The Work-And-Turn Method

Peter L. Shillingsburg, Professor of English, Mississippi State University

Note 35 to Chapter 5 of the author's Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray, which University Press of Virginia published in 1992. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

For a description of the work-and-turn method and diagrams suggestive of the impositions mentioned, see Gaskell, p. 83, figs. 52 and 60.

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