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The discovery of these \"Pavier Quartos,\" as they became known, was a landmark success for the New Bibliography and played an important role in establishing the validity and authority of that method of analysis. While more recent scholars have reassessed the traditional narrative that the New Bibliographers wrote, no one has gone back to look at the primary evidence: the quartos themselves.  In Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes Zachary Lesser undertakes a completely fresh study of these playbooks. Through an intensive bibliographical analysis of over three hundred surviving quartos, Lesser reveals evidence that has gone entirely unseen before: \"ghosts\" (faint, oily impressions produced when one book is bound next to another); \"holes\" (the tiny remains of the first simple stitching that held pamphlets together); and \"rips and scrapes\" (post-production alterations of title pages). 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