| Books and Booklovers | [3] |
| Fitness in Book Design | [9] |
| Print as an Interpreter of Meaning | [14] |
| Favorite Book Sizes | [19] |
| The Value of Reading | [28] |
| The Book of To-day and the Book of To-morrow | [33] |
| A Constructive Critic of the Book | [38] |
| Books as a Librarian Would Like Them | [44] |
| The Book Beautiful | [49] |
| The Reader's High Privilege | [63] |
| The Background of the Book | [79] |
| The Chinese Book | [87] |
| Thick Paper and Thin | [92] |
| The Clothing of a Book | [97] |
| Parchment Bindings | [102] |
| Lest We Forget the Few Great Books | [104] |
| Printing Problems for Science to Solve | [115] |
| Types and Eyes: The Problem | [120] |
| Types and Eyes: Progress | [128] |
| Exceptions to the Rule of Legibility | [134] |
| The Student and the Library | [139] |
| Orthographic Reform | [145] |
| The Perversities of Type | [152] |
| A Secret of Personal Power | [162] |
| Index | [171] |
