. Printing and writing materials: their evolution . ly aid being givenby his wife, a daughter of Mr. Richard Cobden,who took charge of the sewing. He designs hisown tools, which are cut especially for his use. This master binder does not care to producemany covers, but it is needless to say that hisbest effort goes to each. Each design is thoughtout for the book itself, the decorative schemebeing at times suggested by some representativepassage of the author. Believing that beautyis the aim of decoration, and not illustration orthe expression of ideas,! his bindings are decora-tive in characte
. Printing and writing materials: their evolution . ly aid being givenby his wife, a daughter of Mr. Richard Cobden,who took charge of the sewing. He designs hisown tools, which are cut especially for his use. This master binder does not care to producemany covers, but it is needless to say that hisbest effort goes to each. Each design is thoughtout for the book itself, the decorative schemebeing at times suggested by some representativepassage of the author. Believing that beautyis the aim of decoration, and not illustration orthe expression of ideas,! his bindings are decora-tive in character and not illustrative. Althoughthe scheme of ornamentation may have beensuggested by some passage in the book, we findon his covers no childish symbolism or mere label-ing, which have no decorative value. His bind-ings are generally ornamented with conventional-ized flowers which occur in geometrical studied the methods of Le Gascon, and pro-bably from him derived the idea of impartingbrilliancy to his designs by the free use of gold. COBDEN-SANDEKSON BINDING. [From -Bookbindings Old and New, Brander Matthews. Byptermission of Mr. Matthews and the Macmillan Company.] MODERN BINDINGS 211 points, stars, single leaves, and like ornamen-tation. The work of the Doves Bindery is all done by-hand on leather tooled in gold. Every detail iscarefully thought out and executed in the mostpainstaking manner; nothing is slighted or hurriedover. The decoration is put on, not by the singleimpression of a stamp, but is built up step by step;the books, therefore, bear the impress of mind andnot of mechanism. Mr. Cobden-Sanderson nolonger himself binds, but still designs; his assist-ants attend to the execution of the designs andthe actual binding. CHAPTER IV COMMERCIAL BINDINGS A LTHOUGH in edition work, many volumes-^ have been decorated without regard to theprinciples of art, there has been an improvementin this direction of late years, and the designsoccasionally attain a high d
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