Book-jackets : their history, forms, and use /
The present work offers a concise history both of publishers' detachable book coverings (primarily British and American) and of the attention they have received from scholars, dealers, collectors, and librarians. It also surveys their use by publishers (as protective devices and advertising med...
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Charlottesville :
Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Book-jackets, blurbs, and bibliographers (1971)
- The growth of interest in book-jacket history
- Introductory comments on book-jacket history
- Book-jackets as historical evidence
- The bibliographical description of book-jackets
- Dust-jackets, dealers, and documentation (2006)
- Writings on book-jackets, 1970-2005
- The role of dealers in preserving book-jackets
- Further examples of evidence from book-jackets
- The history of book-jackets
- The preservation and cataloguing of book-jackets
- Coda: News and the Nineties (2010)
- Recent book-jacket news
- The characteristics of 1890s book-jackets
- A list of pre-1901 examples of British and American publishers' printed book-jackets, boxes, and other detachable coverings.