The ideal book or book beautiful : $b A tract on calligraphy printing and illustration & on the book beautiful as a whole

· 1922

THE IDEAL BOOK OR BOOK BEAUTIFUL A TRACT ON CALLIGRAPHY PRINTING AND ILLUSTRATION & ON THE BOOK BEAUTIFUL AS A WHOLE THE IDEAL BOOK OR BOOK BEAUTIFUL is a composite thing made up of many parts & may be made beautiful by the beauty of each of its parts--its literary content, its material or materials, its writing or printing, its illumination or illustration, its binding & decoration--of each of its parts in subordination to the whole which collectively they constitute: or it may be made beautiful by the supreme beauty of one or more of its parts, all the other parts subordinating or even effacing themselves for the sake of this one or more, & each in turn being capable of playing this supre…

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