The Printed Book: Its History, Illustration and Adornment From the Days of Gutenberg to the Present Time

CHAPTER VI.

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THE BOOK IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 218

The Didots and their improvements--The folio Racine--The school of Didot--Fine publications in England and Germany--Literature and art of the Restoration--Romanticism--Wood engraving--Bewick's pupils, Clennell, etc.--The illustrators of romances--The generation of 1840--The Book in our days in Europe and America.