# The ideal book or book beautiful

Author: Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72320

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+ideal+book+or+book+beautiful+Cobden-Sanderson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

THE IDEAL BOOK OR BOOK BEAUTIFUL is a composite thing made up of many parts & may be made beautiful by the beauty of each of its parts--its literary content, its material or materials, its writing or printing, its illumination or illustration, its binding & decoration--of each of its parts in subordination to the whole which collectively they constitute: or it may be made beautiful by the supreme beauty of one or more of its parts, all the other parts subordinating or even effacing themselves for the sake of this one or more, & each in turn being capable of playing this supreme part and each in its own peculiar and characteristic way. On the other hand each contributory craft may usurp th...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-ideal-book-or-book-beautiful-72320/chapters/1/index.md)