[5] See "Simplified Spelling in Writing and Printing; a Publisher's Point of View," by Henry Holt, LL.D., New York, 1906. About one half the expense falls within the domain of printing.
INDEX
INDEX
ABILITY, cannot be created, [164].
Accents, their help in reading poetry, [17], [18].
Æschylus, as characterized by Mrs. Browning, [67].
Aldine edition of the British Poets, by Pickering, [23], [24].
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, his "Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book," [87], [88].
Aldus, Alduses and Elzevirs contrasted, [23];
beauty in his work, [4];
bindings of, [100];
his characteristic book, [21];
his example followed by the Elzevirs, [22];
his italic type and its effect on the size and price of books, [20], [21];
Pickering and other followers of, [23], [24];
vexed by misprints, [156].
Alphabet, Chinese, picture writing, [80], [81];
derivation from picture writing, [81];
scientific and actual, [147];
varieties in use, [146].
See also [Type].
American Journal of Psychology, contains Sanford's study on "The
relative legibility of the small letters," [122].
Arnold, Edwin, misprints in his "Light of Asia," [159].
Art, art aspect of the book, [3], [49], [115];
shares the prehistoric background of the book, [79], [80].
Artists not opposed to criticism, [62].
Assyrian clay tablet, [4].
Astor Library, size in 1875, [104].
Audubon, John James, his elephant-folio "Birds of America," [55].
Authors, reading by single authors and groups, [74-76];
spoilers of books, [40].
Authorship, rules of, [44].
BABYLONIAN book, [82].
Back numbers, unimportant contemporary works become, [77].
"Background of the book," [79-86].
Bacon, Francis, Lord, quoted, [106], [112].
Baird, John Wallace, directs Clark University studies on legibility, [124].
Ballads, Old English, Hazlitt on, [142].
Balzac, Honoré de, expanded his novels in proof, [15].
Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de, acknowledged his indebtedness to the
Elzevirs, [22].
Bamboo, source of Chinese paper, [85].
Barlow, Joel, place of his "Columbiad" in modern printing, [10].
Bartlett, John, quoted, [128].
Baskerville, John, his smooth paper, [5].
Beauty, see [Esthetics].
Beecher, Henry Ward, his "Norwood" in three volumes, [12];
John Beattie Crozier on his sermons, [111].
Beethoven, his Ninth Symphony as a product of genius, [65].
Bellarmin, Cardinal, list of errata in his works, [160].
Best books, need of provision for daily reading, [107].
See also [Books].
Bible, Hazlitt on its poetry, [141];
influence on Bunyan, on Calhoun, [110];
misprints in, [154], [156];
various folio editions, [19].
Bible of humanity, Socrates in, [68].
Bigness, in books, [35], [36], [45], [47].
Binder, a spoiler of books, [40], [42];
what the librarian asks of him, [48].
Binding, as an element of the book, [6];
"The clothing of a book," [97-101];
of the book beautiful, [52-55];
of the Chinese book, [88], [89];
of the well-made book, [52];
"Parchment bindings," [102], [103];
unnecessary rebindings, [46].
Bion, as characterized by Mrs. Browning, [68].
Birch bark, used for book of India, [85].
Bismarck, misprint concerning, [155].
Blackmore, Richard Doddridge, tribute to Shakespeare, [110].
Blue and Gold editions, a favorite book size, [24-26].
Bodoni, Giambattista, his type commended, [58], [129], [130].
Book, "The background of the book," [79-86];
"blown" books, [35];
"The book beautiful," [49-62];
"The book of to-day and the book of to-morrow," [33-37];
Chinese, [84], [85], [87-91];
"The clothing of a book," [97-101];
a constructive critic of the, [38-43];
elements of, [4-6];
"Fitness in book design," [9-13];
its structural contradiction, [52];
materials, [92];
of the future, [95], [96];
on its physical side an art object, [3];
pre-Columbian Mexican, [6];
printed, a "substitute" for manuscript, [4];
subject to laws of esthetics and economics, [115];
tests of its utility, [115];
well-made, not extremely costly, [7],
not identical with beautiful, [52];
worth writing three times, [44].
