Of the Extra Illustration of Books (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Of the Extra Illustration of BooksIf the book to be illustrated is well chosen, and taste and discrimination are exercised in its embellishment, the outcome will be as satisfactory in this as in many otherlines of book collecting. Only the ultra refined bibliophile will deny that a Pepys' Diary, interleaved with the quaintly beauti ful graven efiigies of the seventeenth century in their emblematic and fioriated borders, or the Memoirs of saint-simon, between the pages of which repose the delic ately engraved plates of Ficquet, Savart, or the inimitable Grateloup, are desirable additions to a collection of fine books. When it comes to crowding a Bible or a Shakespeare with engravings by the thousand in sets of dreary uniformity as long as your arm, we confess that extra illustration is a delusion and a snare, and a weariness to the ¿esh. Variety is the very essence of a book of this kind. If it lacks this spice it is bereft of a charm that is peculiarly its own.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.