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The ideal book or book beautiful : a tract on calligraphy, printing and illustration & on the book beautiful as a whole

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Description: "The ideal book or book beautiful is a composite thing made up of many parts and may be made beautiful by the beauty of each of its parts - its literary content, its material or materials, its writing or printing, its illumination or illustration, binding and decoration -- of each of its parts in subordination to the whole which collectively they constitute: or it may be made beautiful by the supreme beauty of one or more of its parts..."--Page 1, second sequence.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [approximately 1947]
Call number: 607992
Creator: Cobden-Sanderson, T. J (1840-1922)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Sanford and Helen Berger, 1999. From the Sanford and Helen Berger Collection.
Dimensions: 24 cm
Associated people: Berger, Sanford,; Berger, Helen,
Associated organization: Ecusta Paper Corporation,
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