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The mind of the book : pictorial title pages
Author
Title
The mind of the book : pictorial title pages / Alastair Fowler.
ISBN
9780198717669
0198717660
Edition
First edition.
Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Physical Description
xii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary
Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title-pages printed in England from the early modern era to the nineteenth century, exploring their place in the History of the Book for the first time. He illuminates key features of title-page design and presents 16 illustrations of significant title-pages with commentaries, from Chaucer to Dickens.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 17, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Historical setting ; Borders ; Architectural structures ; Portrats ; Printers' devices ; Emblems ; Chronograms ; Compartments ; Later history
Frontispieces and commentaries : Geffray Chaucer, The Workes (1532) ; The Great Bible (1539) ; John Dee, General and Rare Memorials (1577) ; John Harington, Orlando furioso (1591) ; Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion (1612, 1622) ; Ben Jonson, The Workes (1616) ; Francis Bacon, Instauratio magna (1620) ; Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1648) ; Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) ; Francis Barlow, Aesop's Fables (1666) ; Edward Sherburne, The Sphere of M. Manilius (1675) ; Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1745) ; John Baskerville, Virgil's Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis (1757) ; William Makepeace Thackeray, The Rose and the Ring (1855) ; Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) ; Geoffrey Chaucer, Works (1896) (The Kelmscott Chaucer).
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Genre/Form
History.
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