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Aesthetic tracts : innovation in late-nineteenth-century book design
- Title
- Aesthetic tracts : innovation in late-nineteenth-century book design / Ellen Mazur Thomson.
- Author
- Thomson, Ellen Mazur
- Publication
- New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press, 2015.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 177 pages, 16 color plates : illustrations (some color), portrait; 26 cm
- Summary
- "A study of how new theories of design in the late 19th century, including the introduction of Japanese artistic principles, new printing technology, the emergence of the consumer society, transformation in the publishing industry, and the influence of international expositions worked to change the idea of the book at the fin-de-siecle. Contains 16 color plates and 50 black-and-white illustrations, an appendix, notes and index"--
- Alternative Title
- Innovation in late-nineteenth-century book design
- Subject
- Whitman, Sarah
- 1800-1899
- Book design > France > History > 19th century
- Book design > England > History > 19th century
- Book design > United States > History > 19th century
- Book industries and trade > History > 19th century
- Book covers > History > 19th century
- Illustrated books > History > 19th century
- Japonism
- Aesthetics, Modern > 19th century
- Aesthetics, Modern
- Book covers
- Book design
- Book industries and trade
- Illustrated books
- England
- France
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-173) and index.
- Contents
- Preface: "Aesthetic tracts" -- Consequences of abundance -- Book covers : a search for design principles -- Japonisme in Sarah Wyman Whitman's book covers -- A story told with pictures : Histoire des quatre fils Aymon -- The text and the image : conflict and compatibility -- The writer as book designer -- Privileging the text : the writer and the reader -- Changes in the lesson of things -- Appendix: Gillotage.
- Call Number
- JFF 17-960
- ISBN
- 9781584563365
- 1584563362
- LCCN
- 2015027804
- OCLC
- 920469618
- Author
- Thomson, Ellen Mazur, author.
- Title
- Aesthetic tracts : innovation in late-nineteenth-century book design / Ellen Mazur Thomson.
- Publisher
- New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press, 2015.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-173) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- JFF 17-960