THE ART OF THE BOOK

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CHARLES HOLME, EDITOR

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“THE STUDIO” LTD.
LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK

PREFATORY NOTE

THE Editor desires to express his thanks to the following who havekindly assisted in the preparation of this volume:—to the Trustees ofthe Kelmscott Press for permission to reproduce the pages printed inthe three types designed by William Morris, and to Mr. Emery Walkerfor the valuable assistance he has rendered in the reproductions ofthese particular pages, and also the page of Proctor's Greek type; toMr. Lucien Pissarro for allowing the three pages by the Eragny Pressto appear; to Mr. C. H. St. John Hornby, whose page by the AshendenePress has been especially set up for this volume; to Mr. Philip LeeWarner for permission to show two pages by the Riccardi Press; toMessrs. Chatto & Windus for the page by the Florence Press; to Messrs.Methuen & Co. for the page printed in the “Ewell” type; to Messrs. H.W. Caslon & Co. for the page of their new “Kennerley” type; to Messrs.P. M. Shanks & Sons for the page of “Dolphin Old Style” type; to Mr. F.V. Burridge for the two pages especially set up at the London CountyCouncil Central School of Arts and Crafts; to Messrs. George Allen &Co. for permission to reproduce the two pages designed by Mr. WalterCrane; to Mr. Percy J. Smith for the book-opening designed by him; tothe Cuala Press, the Vincent Press, the Reigate Press, Messrs. B. T.Batsford, Messrs. J. M. Dent & Sons, Messrs. George Routledge & Sons,Messrs. Siegle, Hill & Co., for permission to show various pages fromtheir publications; and to Mr. J. Walter West, R. W. S., for the pagesdesigned by him.

The Editor's thanks are due to the various bookbinders whose work hasbeen lent for illustration, and to Monsieur Emile Lévy for the loan ofthe photographs of Mr. Douglas Cokerell's bindings; to Mr. John Lanefor permission to illustrate the cover designs by Aubrey Beardsley; andto Messrs. George Newnes for the end-paper design by Mr. Granville Fell.

The Editor is also indebted to the various Continental and Americanpublishers, printers, type-founders, bookbinders and book-decoratorswho have kindly placed at his disposal the examples of their work shownin the foreign sections; particularly to Herren Gebrüder Klingspor, theBauersche Giesserei, Herr Emil Gursch, Herr D. Stempel, Herren Genzschand Heyse, MM. G. Peignot et fils, Monsieur L. Pichon, and MonsieurJules Meynial for the pages of type especially set up for this volume.

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