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The Mind of the Book

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

The Mind of the Book

By Alastair Fowler

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About the book

Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title 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 book 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 ...Show more

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ISBN

9780198717669

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2017

Language

Edition

1

Original title

The Mind of the Book

Format

Hardcover

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