Bibliographic record
Abstract
1&26 represents our country in Books for Every Market: The P)ocket Edition.This copy demonstrates in a very physical imanner the common practice of recycling almanac content from year to year: two sets of stab holes pierce its pages.Typography buffs at the exhibition were delighted to see the only known copy of Lovell & Gibson's mid-nineteenth-century Specimen of Printing Types and Ornaments.The catalogue entry notes that at one point Lovell was forced to set up a printing plant in New York State because of legal sanctions against his company.The last image in the catalogue is one of Clarence Gagnon's illustrations for Louis Himon's Maria ChapdelaEine, from a 1933 Paris edition.The notes document Gagnon's long struggle to achieve "perfect reproduction" of his original illustrations, resulting in a two-year delay in publication.The snowy scene is quintessentially Canadian, and a fitting way to close the exhibition.As should be evident from this review, the catalogue's contents alone make it an important publication.What transforms it into a collector's item is Stan Bevington's elegant, sparse design -the vertical format, sumptuous cover, and generous number of colour illustrations, ably printed by Coach House Press.Bravo, as always, for the excellent choice of Rod McDonald's Cartier Book, surely one of the most graceful and readable fonts.Along with the exhibition, this catalogue has already earned its place in Canadian book history.I regard the catalogue as a primer in print culture, from Babylonian clay tablets to twentieth-century fine press editions.For established book historians it is a joyful reminder of the breadth of their field.For incoming BHPC students, or others contemplating the study of print culture, it is a vibrant introduction likely to lure them to the Fisher or Massey libraries where they will no doubt note alongside them some of the people who attended the exhibition, back for a second (third, fourth) look at these treasures.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.013 | 0.022 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.061 | 0.037 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".