Културни тенденции, дизайн и структура на книгата през викторианската епоха
Victorian Era Book Design, Structure and Cultural Tendencies

Summary/Abstract: The beginning of the 19th century in Great Britain is marked by rapid expansion of ingenuity. Industrial revolution in technology and manufacture changed book printing and encouraged the emergence of inventive book designs. The innovations in bookbinding, influenced by mechanization and socio-economic development, fostered the expansion of printing technology, bookbinding, and book decoration. The art of the 19th century prevailed over the constraints in book structure and book decoration of the past, and eminent designers like Owen Jones, Henry Noel Humphreys, William Morris, John Feely, John Leighton, Robert Dudley and William Rogers overcame rationalism in art and created unique, richly illuminated and ornamented book designs that for the first time in the history of book printing included the signature of their author, printer and designer. The present study of the Victorian design binding emphasizes the transition from manual binding of books to the machine production, and reflects on characteristic features of the Victorian era, which inspired artists and designers and set forward the complexity of the Victorian book design – innovative, seeking a higher style of aesthetics and thus giving the start of an enduring technological revolution into the modernity.

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