Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Prints for Books: Book Illustration in France 1760-1800

Antony Griffiths

4/5 ( ratings)

The second half of the eighteenth century in France was one of the great ages of book illustration, which saw the meeting of top-quality engraving, fine printing, and high bibliophily. The chapters of this book explore the interrelationship of these elements. The vogue began with a public demand that new poems, plays, and novels should be illustrated with high-quality prints, and authors had to respond. The profits to be made tempted engravers, draughtsmen, and a new breed of art entrepreneur to undertake projects of their own. In the 1780s fashion shifted to a passionate interest in book collecting and fine printing, and how the business responded to the new situation, and to the effects of the Revolution in the 1790s, is explored in this new book.

Based on the Panizzi lectures given in the British Library in November 2003, the text has been considerably augmented for publication. There are more than 200 footnotes and 90 illustrations, as well as an appendix giving the actual period of production of some of the most important books of the period.

Language: English

Pages: 190

Format: Paperback

Publisher: British Library

Release: March 31, 2004

ISBN: 0712348743

ISBN 13: 9780712348744

Prints for Books: Book Illustration in France 1760-1800

Antony Griffiths

4/5 ( ratings)

The second half of the eighteenth century in France was one of the great ages of book illustration, which saw the meeting of top-quality engraving, fine printing, and high bibliophily. The chapters of this book explore the interrelationship of these elements. The vogue began with a public demand that new poems, plays, and novels should be illustrated with high-quality prints, and authors had to respond. The profits to be made tempted engravers, draughtsmen, and a new breed of art entrepreneur to undertake projects of their own. In the 1780s fashion shifted to a passionate interest in book collecting and fine printing, and how the business responded to the new situation, and to the effects of the Revolution in the 1790s, is explored in this new book.

Based on the Panizzi lectures given in the British Library in November 2003, the text has been considerably augmented for publication. There are more than 200 footnotes and 90 illustrations, as well as an appendix giving the actual period of production of some of the most important books of the period.

Language: English

Pages: 190

Format: Paperback

Publisher: British Library

Release: March 31, 2004

ISBN: 0712348743

ISBN 13: 9780712348744

More books from Antony Griffiths

Prints and Printmaking: An Introduction to the History and Techniques

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Disasters of War: Callot, Goya, Dix

Wenceslaus Hollar: Prints and Drawings

The Grotesque, The: Ornamental Prints from the British Museum

Worked Problems in Visual Optics

From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec: French lithographs, 1860-1900 : catalogue of an exhibition at the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, 1978

Landmarks In Print Collecting: Connoisseurs And Donors At The British Museum Since 1753

Prints: History of an Art

Avant-Garde British Printmaking, 1914-1960

German Printmaking in the Age of Goethe

Claude Lorrain: The Painter As Draftsman

Practical Dispensing

Rate this book!

Write a review?