[1] The substance of an address delivered Nov. 18, 1909, in the Boston
Public Library, under the auspices of the Society of Printers.
[2] The address here summarized was printed at the Chiswick Press and
published at Christmas, 1884. Mr. Stevens died early in 1886, leaving a
posthumous book entitled "Recollections of Mr. James Lenox," which was
printed in the same year at the Chiswick Press, and which is of great
interest to booklovers, especially Americans.
[3] Mr. Edison's projected substitute for paper, sheets of nickel,
20,000 to the inch, may indicate the book material of the future, but at
present it is only a startling possibility.
[4] The type in which this book is printed is a modern Bodoni, cut in
Italy, and was chosen for its elegance rather than to illustrate the
latest results in legibility of type design.
[5] See "Simplified Spelling in Writing and Printing; a Publisher's
Point of View," by Henry Holt, LL.D., New York, 1906. About one half the
expense falls within the domain of printing.