Ian Sansom

From frontispiece to endpapers: the last word on the book

A study of book parts, including dust jackets, footnotes, dedications, bibliographies and indexes, turns out to be surprisingly rich, odd and interesting

issue 11 January 2020
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    Edited by Dennis Duncan and Adam Smyth

    OUP, pp. 352, £30

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