"Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread," the words of the nineteenth-century Vermont bookman Henry Stevens, appear on a broadside printed by The Stinehour Press. Stevens was born in 1819 on an isolated northern farm and yet became an influential bibliophile and rare-book seller, shaping with his skill and energy some of the major American collections. The text of the broadside goes on to state, 'The manufacture of a beautiful and durable book costs little if anything more than it does to manufacture a clumsy and unsightly one. Good taste, skill, and severe training are as requisite and necessary in the proper production of books as in any other of the fine arts."
