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Record ID marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part02.utf8:140572466:1452
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 01452cam a22002171 4500
001 17000661
003 DLC
005 20050730203604.0
008 751030s1917 mauh 000 0 eng
010 $a 17000661
035 $a(OCoLC)1747013
040 $aDLC$cFJ$dDLC
042 $apremarc
050 00 $aZ116.A2$bK7
100 1 $aKoopman, Harry Lyman,$d1860-1937.
245 14 $aThe booklover and his books,$cby Harry Lyman Koopman...
260 $aBoston,$bThe Boston book company,$c1917.
300 $avii p., 2 1., 3-185 p.$bfront. (facsim.)$c25 cm.
500 $a"Most of these chapters appeared as papers in "The Printing art;́ two were published in ʻThe Graphic arts,̓ and some in other magazines."-- Prefatory note.
505 1 $aBooks and booklovers.--Fitness in book design.--Print as an interpreter of meaning.--Favorite book sizes.--The value of reading.--The book of to-day and the book of to-morrow.--A constructive critic of the book.--Books as a librarian would like them.--The book beautiful.--The reader's high privilege.--The background of the book.--The Chinese book.--Thick paper and thin.--The clothing of a book.--Parchment bindings.--Lest we forget the few great books.--Printing problems for science to solve.--Types and eyes: the problem.--Types and eyes: progress.--Exceptions to the rule of legibility.--The student and the library.--Orthographic reform.--The perversities of type.-- A secret of personal power.
650 0 $aBooks.