Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets - Mark R. Godburn

215 pp, Illustrated. Cloth. Dust jacket with some very light sings of use, else in very good condition. Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets is a comprehensive general history of publishers' dust jackets during the first century of their use. From the earliest known jacket issued in 1819, the author surveys the entire field of British, American and European jackets and documents a part of publishing history that was nearly lost to the nineteenth-century custom of discarding dust-jackets so that the more decorative bindings could be seen. The book examines when and why publishers began to issue dust-jackets, the subsequent growth of their use, and the role they played in marketing. [Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets.]