THE ART OF THE PRINTER. By Stanley Motison. (Benn. 30s.
net.) ,
LOVERS of the printer's art who sighed when Mr. Morison's Pour Centuries of Fine.Printing appeared last year at ten guineas will rejoice at the comparative cheapness of the present
• volume. It is a little difficult to understand the apportion- ment of the countries and centuries. Two hundred and fifty plates illustrate the period between 1600 and 1900. The six- teenth century claims three-fifths of the volume, there is
• nothing from England before 1717, not even the Elizabethan and Jacobean printers, and only four Spanish books. It also seems a little ungrateful in an English book to omit the r: Pickering publications of the nineteenth century. Without
• providing a systematic book of reference, these beautiful examples of craftsmanship should help to maintain the stand- ard of pure printing that has crept from the private press into commercial work. Perhaps Mr. Morison will give us a companion volume of fine printing since 1900.
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