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Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Bentley's quarterly review. [with variant title-leaf to vol. 1].
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Author: Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue
Author: William Blake
Author: William BlakePublisher:
ISBN: 9780500600252
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
In his illuminated books,William Blake combined his handwritten text with his exuberant imagery on pages the like of which had not been seen since the great decorated books of the Middle Ages. To read such books as Jerusalem, America and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in cold letterpress bears no comparison to seeing and reading them as Blake conceived them, infused with his sublime and exhilarating colours. At times tiny figures and forms dance among the lines of the text, flames appear to burn up the page, and dense passages of Biblical-sounding text are brought to a jarring halt by startling images of death, destruction and liberation. This edition, produced together with The William Blake Trust, contains all the pages of Blakes twenty or so illuminated books reproduced in true size, an appendix with all Blakes text set in type and an introduction by the noted Blake scholar, David Bindman. They can at last become part of the lives of all lovers of art and poetry.
Harriet Martineau's Autobiography
Author: Harriet MartineauPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James WellsPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1656
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Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division
Author: New York Public Library. Rare Book DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
The Lost Books of Jane Austen
Author: Janine BarchasPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421431599
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Hardcore bibliography meets Antiques Roadshow in an illustrated exploration of the role that cheap reprints played in Jane Austen's literary celebrity—and in changing the larger book world itself. Gold Winner of the 2019 Foreword INDIES Award for History by FOREWORD Reviews In the nineteenth century, inexpensive editions of Jane Austen's novels targeted to Britain's working classes were sold at railway stations, traded for soap wrappers, and awarded as school prizes. At just pennies a copy, these reprints were some of the earliest mass-market paperbacks, with Austen's beloved stories squeezed into tight columns on thin, cheap paper. Few of these hard-lived bargain books survive, yet they made a substantial difference to Austen's early readership. These were the books bought and read by ordinary people. Packed with nearly 100 full-color photographs of dazzling, sometimes gaudy, sometimes tasteless covers, The Lost Books of Jane Austen is a unique history of these rare and forgotten Austen volumes. Such shoddy editions, Janine Barchas argues, were instrumental in bringing Austen's work and reputation before the general public. Only by examining them can we grasp the chaotic range of Austen's popular reach among working-class readers. Informed by the author's years of unconventional book hunting, The Lost Books of Jane Austen will surprise even the most ardent Janeite with glimpses of scruffy survivors that challenge the prevailing story of the author's steady and genteel rise. Thoroughly innovative and occasionally irreverent, this book will appeal in equal measure to book historians, Austen fans, and scholars of literary celebrity.
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Author: The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen
Author: Edward CopelandPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521498678
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world and present-day criticism.
Historical Essays & Studies
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron ActonPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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