The Bases of Design

by Walter Crane

The title-page, again, is capable of an immense variety of treatment, and great ornamental use can always be made of the lettering, whether accompanied by design or not.

I think, too, that it is obvious that the conditions of surface printing point to line-drawing as the most harmonious in effect for book illustration and decoration, as well as most practical mechanically, since type and blocks which decorate a page must be subjected to the same pressure. The form of letters, too, in movable type, being linear, whether Gothic or Roman letters, line-drawing is in direct decorative relation with the type.

OPEN FOLIO BOOK TO SHOW PROPORTIONS OF TYPE PAGE & MARGIN, KELMSCOTT PRESS, WILLIAM MORRIS.

TITLE PAGE FAERIE QUEENE WALTER CRANE.

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