id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16546 Hart, Dana Ellen Mazur Thomson. Aesthetic Tracts: Innovation in Late-Nineteenth Century Book Design. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. 208p. Cloth, $55.00 (ISBN 9781584563365) 2016-09-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1348 56 49 And while not all of the research is new and exciting (chapter 3, which covers Sarah Wyman Whitman’s book designs, will be familiar reading to those engaged in the study of publishers’ bindings) the cross-section that Thomson gives of the state of book design in this transitional period is a success. However, Aesthetic Tracts can and should be read through in its entirety to capture the full and at times messy picture of book design during this period (and at 135 pages there’s no good reason not to give the book its full due).—Dana Hart, Thomas J. Watson Library, New York, N.Y. Metaliteracy in Practice. cache/crl-16546.pdf txt/crl-16546.txt