. Modern book-bindings & their designers. \. SOLOXl the homage of hand-labour may the resultsbe indefinitely durable, elaborate, delicate,and fanciful in character. As regards thefirst quality, it is not too much to demandthat a hand-bound book shall last as longas the fibres that compose it. All graceof construction, all finely-wrought orna-ment, must subserve that qualitv to theutmost. No earthy adulteration of papercan be permitted between leather-coveredboards ; the beauty of the forwarding andfinishing must be of a kind that will standconstant wear : in the case of books fordail) referenc
. Modern book-bindings & their designers. \. SOLOXl the homage of hand-labour may the resultsbe indefinitely durable, elaborate, delicate,and fanciful in character. As regards thefirst quality, it is not too much to demandthat a hand-bound book shall last as longas the fibres that compose it. All graceof construction, all finely-wrought orna-ment, must subserve that qualitv to theutmost. No earthy adulteration of papercan be permitted between leather-coveredboards ; the beauty of the forwarding andfinishing must be of a kind that will standconstant wear : in the case of books fordail) reference and companionship it mayeven approach that impregnable naturewhich a modern advertiser has quaintlyhinted at, in announcing his wares to be built for abuse. Vet here the instinctsot good taste correct the comparison, andremind us that the abuse of strengthmeans the death of beauty, and that allfair handiw-ork claims the same just andtemperate use that we would give to all the beauty of the earth. .Such phrases recall once more the name.
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