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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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