See also [Design]; [Size].
Book buyers, how to educate, [37];
spoilers of books, [40], [42].
Booklovers, "Books and booklovers," [3-8];
must first know books, [7];
service in improvement of books, [48], [61], [62].
Book production, [105];
elements added by printing, [14].
Books, as a librarian would like them, [44-48];
"Books and booklovers," [3-8];
the greatest, few, [66];
intellectual riffraff, [9];
learning to love, [7];
"Lest we forget the few great books," [104-114];
perishable, [34], [45], [46];
progress in legibility of, [132], [133];
small, commended by Dr. Johnson, [20];
"The student and the library," [139-144];
that are not books, [105], [106];
world's annual publication of, [105].
Books of Hours, dainty volumes, [20].
Boston Athenaeum Library, size in 1875, [104].
Boston Public Library, Address in, [3], [footnote];
size in 1875, [104].
Brandes, Georg, his "Shakespeare: a critical study," [72].
Brass, used for book of India, [85].
British Poets, rival editions of, by Pickering and by Little and Brown,
[23], [24].
Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes, on Aldus and his italic type, [20].
Brown, John Carter, patron of Henry Stevens, [38].
Brown University, misprint in quoting its charter, [154], [155].
Browne, Charles Farrar, adopts a misprint, [157].
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, her "Wine of Cyprus" quoted, [67], [68].
Buchanan, George, his Latin poems, commended by Dr. Johnson, [23];
published by the Elzevirs, [23].
Bulk, in books, [92-96].
Bunyan, John, debt to the Bible, [110].
Burma, book of, see [India].
Burns, Robert, Hazlitt on, [142].
Burnside, General Ambrose Everett, his limitations, [163], [164].
Burton, Sir Richard, his "Kasîdah" in Mosher's tribute typography, [137].
Bury, Richard de, author of the "Philobiblon," [8].
Byron, Lord, hated Horace, [68].
CAESURA, indication of, in print, [18].
Calhoun, John Caldwell, reader of the Bible, [110].
Calligraphy, see [Manuscript].
Calvin, John, as a Puritan's spiritual nightcap, [166].
Cambridge University, student groups in, [139].
Capital letters, legibility, [121], [122], [126];
Roman in origin, [118];
Roman, superior to black-letter in combination, [57];
undersized, used by Aldus, [21].
Carlyle, Thomas, on Goethe, [110];
rewrote his books in proof, [15].
Caslon type, commended, [58], [117].
Catchwords, usage of Aldus, [21].
Cattell, James McKeen, his investigations of legibility, [121], [122].
Cave men, pictures made by them, [79], [80].
Centaur type, commended, [132].
Century Dictionary, illustration of cerastes, [81];
a triumph of typography, [16], [135].
Century types, commended, [127], [132].
Cervantes, "Don Quixote," character and meaning of, [70], [71],
no final edition of, [11],
on reading, [143], [144],
translations of, [143], [144];
his character, [70];
later novelists indebted to, [143].
Chaucer, Geoffrey, complaint of his scribe's errors, [160], [161];
Hazlitt on, [142];
his spelling, [149].
Cheapness, see [Cost].
Cheltenham type, commended, [132].
Cherokee syllabary, [146].
Children, increase of near sight among, [120];
legibility of books for, [5], [117].
Chinese, alphabet, conventionalized picture writing, [80], [81];
book, [84], [85], [87-91].
Chiswick Press, [38], [footnote];
Pickering's books printed at, [41].
Christian of Lubeck, letter of Erasmus to, quoted, [166].
Cicero, did not write for children, [68].
Clark University, studies on legibility, [124-127], [132].
Classroom, not equal to a good book, [140].
Clay tablet, and booklovers, [4];
described, [82].
Clodd, Edward, on discovery of British prehistoric antiquities, [79].
Cloister Oldstyle type, commended, [132];
a safe norm for poetry, [58].
Cloth, used in binding, [53].
"Clothing of a book," [97-101].
