they carry with them traces of their making. Books don’t just magically appear.<\/p>\n

The image above is of a leaf from The compleat French-master<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and it’s not too hard to figure out that it must have been folded as it went through the press (click on the photo to go to another post I wrote about this). I don’t know that there’s anything particularly informative about this mistake, but I do like it. Other mistakes tell us something a bit more about the printing process. Look through this slide show of a gathering from The Perfect path-way to salvation<\/a><\/em> to see if you can spot what the error here is (if the slide show<\/a> doesn’t work for you, you can see the images here<\/a>):<\/p>\n