Data and Code For PhD Thesis- Making an Impression: An Assessment of the Role of Print Surfaces Within the Technological, Commercial, Intellectual and Cultural Trajectory of Book Illustration c.1780-c.1860.

Overview These datasets support research found in the PhD Thesis entitled: Making an Impression: An Assessment of the Role of Print Surfaces Within the Technological, Commercial, Intellectual and Cultural Trajectory of Book Illustration c.1780-c.1860, submitted by William Finley. The data was provided by the British Library as part of a wider ambition to digitise millions of book illustrations (further details can be found here: https://github.com/BL-Labs/imagedirectory). The main dataset contains 6063 rows and 108,784 illustrations. All of the data is held in comma-separated values (csv) files. The collection has been subdivided in order to interrogate the dataset further. All of the datasets have been interrogated using Rscript (R 3.4.2 El Capitan Build), the codes of which have been included in the dataset repository. Guidance to Datasets 'Counts of Illustration by Size over Time' Title: Title of Book Author: Author of Book Pub_Place: Location the book was published Book_Id: British Library image identifier YEAR: Year the book was published Image_Count: Number of illustrations belonging to that book N: Number of illustrations according to the size of illustration IMAGE_TYPE: Size of Illustration 'Density Graphs of the Position of Illustrations on the Page' X1: The X position in pixels of the top left of the image Y1: The Y position in pixels of the top left of the image X2: Width in pixels of the Image Y2: Height in pixels of the Image PERCENT_PAGE: Percentage of the page taken up by illustrations TYPE: Percentage Range of the Page taken up by illustrations VOL: Volume 'Frequency of Illustrations Across First 100 Pages of the Book 1800-1850' Page: Page number X1: The X position in pixels of the top left of the image Y1: The Y position in pixels of the top left of the image X2: Width in pixels of the image Y2: Height in pixels of the image PERCENTPAGE: Percentage of the page occupied by illustration SIZE: Size category each illustration belongs to 'Illustration Arrangement in Single Books and Editions' Book_ID: British Library image identifier Page_NO: Page Number Illustration is found on X: The X position in pixels of the top left of the image Y: The Y position in pixels of the top left of the image WIDTH: Width in pixels of the image HEIGHT: Height in pixels of the image IMAGE_SIZE: Percentage of the page occupied by illustration 'Relative Frequency of Printing Methods Over Time' Publisher: Publisher of the book Title: Title of the book first_author: Author pub_place: Location the book was published book_identifier: British Library image identifier Year: Year the book was published COUNT_IMAGE: Number of illustrations found in a given book YEAR_BOOK_COUNT: Number of book published in a given year YEAR_IMAGE: Number of Illustrations found in books published in a given year AVERAGE_IMAGE: Average number of illustrations found in books published in a given year IMAGE_METHOD: Print method used to produce the illustration IMAGE_SIZE_COUNT: Number of illustrations printed in books in a given year according to its size IMAGE_SIZE: Categories of image sizes Contact Will Finley can be contacted via the following email. Information listed is accurate at the time of publication Email: [e-mail]