Codex, Roman, form adopted for parchment books, [84];
original of modern book form, [19], [52], [90].
Collins, Wilkie, tribute to "Robinson Crusoe," [110].
Color, use of, [60].
Columbian type, first used in Barlow's "Columbiad," [10].
Columns, in wide pages, [47].
Community, value of reading to the, [28], [29].
Compactness and legibility, [117], [130], [131], [134], [135].
Compositor, a spoiler of books, [40], [41].
"Constructive critic of the book," [38-43].
Consumers, see [Book buyers].
Contemporary writers, on reading their works, [76], [77].
Contrast of type, [16], [17].
Copperplate printing, in connection with typography, [60].
Cornell University Library, proof-sheets of the "Waverley Novels" in, [15].
Corrigenda, [152-161];
lists of, [159], [160].
Cost, the book of to-morrow will be cheaper, [36];
cheapened books, [45];
of beautiful books little more than of unsightly, [39];
relatively small, of well-made books, [7].
Cowper, William, Hazlitt on, [142].
Crabbe, George, a favorite edition of, [24].
Criticism, "A constructive critic of the book," [38-43];
not opposed by artists, [62].
Crozier, John Beattie, on reading, [111], [112].
Culture cannot be vicarious, [140].
DANA, JOHN COTTON, his analysis of the elements of the book, [4].
Dante, his "Divine Comedy," character of, [69], [70], [144];
"fly's-eye" edition of, [55];
Hazlitt on, [141];
privilege of reading, [64];
Professor Torrey on reading, [109].
Decoration, in bindings, [6], [99-101];
use of color in, [60].
Defoe, Daniel, tribute of Wilkie Collins to "Robinson Crusoe," [110].
Democratization of learning, by the cheap books of Aldus, [21].
De Morgan, William, quoted, [63], [72];
value of his novels, [77].
De Quincey, Thomas, on possible amount of reading in a lifetime, [105].
Design, "Fitness in book design," [9-13];
of type, [5], [117], [118].
Diagonal of page, [57].
Dickens, Charles, his works in illegible print, [130],
on Oxford India paper, [94],
on thick paper, [95];
on reading him, [143].
Dickinson, Emily, quoted, [30], [31].
Didot, Ambrose Firmin, his "microscopic" type, [131].
Discovery of a great book, [108], [109].
Distinctions, to the eye, in manuscript and print, [16-18].
Don Quixote, see [Cervantes].
Dordogne, France, its prehistoric pictures, [79], [80].
Dowden, Edward, his "Shakspere: his mind and art," [72].
Dryden, John, Hazlitt on, [142].
ECONOMICS, the book within the domain of, [115], [116].
Edges, treatment of, [61].
Edison, Thomas Alva, would substitute nickel for paper, [92], [footnote].
Editions de luxe, disapproved by Henry Stevens, [39].
Education, in appreciation of beautiful books, [50];
of book buyers, [37].
Efficiency, in modern life, [162];
of the book, [115].
Egyptian, book, see [Papyrus];
hieroglyphics, picture writing, [81].
Elements of the book, [4-6].
Elimination, test of, applied to reading, [63], [64].
Eliot, Charles William, his Latin signature, [102], [103].
Elzevirs, compared with Aldines, [23],
with Blue and Gold editions, [25];
described, [21-23].
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, his life and works, [75], [76];
importance of his works, [112];
John Beattie Crozier on, [112];
quoted, [144].
Encyclopædia Britannica, in its two sizes of type, [135].
English, alphabets, [117], [118];
book publication in 1913, [105];
books, criticised, [38-43];
literature as affected by reformed spelling, [149];
poets, Hazlitt's Lectures on, [141], [142];
romancers, of the 18th century, [143];
spelling, [145-151].
Engravings, see [Illustrations].
Erasmus, Desiderius, letter to Christian of Lubeck, quoted, [166].
Errata, [152-161];
lists of, [159], [160].
Errors of the press, [152-161].
Essays, in a favorite book size, [24].
