Booklet making : An art-craft problem by Henry Turner Bailey
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Booklet making by Henry Turner Bailey is an instructional art-craft guide written in the early 20th century. It explains how teachers and students can design and produce small, well-made booklets, uniting literature study, handwriting, drawing, and simple binding into a coherent classroom project. The guide lays out ten clear steps: choosing the kind of booklet and its subject, determining contents, gathering images and references, planning orderly front matter and text, making a
page-size “dummy,” writing and spacing the text, completing the visual design, assembling pages and illustrations, binding, and finally giving the booklet away. A detailed classroom example builds a grammar-grade booklet on Longfellow, with chapters on his life, popular poems, and a personal “favorite poem” essay, while teaching page format, margins, chapter headings, and image placement. The book stresses cover design that embodies an “Idea” through color symbolism, appropriate decoration (such as Celtic motifs for the Olaf Saga), and harmonious lettering; it demonstrates balance and proportion (including the Greek ratio), ornamental initials, and clear title-pages. Practical techniques include reducing or enlarging images with diagonals and grids, tipping in plates, simple pamphlet stitching or board-and-cloth bindings, and, at the end, a class exhibition and the ethic of service by gifting the finished work. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Bailey, Henry Turner, 1865-1931 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 13009739 |
| Title | Booklet making : An art-craft problem |
| Original Publication | New York: The Prang Company, 1912. |
| Credits | Charlene Taylor, Dori Allard and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | Z: Bibliography, Library science |
| Subject | Books |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 77925 |
| Release Date | Feb 13, 2026 |
| Last Update | Feb 14, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 197 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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