Narrow Leaf Editions
A Portable Classical Reader
Folio I · MDI
Venice Octavo Library · Number One For the Coat Pocket

Letters cut close · matter held clear

The Narrow Leaf

A complete voice, closely fitted—made to leave the lectern and travel with the reader.

Make haste slowly

The page asks for no picture and no gilded beginning. Warm ink, a measured hand, and the pressure of one line upon the next are enough: the finest thought should be carried, not displayed at a distance.

Set in upright roman & chancery italic One ink · one paper · one measure
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