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Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children's literature. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children. Arthur Rackham (1...

Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children's literature. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children. Arthur Rackham (1...

Excerpt from Fine BooksEntitled to the modest praise of being superior to the rest of its author's book-makings, since it has been ten years on the stocks and much of it has been written two or three times over, either because the writer's own information had increased or to take account of the successful researches of others. Yet in the end defeat in one main point has to be acknowledged. The book was begun with a confident determination to c...

Excerpt from Last Words on the History of the Title-Page: With Notes on Some Colophons and Twenty-Seven Fac-Similes of Title-Pages Review. A little time back I was honoured bya request to lend these scattered notes, but the request (which was accompanied by a promise to read) came from a lover of fine books, and when I looked at the loose leaves in my portfolio I was ashamed to send them. Moreover, no one can work in a great library, like tha...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Excerpt from Modern Fine Printing in England and Mr. Bruce Rogers: With a List of Books Other Pieces of Printing, Designed by Mr. RogersTestament in the Complutensian Polyglott sur pass their originals no less decisively. I once per suaded Mr. Cyril Davenport, when he was the Superintendent of Bookbindings at the British Museum, to arrange in the King's library, side by side in two compartments of a show case, the best examples which the Museu...

Excerpt from St. Catherine of Siena IT is hoped that this sketch of St Catherine of Siena may persuade any readers it may obtain to turn for fuller knowledge of her to Professor Edmund Gardner's Saint Catherine of Sz'ena a Study in the Religion, Literature ana' History of the Fourteenth Century in Italy (j. M. Dent Co., to which it is deeply indebted, to Matilde Fiorilli's edition of the Lihro a'elt'a Divina Dottrina (bari, Gius. Laterza Figl...

Excerpt from Odes From the Greek Dramatists: Translated Into Lyric Metres by English Poets and SholarsTo the average school-boy the Chorus of a Greek Tragedy is an Object of mingled hatred and derision - of derision, because at any call for action the attitude of the Chorus is generally characterized by helpless indecision - Of hatred, because it was its wont to sing particularly hard Greek. Of the two feelings the hatred arising from the incr...

Excerpt from Books in the House: An Essay on Private Libraries and Collections for Young and Old If we outgrow the book it Will not be morti fied. If we find we have made a mistake we have but lost our money, though if we allow a bad failure to remain on our shelves, it may sensibly lessen the pleasure we take in a whole bookcase. Yet the ideal of our relations with books remains unaltered, even though the acquisition of a bad book of referen...

Excerpt from ChaucerDecade since-his death. But since Tyrwhitt began his labours, nowjust a century ago, one great section of Chaucer's work, the Ca¿/erbufy Tales, has been accessible in a fairly correct form, and thanks to the labours of the Chaucer sociecty - alike to its unweary ing director and the students, English, American, and German, who have come to his help - thc materials for a sound text of the whole of the poet's rl-zs, and much ...

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Excerpt from Early Illustrated Books: A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries In a handbook like the present this is a necessary evil, but the evil is equally conspicuous in a great number of modern books in which the illustrations are introduced solely for their decorative value. In this matter we have much to learn from the old printers, in whose books paper, type, illustrations, initial letters,...