The booklover and his books
By: by Harry Lyman Koopman...
Publisher: The Boston book company
Published: 1917
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Books.
Notes: "Most of these chapters appeared as papers in "The Printing art;́ two were published in ʻThe Graphic arts,̓ and some in other magazines."-- Prefatory note.
Table of contents: value: Books and booklovers.; value: Fitness in book design.; value: Print as an interpreter of meaning.; value: Favorite book sizes.; value: The value of reading.; value: The book of to-day and the book of to-morrow.; value: A constructive critic of the book.; value: Books as a librarian would like them.; value: The book beautiful.; value: The reader's high privilege.; value: The background of the book.; value: The Chinese book.; value: Thick paper and thin.; value: The clothing of a book.; value: Parchment bindings.; value: Lest we forget the few great books.; value: Printing problems for science to solve.; value: Types and eyes:  the problem.; value: Types and eyes:  progress.; value: Exceptions to the rule of legibility.; value: The student and the library.; value: Orthographic reform.; value: The perversities of type.; value: A secret of personal power.