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The Book Blinders

The Book Blinders

Clute, John

Hardcover

General World History

ISBN10: 0645369640
ISBN13: 9780645369649
Publisher: Norstrilia Press
Published: May 1 2024
Pages: 502
Weight: 1.81
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The first known dust-jacket to appear on a book in the UK dates from 1819.

Sadly, almost none of these jackets have survived. The one institution primarily responsible for this vandalism is the British Library, which removed dust-jackets from every book it accessioned, and destroyed almost all of them. As a result, almost no hardbound book accessioned by the Library after the middle of the nineteenth century was in fact presentable in a visual context: no dust-jacket artwork survived to brighten the theatre of the book; no flap copy to articulate the rituals of expectation and entry that coded successive unveilings of this transgressive literature.

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