{"product_id":"2940013429734","title":"Bookbinding, And The Care Of Books [ By- Douglas Cockerell ]","description":"Bookbinding, and the Care of Books : A Handbook for Amateurs Bookbinders \u0026amp; Librarians \/ Cockerell, Douglas ; with drawings by Noel Rooke, and other illustrations [1901]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn issuing this volume of a series of Handbooks on the Artistic\u003cbr\u003eCrafts, it will be well to state what are our general aims.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the first place, we wish to provide trustworthy text-books of\u003cbr\u003eworkshop practice, from the points of view of experts who have\u003cbr\u003ecritically examined the methods current in the shops, and putting\u003cbr\u003easide vain survivals, are prepared to say what is good workmanship,\u003cbr\u003eand to set up a standard of quality in the crafts which are more\u003cbr\u003eespecially associated with design. Secondly, in doing this, we hope to\u003cbr\u003etreat design itself as an essential part of good workmanship. During\u003cbr\u003ethe last century most of the arts, save painting and sculpture of an\u003cbr\u003eacademic kind, were little considered, and there was a tendency to\u003cbr\u003elook on \"design\" as a mere matter of _appearance_. Such\u003cbr\u003e\"ornamentation\" as there was was usually obtained by following in a\u003cbr\u003emechanical way a drawing provided by an artist who often knew little\u003cbr\u003eof the technical processes involved in production. With the critical\u003cbr\u003eattention given to the crafts by Ruskin and Morris, it came to be seen\u003cbr\u003ethat it was impossible to detach design from craft in this way, and\u003cbr\u003ethat, in the widest sense, true design is an inseparable element of\u003cbr\u003egood quality, involving as it does the selection of good and suitable\u003cbr\u003ematerial, contrivance for special purpose, expert workmanship, proper\u003cbr\u003efinish and so on, far more than mere ornament, and indeed, that\u003cbr\u003eornamentation itself was rather an exuberance of fine workmanship than\u003cbr\u003ea matter of merely abstract lines. Workmanship when separated by too\u003cbr\u003ewide a gulf from fresh thought--that is, from design--inevitably\u003cbr\u003edecays, and, on the other hand, ornamentation, divorced from\u003cbr\u003eworkmanship, is necessarily unreal, and quickly falls into\u003cbr\u003eaffectation. Proper ornamentation may be defined as a language\u003cbr\u003eaddressed to the eye; it is pleasant thought expressed in the speech\u003cbr\u003eof the tool.","brand":"Publish This, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147561222384,"sku":"2940013429734","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013429734_p0.jpg?v=1763580841","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013429734","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}