Beauty and the Book Fine Editions and Cultural Distinction in America
- List Price: $45.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
- Publish date: 05/01/2000
Benton combines new archival research with a dose examination of three hundred fine editions of the period. In theory, fine bookmakers were devoted to beauty and quality and were unwilling to compromise with machinery, popular taste, or concern for profit. But such ideal standards were nearly impossible to maintain. Paradoxically, fine publishers' ostensible indifference to commercial considerations was one of their most prized and lucrative products for sale. This book illuminates the interplay between the ideal and real nature of fine publishing as well as the complex nature of American cultural ambitions during this pivotal era.
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