The craftsman . ON THE BINDING OF BOOHS VXTITH the coming of the new century has come also^ a revival in the work of the artist-artisan: a Re-nascence of handicraft in all its various branches; a reactionfrom over production; a protest against cheap and time-saving labor^ when such labor means products of whicheach part is inferior and the whole of no enduring value. Foremost among the crafts inwhich art and manual skill are joined, we find book-bind-ing springing into a new life of active interest. The bind-ings of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,fashioned as they were by m
The craftsman . ON THE BINDING OF BOOHS VXTITH the coming of the new century has come also^ a revival in the work of the artist-artisan: a Re-nascence of handicraft in all its various branches; a reactionfrom over production; a protest against cheap and time-saving labor^ when such labor means products of whicheach part is inferior and the whole of no enduring value. Foremost among the crafts inwhich art and manual skill are joined, we find book-bind-ing springing into a new life of active interest. The bind-ings of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,fashioned as they were by men whose labor was one oflove, act as a standard of perfection toward which thebinders of to-day, working under less happy conditions,are tending. There is, however, one notice-able feature in the work of the present time which isworthy of consideration. It is the independence of thought;the originality of ideas in the decorations of the book,shown by the breaking away from the influence of historicornament, and
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