Gateways to the Book

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Gateways to the Book is written by Gitta Bertram and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004464522 (ISBN 10) and 9789004464520 (ISBN 13).

Gateways to the Book investigates the complex image–text relationships between frontispieces and illustrated title pages on the one hand and texts on the other, in European books published between 1500 and 1800. Although interest in this broad field of research has increased in the past decades, many varieties of title pages and a great deal of printers and books remain as yet unstudied. The fifteen essays collected in this volume tackle this field with a great variety of academic approaches, asking how the images can be interpreted, how the texts and contexts shape their interpretation, and how they in turn shape the understanding of the text.