| [I.] | IN QUEST OF THE PERFECT BOOK | [1] |
| Gutenberg | |
| Aldus Manutius | |
| Guido Biagi | |
| Ceriani | |
| Pope Pius XI | |
| Sir Sidney Colvin | |
| [II.] | THE KINGDOM OF BOOKS | [35] |
| Eugene Field | |
| John Wilson | |
| Mary Baker Eddy | |
| Bernard Shaw | |
| [III.] | FRIENDS THROUGH TYPE | [73] |
| Horace Fletcher | |
| Henry James | |
| William James | |
| Theodore Roosevelt | |
| T. J. Cobden-Sanderson | |
| [IV.] | THE LURE OF ILLUMINATION | [109] |
| Byzantine Psalter | |
| Lindisfarne Gospels | |
| Alcuin Bible | |
| Golden Gospels of St. Médard | |
| Psalter of St. Louis | |
| Queen Mary’s Psalter | |
| Bedford Book of Hours | |
| Grimani Breviary | |
| Antiquities of the Jews | |
| Hours of Francesco d’Antonio | |
| Hours of Anne of Brittany | |
| [V.] | FRIENDS THROUGH THE PEN | [151] |
| Maurice Hewlett | |
| Austin Dobson | |
| Richard Garnett | |
| Mark Twain | |
| Charles Eliot Norton | |
| William Dean Howells | |
| [VI.] | TRIUMPHS OF TYPOGRAPHY | [191] |
| The Beginnings. Germany—The Gutenberg Bible | |
| Supremacy of Italy | |
| Nicolas Jenson: Augustinus: De Civitate Dei | |
| Aldus Manutius: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili | |
| Supremacy of France | |
| Robert Étienne: The Royal Greeks | |
| Supremacy of the Netherlands | |
| Christophe Plantin: The Biblia Polyglotta | |
| The Elzevirs: Terence | |
| Supremacy of England | |
| John Baskerville: Virgil | |
| Supremacy of France (second) | |
| The Didots: Racine | |
| Supremacy of England (second) | |
| William Morris: The Kelmscott Chaucer | |
| Cobden-Sanderson: The Doves Bible | |
| [VII.] | THE SPELL of the LAURENZIANA | [271] |
| INDEX | [301] |