illustration
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David Faflik. The Literary Gift in Early America.
Faflik’s book examines the gift book as a carrier of exchange—between giver and receiver, publisher and author, and author and reader—in the form of five reception histories.
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Lucy Peltz, Facing the Text: Extra-Illustration, Print Culture, and Society in Britain 1769-1840
Nearly every rare book library has at least one extra-illustrated book; many archives hold hundreds of them. Yet the polarizing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century practice of extra-illustration has rarely been studied…
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Lori Merish, Archives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States
Lori Merish’s Archives of Labor: Working Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States is an ambitious work that recovers texts by and about women, labor, and working-class…
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Cynthia Ellen Roman, ed. Hogarth’s Legacy
Cynthia Ellen Roman, ed. Hogarth’s Legacy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016. xl, 259p., 108 ill. ISBN 9780300215618. US$ 60.00 (hardcover). Cynthia Ellen Roman’s edition of collected essays…
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Robert Dance. Illustrated by Lynd Ward
Robert Dance. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. Norwich and New York: Impermanent Press and The Grolier Club, 2015. 164p., ill. ISBN 9781605830629. US$ 500.00. Lynd Ward was one of the most…
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Sandro Jung. James Thomson’s The Seasons, Print Culture, and Visual Interpretation, 1730-1842
Sandro Jung. James Thomson’s The Seasons, Print Culture, and Visual Interpretation, 1730-1842. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2015. Studies in Text and Print Culture. xxi, 287 p., ill. ISBN 9781611461916. US$ 80.00…
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‘Moments of Vision’: The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy
‘Moments of Vision’: The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy at The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto (24 October 2016–24 February 2017).
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Vanessa Meikle Schulman. Work Sights: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century America
Vanessa Meikle Schulman. Work Sights: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century America. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. xi, 278p., ill. ISBN 9781625341952. US $29.95 (paperback). With…