Esthetics, beauty in typography, [136-138];
"The book beautiful," [49-62];
the book subject to the laws of, [115];
harmony between beauty and use in type design, [132];
in choice of type, [127], [131];
involves sacrifice of utility, [116];
its demands must be met in a favorite book, [24],
met by the Little Classic editions, [26];
of the book, [3], [9];
printer's duty, to, [18];
relation of thickness and thinness to, [23], [24];
sacrificed to legibility, [117].
Etymology in spelling, [148].
Eumenes II, originates parchment, [83], [84].
Euripides, as characterized by Mrs. Browning, [68].
Everyman's Library, in a favorite book size, [24].
Eves, binders, their work, [100].
"Exceptions to the rule of legibility," [134-138], [130], [131].
Expression in typography, [9-13], [137], [138].
Eyes, see [Sight].
F, the letter, origin and derivatives, [81].
Fairy Queen, see [Spenser, Edmund].
"Favorite book sizes," [19-27].
Favorite literature, in appropriate typography, [137].
Fielding, Henry, a favorite edition of, [24];
on reading him, [143];
an unattractive edition of, [12].
Fields, Annie Adams, her "Beacon Biography" of Hawthorne, [75].
Finishing, see [Binding].
Fitness, between illustrations and type, [6];
in book design, [9-13];
in typography, [137], [138].
Fitzgerald, Edward, at Cambridge University, [139].
Forethought, "A secret of personal power," [162-167].
Forewilling, "A secret of personal power," [162-167].
Format, see [Size].
Forwarding, see [Binding].
Franklin, Benjamin, quoted, [35], [123].
French, alphabet, [147];
book publication in 1913, [105];
type, faults of, [117], [120], [128].
Frowde, Henry, publishes "The Periodical" in form of a Chinese book, [88], [90].
GALILEO, acknowledged his indebtedness to the Elzevirs, [22].
Garfield, James Abram, recommends reading of fiction, [107].
Gems, in bindings, [6].
Genius, its bad spelling, [150], [151];
its monuments in the various arts, [65].
German, book publication in 1913, [105];
spelling reform, [147], [148], [150];
tribute typography, [137];
type, faults of, [117], [122], [128].
Ghost words, [158], [159].
Gilding, see [Binding]; [Edges].
Gladstone, William Ewart, a literary blunder of, [152], [153].
Goethe, Carlyle on, [110];
his greatness, [73];
John Beattie Crozier on, [112];
on Sir Walter Scott, [110].
Goffered edges, [61].
Goudy, Frederic W., his Kennerley type commended, [132].
Grace before reading, [77].
Grammar of book manufacture, [40], [42].
Grant, Ulysses Simpson, his coat of arms, [30];
his greatness brought out by responsibility, [163].
Gray, Thomas, small bulk of his work, [69].
"Great books, Lest we forget the few," [104-114].
Greek literature, masterpieces of, [66-68].
Greeks, surpassed by moderns in knowledge, [30].
Green, John Richard, quoted, [50].
Grolier, Jean, bindings made for, [100].
Groups, reading authors by, [74], [75].
Guide, in reading, [140-142];
none to love of books, [7].
Guidi, Carlo Alessandro, killed by misprints, [156].
HABIT, and forethought, [165].
Haggard, Rider, his "Mr. Meeson's Will," [86].
Hallam, Arthur Henry, at Cambridge University, [139].
Handwriting, see [Manuscript].
Harte, Francis Bret, on reading his works, [143].
Harvard University, course in printing, [43];
Library possesses manuscript of Shelley's "Skylark," [158];
size of Library in 1875, [104].
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, on reading him, [74], [75].
Hay, John, his reading in college, [139];
a remarkable misprint in his "Poems," [159].
Hazlitt, William, as a guide in reading, [141], [142];
Lamb and Stevenson on, [141].
Headlines, Henry D. Lloyd on, [132].
"Hibbert Journal," bulkiness of, [95].
Hieroglyphics, see [Picture writing].
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, his life of Longfellow, [75].
