9780712348331 - Image in Print: Book Illustrations in Late Medieval England and Its Sources by Driver, Martha (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A close to Fine 1st Edition copy with pristine text (just faint toning to edges), no inscriptions, binding tight and barely a trace of use to maroon cloth boards. The dust wrapper displays just a hint of fading to spine else in excellent condition all round. Please see five pictures attached for a closer look.

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, xii,302pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper, ISBN: 0712348336.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New.

hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. hardback, publisher's File Copy and stamped as such to the closed edges of the pages and to the front free endpaper, the text block is tightly bound, clean and free of markings, the pictorial dust wrapper is near fine, 302pp.

Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm, xi, 302 pp, ills. From the blurb: "The invention of printing in the fifteenth century brought about profound changes in the making, readership, use and distribution of books. Their text design changed only slightly until black-letter type began to disappear with the introduction of roman and italic type. There was, however, an immediate and fundamental revolution in the nature and appearance of illustration: gone were the unique, colourful and often exquisite illuminations, drawings and decorations that had been supplied in manuscripts by hand. In their place, the early printers introduced woodcuts, printed in black (and sometimes red) alongside the type. Like type, woodcuts were movable, and they lent themselves to re-use from one book to another, passing from father to son, from husband to wife or from printer to printer. Woodcuts could be readily copied and thus may represent a number of characters or scenes. Images in popular printed volumes might appear repeatedly in a variety of contexts, sometimes over many years, used by a number of printers. Because of their multiple uses, woodcuts became, perhaps inadvertently, multivalenced and open-ended in meaning, used to illustrate popular stories and histories published over lengthy periods of time; on the other hand, woodcuts were used less randomly by early printers than has previously been asserted. Martha Driver here invites us to consider evidence for a new social history of book illustration as constructed from the study of the woodcut principally as it was used in books printed in England by Wynkyn de Worde and his successors. Her central focus is on the physical evidence provided by illustrations in incunabula and early-sixteenth-century printed books. Among the subjects under consideration are reading and the development of literacy, and the central role of woodcuts in that process. In addition to promoting the self-education of their readers, illustrated printed books acted as agents of religious, social, and political change as the Middle Ages closed and the Reformation tightened its grip on western Europe. Religious devotion, marriage, work, and everyday life feature in the arresting images that illustrate the text." Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine copy.Fine dustwrapper . No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Brand new copy. Illustrated with woodcuts throughout. 302 pp. Can be shipped in USA.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good, clean, tight condition. First edition. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1.02 x 9.69 x 6.93 Inches; 302 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. BRAND NEW BOOK, NEVER USED NOR READ. Volume itself has crimson cloth covers with gold lettering on the spine. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality Brodart jacket. Clean, fresh, tight and bright. A very nice copy.

4to, (244x172mm), xii, 302p. 180 illustrations. A fine copy in original maroon hardback boards, gilt lettered, dustjacket; bookplate of David Sellars. Woodcuts are a unique resource in the study of late medical and early modern books: they have much to tell us about how books were produced and for what purposes, about reading habits and developments in literacy, and about the part that books played in social, political and religious change. The central focus of this book is the physical evidence provided by books during the pre- and early reformation from the earliest English printers.