Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland
Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland

Author: Benjamin Colbert

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-12-13

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0230355064

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From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK and Ireland in the development of national identities and commercial culture.

Catalogue
Catalogue

Author: Johnson, George P., bookseller, Edinburgh

Publisher:

Published: 1881

Total Pages: 1146

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Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings, 1830-1880
Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings, 1830-1880

Author: Edmund M. B. King

Publisher: London : British Library ; New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13:

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This ground-breaking study deals with the creative explosions of book cover designs in Victorian Britain from 1830 to 1880. Due to new technical developments many practitioners such as Owen Jones, Walter Crane and John Leighton broke new ground in artistic styling. Edmund King, Head of the Newspaper Archives at the British Library, describes and indexes over 750 books with great detail. Many covers are beautifully illustrated in full color or b&w. This volume is an essential reference work for students of Victorian art and well as 19th-century publishing as binding practices. Co-published with The British Library. An example of a Victorian decorated trade binding Beautifully illustrated with over 200 color & b/w book cover illustrations