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Examining novels, critical editions, gift books, translations, and illustrated volumes, as well as the communities who made them, this title tells a wide-ranging story of the book's identity at the turn of the nineteenth century.

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"Andrew Piper has written a book about the nineteenth century's romance with books, looking at the many ways in which the physical character of a book and its illustrations shaped a reader's avidity. Piper's scholarly history is fueled by a bookish ardor-you can feel the love that went into his footnotes. This writer's thinking comes straight out of the long afternoons he must have spent in the library, pulling book after book off the shelves, experiencing the power not only of words but also of bindings, typefaces, and illustrations." (Jed Perl, New Republic)"

Dreaming in Books The Making of the Bibliographic

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/07/2013
      ISBN13: 9780226103518, 978-0226103518
      ISBN10: 022610351X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examining novels, critical editions, gift books, translations, and illustrated volumes, as well as the communities who made them, this title tells a wide-ranging story of the book's identity at the turn of the nineteenth century.

      Trade Review
      "Andrew Piper has written a book about the nineteenth century's romance with books, looking at the many ways in which the physical character of a book and its illustrations shaped a reader's avidity. Piper's scholarly history is fueled by a bookish ardor-you can feel the love that went into his footnotes. This writer's thinking comes straight out of the long afternoons he must have spent in the library, pulling book after book off the shelves, experiencing the power not only of words but also of bindings, typefaces, and illustrations." (Jed Perl, New Republic)"

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