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, the Blue and Gold edition of his "Poems," [24], [25];
his life of Emerson, [75];
member of New England group of authors, [75];
a misprint in his "Works," [159];
quoted, [24], [80], [102], [106].
Holt, Henry, on simplified spelling, [147], [footnote].
Homer, did not write for children, [68];
Hazlitt on, [141];
his works, [64], [66], [67];
Keats's sonnet on, [108], [109];
not out of date, [77];
why his works are divided into books, [83].
Horace, hated by Byron, [68];
his works, [69];
in Bodoni's 1791 edition, [129], [130];
more modern than the Puritans, [69],
than Dante, [70].
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, publish books resembling Chinese, [87], [88].
Hours, books of, dainty volumes, [20].
House of Representatives Library, size in 1875, [104].
Hudson, Henry Norman, his edition of Shakespeare, [71], [72].
Huey, Edmund Burke, his "Psychology and pedagogy of reading," commended,
[124].
Hull, Mass., as misprinted, [154].
Humanistic type, see [New Humanistic].
Hunt, Leigh, his characterization of the "Divine Comedy," [70].
I, the letter, discussions regarding its dot, [61].
"Idler," a favorite edition of, [24].
Illumination, [51];
indication of initials for, [21].
Illustration, as a feature of the book, [6];
of the book beautiful, [60].
"Imitatio Christi," in Updike's specimen pages, [136].
Incunabula, relatively cheap, [49].
Indecency in misprints, [155], [156].
Indenting, as affecting the book beautiful, [59].
"Independent," compactly printed, [95].
India, book of, [85], [86].
Individual, value of reading to, [29-32].
Initials, colored, [60];
spacing and mitering of, [59].
Ink, best for the eye, [116], [120];
blue, for legibility, [5];
an element of the book, [5];
maker, a spoiler of books, [40], [42].
Interpretative typography, [9-13], [137], [138].
"Interpreter of meaning, Print as an," [14-18].
Invention, in book production, [33], [34].
Irving, Washington, book design in editions of his "Knickerbocker," [10], [11];
unfortunate use of his "Sketch Book" as a school book, [68], [69].
Italic type, invention and use by Aldus, [20], [21].
Italy, annual book publication, [105].
JAPAN, annual book publication, [105].
Javal, Dr. Émile, his investigations of legibility, [120], [121], [123].
Jenson, Nicholas, beauty and grandeur in his work, [4];
descendants of his types, [132];
facsimile page of, [frontispiece].
Johnson, Rossiter, his Little Classic editions described, [25], [26].
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, commends small books, [20], [22], [23];
a favorite edition of his "Idler," [24];
his "Prayers" in tribute typography, [136];
on our knowledge of ancient Britain, [79].
Josephus, Flavius, book form inappropriate to, [50].
Justification, requirements of, [58], [59].
Justinian, facsimile page of his "Digestum novum," [frontispiece].
KEATS, JOHN, folio inappropriate to, [50];
inappropriate Forman edition of, [11];
"On first looking into Chapman's Homer," [108], [109];
small bulk of his work, [69].
Kelmscott Press, see [Morris, William].
Kennerley type, commended, [132].
Kipling, Rudyard, on reading him, [143].
"Knickerbocker," Irving's, book design in editions of, [10], [11].
Knowledge, necessary to success in life, [30];
obtainable in its fulness only through books, [30];
progress possible only in, [29], [30].
Kuran, sources from which it was compiled, [86].
LAMB, CHARLES, on grace before reading, [77];
on Hazlitt, [141].
Large-paper copies, condemned, [56], [131].
Latin literature, masterpieces of, [68], [69].
Leadership developed under stress, [163].
Leading, as affecting legibility, [120];
as affecting spacing, [58], [59].
Leather, employment in binding, [52-54].
Le Gascon, binder, his work, [100].
Legend, of pictures, proper place of, [60].
Legibility, elements of the book as related to, [116-118];
"Exceptions to the rule of legibility," [130], [131], [134-138];
influence on, of paper, type, and ink, [5];
"Types and eyes: The problem," [120-127],
—— "Progress," [128-133].
