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An edition of The mind of the book (2017)

The mind of the book

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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.

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Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford University Press
Language
English
Pages
220

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Subjects

Title pages, Book design, History

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The mind of the book: pictorial title pages
2017, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Historical setting ; Borders ; Architectural structures ; Portraits ; 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).

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
686.2/252
Library of Congress
Z242.T6 F694 2017, Z242.T6

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 220 pages
Number of pages
220

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26959889M
ISBN 10
0198717660
ISBN 13
9780198717669
LCCN
2016948375
OCLC/WorldCat
951759839

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