The pamphlet was printed and published by noted American type designer, calligrapher, and book designer W.A. Dwiggins and L.B. Siegfried in 1919 and decried the then current state of book production.
For the Society it was unanimous; “All Books of the Present Day are Badly Made”
The reason were plenty “to wean mankind from the use of books. Automobiles, the motion-picture drama, professional athletics, the Saturday Evening Post” and the Society was resigned to the fact that “Books as an element vital to the welfare of the race have been eliminated.”
Thankfully, it didn’t keep Dwiggins and company from producing beautiful books.
Funny stuff.
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