Bookbindings old and new : notes of a book-lover, with account of the Grolier club of New York (1896)
Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 · London : G. Bell · leaf 272
lse ishe a colourist, and the attempt to translate hiswork into the monochrome of typography islittle less than a betrayal. The compact andskilful composition can be shown, and the forceof the drawings; but the effort to transfer thecharm of the colour is foredoomed to failure. In M. Cherets… … 253 Bookbindings Old and New, 255 his pictorial posters. We see also the sameingenuity in the adapting of the means to theend. M. Cherets decoration, when he has beenmost inspired, consists of a single design coveringthe back and both of the sides of the wrapper,and adroitly devised so that each…
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