ound to be capable of demonstration, for it neverclashes with the laws of mechanics or commonsense. Indeed, if common sense with good tasteis freely bestowed on a thing so trivial as a book-plate, the result will be most probably a designwhich is entirely satisfactory of its sort. Of the e.xamples… … EOOK-P;.ATF. HY H. OSrOVAT even frontispieces, have been cramped by the spaceavailable, and are not sufficiently label-like to beperfectly satisfactory as book-plates. It is a pitythat book-label—the real name of the real thing—has not been accepted instead of the loose term book-plate, or the…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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