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"Extending the Book" introduces the largely-forgotten art of extra-illustration - individually adding portraits or other illustrations to published books - and explores what this personalized form of book design reveals about the history of reading. It includes a brief introduction to the concept of designing and creating a unique book by adding external material and an overview of the phenomenon's history and its heyday in the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The works of Shakespeare - the most popular single author for extra-illustration - exemplify the practice as it changed over time. From the beginning, extra-illustrators had to defend the 'exquisite handicraft' (in the words of an 1890 proponent) against accusations of 'breaking up a good book to illustrate a worse one' (in the words of an 1892 critic). This book examines the art and the practice of extra-illustration, from crudely altered books to beautiful new creations.

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Book category Books in English The arts Industrial / commercial art & design Illustration & commercial art

• Full title: Extending the Book
• Subtitle: The Art of Extra-Illustration
• Author: Erin C. Blake, Stuart Sillars
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40
• EAN: 9780295990231
• ISBN: 0295990236
• ID: 04874905
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Weight: 130 g
• Dimensions: 296 × 202 × 4 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. January 2010

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