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Book-jackets : their history, forms, and use / G. Thomas Tanselle.
- Title
- Book-jackets : their history, forms, and use / G. Thomas Tanselle.
- Author
- Tanselle, G. Thomas (George Thomas), 1934-
- Publication
- Charlottesville : Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia ; New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Books [distributor], 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | NC973 .T36 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- University of Virginia. Bibliographical Society, issuing body.
- Description
- xii, 288 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Summary
- The present work offers a concise history both of publishers' detachable book coverings (primarily British and American) and of the attention they have received from scholars, dealers, collectors, and librarians. It also surveys their use by publishers (as protective devices and advertising media) and their usefulness to scholars of literature, art, and book history (as sources for biography, bibliography, cultural analysis, and the development of graphic design).
- Subject
- Book Industry
- Book Industry > United States > History
- Book Ornamentation
- Book Ornamentation > United States > History
- Book jackets
- Geschichte
- History, 19th Century
- History, 20th Century
- History, 20th Century > United States
- Library materials > Conservation and restoration
- Rare Books
- Rare Books > United States > History
- United Kingdom
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Note
- Includes revised versions of 3 essays previously published between 1971-2010.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Book-jackets, blurbs, and bibliographers (1971) -- The growth of interest in book-jacket history -- Introductory comments on book-jacket history -- Book-jackets as historical evidence -- The bibliographical description of book-jackets -- Dust-jackets, dealers, and documentation (2006) -- Writings on book-jackets, 1970-2005 -- The role of dealers in preserving book-jackets -- Further examples of evidence from book-jackets -- The history of book-jackets -- The preservation and cataloguing of book-jackets -- Coda: News and the Nineties (2010) -- Recent book-jacket news -- The characteristics of 1890s book-jackets -- A list of pre-1901 examples of British and American publishers' printed book-jackets, boxes, and other detachable coverings -- Indexes.
- ISBN
- 9781883631130 (alk. paper)
- 1883631130 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2011027389
- OCLC
- 742234287
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library