. A catalogue of authors whose works are published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Prefaced by a sketch of the firm, and followed by lists of the several libraries, series, and periodicals. of schoolage, in an inexpensive, handy form, and provided with helpful appa-ratus in the way of biographical sketches, maps, portraits, and Riverside Literature Series and Rolfes Students Series coveralready more than a hundred and fifty titles, and each school yearsees the issue of a number of books in these series. A special section might also be made of illustrated works, yet thepolicy of the
. A catalogue of authors whose works are published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Prefaced by a sketch of the firm, and followed by lists of the several libraries, series, and periodicals. of schoolage, in an inexpensive, handy form, and provided with helpful appa-ratus in the way of biographical sketches, maps, portraits, and Riverside Literature Series and Rolfes Students Series coveralready more than a hundred and fifty titles, and each school yearsees the issue of a number of books in these series. A special section might also be made of illustrated works, yet thepolicy of the house is rather to furnish illustrated editions of the XV A SKETCH OF THE FIRM OF wTitings of the authors for whom they publish than to seek moredirectly for occasions to make holiday books in which the illustrationsshould be the supreme feature. One exception to this may be namedin the monumental work of designs to accompany The Rubaiyat ofOmar Khayyam, by Elihu Vedder. Great attention has been paidto the portraiture of authors, and prints from more than a hundredand fifty engraved plates have been issued, as well as a very largenumber furnished in special editions of classic Printers in all ages since the invention of their art have been wontto employ distinctive emblematic devices or trade-monogi ams. Beforetitle-pages were introduced, and in some cases afterward, an inscrip-tion or colophon appeared on the last page of every book, con-taining the place or year of its publication, or both, and the nameof the press at which it was manufactured. Dual shields appear onthe excellent books published by the firm of Faust and Schol? anchor embraced by a dolphin was the emblem of Aldus ; theanchor signifying stability or slowness, andthe dolphin swiftness, the combination pre-senting symbolically the Aldine legend, Festinalente, — Make haste slowly, The father ofprinting in the English language, William Cax-ton, decorated his books with a monogram,lodocus Badius, bes
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