As much attention should be paid to the index and fly-leaves as to the other portions, whilst the binding should be in perfect harmony.
So the édition de luxe will be looked at and admired with the respectful care shown to a lady at a ball, while the book with frontispiece and vignette will be fondled over as affectionate husbands ought to fondle their well-dressed, but not over-dressed, wives.
CHAPTER VIII
ART IN MINOR DIRECTIONS
THE ART OF GRAINING
This lively novelist, with his customary happy Hibernian manner of jumping at conclusions, reveals his own ignorance of the subject he had taken up, by giving the reader minute details as to the way his hero worked. Thus, he landed at a country shop, had a panel planed and prepared, and grained it the same day, getting his cash and the admiration of the country house-painter, and striking another village or town the next day.