Chapter 14

Manuscript, chief difference from print, 14; distinctions in, 16; importance to bookmaking, 51; limitations of, 16; Ruskin on, 51; still used in private records, 15. _See also_ Papyrus; Parchment.

Margin, size and proportions of, 56, 57.

Marriage service, misprint in, 154.

Material of the book, changed twice in two thousand years, 92.

Materials of writing, 86.

Mather, Cotton, list of errata in his "Magnalia," 160.

Mathews, William, as an author, 63; his memory of choice passages, 63; on reading ten pages a day, 108.

Maxim, Sir Hiram, quoted, 92.

"Meaning, Print as an interpreter of," 14-18.

Mearne, Samuel, binder, 100.

Memory, Erasmus on art of strengthening, 166, 167; value of a well-stored, 63.

"Men of the Time," famous misprint in, 153, 154.

Ménage, Gilles, acknowledged his indebtedness to the Elzevirs, 22.

Mexican book, pre-Columbian, ornamented, 6; described, 85, 86; picture writing of, 81.

Michelangelo, his "Moses" as a product of genius, 65.

Milton, John, debt of Daniel Webster to, 110; gave metric hints by spelling, 18; Hazlitt on, 142; his greatness, 72, 73; his spelling, 149, 150; Lamb would say grace before reading, 77; a misprint in "Samson Agonistes," 159; on the deprivation caused by his blindness, 63, 64; a spelling reformer, 149.

Minuscules, legibility, 122-124, 126; of late origin, 118.

Misprints, "The perversities of type," 152-161.

Montaigne, "Journal of his travels," in three volumes, 12.

Morgan, Lloyd, cited, 87.

Morris, William, as printer, 33, 34; confesses faults of ignorance in book making, 50; his Kelmscott editions, "tribute typography," 137; on shape of dot of _i_, 61; on types, 5, 129, 130.

Mosher, Thomas Bird, his "tribute typography," 137.

Motteux, Peter Anthony, his translation of "Don Quixote," 144.

Moulton, Charles Wells, "Library of Literary Criticism," its attractive book design, 13.

NAMES, place of, in development of the alphabet, 81.

Near sight, 120, 130.

Necker, Jacques, student's blunder concerning, 154.

New England, its communities of readers, 28, 29; its group of authors, 75, 76.

New Humanistic type, commended, 138; special form of _a_, 123.

New York Mercantile Library, size in 1875, 104.

Newspapers, extraordinary development of speed and cheapness in, 14; legibility, 5, 117, 132, 133; opponents of spelling reform, 145; place in reading, 106.

Newton, Sir Isaac, quoted, 144.

Nickel, as a substitute for paper, 92, _footnote_.

Novels, in a favorite book size, 24; in illegible type, 130; on reading, 107; three-volume, 12; typical book of to-day, 35.

"Nuremberg Chronicle," a characteristic folio, 19.

OCULIST'S tests of legibility, 120.

Ormsby, John, his translation of "Don Quixote," 144.

Ornamentation, in bindings, 6, 53, 100, 101; in type, 121.

"Orthographic reform," 145-151.

Ossian, Hazlitt on, 141.

Owen, Robert, a famous misprint concerning, 153.

"Oxford Book of English Verse," thin-paper edition preferred, 95.

"Oxford English Dictionary," corrects a misprint, 158; its typography, 135.

Oxford India paper, 92, 94, 95; miniature editions on, 131, 132.

Oxford students cause a misprint in the marriage service, 154.

Oxford University Press, reward for misprints, 156.

PAGE, proportions of, 4, 42, 55-57.

Palm leaves, used for book of India, 85.

Pannartz and Sweynheym, grandeur in their work, 4.

Paper, best for the eye, 116, 120; buff tinted, for legibility, 5, 6; determines the expression of the book, 4, 5; introduced into Europe, 84; of the book beautiful, 54; of the Chinese book, 88-90; "Thick paper and thin," 92-96; three elements of, 5.

Papermaker, a spoiler of books, 40, 42.

Papyrus roll, and booklovers, 4; described, 82-84.

Parchment, origin, 83, 84; "Parchment bindings," 102, 103; parchment book and booklovers, 4.

Payne, Roger, binder, 100.

Peacock, Thomas Love, his novels in thick and thin paper, 94, 95.

