Extending the Book: The Art of Extra-Illustration
Autor Erin C. Blake, Stuart Sillarsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2010 – vârsta de la 22 ani
"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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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0295990236
Pagini: 23
Ilustrații: 20 colour illustrations
Dimensiuni: 198 x 287 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Folger Shakespeare Library