Extending the Book: The Art of Extra-Illustration - Couverture souple

Blake, Erin C.; Sillars, Stuart

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0295990236 ISBN 13 : 9780295990231

Editeur : University of Washington Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0295990236
• ISBN 13: 9780295990231
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 40
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible