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Hardcover Facing the Text: Extra-Illustration, Print Culture, and Society in Britain, 1769-1840 Book

ISBN: 0873282612

ISBN13: 9780873282611

Facing the Text: Extra-Illustration, Print Culture, and Society in Britain, 1769-1840

Lucy Peltz explores the practice of extra-illustration in relation to the popularization of antiquarianism, the commercialization of print culture, the reception of engraved portraiture, and the rise of the amateur, the collector, and the connoisseur.

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, thousands of books were customized with prints and drawings in a practice called extra-illustration. These books were often massively extended,...

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