Extending the Book: The Art of Extra-Illustration - Brossura

Blake, Erin C.; Sillars, Stuart

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ISBN 10: 0295990236 ISBN 13: 9780295990231

Casa editrice: Folger Shakespeare Lib, 2010

Riassunto

Introduces the forgotten art of extra-illustration and explores what this personalized form of book design reveals about the history of reading.

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"Extending the Book" introduces the largely-forgotten art of extra-illustration - individually adding portraits or other illustrations to published books - and explores what this personalized form of book design reveals about the history of reading. It includes a brief introduction to the concept of designing and creating a unique book by adding external material and an overview of the phenomenon's history and its heyday in the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The works of Shakespeare - the most popular single author for extra-illustration - exemplify the practice as it changed over time. From the beginning, extra-illustrators had to defend the 'exquisite handicraft' (in the words of an 1890 proponent) against accusations of 'breaking up a good book to illustrate a worse one' (in the words of an 1892 critic). This book examines the art and the practice of extra-illustration, from crudely altered books to beautiful new creations.

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• Editore: Folger Shakespeare Lib
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0295990236
• ISBN 13: 9780295990231
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 18