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... it is clear that publishers' jackets were widely issued on new books by the 1870s and probably by the 1860s or fifties. They may have been common before 1850, at least on certain types of books, but ... and wider use than generally understood, and they were often more colorful and carried more artwork and advertising than previously thought. They appeared in two distinct forms in the nineteenth ...