Where words and images meet

Contents

Fronts matter: The role of the authorial frontispiece in Germaine de Staël's Corinne; or, Italy / Seren Nolan -- Othering the ex-libris: Israel Solomons (1860-1923) and the invention of the Jewish bookplate / Tom Stammers -- Picturing criminal law in old regime France: Brunel, known as Bétancourt, being led to the scaffold (1670) / Tom Hamilton -- Word and image in Popular Science / Joseph D. Martin -- Museum labels: Word and object on display / Lola Sánchez-Jáuregui -- Play with literacy and Edward Lear's nonsense alphabets / A. Robin Hoffman -- On taking artists at their word: Artists' writings and statements from 1850 to the present / Lucy Whelan -- Portraiture and biography: Harmonious marriage or difficult relationship? / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Extra-illustration and early twentieth-century England / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Beyond the caption: Words and images in an interwar Soviet amateur photograph album / Antonia Miejluk -- Word as image: The verbal in the photograph / J. J. Long -- Text-image hybridity and Know Thyself and early modern English print / Finola Finn.