Nineteenth-century dust-jackets / Mark R. Godburn.

Author
Godburn, Mark R., 1954- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Middlesex, England : Private Libraries Association ; New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press, 2016.
Description
215 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-184) and index.
    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.
    Other title(s)
    19th century dust-jackets
    ISBN
    • 9781584563471 ((Oak Knoll Press ; : alk. paper))
    • 1584563478 ((Oak Knoll Press ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780900002885 ((Private Libraries Association ; : alk. paper))
    • 0900002883 ((Private Libraries Association ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016011525
    OCLC
    944339842
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