. Modern book-bindings & their designers. in finish, though this atleast may be neat, serviceable andsincere. They should indeed be wholl)and obviously distinguished from thosebound by handicraft, for the problemof bringing art, however indirectly, tobear upon commercial products is neversolved by making machinery imitate thework of tools. Pile cover-design shcjuldbe unmistakablv printed or stamped,and not wrought t>r painted—half ofthe degradation of art in the presentcentury has occurred through a falseshame about processes, and a desireto get, b)- a ([uick method, an effectonly honestly
. Modern book-bindings & their designers. in finish, though this atleast may be neat, serviceable andsincere. They should indeed be wholl)and obviously distinguished from thosebound by handicraft, for the problemof bringing art, however indirectly, tobear upon commercial products is neversolved by making machinery imitate thework of tools. Pile cover-design shcjuldbe unmistakablv printed or stamped,and not wrought t>r painted—half ofthe degradation of art in the presentcentury has occurred through a falseshame about processes, and a desireto get, b)- a ([uick method, an effectonly honestly got by a slow one. Glueand wire, inadmissifde in the idealmethod, may be quite legitimate in thelesser. The cloth had better be leftplain, or merely stamped with the titleand its attributes, than have the qualityof its surface frittered away by trivial orshowy ornament. Only a good texture,however humble its nature in the scaleof values, can hold a good design. DESIGN FOR BOOK COVHk B\ LAljRhN(;i; HOUSMAN. I (•lan;/ Hill iff Sa/js.).
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