Extending the Book: The Art of Extra-Illustration
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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Extending the Book: The Art of Extra-Illustration
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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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780295990231 |
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| Publisher: | Folger Shakespeare Library |
| Publication date: | 01/27/2010 |
| Pages: | 40 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.60(w) x 11.40(h) x 0.20(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
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