The Mind of the Book

The Mind of the Book
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9780191027437
ISBN-13 : 019102743X
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Book Synopsis The Mind of the Book by : Alastair Fowler

Download or read book The Mind of the Book written by Alastair Fowler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title-pages printed in England from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. He examines pictorial title-pages in the context of the History of the Book for the first time. The first part of The Mind of the Book explores the forerunner of the frontispiece in late antiquity; the use of frames and borders in title-pages; portraits; printers' devices; emblematic title-pages of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially attending to explanatory verses and arcane features such as chronograms; title-pages as 'memory prompts'; and eighteenth and nineteenth-century title-pages, tracing 'the rejection of emblematic and symbolic features and the introduction of unadorned, unpictorial, title-pages'. The second part of the book presents illustrations of sixteen significant title-pages with commentaries, ranging from Chaucer's Works in 1532 through Bacon's Instauratio Magna in 1620, Dicken's The Mystery of Edwin Drood in 1870, and arriving back at Chaucer with Edward Burnes-Jones's illustrated title-page for the Works of 1896.


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