CONTENTS

[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]