Author: Ruari McLean
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Cloth and Leather
Author: Ruari McLean
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Paper
Author: Ruari McLean
Publisher: London : Gordon Fraser
ISBN:
Category : Book covers
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher: London : Gordon Fraser
ISBN:
Category : Book covers
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings, 1830-1880
Author: Edmund M. B. King
Publisher: London : British Library ; New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press
ISBN: 9780712347235
Category : Book covers
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This study deals with the many and varied impulses that resulted in a great growth in book cover design in Victorian Britain. New technical developments provided the means for artists to attempt wide experimentation, and allied to this was the impetus for a huge new market for creatively designed bindings that came in the 1840s and cumulated with the Great Exhibition in 1851. At the same time, practitioners such as Owen Jones, Walter Crane and John Leighton broke new ground in the artistic style that they adopted.
Publisher: London : British Library ; New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press
ISBN: 9780712347235
Category : Book covers
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This study deals with the many and varied impulses that resulted in a great growth in book cover design in Victorian Britain. New technical developments provided the means for artists to attempt wide experimentation, and allied to this was the impetus for a huge new market for creatively designed bindings that came in the 1840s and cumulated with the Great Exhibition in 1851. At the same time, practitioners such as Owen Jones, Walter Crane and John Leighton broke new ground in the artistic style that they adopted.
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Author: Leah Price
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691159548
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691159548
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Bound to be Modern
Author: Kristina Lundblad
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584563136
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"An interdisciplinary study on the emergence and function of publishers' cloth bindings in the 19th century"-- Provided by publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584563136
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"An interdisciplinary study on the emergence and function of publishers' cloth bindings in the 19th century"-- Provided by publisher.
A Companion to the History of the Book
Author: Simon Eliot
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 140519278X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose “As a stimulating overview of the multidimensional present state of the field, the Companion has no peer.” Choice “If you want to understand how cultures come into being, endure, and change, then you need to come to terms with the rich and often surprising history Of the book ... Eliot and Rose have done a fine job. Their volume can be heartily recommended. “ Adrian Johns, Technology and Culture From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. A team of expert contributors draws on the latest research in order to offer a cogent, transcontinental narrative. Many of them use illustrative examples and case studies of well-known texts, conveying the excitement surrounding this rapidly developing field. The Companion is organized around four distinct approaches to the history of the book. First, it introduces the variety of methods used by book historians and allied specialists, from the long-established discipline of bibliography to newer IT-based approaches. Next, it provides a broad chronological survey of the forms and content of texts. The third section situates the book in the context of text culture as a whole, while the final section addresses broader issues, such as literacy, copyright, and the future of the book. Contributors to this volume: Michael Albin, Martin Andrews, Rob Banham, Megan L Benton, Michelle P. Brown, Marie-Frangoise Cachin, Hortensia Calvo, Charles Chadwyck-Healey, M. T. Clanchy, Stephen Colclough, Patricia Crain, J. S. Edgren, Simon Eliot, John Feather, David Finkelstein, David Greetham, Robert A. Gross, Deana Heath, Lotte Hellinga, T. H. Howard-Hill, Peter Kornicki, Beth Luey, Paul Luna, Russell L. Martin Ill, Jean-Yves Mollier, Angus Phillips, Eleanor Robson, Cornelia Roemer, Jonathan Rose, Emile G. L Schrijver, David J. Shaw, Graham Shaw, Claire Squires, Rietje van Vliet, James Wald, Rowan Watson, Alexis Weedon, Adriaan van der Weel, Wayne A. Wiegand, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 140519278X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose “As a stimulating overview of the multidimensional present state of the field, the Companion has no peer.” Choice “If you want to understand how cultures come into being, endure, and change, then you need to come to terms with the rich and often surprising history Of the book ... Eliot and Rose have done a fine job. Their volume can be heartily recommended. “ Adrian Johns, Technology and Culture From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. A team of expert contributors draws on the latest research in order to offer a cogent, transcontinental narrative. Many of them use illustrative examples and case studies of well-known texts, conveying the excitement surrounding this rapidly developing field. The Companion is organized around four distinct approaches to the history of the book. First, it introduces the variety of methods used by book historians and allied specialists, from the long-established discipline of bibliography to newer IT-based approaches. Next, it provides a broad chronological survey of the forms and content of texts. The third section situates the book in the context of text culture as a whole, while the final section addresses broader issues, such as literacy, copyright, and the future of the book. Contributors to this volume: Michael Albin, Martin Andrews, Rob Banham, Megan L Benton, Michelle P. Brown, Marie-Frangoise Cachin, Hortensia Calvo, Charles Chadwyck-Healey, M. T. Clanchy, Stephen Colclough, Patricia Crain, J. S. Edgren, Simon Eliot, John Feather, David Finkelstein, David Greetham, Robert A. Gross, Deana Heath, Lotte Hellinga, T. H. Howard-Hill, Peter Kornicki, Beth Luey, Paul Luna, Russell L. Martin Ill, Jean-Yves Mollier, Angus Phillips, Eleanor Robson, Cornelia Roemer, Jonathan Rose, Emile G. L Schrijver, David J. Shaw, Graham Shaw, Claire Squires, Rietje van Vliet, James Wald, Rowan Watson, Alexis Weedon, Adriaan van der Weel, Wayne A. Wiegand, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén.
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Ecce Mundus
Author: Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts and crafts movement
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts and crafts movement
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Victorian Publishers' Bindings
Author: Douglas Ball
Publisher: Library Association Publishing (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher: Library Association Publishing (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Victorian Book Design & Colour Printing
Author: Ruari McLean
Publisher: London, Faber
ISBN:
Category : Book design
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher: London, Faber
ISBN:
Category : Book design
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description