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Bibliography of the History of Illustration

General Works on Illustration in Western Print Culture

Abdurgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women's Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. London: Allen and Unwin, 1972.
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Altick, Richard D. The English Common Reader : A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900. 2nd ed. New York: Ohio State UP, 1998.
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Anderson, Benedict R. Imagined Communities : Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Rev ed. London: Verso, 1991.
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Anderson, Patricia. The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture, 1790-1860. New York: Clarendon P, 1991.
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Armbruster, Carol. Publishing and Readership in Revolutionary France and America : A Symposium at the Library of Congress,
Sponsored by the Center for the Book and the European Division
. Westport, CT: Greenwood Group, Incorporated, 1993.
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Borgmann, Albert. Holding on to Reality : The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium. New York: University of Chicago P, 1999.
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Brake, Laurel, Bill Bell, and David Finkelstein, eds. Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities. New York: St. Martin's P, 2000.
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Brewer, John. Pleasures of the Imagination : English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997.
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Chaytor, Henry J. From Script to Print: An Introduction to Medieval Vernacular Literature. London: W. Heffer and Sons, 1945.

Crosby, Alfred W. The Measure of Reality : Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600. New York: Cambridge UP, 1997.
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Cuddihy, John M. The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity. 2nd ed. Boston: Beacon P, 1987.
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Darnton, Robert. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France. New York: Norton, 1995.
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Darton, Robert, and Daniel Roche. Revolution in Print: The Press in France, 1775-1800. Berkeley: University of California P, 1989.
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Dolan, Frances E. Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture. Ithaca: Cornell P, 1999.
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Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. Grub Street Abroad : Aspects of the French Cosmopolitan Press from the Age of Louis XIV to the French Revolution. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992.
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Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1979.
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Fuller, Mary C., Anne Barton, and Jonathan Dollimore. Voyages in Print : English Narratives of Travel to America 1576-1624. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1995.
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Gitelman, Lisa. Scripts, Grooves and Writing Machines : Representing Technology in the Edison Era. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999.
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Gronbeck, Bruce E., Thomas J. Farrell, and Paul A. Soukup. Media, Consciousness, and Culture : Explorations on Walter Ong's Thought. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE Publications, Incorporated, 1991.
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Habermas, Jurgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere : An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Trans. Thomas Burger. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1989.
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Headrick, Daniel R. When Information Came of Age : Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850. New York: Oxford UP, 2000.
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Howard-Hill, Trevor H. British Literary Bibliography and Textual Criticism, 1890-1969: An Index. Vol. 6. Oxford: Clarendon P of Oxford UP, 1980.
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Isaac, Peter C., and Barry McKay, eds. The Mighty Engine : The Printing Press and Its Impact. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll P, 2000.
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Ivins, William M. Prints and Visual Communication. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1953.
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LaSpina, James A. The Visual Turn and the Transformation of the Textbook. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998.
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Mitchell, W. J. Iconology : Image, Text, Ideology. Chicago: University of Chicago P, 1987.
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Mitchell, W. J. Picture Theory : Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation. Chicago: University of Chicago P, 1995.
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Spufford, Margaret, and Lyndal Roper. Small Books and Pleasant Histories : Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England. Athens: University of Georgia P, 1982.
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Stephens, Mitchell. The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word. New York: Oxford UP, Incorporated, 1998.
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Taylor, Mark C., and Esa Saarinen. Imagologies : Media Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1994.
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Zaret, David. Origins of Democratic Culture : Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000.
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Zboray, Ronald J., and Mary Saracino Zboray. A Handbook for the Study of Book History in the United States. Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 2000.
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Illustration in the Eighteenth Century

Bartram, Alan. 500 Years of Book Design. New Haven: Yale UP, 2001.
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Benesch, Otto. Artistic and Intellectual Trends from Rubens to Daumier as Shown in Book Illustration. New York: Walker, 1969.
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Bettley, James, ed. The Art of the Book : From Medieval Manuscript to Graphic Novel. London: V and A Publications, 2001.
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Bland, David. A History of Book Illustration: The Illuminated Manuscript and the Printed Book. Cleaveland: World Company, 1985.

Bland, David. The Illustration of Books. London: Faber and Faber, 1960.
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Brenni, Vito J. Book Illustration and Decoration: A Guide to Research. Westport: Greenwood P, 1985.

Crane, Walter. Of the Decorative Illustrations of Books Old and New. London: G. Bell, 1896.
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Einberg, Elizabeth. The Age of Hogarth: British Painters Born 1675-1709. London: Tate Gallery, 1988.
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Eppink, Norman R. 101 Prints: The History and Techniques of Printmaking. Norman: University of Oklahoma P, 1971.
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Golden, Catherine J., ed. Book Illustrated : Text, Image, and Culture 1770-1930. New Castle: Oak Knoll P, 2000.
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Hammelmann, Hanns. Book illustrators in eighteenth century England. Ed. Thomas S. R. Boase. New Haven: Yale UP, 1976.
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Harthan, John. The History of the Illustrated Book : The Western Tradition. London: Thames & Hudson, 1981.
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Hofer, Philip, ed. Eighteenth Century Book Illustration. Los Angeles: Williams Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1956.
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Katz, Bill, ed. A History of Book Illustration : 29 Points of View. Metuchen: Scarecrow P, Incorporated, 1994.
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Levarie, Norma. The Art and History of Books. New Castle: Oak Knoll P, 1995.
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Lewine, J. Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books: Being a Guide to Collectors of Illustrated Works in English and French of the Period. London: Sampson Low, 1898.
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Mild, Warren, and Phyllis Mild. Joseph Highmore of Holborn Row : Biography of 18th Century British Portrait Painter. Mahwah: Phyllis Mild, 1990.
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Morison, Stanley. The typographic book 1450-1935; a study of fine typography through five centuries exhibited in upwards of 350 title and text pages. London: Ernest Benn, 1963.
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Rorschach, Kimberley. Eighteenth-Century French Book Illustration: Drawings by Fragonard and Gravelot from the Rosenbach Museum and Library. Philadelphia: Rosenbach Museum and Library, 1985.

Sabor, Peter. "Illustration of Robinson Crusoe, 1719-1920." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 9 (1996): 122-24.
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Van Dyk, Stephen H. Rare Books. London: Scala in association with Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Smithsonian Institution, 2001.
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