In the case of this book also, the jury could not consider it a book and therefore could not include it among the “excellent books” of the year. I got the approval of my colleagues for the listing of the book as an “interesting” one, in order that I might call attention to the printing of the color plates.

The colors are beautifully intense and velvety smooth. They are printed on the sheets of paper with delightful clarity. The silk-screen process, new to the world of books, has in this case given us printed plates which are things of veritable beauty.

I hope that, when the various books are exhibited, several of these printed sheets will be shown; for the publisher and the printer have given us a beautiful product which should be shown, not only at an exhibition of printing, but also at an exhibition of precious stones, or at an exhibition of furniture or carpets or sealing wax, or even in the Forest of Compiègne or even at Madame Tussaud’s.

George Macy