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

Journal of a Lady of Quality

Journal of a Lady of Quality
Author: Janet Schaw
Publisher: Applewood Books
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2009-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1429016949

Alexander and Janet Schaw, Scottish siblings, began a journey in 1774 that would take them from Edinburgh to the Caribbean Islands and then to America. Part of the early wave of Scottish colonization, the pair visited family and friends who had already established themselves in the colonies. ""Journal of a Lady of Quality"" is Janet Schaw's account of this voyage through letters to a friend in Scotland. The letters describe the sights, scenery, and social life she encountered, but they also reveal the political atmosphere of an America on the verge of revolution. Stephen Carl Arch provides a new introduction for this Bison Books edition.