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[caption id="attachment_3941" align="aligncenter" width="350"] PELTZ Lucy, Facing the Text : Extra-illustration, Print Culture, and Society in Britain, 1769–1840, San Marino, Huntington Library Press, 2017, 424 p.[/caption]Présentation de l'éditeur :During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, thousands of books were customized with prints and drawings in a practice called extra-illustration. These books were often massively extended, lavishly bound, and prized by their owners as objects of display, status, and exchange. The scale of these compilations as well their interdisciplinary nature—at once literary texts, printed books, art collections, and indexes of visual culture—have typically excluded them from histories of art and literature. In this book, Lucy Peltz maps a history of extra-illustration and its social and cultural meanings, providing a fascinating account of the practice itself and the often colourful personalities who engaged in it. The remarkable contents of key extra-illustrated books are explored, along with the broader historical and commercial contexts in which they were produced and enjoyed.Lucy Peltz is Senior Curator of Eighteenth-Century Collections and Head of Collections Displays (Tudor to Regency) at the National Portrait Gallery, London.Table des matières :Introduction: A Long History of Extra-IllustrationPart I: Getting Your Heads in Order: Engraved Portrait Collecting and the Origins of Extra-Illustration1  ‘Of Collectors of English Portrait Prints’2  Genteel Authorship, the Community of the Antiquarian Text, and the Invention of Extra-Illustration3  Portraiture, Order, and Meaning4  John, Lord Mountstuart and the Ends of the Bull GrangerPart II: From Domestic Retirement to a Commercial Marketplace: Amateurs, Antiquaries, and Entrepreneurs5  ‘Retirement, Rural Quiet, Friendship, Books’: Amateurism and Its Trophies6  Charting the Craze: Anthony Storer and Richard Bull7  The Strawberry Hill Press and the Rituals of Bibliographic Exchange8  Antiquarian Topography or Armchair Tourism: Thomas Pennant’s “Labors”9  Popularizing Pennant’s London: How the Art World Sold Extra-IllustrationPart III: The Sutherland Clarendon: Gender, the Print Market, and National Heritage10  ‘Buried under Its Own Grandeur’: Understanding the Sutherland Clarendon12  The Cut and Thrust of the Print Market in the Early Nineteenth Century13  Women, Widowhood, and Collecting: Charlotte Sutherland’s Inheritance14  Monumentalizing the Sutherland Clarendon: Between Rhetoric and Content, 1820–183915  The Female Connoisseur and the Private Catalogue16  A ‘National Work’ Completed: The Sutherland Clarendon and Cultural HeritageEpilogue: Rethinking the Past, Securing the FuturePlus d’informations sur le site de l’éditeur.