Nineteenth-century dust-jackets by Godburn, Mark R - 2016

Pinner ; New Castle: Private Libraries Association ; Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Contents: 1. Origins of publishers' jackets -- 2. Sealed wrappings -- 3. Early flap-style jackets -- 4. Mid-Victorian jackets -- 5. Lewis Carroll's 'paper wrappers' -- 6. Widespread use -- 7. End of an era -- Appendix one. File copies of John Murray and Smith, Elder -- Appendix two. List of jackets to 1870. 215 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm. "1,100 copies of which 550 for sale."--title-page verso. First edition, first printing. Dark blue cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Private Libraries Association - Oak Knoll Press, Private Libraries Association - Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 215 pp, Illustrated. Cloth. Dust jacket with some very light sings of use, else in very good condition. Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets is a comprehensive general history of publishers' dust jackets during the first century of their use. From the earliest known jacket issued in 1819, the author surveys the entire field of British, American and European jackets and documents a part of publishing history that was nearly lost to the nineteenth-century custom of discarding dust-jackets so that the more decorative bindings could be seen. The book examines when and why publishers began to issue dust-jackets, the subsequent growth of their use, and the role they played in marketing. ISBN: 9781584563471

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