Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title-pages printed
in England from the early modern period to the nineteenth century.
He examines pictorial title-pages in the context of the History of
the Book for the first time. The first part of The Mind of the Book
explores the forerunner of the frontispiece in late antiquity; the
use of frames and borders in title-pages; portraits; printers'
devices; emblematic title-pages of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, especially attending to explanatory verses and arcane
features such as chronograms; title-pages as 'memory prompts'; and
eighteenth and nineteenth-century title-pages, tracing 'the
rejection of emblematic and symbolic features and the introduction
of unadorned, unpictorial, title-pages'. The second part of the
book presents illustrations of sixteen significant title-pages with
commentaries, ranging from Chaucer's Works in 1532 through Bacon's
Instauratio Magna in 1620, Dicken's The Mystery of Edwin Drood in
1870, and arriving back at Chaucer with Edward Burnes-Jones's
illustrated title-page for the Works of 1896.
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