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  Friday  October 29  2004    12: 35 PM

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Yellowbacks


"Yellowbacks" were a publishing phenomenon in the second half of the 19th century. They were popular books, simply bound in boards, with highly-coloured graphics on the covers. The designs were lithographed onto paper, pasted over boards. The profusion of Victorian advertisements, printed inside the book, forms another interesting feature of the yellowback.


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