The Comely Frontispiece

London: Routledge, 1979. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped octavo. Hardcover. Very good/very good. brown cloth gilt lettering dust jacket 248 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979 8vo (24 cm), VIII, 248 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj clipped, blind collector's stamp on the half-title). The title-page of a book was once its most expensive and elaborate part. With advances in printing technology and changing reading practices, however, it became a space for new experiments in design, illustration and audience engagement.… Read more about this item