Book Information:
| Title | Arts and Crafts Book Covers |
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| Author | Haslam, Malcom |
| Publisher | Richard Dennis, the New Chapel, Shepton Beauchamp |
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| ISBN | 9780955374180 |
| Pages | 0 |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Notes | produced to accompany the exhibition "From Rossetti to Voysey:Arts and Crafts Stamped Book Covers Design" at Blackwell. May 10 - July 15, 2012. Book Description: Richard Dennis, United Kingdom, 2012. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 245 x 172 mm. Brand New Book. Before the age of the paper book jacket, publishers issued their books in cloth-covered boards, which were stamped with designs in golf leaf and color. From around 1860, artists of the Arts and Crafts movement supplied many of the best designs. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris and Walter Crane led the way, and they were followed in the 1890s by Laurence Housman, Charles Ricketts and Selwyn Image, among others. Prominent Arts and Crafts architects, such as Philip Webb and C.F.A. Voysey, also designed book covers. Malcolm Haslam explores this uncharted territory, investigating not only the designs and designers, but the publishers and binders as well. He introduces some artists, little known today, whose designs filled the bookshops and bookshelves of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, and he shows how designers in Europe and America were influenced by British book covers decorated in the Arts and Crafts style. Ninety-nine of the best covers are illustrated and described, and details are given of over fifty Arts and Crafts designers who worked in commercial book production, and their marks and monograms are shown. |
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| TRRF Call No. | AC-00065 |
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