The commission
Copyediting
Comment
This commission showcases Bourchier’s ability to identify editors with relevant subject expertise. Elizabeth’s interest in early printing, especially in non-Western scripts, equipped her with the necessary background knowledge to copy-edit Nicholas Dew’s manuscript – serendipitously, she had just purchased a copy of the French Orientalist Barthélemy d’Herbelot’s Bibliothèque orientale (1697), a book discussed in the Dew manuscript in the context of printing in seventeenth-century France.
Below: Title page of Herbelot’s Bibliothèque orientale (1697), a book discussed by author Nicholas Dew in his book Orientalism in Louis XIV’s France.
