Transcriber's note:
Where the text and images were intertwined I've provided an image of the original page followed by a text version.
THE
STORY OF AN OSTRICH
AN ALLEGORY
AND
HUMOROUS SATIRE
IN RHYME
Interpreted and Illustrated
BY
Edmund Nolcini
PUBLISHED BY THE
HAND PRINT BOOK FOLK,
BACK BAY, BOSTON, MASS.
COPYRIGHTED, 1903,
BY THE
HAND PRINT BOOK FOLK, BOSTON, MASS.
ALL THE ILLUSTRATIONS HERE SHOWN, INCLUDING THE TITLE PAGE, AREREPRODUCED FROM PEN DRAWINGS MADE EXPRESSLY FOR THIS BOOK, AT GREATEXPENSE, AND ALL PERSONS ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED NOT TO REPRODUCE THEMWITHOUT PERMISSION
PUBLISHER'S PREFACE
Whatever other merit may be discovered in this book, the publishersdesire to call attention to the fact that, as a whole, it is aproduction altogether unique in a field of endeavor where something newis being constantly sought, but seldom found.
The poem is entirely hand-printed in large and legible letters,designedly kept free from ornate fancies and, therefore, particularlyeasy to read. The hand-printing accords with the adjoining illustrationsas angular and machine-made type never does, giving a pleasing andharmonious effect to the entire page, a result not to be obtained by theordinary art of the printer.
Attention is also called to the illustrations of the volume. Theirmerely mechanical arrangement upon the page is in itself unusual, wemight almost say unknown to the reading public, while the imaginativestory that the artist has told in the illustrations that he hascontributed, is not only of the real and material world, but also ofpowers behind the scenes, which offer the motives and even supply thecues of most, if not all of the actors, who perform upon the great stageof life. In this, too, the book is unusual, if not unique, and offers afertile field to the imagination of a discerning public in connectionwith the delicious humor of the poem itself.
While, therefore, fully conscious of how far short the volume falls fromwhat might be done in the direction in which it only points the way, thepublishers offer it as one of a series now in preparation, of similarworks which, it is believed, will be found worthy of more than a fewmoments of the amused attention of the reader.
The Hand Print Book Folk.
Back Bay, Boston, Mass., October, 1903.
