{"id":8357,"date":"2010-12-01T03:35:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T03:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=8357"},"modified":"2010-12-01T03:35:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T03:35:54","slug":"gilded-volumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/12\/01\/gilded-volumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilded volumes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The cover of an 1894 edition of Jane Austen’s novel designed by Hugh Thomson (1860\u20131920). The so-called “Peacock Edition” is illustrated throughout and a copy can be yours for \u00a3845<\/a> should you be so inclined. Or you can go to the Internet Archive and download the same edition for free<\/a>. Thomson’s lavish cover design is absolutely right for the 1890s and as such would have suited Oscar Wilde far more than Jane Austen. AbeBooks drew my attention to this with a feature on rare books with gilded covers<\/a> where, needless to say, all the titles are very expensive. A lot more reasonable but just as lavish is I Wonder<\/em><\/a> by Marian Bantjes, the perfect gift for anyone who enjoys the art of book design.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 I Wonder by Marian Bantjes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cover of an 1894 edition of Jane Austen’s novel designed by Hugh Thomson (1860\u20131920). The so-called “Peacock Edition” is illustrated throughout and a copy can be yours for \u00a3845 should you be so inclined. Or you can go to the Internet Archive and download the same edition for free. Thomson’s lavish cover design is … Continue reading “Gilded volumes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4,48],"tags":[2008,2007,1193,116,444],"class_list":["post-8357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-illustrators","tag-hugh-thomson","tag-jane-austen","tag-marian-bantjes","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-peacocks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2aN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}