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PUBLISHED 1906 BY OTTO SCHULZE & COMPANY 20 SO U TH F R E D E R IC K S T R E E T y- E D IN B U R G H
AN A P P R E C IA T IO N By G R A H A M HOGGARTH, B.A. Oxon. T ET the bibliophobe sneer if he will at those who find in books an intimate delight. Soulless fellow ! To him books are but so much printed paper, at the best a conven tional and useless adornment for his shelves. Bradshaw and his pass-book are all he ever opens, “ biblia abiblia,” indeed. Vain it is to talk to such an one of Book plates ; they are far outside his philosophy. This is particularly so, in that the love of art and the love of books are closely akin. Of this fact the Bookplate is a shrewd indication ; this also it is that accounts for the high ideals at which most of our modern Bookplate designers aim. The standard of all produc tions is adjusted to the demands of those for whom they are produced ; and just as some
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