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Author/Creator:Jones, Gregory, author.
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Title:William Harry Rogers : Victorian book designer and star of the Great Exhibition / Gregory Jones.
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ISBN:9781911397175
1911397176
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Publication:Lewes : Unicorn, 2023.
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Physical Description:312 pages : illustrations (color) ; 25 cm
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Summary:The year 2023 sees the 150th anniversary of the death of William Harry Rogers. Rogers was one of the finest artist-designers of the Victorian period in Britain, someone to be considered in the same company as Pugin, William Burges, Owen Jones and Christopher Dresser. His designs won several prize medals at the Great Exhibition of 1851, the event which provides a ubiquitous reference point for cultural histories of the nineteenth century. He subsequently specialised in designing the appearances of books and his work in this field in the 1850s and 1860s was unrivalled, with many of his designs appearing also in the USA. The present book is the first to be devoted to Rogers and aims to be definitive, containing comprehensive accounts of his work and his life in Soho and the then village of Wimbledon. It includes many new discoveries, and hundreds of colour illustrations.
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Subjects:Rogers, W. Harry (William Harry), 1825-1873.
Book designers--Great Britain--Biography.
Illustrators--Great Britain--Biography.
Book design--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Illustration of books, Victorian--Great Britain.
Book design.
Book designers.
Illustration of books, Victorian.
Illustrators.
Great Britain.
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Genre/Form:Biographies.
History.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16860785