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 Museum possessed of the bindings of Roger Payne and of those executed in the Sixteenth Century for the famous book lover, Jean Grolier, only to be chagrined to find that Payne's bindings, for which I had (and have) a great a¿'eétion, could not stand the test. The work of the older men possessed a dignity and breadth of style to which Payne never attained, and compared with which his finest efforts ap peared no more than pretty. The result of a comparison between the best Fifteenth Century printing and the best books which have been produced in England during the past twenty-five years would be very different. It is hardly too much to say that the full capabilities of the F if teenth Century style were never attained until the antiquarian revival of the style, under the in spiration of Morris, in our own day.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.