Leland, Charles Godfrey, on forethought, [166].
Length of line, [117].
Lenox, James, mortified by a misprint, [156];
patron of Henry Stevens, [38];
"Recollections of," by Stevens, [38], [footnote].
Le Sage, Alain René, his "Gil Blas," [143].
"Lest we forget the few great books," [104-114].
Letters, see [Capital letters];
[Manuscript];
[Minuscules];
[Silent letters];
[Type].
Lewes, George Henry, a misprint in one of his works, [158].
Librarians, "Books as a librarian would like them," [44-48];
a duty to their successors, [103];
meeting of British, in 1882, [38].
Libraries, as affected by spelling reform, [150];
development in the United States since 1875, [104];
electrical batteries of power, [30];
put to needless expense for big books, [36],
for rebindings, [46];
"The student and the library," [139-144].
Library Company of Philadelphia, size of library in 1875, [104].
Library hand, Bodoni's italic resembles, [130].
Library of Congress, size in 1875, [104].
Lightness, in books, deceptive, [93], [94].
Lincoln, Abraham, his greatness brought by responsibility, [163].
Lincoln cent, lettering on, [134].
Line, endings should not show too many hyphens, [59];
normal length for legibility, [117].
Linnaeus, quoted, [33].
Linotype, gives a turned line, [153].
Literature, the book beautiful of service to, [62];
its treasures, [63-78];
print a contribution to, [15];
type appropriate to, [136-138].
Little and Brown, publishers, their "British Poets" compared with
Pickering's "Aldines," [24].
Little Classic editions, [20], [25], [26].
Littré, Émile, typography of his "Dictionnaire," [135].
Lloyd, Henry Demarest, on headlines, quoted, [132].
Locker-Lampson, Frederick, inappropriate edition of his "My
Confidences," [12].
London Registrar General, misprint, [155].
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, book design appropriate to his "Works," [11];
his "Michael Angelo," [87];
his sonnets on Dante, [70];
holiday edition of his "Skeleton in Armor," [137];
"Life," appropriate edition of, [12];
quoted, [68].
Lowell, James Russell, member of New England group of authors, [75].
MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON, knew "Paradise Lost" by heart, [73].
McClellan, General George Brinton, his limitations, [163].
Malherbe, François, welcomes a misprint, [157].
Mammoth, picture of, a prehistoric book, [79].
Manuscript, chief difference from print, [14];
distinctions in, [16];
importance to bookmaking, [51];
limitations of, [16];
Ruskin on, [51];
still used in private records, [15].
See also [Papyrus]; [Parchment].
Margin, size and proportions of, [56], [57].
Marriage service, misprint in, [154].
Material of the book, changed twice in two thousand years, [92].
Materials of writing, [86].
Mather, Cotton, list of errata in his "Magnalia," [160].
Mathews, William, as an author, [63];
his memory of choice passages, [63];
on reading ten pages a day, [108].
Maxim, Sir Hiram, quoted, [92].
"Meaning, Print as an interpreter of," [14-18].
Mearne, Samuel, binder, [100].
Memory, Erasmus on art of strengthening, [166], [167];
value of a well-stored, [63].
"Men of the Time," famous misprint in, [153], [154].
Ménage, Gilles, acknowledged his indebtedness to the Elzevirs, [22].
Mexican book, pre-Columbian, ornamented, [6];
described, [85], [86];
picture writing of, [81].
Michelangelo, his "Moses" as a product of genius, [65].
Milton, John, debt of Daniel Webster to, [110];
gave metric hints by spelling, [18];
Hazlitt on, [142];
his greatness, [72], [73];
his spelling, [149], [150];
Lamb would say grace before reading, [77];
a misprint in "Samson Agonistes," [159];
on the deprivation caused by his blindness, [63], [64];
a spelling reformer, [149].
Minuscules, legibility, [122-124], [126];
of late origin, [118].
Misprints, "The perversities of type," [152-161].
Montaigne, "Journal of his travels," in three volumes, [12].
Morgan, Lloyd, cited, [87].
