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 Shakespear...