Bookbinding for Bibliophiles Being Notes On Some Technical Features of the Well
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If one hark backward a little, one will find, I think, the true key to the rage for uncut copies. In the past, binders sinned cruelly against the books they bound. Even the great Le Gascon is charged with a keener eye to a well filled shaving tub than to ele- gance of margin. Head lines and signa- tures were nothing to these ancient craftsmen. The book collectors of the past sought fair margins because it was difficult to find a book with any mar- gin ; and we of to-day have trans- muted a natu...ral and just desire for beautiful unmaimed books into a stub- born prejudice. We seek excessive margins, rather than those of the just proportion which is beautiful. All ex- tremes are evil, and this excess but a trifle less so than the evil that it sought to cure.
Still the collector asks : " Then what am I to do ? My precious copy was, as you say, profaned by the Philistine. Shall it be cropped again, adding to the evil ? " 58 Of Edges and Edge Gilding Certainly not, nor is it necessary. The book, though already cut, may be full gilt "on the rough, " and the amount of margin to be sacrificed will be microscopic.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
If one hark backward a little, one will find, I think, the true key to the rage for uncut copies. In the past, binders sinned cruelly against the books they bound. Even the great Le Gascon is charged with a keener eye to a well filled shaving tub than to ele- gance of margin. Head lines and signa- tures were nothing to these ancient craftsmen. The book collectors of the past sought fair margins because it was difficult to find a book with any mar- gin ; and we of to-day have trans- muted a natu...ral and just desire for beautiful unmaimed books into a stub- born prejudice. We seek excessive margins, rather than those of the just proportion which is beautiful. All ex- tremes are evil, and this excess but a trifle less so than the evil that it sought to cure.
Still the collector asks : " Then what am I to do ? My precious copy was, as you say, profaned by the Philistine. Shall it be cropped again, adding to the evil ? " 58 Of Edges and Edge Gilding Certainly not, nor is it necessary. The book, though already cut, may be full gilt "on the rough, " and the amount of margin to be sacrificed will be microscopic.
What to read after Bookbinding for Bibliophiles Being Notes On Some Technical Features of the Well?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Fletcher Battershall to read onlineMoreLess
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