The Mind of the Book: Pictorial Title-Pages 1st Edition by Alastair 019102743X 9780191027437

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• ISBN 10: 019102743X
• ISBN 13: 9780191027437
• Author: Alastair

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’;

Table of contents:

Historical Setting

Borders

Architectural Structures

Portraits

Printers’ Devices

Emblems

Chronograms

Compartments

Later History

Classicizing fashions

Illustrations

Narrative illustration

Retrospective Gothic

Conclusions

Frontispieces & Commentaries

Geffray Chaucer, The Workes (1532)

Portraits

Editor and publisher

Printer

The Great Bible (1539)

Printing

Printers

Tableau

Inscriptions

Designer

John Dee, General and Rare Memorials (1577)

Frame

Tableau

Inscriptions

Chronogram

Printer

Designer

John Harington, Orlando furioso (1591)

Tableau

Inscriptions

Publication

Printer

Designer

Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion (1612, 1622)

Layout

Title

Tableau

Stationers

Printer

Patrons

Engraver

Designers

Ben Jonson, The Workes (1616)

Layout

Inscriptions

Medallions

Vignettes

Tableau

Printer

Designer

Francis Bacon, Instauratio magna (1620)

Tableau

Inscriptions

Engraver

Printer

Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1648)

Emblems

Inscriptions

Stationers

Printer

Engraver

Designers

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)

Inscriptions

Publication

Printer

Designers

Francis Barlow, Aesop’s Fables (1666)

Barlow’s predecessors

Barlow’s contribution

Artist

Tableau

Booksellers

Printers

Edward Sherburne, The Sphere of M. Manilius (1675)

Author

Artist

Tableau

Inscriptions

Chronogram

Designers

Publisher

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1745)

Tableau

Inscriptions

Moralization

Designer

Printers

John Baskerville, Virgil’s Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis (1757)

Typography

Printer

William Makepeace Thackeray, The Rose and the Ring (1855)

Versions

Artist and Illustrator

Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)

Tableau

Artists

Geoffrey Chaucer, Works (1896) (The Kelmscott Chaucer)

Designer

The Kelmscott Press

Artist

The Kelmscott Chaucer

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