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The Spike or Victoria College Review 1947

Good Printing... ...cannot make a bad book good, nor bad printing ruin a good book. But Good Printing can create a valuable spiritual state in the reader; bad printing a certain spiritual discomfort. The inwardness of letters is the inwardness of any piece of visual art and regarded simply as a thing of beauty. A volume of the penny classics may give us the sonnets of Shakespeare in their entirely, and for that we may be duly grateful. But it cannot at the same time give us a book of visual art…

Good Printing... ...cannot make a bad book good, nor bad printing ruin a good book. But Good Printing can create a valuable spiritual state in the reader; bad printing a certain spiritual discomfort. The inwardness of letters is the inwardness of any piece of visual art and regarded simply as a thing of beauty. A volume of the penny classics may give us the sonnets of Shakespeare in their entirely, and for that we may be duly grateful. But it cannot at the same time give us a book of visual art. FERGUSON & OSBORN LTD Specialists in the Printing of MAGAZINES JOURNALS TRADE-JOURNALS AND CATALOGUES 202 LAMBTON QUAY .. WELLINGTON