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.

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.