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DECORATIVE 



the proper placing of 



the letter in relation 



to the word which it 



begins. 



A pleasant scheme 



for initial-making is to 



secure a commission 



for producing them for 



each chapter of a book, 



treating the whole 



subject harmoniously. 



Sometimes a series of 



pocket-camera scenic 



photographs may be 

 made to serve admirably for such use. Here again 

 simplicity cannot too strongly be urged upon the pho- 

 tographer. The wide angle of the lenses usually fitted to 

 the pocket-camera gives an opportunity to provide a 

 central or striking object or figure as the motive, with 

 the distance agreeably distorted by rapid reduction. 



A wider market and an easier field in 



J D 111 which to work decorative photography 

 and Booklet .. , ... , t- b t- j 



Covers '* '" ' designmg of covers for cata- 

 logues and booklets, whose name is 

 surely legion. When the sacred writer, in days of old, 

 said that " of the making of books there is no end," he 



