“The most beautiful of all printed books,” the Kelmscott Chaucer
Very cool, thank you for sharing.<p>I do feel the need to comment on one particular line of hyperbole though:<p>> the likes of which we seldom, if ever, see in the printed books of our own, infinitely higher-tech century.<p>Advances in technology have generally been used to increase the availability of books and lower their cost.<p>Yesterday I purchased "The Hogwarts Library" for I think $40 and it included 3 large books full of hundreds of pages of full color images.  That type of quality, especially at that price, would be unheard of in the 1800s.<p>And if you want books with similar features (and more!) to those this article describes you can get them:<p>Folio Society: <a href="https://www.foliosociety.com/usa" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.foliosociety.com/usa</a><p>Easton Press: <a href="https://www.eastonpress.com/home" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.eastonpress.com/home</a><p>Amaranthine Books: <a href="https://amaranthinebooks.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://amaranthinebooks.com/</a><p>Lyra's Books: <a href="https://www.lyrasbooks.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.lyrasbooks.com/</a><p>Suntup Editions: <a href="https://suntup.press/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://suntup.press/</a><p>(Also Arion Press, Centipede Press, Curious King, Subterranean Press, and St. James Park Press)<p>Books with those features are far more common today than they were when the Chaucer book was published.<p>And if you ever want to get into collecting rare, limited edition, and antique books come join us!  We're a fun community (though like all things collectable bank accounts will suffer the consequences).