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The booklover and his books /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Koopman, Harry Lyman, 1860-1937
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : The Boston book company, 1917.
Subjects:
Books.
Table of Contents:
  • Books and booklovers
  • Fitness in book design
  • Print as an interpreter of meaning
  • Favorite book sizes
  • The value of reading
  • The book of to-day and the book of to-morrow
  • A constructive critic of the book
  • Books as a librarian would like them
  • The book beautiful
  • The reader's high privilege
  • The background of the book
  • The Chinese book
  • Thick paper and thin
  • The clothing of a book
  • Parchment bindings
  • Lest we forget the few great books
  • Printing problems for science to solve
  • Types and eyes: the problem
  • Types and eyes: progress
  • Exceptions to the rule of legibility
  • The student and the library
  • Orthographic reform
  • The perversities of type
  • A secret of personal power.