The joy of reading the Decline and Fall in that fine type! The page was appropriate to the dignity of the subject; the mere sight of it tuned one’s mind.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
The page was appropriate to the dignity of the subject; the mere sight of it tuned one’s mind.
From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing, a bibliomane's bibliomane. Gissing touches in the interplay between words, ideas, physicality, and aesthetics.
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