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crl-15373	Veaner, Allen B.	Rhodes, Barbara, and William Wells Streeter. Before Photocopying: The Art & History of Mechanical Copying, 1780–1938. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Pr., 1999. 494p. $95 (ISBN 1-884718-61-2). LC 98-8045.	2000	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1903	87	55	In the wake of Derridan deconstructionism and especially Gérard Genette’s discov­ ery of “paratexts” (e.g. titles, dust-jacket blurbs, etc.), humanists, too, are seizing with new vigor upon the physicality of books, their various nontextual qualities that serve as coconstituents of meaning in “the complex mediation between book, author, publisher, and reader.” Watt’s device, which was to have many imitators, relied on the simple principle of offset, the same principle that led Alois Senefelder in 1796 to invent offset lithog­ raphy, the printing method that produces virtually all modern newspapers, books, and other mass ink-printed publications.	cache/crl-15373.pdf	txt/crl-15373.txt