Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings, 1830-1880

Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings, 1830-1880
Author: Edmund M. B. King
Publisher: London : British Library ; New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This ground-breaking study deals with the creative explosions of book cover designs in Victorian Britain from 1830 to 1880. Due to new technical developments many practitioners such as Owen Jones, Walter Crane and John Leighton broke new ground in artistic styling. Edmund King, Head of the Newspaper Archives at the British Library, describes and indexes over 750 books with great detail. Many covers are beautifully illustrated in full color or b&w. This volume is an essential reference work for students of Victorian art and well as 19th-century publishing as binding practices. Co-published with The British Library. An example of a Victorian decorated trade binding Beautifully illustrated with over 200 color & b/w book cover illustrations

Before Religion

Before Religion
Author: Brent Nongbri
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2013-01-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300154178

Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as ancient religion. Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures.