On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, JAMES OGILVIE wrote: > I was talking to Boydell & Brewer today (placing last minute Pennsic > order) and they said it's selling quite well. My response was that I > hoped that meant that I hoped on the next one they would increase your > budget for photos and color plates.
You and me both! Gale and I don't have much say in the matter of photos. Color images will require a separate grant (something we're targeting for a special issue a few years down the line). As for b/w images, we have a limit on the number of halftones per volume. (In fact, for a couple of the images in my own article, I had actually gotten permission from the holding library to use photos and had purchased the transparencies, but we were over our volume allotment, so I had to do redrawings instead anyway.) We do try to make sure there are footnotes pointing people to better views of images where possible (in other books or online). What surprised me most on Vol. 1 was that the designer made some of the images so small, particularly as we had specified that some of them needed to be larger to show necessary detail. I have had a specific request approved for some larger images in Volume 2 (which is already in the publisher's hands -- we're assembling Vol. 3 now). So, with luck we will get a bit more bang per halftone buck. Cross your fingers. --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