Morris, William, as printer, [33], [34];
confesses faults of ignorance in book making, [50];
his Kelmscott editions, "tribute typography," [137];
on shape of dot of i, [61];
on types, [5], [129], [130].
Mosher, Thomas Bird, his "tribute typography," [137].
Motteux, Peter Anthony, his translation of "Don Quixote," [144].
Moulton, Charles Wells, "Library of Literary Criticism," its attractive book design, [13].
NAMES, place of, in development of the alphabet, [81].
Near sight, [120], [130].
Necker, Jacques, student's blunder concerning, [154].
New England, its communities of readers, [28], [29];
its group of authors, [75], [76].
New Humanistic type, commended, [138];
special form of a, [123].
New York Mercantile Library, size in 1875, [104].
Newspapers, extraordinary development of speed and cheapness in, [14];
legibility, [5], [117], [132], [133];
opponents of spelling reform, [145];
place in reading, [106].
Newton, Sir Isaac, quoted, [144].
Nickel, as a substitute for paper, [92], [footnote].
Novels, in a favorite book size, [24];
in illegible type, [130];
on reading, [107];
three-volume, [12];
typical book of to-day, [35].
"Nuremberg Chronicle," a characteristic folio, [19].
OCULIST'S tests of legibility, [120].
Ormsby, John, his translation of "Don Quixote," [144].
Ornamentation, in bindings, [6], [53], [100], [101];
in type, [121].
"Orthographic reform," [145-151].
Ossian, Hazlitt on, [141].
Owen, Robert, a famous misprint concerning, [153].
"Oxford Book of English Verse," thin-paper edition preferred, [95].
"Oxford English Dictionary," corrects a misprint, [158];
its typography, [135].
Oxford India paper, [92], [94], [95];
miniature editions on, [131], [132].
Oxford students cause a misprint in the marriage service, [154].
Oxford University Press, reward for misprints, [156].
PAGE, proportions of, [4], [42], [55-57].
Palm leaves, used for book of India, [85].
Pannartz and Sweynheym, grandeur in their work, [4].
Paper, best for the eye, [116], [120];
buff tinted, for legibility, [5], [6];
determines the expression of the book, [4], [5];
introduced into Europe, [84];
of the book beautiful, [54];
of the Chinese book, [88-90];
"Thick paper and thin," [92-96];
three elements of, [5].
Papermaker, a spoiler of books, [40], [42].
Papyrus roll, and booklovers, [4];
described, [82-84].
Parchment, origin, [83], [84];
"Parchment bindings," [102], [103];
parchment book and booklovers, [4].
Payne, Roger, binder, [100].
Peacock, Thomas Love, his novels in thick and thin paper, [94], [95].
Peel, Sir Robert, misprint concerning, [155].
Penmanship, see [Manuscript].
Pergamum, origin of parchment in, [83], [84].
"Periodical, The," resembles a Chinese book, [88], [90].
"Personal power, A secret of," [162-167].
"Perversities of type," [152-161].
Philadelphia Mercantile Library, size in 1875, [104].
"Philobiblon," by Richard de Bury, significance of the title, [8].
Photogravures, in connection with type, [6].
Pickering, William, a disciple of Aldus, [23];
his characteristic books, [23], [24],
compared with Little and Brown's "British Poets," [24],
their predecessors, contemporaries, and successors, [24];
his "diamond classics" on large paper, [131], [132];
method of book design, [41];
publisher, [38].
Picture writing, [80], [81].
Pictures, earliest books were, [79-81].
See also [Illustrations].
Pillow, General Gideon Johnson, misprints concerning, [157].
Pindar, as characterized by Mrs. Browning, [68].
Plato, as characterized by Mrs. Browning, [68];
contributor to Bible of humanity, [68];
riches of, [68].
Pocket editions, [22], [23].
Poe, Edgar Allan, quoted, [28], [152], [158];
small bulk of his poetry, [69].
Poetry, Hazlitt on, [141], [142];
print as an interpreter of its meaning, [17], [18];
type appropriate to, [137], [138].