Peel, Sir Robert, misprint concerning, 155.

Penmanship, _see_ Manuscript.

Pergamum, origin of parchment in, 83, 84.

"Periodical, The," resembles a Chinese book, 88, 90.

"Personal power, A secret of," 162-167.

"Perversities of type," 152-161.

Philadelphia Mercantile Library, size in 1875, 104.

"Philobiblon," by Richard de Bury, significance of the title, 8.

Photogravures, in connection with type, 6.

Pickering, William, a disciple of Aldus, 23; his characteristic books, 23, 24, compared with Little and Brown's "British Poets," 24, their predecessors, contemporaries, and successors, 24; his "diamond classics" on large paper, 131, 132; method of book design, 41; publisher, 38.

Picture writing, 80, 81.

Pictures, earliest books were, 79-81. _See also_ Illustrations.

Pillow, General Gideon Johnson, misprints concerning, 157.

Pindar, as characterized by Mrs. Browning, 68.

Plato, as characterized by Mrs. Browning, 68; contributor to Bible of humanity, 68; riches of, 68.

Pocket editions, 22, 23.

Poe, Edgar Allan, quoted, 28, 152, 158; small bulk of his poetry, 69.

Poetry, Hazlitt on, 141, 142; print as an interpreter of its meaning, 17, 18; type appropriate to, 137, 138.

Pope, Alexander, a ghost word referred to him, 158, 159; Hazlitt on, 142.

Possessions, distinguished from Property, 31, 32.

"Power, A secret of personal," 162-167.

Powers of leadership developed under stress, 163.

Pre-Columbian book, _see_ Mexican.

Prehistoric background of the book, 79-81.

Press, errors of, 152-161.

Pressman, a spoiler of books, 40-42.

Presswork, requirements of, 58.

Prices, as affected by italic, 20, by the small books of the Elzevirs, 22; fancy, what they mean, 7; of choice books compared with those of other art objects, 49; of choice books not excessive, 7.

"Print as an interpreter of meaning," 14-18. _See also_ Typography.

Printer, as affected by spelling reform, 150; a spoiler of books, 40, 41; what the librarian asks of him, 47, 48.

Printer's errors, 152-161.

Printing, added only speed and cheapness to book production, 14; distinctions to the eye in, 16-18; of Chinese books, 88; "Printing problems for science to solve," 115-119; would be benefited by contemporary calligraphy, 51. _See also_ Typography.

Privilege of the reader, 63-78.

"Problems, Printing, for science to solve," 115-119.

Progress, possible only in the field of knowledge, 29, 30.

Proof, authors' additions in, 15.

Proofreader, requirements of, 58; a spoiler of books, 40, 41.

Property, distinguished from Possessions, 31, 32.

Proportions of the page, 4, 42, 55-57.

Prosody, _see_ Poetry.

Public, value of reading to the, 28, 29.

Publication of books for 1913, 105.

Publisher, librarian's grievance against the, 45-47; a spoiler of books, 40, 41.

Punctuation, and legibility, 121; in poetry, 17-18.

Puritans, less modern than Horace, 69; a Puritan's devotion to Calvin, 166; Shakespeare best reading for, 72.

Putnam, George Haven, on the Elzevirs, 22.

RAPID reading, 14-17.

Rare books, relatively cheap, 49.

Readable print, _see_ Legibility.

"Reader's high privilege," 63-78.

Reading, aid of print to, 14, 17; amount possible in a lifetime, 105; Erasmus on art of, 166; John Beattie Crozier on, 111, 112; "Lest we forget the few great books," 104-114; means intellectual effort, 74; of contemporaries, 76, 77; results of ten pages a day, 108; "The student and the library," 139-144; systematic, 74-76; true end and aim of, 78; value, to the public and to the individual, 28-32; when travelling, 22, 23.

Reading aloud, print as an aid to, 17, 18.

Rebindings, costly, unnecessary, 46.

Rebus, place in development of alphabet, 81.

Reference books, 135; effective typography of, 16, 17.

Reformed spelling, 145-151.

Registration, requirements of, 59.

Rembrandt, his drawing of the elephant, 80; his "School of Anatomy," as a product of genius, 65.

Reprinting of perishable records, 46.

Responsibility, a stimulus to greatness, 163.

"Respublicæ Variæ," published by the Elzevirs, described, 22, 23.

"Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium Libri IIII," the Aldus edition of 1546 described, 21.

Roethlein, Barbara Elizabeth, on "The relative legibility of different faces of printing types," 124-127.

Rogers, Bruce, his Centaur type commended, 132.

Roll, _see_ Papyrus.

Roman alphabet, _see_ Alphabet.

Roman codex, _see_ Codex.

Roman literature, masterpieces of, 68, 69.

Romance literatures, 144.

Romans, surpassed by moderns in knowledge, 30.

Royal octavo, pitfall of the book designer, 12, 13.

Ruskin, John, editions of his works contrasted, 13; on manuscript books, 51; on reading Sir Walter Scott, 109.

Russia, annual book publication, 105; illiterate communities of, 28, 29.

SANBORN, FRANKLIN BENJAMIN, his "Beacon Biography" of Longfellow, 75.

Sanford, Edmund Clark, on "The relative legibility of the small letters," 122-124.

Scaliger, Julius Caesar, his learning, 106.

Schiller, cited, 52.

School books, misfortune of treating classics as such, 68, 69; type in, 5, 117.

School children, increase of near sight among, 120.

School of typography, proposed by Henry Stevens, 40-43.

Science, "Printing problems for science to solve," 115-119.

Scott, Sir Walter, alterations in the proof-sheets of his "Waverley Novels," 15; a ghost word in his "Monastery," 158; Goethe on, 110; Ruskin on, 109.

"Secret of personal power," 162-167.

Sequoyah, his Cherokee syllabary, 146.

Serifs, necessary to prevent irradiation, 123; source of confusion in types, 123, 124.

Shakespeare, William, "Hamlet" preferred in youth, 111; Hazlitt on, 142; his "Apocrypha," on thin paper, 95; his character and greatness, 70-73; Lamb would say grace before reading, 77; "Lear" preferred in old age, 111; misprints in his works, 157; privilege of reading, 64, 71, 72; quoted, 9, 54; reading, 77; the spelling of his works, 149, 150; tribute of Blackmore to, 110.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, an editor's error in his "Skylark," 157, 158; inappropriate Forman edition of, 11; read by young men, 111.

Shelton, Thomas, his translation of "Don Quixote," 144.

Sight, relation of the elements of the book to, 5, 6, 116-119; "Types and eyes: The problem," 120-127, ---- "Progress," 128-133.

Sign language, 80.

Silent letters, cost to English world, 147.

Size, determines expression of the book, 4; "Favorite book sizes," 19-27; of books preferred by librarian, 47; of letters and legibility, 134, 135; question of an ideal size of type, 117; standardization of book sizes, 26, 27. _See also_ Bigness; Thickness; Thinness.

Skeat, Walter William, on ghost words, 158.

Smirke, Robert, illustrator of Barlow's "Columbiad," 10.

Smollett, Tobias George, on reading him, 143.

Society of Printers, address under its auspices, 3, _note_.

Socrates, in a Bible of humanity, 68.

Sophocles, as characterized by Mrs. Browning, 67, 68.

Southey, Robert, a favorite edition of, 24.

Spacing, between words, 121; of letters in words, 120.

Spain, illiterate communities of, 28, 29.

Spanish, language, 144; spelling, 147.

Spectacles, a measure of civilization, 120.

Spedding, James, at Cambridge University, 139.

Spelling, Milton gave metric hints by, 18; "Orthographic reform," 145-151.

Spenser, Edmund, Hazlitt on, 142; his spelling, 149; Lamb would say grace before reading the "Fairy Queen," 77; Milton's spiritual kinship to, 72.

Standardization of book sizes, 26, 27.

Sterne, Laurence, a favorite edition of, 24.

Stevens, Henry, "A constructive critic of the book," 38-43; detects a misprint, 156; his "My English library," 39; his "Recollections of Mr. James Lenox," 38, _footnote_.

Stevenson, Robert Louis, on Hazlitt, 141.

Stoddard, Richard Henry, on Cervantes and Shakespeare, 70.

Storage of books, _see_ Bigness, Thickness, Thinness.

Strassburg Cathedral, as a product of genius, 65.

"Student, The, and the Library," 139-144.

Study, art of, 166, 167.

Success, won by knowledge, 30.

Swedish spelling, 148.

