Category: Biographies
THE AUTHOR is indebted to the _Atlantic Monthly_ for permission to reprint as the first chapter of this volume an essay which originally appeared in that magazine; to the _Christian Science Monitor_ for permission to use, in quite different form, certain material which has bee...
THE AUTHOR is indebted to the _Atlantic Monthly_ for permission to reprint as the first chapter of this volume an essay which originally appeared in that magazine; to the _Chris...
2. Part 2Germany, although it had produced Gutenberg, was not sufficiently developed as a nation to make his work complete. The open door led me away from Germany into Italy, where liter...
3. Part 3At Brentford I secured my skins; and here I learned something that interested me exceedingly. Owing to the oil which remains in the parchment after it has been prepared for use,...
4. Part 4“Please hand that to my old friend,” she said, “and tell him to be of good cheer. What he has given of himself to others all these years will now return to him a thousand-fold.”
5. Part 5During the years that followed I served as his typographic mentor. He was eager to try weird and ingenious experiments to bring out the various points of his theories through un...
6. Part 6_I despaired of knowledge in a philosophical sense, yet I yearned to do or to make something. This was the basic idea of my life. At this time it was gradually revealed to me th...
7. Part 7The _Lindisfarne Gospels_ is where I start my illuminated pilgrimage. It takes me back to the seventh century, when the world was shrouded in darkest ignorance, and is a reminde...
8. Part 8It was the custom, in these specially created manuscripts, to immortalize the heads of the family by including them with other, and, perhaps in some cases, more religious subjec...
9. Part 9To meet Maurice Hewlett at his home at Broad Chalke, a little English village nearly ten miles from a railroad station, and to walk with him in his garden, one might recognize t...
10. Part 10Charles Eliot Norton is a case in point in my contention that to secure the maximum from a college course a man should take two years at eighteen and the remaining two after he...
11. Part 11Jenson was a printer who not only took pride in his art but also in the country of his birth! He was a Frenchman, who was sent to Mayence by King Charles VII of France to find o...
12. Part 12What a series of misfortunes Plantin endured! Stabbed by a miscreant who mistook him for some one else; hampered by censorship in spite of previous assurances of liberty in publ...
13. Part 13In December the _Chaucer_ was sufficiently near completion to encourage him to design a binding for it. Even here he found another difficulty. “Leather is not good now,” he comp...
14. Part 14“You must come back and study them at your leisure,” the librarian suggested, noting my reluctance to relinquish the volume I was inspecting to receive from him some other examp...
15. Part 15Elzevir, the House of, craftsmen rather than artists, 238; in Leyden, 240; adopt new _format_ for the book, 240; their editions, 240-243; their types, 243; their business organi...
16. Part 16THIS VOLUME is composed in Poliphilus type, reproduced by the Lanston Monotype Corporation, London, from the Roman face designed in 1499 by Francesco Griffo, of Bologna, for Ald...