The home library . of the work, the numberof the volume, the place and date of publication. If thebook is half-bound only, then the sides should be ofsmooth paper. Space fails here to consider at length the more exaltedranges of the book-binders art. In these pages the con-stant endeavor has been to dwell on the most useful de-vice and not on the most beautiful, although the perfectadaptation of means to an end is nearly always beautifulin itself. But there is a great difference between a booksimply and substantially bound for daily use and a bookbound, without regard to cost, by a master of t
The home library . of the work, the numberof the volume, the place and date of publication. If thebook is half-bound only, then the sides should be ofsmooth paper. Space fails here to consider at length the more exaltedranges of the book-binders art. In these pages the con-stant endeavor has been to dwell on the most useful de-vice and not on the most beautiful, although the perfectadaptation of means to an end is nearly always beautifulin itself. But there is a great difference between a booksimply and substantially bound for daily use and a bookbound, without regard to cost, by a master of the art, torepose and to be admired as a masterpiece in the cabinetof a collector. A volume bound by a famous binder like ON^ BOOK-BINDING. 75 Trautz-Bauzonnet or Derome, or for a famous collectorlike Grolier, has a value wholly independent of the worthof the book itself. No one who has had occasion to gazeon a collection of beautiful bindings can be blind to thegrace and suavity of contour and the delicate harmony. Fm. 13. of color which characterize the best works of the bestworkmen of the French school—old and new. The silverfiligree covers which have been sometimes put on booksever since the fifteenth century—like the little prayer-book formerly belonging to Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal,of which Fig. 13 is a reproduction—are harsh and hard 76 THE HOME LIBRARY
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