Extending the Book
The Art of Extra-Illustration
Edición de la obra Extending the Book
| Autor | Erin C. Blake, Stuart Sillars |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Folger Shakespeare Library |
| Fecha de publicación | 2010 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 40 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780295990231 |
| OCLC | 503639627 |
| Número de Cutter | B636e |
"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." --Book Jacket.