Book-Jackets: Their History, Forms, and Use

By G. Thomas Tanselle

Detailing the use of book-jackets as protective devices, advertising vehicles and cultural expressions, this book presents a list of almost 1,900 extant pre-1900 book-jackets that the author has been able to discover since he began this project in 1969.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883631130
• ISBN13: 9781883631130
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
• Length: 288 Pages