Our Book Report

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

What’s behind the cover (and we don’t mean the book)

Arts & Books
18 Aug 2007

The American typographer Beatrice Warde once said that a book should be like a wine glass, clear and discreet, “because the connoisseur judges wine partly by its colour and is impatient of anything that alters it”. But from the late 19th century... read more...