Aldis, M.A.
Cambridge: at the University Press 1916
process methods of illustration cannot be regarded as
altogether fortunate too little consideration is given to the
manner in which the illustrations are associated with the
printed page; and it rarely happens that a book gains
anything as an example of typographic art from the process
pictures with which it is illustrated. The arrival of the
three-colour process has worsened matters; and the present
riotous use of cheap colour illustrations is nothing short of a
calamity. Any excuse serves for the addition of these colored
crudities, which, printed on shiny 'art' paper or dabbed on
pieces of brown paper, are intruded between the leaves of
the book almost at random. Little wonder that the outraged
volume, taking advantage of its flimsy structure, endeavors
to shed them at the earliest possible moment.
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