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The mind of the book : pictorial title pages / Alastair Fowler.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) Z242.T6 F694 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fowler, Alastair, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Title pages--History.
- Title pages.
- Book design--History.
- Book design.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of tide pages printed in England from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. He examines pictorial title pages in the context of the History of the Bock for the first time- The first part of The Mind of the Book explores the forerunner of the frontispiece in late antiquity; the use of frames and borders in title pages; portraits; printers' devices; emblematic title pages of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially attending to explanatory verses and arcane features such as chronograms; title pages as 'memory prompts'; and eighteenth and nineteenth-century title pages, tracing the rejection of emblematic and symbolic features and the introduction of unadorned, unpictorial, title pages, with any pictorial element narrative and gothic. The second part of the book presents illustrations or sixteen significant title pages with commentaries, ranging from Chaucer's Works in 1532 through Bacon's Instauratio Magna in 1620, Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood in 1870, and arriving back at Chaucer with Edward Burnes-Jones's illustrated title page for the Works of 1896. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction 1
- Historical Setting 3
- Borders 9
- Architectural Structures 15
- Portraits 23
- Printers' Devices 32
- Emblems 42
- Chronograms 50
- Compartments 54
- Later History 60
- Frontispieces and Commentaries 71
- The Workes (1532) / Geffray Chaucer Chaucer, Geffray 73
- The Great Bible (1539) 79
- General and Rare Memorials (1577) / John Dee Dee, John 87
- Orlando furioso (1591) / John Harington Harington, John 95
- Poly-Olbion (1612, 1622) / Michael Drayton Drayton, Michael 105
- The Workes (1616) / Ben Jonson Jonson, Ben 115
- Instauratio magna (1620) / Francis Bacon Bacon, Francis 127
- Hesperides (1648) / Robert Herrick Herrick, Robert 133
- Leviathan (1651) / Thomas Hobbes Hobbes, Thomas 143
- Aesop's Fables (1666) / Francis Barlow Barlow, Francis 151
- The Sphere of M. Manilius (1675) / Edward Sherburne Sherburne, Edward 157
- An Essay on Man (1745) / Alexander Pope Pope, Alexander 165
- Virgil's Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis (1757) / John Baskerville Baskerville, John 173
- The Rose and the Ring (1855) / William Makepeace Thackeray Thackeray, William Makepeace 177
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) / Charles Dickens Dickens, Charles 183
- Works (1896) (The Kelmscott Chaucer) / Geoffrey Chaucer Chaucer, Geoffrey 189.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780198717669
- 0198717660
- OCLC:
- 951759839
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