![]() ![]() But there were a host of popular forms-for instance, William Hone's Every Day Book (1825-26) and illustrated periodicals like The Penny Magazine, miscellanies like La belle assemblée, or those fancy gift books and annuals with their distinctive steel engravings and decorative bindings that flooded England and America through four decades beginning around 1820. The City Scenes or a Peep into London (1809) published by Anne, Jane, and Isaac Taylor is famous. Let's briefly review the scene.1 Besides the unevadable William Blake, important innovations in graphical and bibliographical design came with the picture books and Toy Theatre prints for children that proliferated from the late eighteenth-century. ![]() ![]() So far as the nineteenth-century is concerned, design comes as a series of graphical and bibliographical ventures by authors, artists, publishers, and their collaborating agents. To Robert Frost's question about whether design governs in small things, we can answer confidently-at least with respect to small things like books-indeed it does. ![]()
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