Pen drawing and pen draughtsmen : their work and their methods : a study of the art today with technical suggestions (1920)
Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 · New York : Macmillan · leaf 463
ve all to be read. Those whobelieve decoration must be primarily useful cannot but admit that a legible pageis of far more value than a beautiful page which is unreadable. The manuscriptsare often, in their lettering, far more beautiful than any printed books. Butthe men who are held up today as… … T. M. Cleland. From Mathematics, published byGinn & Co. Realism and decoration worked out in aharmonious fashion. OF BOOK DECORATION 407 moment the first printed book was published. Just as the illustrators after Guten-berg recognized the folly of having the text, which accompanied their…
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