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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. cloth, hard cover in dust jacket., no flaws or wear. clean. no markings. tight binding. an unused copy.; xiv-177pp., 16 color plates. 51 b/w figures. frontispiece. examines the book designs of a number of binders and designers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Aesthetic Tracts: Innovation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Book Design Hardcover - 2015
by Ellen Mazur Thomson
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- Title Aesthetic Tracts: Innovation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Book Design
- Author Ellen Mazur Thomson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Pages 177
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, DE
- Date 2015
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781584563365 / 1584563362
- Library of Congress subjects Aesthetics, Modern - 19th century, Illustrated books - History - 19th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015027804
- Dewey Decimal Code 686.09
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New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. cloth, dust jacket. tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 208 pages. "Sumptuously illustrated, skillfully printed, and well documented." -- Jeffrey Mifflin, Printing History, Winter 2017 "Thompson describes this phenomenon in England, the United States and France; it is an account awash with quotations that reveal how varied and contradictory views of the subject were." -- Sebastian Carter, TLS "Thompson has managed to cover a vast amount of material in a fairly short space, and has done it gracefully and congenially. ... Aesthetic Tracts is an interesting and thoughtful book." -- Crispin Elstead, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada In the late nineteenth century, writers, artists, and bibliophiles expended great thought and energy on books as a category of things that might be made to express, by their very physical appearance, aesthetic ideals and personal visions. Books, like other artifacts produced in the then new industrial system, implicitly…
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