The Victorian Illustrated Book.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Richard Maxwell, ed The Victorian Illustrated Book. (Victorian Literature and Culture) Charlottesville, Va.: University Pres of Virginia. 2002 Pp xxx 440 $4500 ISBN 0-8139-2097-3

The history of British printing was, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, largely the domain of bibliographers, reaching a spectacular culmination in their efforts to rebuild the conditions under which Shakespeare's plays were published. Since documentary records of early printing practices scarcely exist, the bibliographer historians were compell to close attention minutely the ...