Facing the text: extra-illustration, print culture, and society in Britain 1769-1840

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Introduction : a long history of extra-illustration -- Part I. Getting your heads in order : engraved portrait collecting and the origins of extra-illustration. "Of collectors of English portrait prints" -- Genteel authorship, the community of the antiquarian text, and the invention of extra-illustration -- Portraiture, order, and meaning -- John, Lord Mountstuart and the ends of the Bull Granger -- Part II. From domestic retirement to a commercial marketplace : amateurs, antiquaries, and entrepreneurs. "Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books" : amateurism and its trophies -- Charting the craze : Anthony Morris Storer and Richard Bull -- The Strawberry Hill Press and the rituals of bibliographic exchange -- Antiquarian topography or armchair tourism : Thomas Pennant's "Labors" -- Popularizing Pennant's London : how the art world sold extra-illustration -- Part III. The Sutherland Clarendon : gender, the print market, and national heritage. "Buried beneath its own grandeur" : understanding the Sutherland Clarendon -- The cut and thrust of the print market in the early nineteenth century -- Women, widowhood, and collecting : Charlotte Sutherland's inheritance -- Monumentalizing the Sutherland Clarendon : between rhetoric and content, 1820-1839 -- The female connoisseur and the private catalogue -- A "national work" completed : the Sutherland Clarendon and cultural heritage -- Epilogue : rethinking the past, securing the future.