The Mind of the Book: Pictorial Title Pages.
- Author / Editor
- Fowler, Alastair.
The Mind of the Book: Pictorial Title Pages.
- Published
- New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Physical Description
- xii, 220 pp.; 17 b&w illus.
- Description
- Contributes to a history of the "pictorial title page" in English printing, identifying continuities and developments by studying sixteen examples (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries), including the frontispiece to William Thynne's edition of Chaucer's Workes (pp. 72-76) and to the Kelmscott Chaucer (pp. 189–92). The volume includes an extensive introduction (pp. 1-59), a glossary of terms, and an index.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations