The mind of the book
Subtitle: pictorial title pages
By: Alastair Fowler
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780198717669
Subjects: Title pages; Book design; History
Description: Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title-pages printed in England from the early modern era to the nineteenth century, exploring their place in the History of the Book for the first time. He illuminates key features of title-page design and presents 16 illustrations of significant title-pages with commentaries, from Chaucer to Dickens.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Historical setting ; Borders ; Architectural structures ; Portraits ; Printers' devices ; Emblems ; Chronograms ; Compartments ; Later history; title: 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).