For those of you looking to teach #BookHistory this coming semester, might I heartily recommend this source book by Donaldson, J. and Scheffler, A. (2005)? A thread 1/👇
2/ Donaldson and Scheffler exhaustively explore how genre and subject mediate mise-en-page and typographic decisions
2/ Donaldson and Scheffler exhaustively explore how genre and subject mediate mise-en-page and typographic decisions
2/ Donaldson and Scheffler exhaustively explore how genre and subject mediate mise-en-page and typographic decisions
2/ Donaldson and Scheffler exhaustively explore how genre and subject mediate mise-en-page and typographic decisions
2/ Donaldson and Scheffler exhaustively explore how genre and subject mediate mise-en-page and typographic decisions
3/ They provide examples of the role that advertisements and other paratexts play in the experience of reading
3/ They provide examples of the role that advertisements and other paratexts play in the experience of reading
3/ They provide examples of the role that advertisements and other paratexts play in the experience of reading
3/ They provide examples of the role that advertisements and other paratexts play in the experience of reading
4/ They introduce provenance/marks of ownership and copy-specific marks made by readers — important concepts in a history of reading
4/ They introduce provenance/marks of ownership and copy-specific marks made by readers — important concepts in a history of reading
4/ They introduce provenance/marks of ownership and copy-specific marks made by readers — important concepts in a history of reading
5/ They discuss the nature of books as material things—the survival and afterlife of books as recycled materials
5/ They discuss the nature of books as material things—the survival and afterlife of books as recycled materials
5/ They discuss the nature of books as material things—the survival and afterlife of books as recycled materials
6/ They even playfully nod to the long history of trompe-l’oeil in book illustration to represent materiality. Cf second and third image here from a 1478 @UofGlasgowASC Venice-illustrated Breviary https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/incunabula/a-zofauthorsa-j/bf.1.18/
6/ They even playfully nod to the long history of trompe-l’oeil in book illustration to represent materiality. Cf second and third image here from a 1478 @UofGlasgowASC Venice-illustrated Breviary https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/incunabula/a-zofauthorsa-j/bf.1.18/
6/ They even playfully nod to the long history of trompe-l’oeil in book illustration to represent materiality. Cf second and third image here from a 1478 @UofGlasgowASC Venice-illustrated Breviary https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/incunabula/a-zofauthorsa-j/bf.1.18/
6/ They even playfully nod to the long history of trompe-l’oeil in book illustration to represent materiality. Cf second and third image here from a 1478 @UofGlasgowASC Venice-illustrated Breviary https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/incunabula/a-zofauthorsa-j/bf.1.18/
While it is somewhat lacking in citations and recommended reading the source book is very clearly written and accessible for introductory book history teaching 😬 /end
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