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Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Book Covers
Margaret C. Sullivan
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Description for Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Book Covers
Hardback. Years of beautiful, rare, and sometimes hilariously awful Jane Austen covers with entertaining and informative text. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AKH; AKLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 271 x 22. Weight in Grams: 916.
In the short forty-two years of her life, Jane Austen wrote six novels that would endure long after her death in 1817. The texts are true classics, unchanged and yet still immensely popular some 200 years later, but the covers have changed with the times-from the elegant inscriptions of the famous Peacock cover, to pulpy sixties pop art, to graphic novels, Twilight-inspired copycat covers, and mystifyingly bad digital editions. With over 200 images of covers spanning as many years of Austen books, this fascinating, funny, and art-filled book is a must for Janeites, design geeks, and book lovers of every ... Read more
In the short forty-two years of her life, Jane Austen wrote six novels that would endure long after her death in 1817. The texts are true classics, unchanged and yet still immensely popular some 200 years later, but the covers have changed with the times-from the elegant inscriptions of the famous Peacock cover, to pulpy sixties pop art, to graphic novels, Twilight-inspired copycat covers, and mystifyingly bad digital editions. With over 200 images of covers spanning as many years of Austen books, this fascinating, funny, and art-filled book is a must for Janeites, design geeks, and book lovers of every ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quirk Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, United States
ISBN
9781594747250
SKU
V9781594747250
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-21
About Margaret C. Sullivan
Margaret C. Sullivan is the author of The Jane Austen Handbook, editrix of Austenblog.com, and an active member of the Jane Austen Society of North America. Her favourite Jane Austen novel is Persuasion, and her favourite film adaptation is the 1995 adaptation of Persuasion.
Reviews for Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Book Covers
“Fans of Emma and Persuasion may OD on the eye candy contained in Margaret C. Sullivan's Jane Austen Cover to Cover. A fascinating survey of the visual treatments of Austen's work...this irresistible album provides an intriguing overview...”—BookPage