Sweynheym and Pannartz, grandeur in their work, 4.

TASTE, _see_ Esthetics.

Tauchnitz editions, compared with Little Classic editions, 26.

Tennyson, Alfred, and his brothers at Cambridge University, 139; inappropriate edition of his "Life," 11; a novel reader, 107.

Tests, of the utility of the book, 115; of type, 120-127.

Thackeray, William Makepeace, at Cambridge University, 139; on reading him, 143; quoted, 11; works in illegible print, 130.

Theocritus, as characterized by Mrs. Browning, 68.

Thickness, in books, esthetic effect of, 23, 25; "Thick paper and thin," 92-96.

Thinness, in books, esthetic effect of, 23; "Thick paper and thin," 92-96.

Thompson, Francis, indicated caesura by an asterisk, 18.

Thomson, James, Hazlitt on, 142.

Thoreau, Henry David, member of the New England group of authors, 75, 76.

Thou, Jacques Auguste de, binding made for, 100.

Title-page, problems of, 59.

Torrey, Joseph, on reading Dante, 109, 110.

Translations of "Don Quixote," 143, 144.

Tribute typography, 9-13, 136, 137.

Type, aims in its design, 5, 117, 118; Chinese, 80; contrast of, 16, 17; "Exceptions to the rule of legibility," 130, 131, 135-138; faults of German and French, 117; in relation to the book beautiful, 57-59, 61; page, 56, 57; "Perversities of type," 152-161; reform of, 118; "Types and eyes: The problem," 120-127, ---- "Progress," 128-133. _See also_ Italic; Page.

Typewriting, a form of print, 15.

Typography, primarily a reduction of cost, 115; school of, proposed by Henry Stevens, 40-43; tribute typography, 9-13, 136, 137; a triumph of, 16. _See also_ Print.

UNITED STATES, annual book publication, 105; library development since 1875, 104.

Updike, Daniel Berkeley, his comic edition of Irving's "Knickerbocker," 10, 11; his specimen pages of the "Imitatio Christi," 136.

"VALUE of reading, to the public and to the individual," 28-32.

Values, two great classes, 31, 32.

Vergil, Dante's master, 69; did not write for children, 68; his Aeneid, 69; scanty punctuation in earliest manuscript of, 17.

Verse, _see_ Poetry.

Vision, _see_ Sight.

WARD, ARTEMUS, _pseudonym_, adopts a misprint, 157.

Webster, Daniel, debt to Milton, 110.

Webster, Noah, his "Collegiate Dictionary" on thin paper preferred, 95; his "Unabridged Dictionary" on large paper, 131.

Wendell, Barrett, on Barlow's "Columbiad," 10.

Wheatley, Henry Benjamin, on "Literary blunders," 156, 157.

Whitman, Walt, on the world's greatest books, 113, 114.

Whittier, John Greenleaf, member of New England group of authors, 75.

Whittingham, Charles, method of book design, 41; printer, 38.

"Who spoils our new English books?" by Henry Stevens, 38.

Wilberforce, Samuel, Bishop of Oxford, a famous misprint concerning, 153, 154.

Wordsworth, Dorothy, on favorite books, 3.

Wordsworth, William, a favorite edition of, 24; read by old men, 111.

World Almanac, commended, 130, 131.

Writing, _see_ Authorship; Manuscript; Materials.

XENOPHON, contributor to a Bible of humanity, 68; did not write for children, 68.

+------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Notes: | | | | Table of Contents: The chapter heading "The Value of | | Reading" is an abbreviation of the chapter heading on page | | 28. Left as is | | | | Page 31: Full stop added after "Was but a book" | | | | Page 62: techiness _sic_ | | | | Page 86: Kuran and Kurán _sic_ | | | | Page 108: Comma added after "daily" | | | | Page 157: Full stop added after "before him" | | | | Page 171: Ae in Aeschylus replaced with ae ligature to | | match text in book | | | | Page 178: Page numbers for "Exception to the rule of | | legibility" re-arranged into ascending order | | | | Page 183: ae in Respublicae Variae replaced with ae | | ligatures to match text in book | | | | Page 185: Page numbers for "Exception to the rule of | | legibility" re-arranged into ascending order | | | | Hyphenation has been standardised. One instance of | | ink-maker/ink maker retained. | | | +------------------------------------------------------------+

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