Fowler, Alastair, The mind of the book , 2017
- Title(s):
- The mind of the book : pictorial title pages / Alastair Fowler.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Published/Created:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryZ242.T6 F694 2017 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13351105
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index.
- Subject Terms:
- Book design -- History.Book design.Buch.Buchkunst.England.Frontispiz Buchdruck.Titelblatt.Title pages -- History.Title pages.
- Form/Genre:
- History.
- Export:
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- Introduction : Historical setting ; Borders ; Architectural structures ; Portrats ; Printers' devices ; Emblems ; Chronograms ; Compartments ; Later history
- Frontispieces and commentaries : Geffray Chaucer, The Workes (1532) ; The Great Bible (1539) ; John Dee, General and Rare Memorials (1577) ; John Harington, Orlando furioso (1591) ; Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion (1612, 1622) ; Ben Jonson, The Workes (1616) ; Francis Bacon, Instauratio magna (1620) ; Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1648) ; Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) ; Francis Barlow, Aesop's Fables (1666) ; Edward Sherburne, The Sphere of M. Manilius (1675) ; Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1745) ; John Baskerville, Virgil's Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis (1757) ; William Makepeace Thackeray, The Rose and the Ring (1855) ; Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) ; Geoffrey Chaucer, Works (1896) (The Kelmscott Chaucer).