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

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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,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0873282612

ISBN13:9780873282611

Release Date:March 2017

Publisher:Huntington Library Press

Length:424 Pages

Weight:5.38 lbs.

Dimensions:1.6" x 11.4" x 10.4"

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

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