The publisher who printed himselfSourced
Who belongs in a book illustration?
This publisher chose himself.
Yu Xiangdou, a Chinese publisher active around the late Ming dynasty, liked placing portraits of himself in his books. Authors' portraits were known, but this was rare for a commercial publisher. A 1598 anthology shows him outside one of his printing houses.
The publisher stepped
into his own pages.
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