Publishing the Fine & Applied Arts 1500-2000

In this volume, leading specialists examine aspects of the relationship between the business of print and the practice of art and design across five centuries. The role played by the book trade in the diffusion of artistic and architectural theory, fashion, and practice is explored, while other essays trace the impact on the appearance of books themselves of aesthetic trends and of advances in the techniques of binding, color printing, and illustration. Among the topics discussed are the printed sources for decorative motifs in 16th-century churches, the publication history of the works of Andrea Palladio, and the evolution of drawing manuals in 17th-century England. Other subjects include the library formed by the architect Sir John Soane, developments in 19th-century art publishing, and the role of printed catalogues in documenting the acquisitions made by English collectors of paintings, sculpture and antiquities.Essays are from Mirjam Foot, Malcolm Jones, Charles Hind, Meghan Doherty, Susan Palmer, Abraham Thomas, Rowan Watson, and Charles Sebag-Montefiore. Illustrated with color and black and white illustrations.