id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-10371 Baughman, Roland; Tauber, Maurice F. Bookbinding, Its Background and Technique (Book Review) 1948-04-01 4 .pdf application/pdf 3081 131 58 In the end he will almost certainly conclude that—except for a surprising hiatus during the nineteenth century when nearly every- thing pertaining to books and book-collecting became self-conscious and not a little precious (which may, indeed, be no exception at all) — bookbinding decoration in any given period fits comfortably into the general background of taste. T h e r e is nothing to prevent a craftsman from rising above mere compulsion and bringing to his work a genius for creativeness, where obedi- ence to fashion would suffice. cache/crl-10371.pdf txt/crl-10371.txt