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Arts and crafts essays (1893)

Morris, William, 1834-1896, Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner. DLC, Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society · New York : Charles Schribner's Sons · leaf 152

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nt and taste on the part of theprinter. The position of the page on thepaper should be considered if the bookis to have a satisfactory look. Hereonce more the almost invariable modernpractice is in opposition to a naturalsense of proportion. From the timewhen books first took their presentshape… … 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…

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