MLA 2023 slides: “Blood Type: Printing Battlefield Labor in the 18th Century”

If you’re at MLA this weekend, please come to our New Directions in Book History panel! Session 264, Friday January 6, 12-1:15pm in Moscone West 3000 (level 3). I’ll be presenting on the labors of making eighteenth-century printing ink, especially red ink, and how that work matters when you read texts printed in colors other than black ink (but black ink, too). Here are my slides – they may change slightly before tomorrow, but these are a final draft. I’m concerned that the red text pages may be hard to read or inaccessible to some, so I will provide a…