Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society · London : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 152
ste on the part of theprinter. The position of the page on the paper should be considered if the book is to have a satisfactory look. Here once more the almost invariable modern practice is in opposition to a natural sense of proportion. From the time when books first took their present shape till… … the unit of the book being looked onas the two pages forming an opening.The modern printer, in the teeth of theevidence given by his own eyes, con-siders the single page as the unit, andprints the page in the middle of hispaper—only nominally so, however, inmany cases, since when he uses aheadline…
Arts and crafts movement · Decorative arts
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