Gateways to the Book: Frontispieces and Title Pages in Early Modern Europe

by Gitta Bertram, State Academy of Arts, StuttgartNils Büttner

Gateways to the Book investigates the complex image-text relationships between frontispieces and illustrated title pages on the one hand and texts on the other, in European books published between 1500 and 1800. Although interest in this broad field of research has increased in the past decades, many varieties of title pages and a great deal of printers and books remain as yet unstudied. The fifteen essays collected in this volume tackle this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004459324
• ISBN13: 9789004459328
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 636 Pages