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Villa, S. $2 Macmillan Unknown quantity, The. Dell, E. M. 75c. 1307 The Field of Old and Rare Books and Weekly Book Exchange L CURRENT RARE BOOK NOTES Frederick M. Hopkins ITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY have announced that Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach's "Books and Bidders" will be published on October 28. The limited edition has already been exhausted. DR. R. CHARLES BURNEY'S "Continental Travels, 1770-1772," compiled from his "Journals" and other sources by C. Howard Glover, will shortly be published by Blackie of London. No English editions have been published since the eighteenth century of the two "Journals." "THE Correspondence of King George III of England from 1760 to December, 1783," which Sir John Fortesque is editing from the original papers preserved at Windsor Castle, will fill six volumes. The first two, covering the period 17601773, will be published this month by Macmillan of London. LEWIS MELVILLE, 37 Wyndham Street, St. Marylebone, London, W. 1, is engaged upon a new edition of the Journal of Thomas Raikes, 1777-1848, the. banker and dandy, the friend of Beau Brummell and the correspondent of Wellington, which was published in 1856-7. Mr. Melville is eager to get in touch with anyone who can tell him of the whereabouts of the manuscript of the Journal or any unpublished letters by or to Raikes. ASMALL exhibition of the work of Thomas M. Cleland is now on view in the rooms of Pynson Printers. It offers a variety of pages from a book on his work which is to be published next spring, and covers with representative examples his book illustration, advertising designs, title pages, etc. An appreciation of the essential of a subject guides him in its treatment, as it always and everywhere has guided the essentially artistic mind. MODERN first editions, publications of the Nonesuch Press, standard sets, and choice miscellaneous books, from the libraries of Henry G. Diefenbach of this city, Mrs. James F. Kavanagh of Brooklyn, and Mrs. L. M. Christesen of Jamaica Plains, Mass., with additions, will be sold at the first sale of the season at the Anderson Galleries on October 4. The books will go on exhibition on October 1. Auction Calendar Tuesday afternoon, October 4th, at 2 o'clock. Modern first editions, Nonesuch Press publications, standard sets, etc., from the libraries of Henry G. Diefenbach of New York, Mrs. James F. Kavanagh of Brooklyn, Mrs. L. M. Christesen of Jamaica Plain, Mass., and oehers. (Items 296.) The Anderson Galleries, 489 Park Ave., New York City. Catalogs Received Americana, anthropology, folklore, philosophy, psychology and new thought, Greece and Rome, Orientalia, etc. (No. 15: Items 1920.) Dauber & Pine Bookshops, Inc., 66 Fifth Ave., New York City. Americana and other rare and out-of-print books. (Items 1549.) Illinois Book Exchange, 337 West Madison St., Chicago, Ill. Books acquired by the purchase of a large general library. Walter M. Hill, 25 East Washington St., Chicago, Ill. First editions. (No. 17; Items 520.) Elkin Mathews, Rare and out-of-print books. (Items 1549.) Illinois (Items 376.) Argosy Bookstore, 45 Fourth Ave., New York City. 1 Bookmaking A Monthly Department With Directory of Manufacturing Firms T What About "Better Book-Making"? more Elmer Adler HE answer to any form of a request for the reasons why we do not make "better books" must always have the same basis, viz, there will be more production of a higher standard whenever more individuals have higher standards. Unquestionably, this statement may be as aptly applied to any field of endeavor where design and craftsmanship are necessary. But it is doubly desirable that there be a clear visioned appreciation of its application to book production because of the divided responsibility now existing. It must be recognized that the present tendency of the publishers is to place the actual making of books in independent and self-operated plants. The result of this separation of the promotion and selling from the manufacturing is toward greater concentration and increased efficiency in production plants, but at the sacrifice of the art. Because the publisher created and maintains this condition, his share of the responsibility is the greater. But our quarrel is not so much with the situation as with the manner in which it is directed. There would be enough benefits if more intelligence were put into the design and execution of books, but the great difficulty is that both the publisher and the maker are too often ignorant of standards of good books. And just now, instead of studying the traditions of good book-making, one is busily occupied in trying to discover what operation can most easily be cut out with least likelihood of detection, while the other is hunting out the producer most willing to make concessions in standards of workmanship and price. With a few conspicuous exceptions, neither is definitely seeking standards in design and workmanship. The head of a large plant devoted to book-making recently visited a small plant where there was an obvious interest in better books. "We have the greatest admiration," he said, "for the work you are doing here, especially for your ability to get publishers to put out better books. We have never been able to do it." "But," he was asked, "have you ever gone ahead on your own initiative to produce a better designed and better made book to show the publisher what you really can do?" No, he had never done that-never thought of it and really, if all must be said, very likely could not do it. An investigator in the publishing field might be astonished to find that the average house is only incidentally interested in the design and production of its books. There may be much enthusiasm over the literary content, and cleverness shown in the promotion of sales with blurbs and jacket designs, and a display of ability in keeping happy relations with authors-but with perhaps no one in the production department able to recognize even the names of some of the great designers in the annals. of book-making. One man who was in charge of the book production, with a service record of over thirty-seven years, spoke of a certain designer of type (without knowing him as a designer of books) as "Bordoni." A member of a publishing house boasting of a century of printing tradition was showing a number of recent books, some pitifully lacking any evidence of a knowledge of good book-making. He was asked, "What effort is made to pass on to those now in charge of production, any of the benefits and legacies of a hundred years' experience?" "Nothing consciously," was the answer. And the assumption was that just to be permitted within the walls, with so famous a publishing name on the street side, would automatically endow the average youth suffi |